05000275/FIN-2010007-02

Finding

Title

Failure to Adequately Evaluate Changes to the Diesel

Testing as Described in the Final Safety Analysis Report

Update

Description

The team identified two examples of a Severity Level IV noncited violation of 10 CFR 50.59 after the licensee failed to perform an adequate evaluation to demonstrate that prior NRC approval was not required before making changes to the frequency and voltage recovery criteria and to the diesel testing commitments as described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update. Specifically, the 1998 Final Safety Analysis Report Update identified a change from Safety Guide 9 to Regulatory Guide 1.9, Revision 2. The scope involved the removal of the KWS relay and included new requirements for voltage and frequency response. This resulted in a reduction in acceptance criteria. The team also identified a second example where the licensee failed to evaluate the 2005 Final Safety Analysis Report Update change from Regulatory Guide 1.9, Revision 2 to Revision 3 for diesel testing and interval frequency. Using NEI 96-07, \"Guidelines for 10 CFR 50.59 Evaluations,\" Revision 1, the team concluded that these changes resulted in a departure from a method of evaluation described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update establishing the facility design bases. In addition, the licensee\'s 50.59 evaluation, for DCP E-049424, Revision 0, \"EDG Starting, and Loading Capability\" was less than adequate to conclude that prior NRC approval was not required for the changes. The licensee has entered these issues into their corrective action program as Notifications 50302467 and 50302481. The failure of Pacific Gas and Electric to perform an adequate 10 CFR 50.59 evaluation prior to changing the facility as described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update is a performance deficiency. The violation was more than minor because of a reasonable likelihood the change to the facility would require Commission review and approval prior to implementation. The violation screened as very low safety significance (Green) because the finding was not a design or qualification deficiency confirmed not to result in loss of operability or functionality, did not represent a loss of system safety function, and did not screen as potentially risk significant due to a seismic, flooding, or severe weather initiating event. Because this violation is of very low safety significance and was entered into the licensee\'s corrective action program, this violation is being treated as a noncited violation, consistent with Section VLA.1 of the NRC Enforcement Policy. The finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of problem identification and resolution associated with the corrective action program component. In License Amendment Request 10-01, dated February 24, 2010, the licensee did not thoroughly evaluate the original problem of using the 10 CRF 50.59 evaluation process to justify using Regulatory Guide 1.9, Revision 2, Section C, Position 4, as an exception to meeting the frequency and voltage criteria identified in Safety Guide 9.

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Site:	Diablo Canyon
Report	IR 05000275/2010007 Section 1R21
Date counted	Jun 30, 2010 (2010Q2)
Type:	TEV: Severity level IV
cornerstone	Mitigating Systems
Identified by:	NRC identified
Inspection Procedure:	IP 71111.21
Inspectors (proximate)	T Farnholtz S Makor B Correll S Hedger R Kbpriva
CCA	P.2, Evaluation
INPO aspect	PI.2
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Finding - Diablo Canyon - IR 05000275/2010007

1(0)2(6)3(4)4(5)5(12)6(5)7(11)8(0)201(7)301(0)402(2)403(2)501(0)

IR 05000275/2010007: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Finding List (Diablo Canyon) @ 2010Q2

CCA Matrix: 2010Q2

	Q	CCA	Title
05000275/FIN-2009004-04	2009Q3	P.1 P.1(a)	Failure to Update the Final Safety Analysis Report Update with Current Accident Analysis
05000275/FIN-2009004-03	2009Q3	H.7	Failure to Follow Emergency Operating Procedures Following a Reactor Trip
05000275/FIN-2009004-02	2009Q3	P.5 P.2(a)	Failure to Perform Corrective Actions Resulted in an Unplanned Trip
05000275/FIN-2009004-01	2009Q3	P.2	Failure to Identify and Correct a Degraded Fire Barrier
05000275/FIN-2009008-01	2009Q3	H.7	Safe Shutdown Procedure Not Consistent With Safe Shutdown Analysis
05000275/FIN-2009005-04	2009Q4	P.1 P.1(a)	Less than Adequate Replacement Reactor Head Modification Design Control
05000275/FIN-2009005-03	2009Q4	P.2	Inadequate 50.59 Evaluation for Steam Generator Tube Rupture Analysis
05000275/FIN-2009005-05	2009Q4	P.2	Less than Adequate Change Evaluation to the Facility as Described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update
05000275/FIN-2009005-01	2009Q4	H.4 H.9	Less Than Adequate Work Planning Resulted in the Release of Two Gas Decay Tanks
05000275/FIN-2009005-02	2009Q4	H.5	Failure to Properly Plan a Maintenance Activity
05000323/FIN-2009009-02	2010Q1	P.2 P.1(a)	Failure to Conduct an Adequate Post-Modification Test
05000275/FIN-2010402-02	2010Q1		Security
05000275/FIN-2010402-01	2010Q1		Security
05000275/FIN-2010002-01	2010Q1	P.3	Failure to Effectively Implement the Seismically-Induced Systems Interaction Program
05000275/FIN-2010002-04	2010Q1	P.2	Less Than Adequate Evaluation Following a Failure of Both Motor Driven Auxiliary Feedwater Trains
05000323/FIN-2009009-01	2010Q1	P.2	Failure to Follow Design and Configuration Control Requirements
05000323/FIN-2009009-03	2010Q1	P.2	Failure to Evaluate a Change to the Facility as Described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update Associated with the Addition of Manual Actions in the Safety Analysis
05000275/FIN-2010002-02	2010Q1	P.2	Failure to Update the Final Safety Analysis Report with the Current Plant Design Bases
05000275/FIN-2010002-03	2010Q1		Failure to Report a Condition That Could Have Prevented the Fulfillment of a Safety Function
05000275/FIN-2010002-05	2010Q1	P.2	Failure to Submit a LERE for a Common-Cause Inoperability of Independent Trains or Channels
05000275/FIN-2010007-08	2010Q2	P.2	Inadequate Drawings and Procedures to Align Emergency Makeup Water Supply from Diablo Canyon Creek to Support the Auxiliary Feedwater System
05000275/FIN-2010003-02	2010Q2		Inadequate Corrective Actions Following Identification of a Nonconservative Technical Specification
05000275/FIN-2010003-03	2010Q2	P.2	Failure to Report a Condition that Could Have Prevented the Fulfillment of a Safety Function
05000275/FIN-2010007-01	2010Q2	H.14	Less than Adequate Change Evaluation to the Facility as Described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update
05000275/FIN-2010007-07	2010Q2		Nonconservative Inputs into Motor Operated Valve Calculation
05000275/FIN-2010007-06	2010Q2		Second Level Undervoltage Relay Time Delay to Initiate Load Shed and Sequencing Upon the Diesel Generator is Adequate to Assure Plant Safety
05000275/FIN-2010007-05	2010Q2	P.2	Inadequate Operability Determination Associated With the Offsite Degraded Voltage Protection Scheme
05000275/FIN-2010007-03	2010Q2	H.14	Non-Conservative Decision Making resulted in a Violation of Technical Specification
05000275/FIN-2010007-02	2010Q2	P.2	Failure to Adequately Evaluate Changes to the Diesel Testing as Described in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update
05000275/FIN-2010007-04	2010Q2	P.2	Failure to Update the Final Safety Analysis Report Update with the Current Plant Design Bases Section
05000275/FIN-2010007-09	2010Q2		Failure to Update Feedwater Rupture Accident Analysis in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update
05000275/FIN-2010007-10	2010Q2		Failure to Update Text to Reflect Credited Design Class I Makeup Flowpath to Component Cooling Water Expansion Tank in the Final Safety Analysis Report Update
05000275/FIN-2010003-01	2010Q2	P.2	Failure to Perform Unit 1 Containment Concrete Inspections

Self-Identified List (Diablo Canyon)

	Q	Title
05000275/FIN-2009403-01	2009Q4	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000275/FIN-2009005-06	2009Q4	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000275/FIN-2010002-06	2010Q1	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000275/FIN-2010007-11	2010Q2	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000275/FIN-2010003-04	2010Q2	Licensee-Identified Violation

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