05000275/FIN-2015002-01
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| Title | Failure to Appropriately Pre-plan and Perform Maintenance on Hydrogen Guard Piping |
| Description | The inspectors identified a Green, non-cited violation of Technical Specification 5.4.1 involving the failure to appropriately pre-plan and implement written procedures associated with configuration control of the hazard barrier hydrogen guard piping in the proximity and impacting safety-related equipment. This issue was entered into the licensee corrective action program as Notification 50778755. The inspectors determined that the failure to consider the impact to the fire hazard analysis and the seismic configuration of the hydrogen guard pipe was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency was more than minor because it was associated with the protection against external events attribute of the Mitigating Systems cornerstone and adversely affected the cornerstone objective to ensure the availability, reliability, and capability of systems (i.e. hazard barriers) that respond to initiating events, such as fires, to prevent undesirable consequence. Though there were no actual consequences, the breaching of the seismically qualified hydrogen guard piping removed a designed hazard barrier and has the potential to vent hydrogen into rooms containing safety related equipment. Using IMC 0609, Appendix F, Fire Protection Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 Worksheet, the finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green) because it represented a low degradation of fire prevention and administrative controls element of the plant combustible material controls program, and the breaching of the hydrogen guard piping would not have prevented the safe shutdown of the plant. This finding has a cross-cutting aspect of design margins associated with the human performance area. Specifically, the most significant contributor for the performance deficiency was the licensee did not have an adequate work process that focused on maintaining defense in depth related to a fire hazard barrier, such as a hydrogen guard piping, during maintenance activities. Breaching hydrogen guard piping impacts defense in depth and design margins used to protect safety-related equipment, and special attention is required to carefully guard and change the configuration with great thought and care [H.6]. |
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
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| Report | IR 05000275/2015002 Section 1R05 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2015 (2015Q2) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.05 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | J Reynoso M Hayes M Kennard R Alexander T Buchanan T Hipschman |
| Violation of: | Technical Specification - Procedures Technical Specification |
| CCA | H.6, Design Margins |
| INPO aspect | WP.2 |
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Finding List (Diablo Canyon) @ 2015Q2
Self-Identified List (Diablo Canyon)
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