05000259/FIN-2009002-03
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| Description | A Green self-revealing non-cited violation of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI was identified for not promptly identifying and correcting a condition adverse to quality associated with steam cuts and/or defects in the Unit 1 reactor pressure vessel (RPV) flange that resulted in increased unidentified reactor coolant system (RCS) leakage during Cycle 7 operation. The Unit 1 RPV head and flange surfaces were repaired during the following refueling outage. This finding was entered into the licensee\'s corrective action program (CAP) as Problem Evaluation Report 155705. This finding was greater than minor because it was associated with the Initiating Event Cornerstone attribute of Equipment Performance, and adversely affected the cornerstone objective to limit the likelihood of those events that upset plant stability during at-power operations. The finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green) because the maximum unidentified RCS leakage from the Unit 1 RPV flange leak was much less than the Technical Specification limit for unidentified RCS leakage of 5 gpm and would not have affected other mitigation systems resulting in a total loss of their safety function. No cross-cutting aspect was assigned to this issue because the direct cause was not considered as indicative of current performance due to improvements in the CAP since this issue occurred. (Section 4OA2.3 |
| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
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| Report | IR 05000259/2009002 Section 4OA2 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2009 (2009Q1) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Initiating Events |
| Identified by: | Self-revealing |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71152 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | C Stancil E Guthrie J Baptist K Korth P Higgins T Ross |
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Finding - Browns Ferry - IR 05000259/2009002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Finding List (Browns Ferry) @ 2009Q1
Self-Identified List (Browns Ferry)
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