05000254/FIN-2015001-03
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Finding | |
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| Title | Licensee-Identified Violation |
| Description | Title 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion V, Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings, states in part, that activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings. The licensee established procedure NFAA309, Attachment 4, Move Sheet as their implementing procedure for moving fuel during refuel outage Q1R23, an activity affecting quality. Procedure NFAA309, Attachment 4, Move Sheet for Q1R23 Shuffle 2 Northwest, step 7, states, in part, to move fuel bundle QAD224 from 5334 (NW) to 5140 (SE). Contrary to the above, on March 10, 2015, the licensee failed to accomplish the steps in licensee procedure NFAA309, Attachment 4, when fuel assembly QAD224 was inserted into core location 5140 in the incorrect orientation (NW). On March 13, 2015, the licensee implemented procedure NFAA309, Attachment 4, to retrieve the misoriented fuel assembly from its core location and reinsert it in the proper orientation. The issue was entered into the licensees CAP as IR 2467903. The failure to meet the requirements of NFAA309 was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency was more than minor and a finding because it was associated with the Barrier Integrity Cornerstone attribute to provide reasonable assurance that physical design barriers (fuel cladding) protect the public from radionuclide releases caused by accidents or events. Specifically, the misoriented fuel bundle placed the core in a configuration for which shutdown margin (negative reactivity insertion needed to maintain the reactor shutdown under accident conditions) had not been previously analyzed. The inspectors evaluated the finding using the SDP in accordance with IMC 0609, Appendix G, Attachment 1, Shutdown Operations Significance Determination ProcessPhase 1 Initial Screening and Characterization of Findings, Exhibit 4 for the Barrier Integrity Cornerstone. Because the finding involved a fuel bundle misorientation in the reactor core, per the note in Exhibit 4, the finding screened as very low safety significance |
| Site: | Quad Cities  |
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| Report | IR 05000254/2015001 Section 4OA7 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2015 (2015Q1) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | Licensee-identified |
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| Inspectors (proximate) | M Mitchell R Elliott R Murray S Bell C Mathews C Phillips J Mcgee J Steffes J Wojewoda K Carrington M Holmberg |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion V |
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Finding List (Quad Cities) @ 2015Q1
Self-Identified List (Quad Cities)
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