05000259/FIN-2009009-02
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Title | Failure to Establish Adequate Compensatory Measures for an Out-of-Service Hose Station |
Description | The team identified a Green non-cited violation of Browns Ferry Units 1, 2, and 3 Operating License Conditions 2.C(13), 2.C(14), and 2.C(7), respectively, for the licensees failure to maintain in effect all provisions of the NRC-approved fire protection program as described in the Final Safety Analysis Report. The Fire Protection Report (referenced in the Final Safety Analysis Report) requires the licensee to establish adequate compensatory measures for degraded or inoperable fire protection equipment. The licensee failed to establish adequate compensatory measures for an out-of-service hose station, in that the staged additional lengths of hose connected to the closest inservice hose station, established as a compensatory measure, did not provide equal or better protection than the out-of-service hose station that it was replacing. The licensee entered this finding into their corrective action program and took immediate action to review all existing fire protection impairment permits for similar problems. The licensee removed the compensatory measure and restored the out-of-service hose station to service. The licensees failure to provide compensatory measures of equal or better protection for an out-of-service hose station is a performance deficiency because it did not meet the requirements of the approved fire protection program. The finding was more than minor because it affected the protection against external factors attribute of the mitigating systems cornerstone, in that it impacted manual fire suppression (i.e., fire brigade) capability; and, affected the cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability of systems that respond to initiating events. Since Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix F, Fire Protection Significance Determination Process, does not provide guidance for assigning a degradation rating to manual fire suppression, this determination was made using qualitative methods which received NRC management review as provided for in Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix M, Significance Determination Process Using Qualitative Criteria. This finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green) because it represented a low degradation of the manual fire suppression function. Although the fire protection impairment permit had been implemented for an out-of-service hose station, the hose station was still functional at the time this issue was identified, because the water supply to the hose station had not been physically isolated. However, the team concluded the fire brigade would have experienced delays in initiating manual fire suppression for a fire in a fire area covered by the impairment. The cause of this finding has a cross-cutting aspect in the Work Control component of the Human Performance area, in that it was directly related to the licensee not planning and coordinating work activities, consistent with nuclear safety, to ensure that adequate compensatory actions were established for an out-of-service hose station (H.3 (a)) |
Site: | Browns Ferry ![]() |
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Report | IR 05000259/2009009 Section 1R05 |
Date counted | Dec 31, 2009 (2009Q4) |
Type: | NCV: Green |
cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
Identified by: | NRC identified |
Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.05 |
Inspectors (proximate) | G Pick K Miller L Suggs M Thomas P Fillion P Qualls R Nease |
CCA | H.5, Work Management |
INPO aspect | WP.1 |
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