05000266/FIN-2012003-04
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| Title | Failure to Incorporate Industry Operating Experience Into Preventive Maintenance Programs for Nuclear Instrumentation |
| Description | A finding of very low safety significance and associated non-cited violation of 10 CFR 50.65(a)(3) was self-revealed when an unplanned reactor trip of Unit 2 occurred on June 13, 2011, as a result of the failure of a source range detector during low power physics testing. Specifically, the licensee failed to adequately evaluate operating experience and incorporate it into its preventive maintenance program to periodically replace aging electrical subcomponents in nuclear instrumentation systems and a subsequent age-related failure resulted in initiating a plant transient. The licensee entered this issue into the corrective action program, and corrective actions to prevent recurrence were initiated. The finding was determined to be more than minor in accordance with Inspection Manual Chapter 0612, Power Reactor Inspection Reports, Appendix B, Issue Screening, dated December 24, 2009, because the finding was associated with the Initiating Events Cornerstone attribute of equipment performance. Specifically, the availability and reliability of the nuclear instruments was degraded to a point where an instrument failure caused a reactor trip, an event that adversely impacted the cornerstone objective to limit the likelihood of those events that upset plant stability and challenge critical safety functions during power operations. The finding has a cross-cutting aspect in the area of corrective action program, evaluation/extent of condition. Specifically, the licensee failed to thoroughly evaluate related nuclear instrument failure rates so that the resolutions addressed the causes and extent of conditions for age-related failures of electrical subcomponents |
| Site: | Point Beach  |
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| Report | IR 05000266/2012003 Section 4OA3 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2012 (2012Q2) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Initiating Events |
| Identified by: | Self-revealing |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71153 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | M Kunowski S Burton R Krsek V Meghani J Bozga M Learn M Thorpe-Kavanaugh V Myers C Zoia A Dahbur T Bilik M Phalen |
| CCA | P.2, Evaluation |
| INPO aspect | PI.2 |
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Finding List (Point Beach) @ 2012Q2
Self-Identified List (Point Beach)
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