05000285/FIN-2010005-01
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| Title | Failure to Maintain Licensed Operator Examination Integrity |
| Description | The inspectors identified a Green noncited violation of 10 CFR Part 55.49, Integrity of Examinations and Tests, for the failure of the licensee to ensure that the integrity of an operating test administered to licensed operators was maintained. Two licensed operators received five job performance measures for their retake operating tests that had been potentially compromised during earlier weeks when this weeks operating test book was left out and uncontrolled overnight in the training building. These job performance measures were removed from the operating tests for subsequent weeks and a condition report was written to ensure that these job performance measures were not used in subsequent weeks. However, these actions did not prevent these job performance measures from being used for the retake operating tests for two licensed operators that failed previous operating tests. This resulted in a compromise of operating test integrity because control of these items was lost; however, it did not lead to an actual effect on the equitable and consistent administration of the examination. This issue was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report 2010-5977. The failure of the licensees training staff to maintain the integrity of examinations administered to licensed operations personnel was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency is more than minor, and therefore a finding, because it adversely impacted the human performance attribute of the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Additionally, if left uncorrected, it could have become more significant in that allowing untested licensed operators (in this case, operators that had the potential to have an invalid test because of the lack of examination integrity) at the controls could be a precursor to a more significant event if undetected performance deficiencies develop. Using Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 worksheets, and the corresponding Appendix I, Licensed Operator Requalification Significance Determination Process, the finding was determined to have very low safety significance (Green) because, although the finding resulted in a compromise of the integrity of operating test job performance measures and compensatory actions were not immediately taken when the compromise should have been discovered in 2009, the equitable and consistent administration of the exam was not actually impacted by this compromise. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of problem identification and resolution associated with corrective actions because the licensee did not take appropriate corrective actions to address safety issues in that an operating test compromise issue occurred that was entered into the corrective action program as Condition Report 2009-4066. This corrective action document stated that these compromised items shall not be used on any subsequent operating tests for that cycle and they were subsequently used on the 2009 annual operating test. |
| Site: | Fort Calhoun  |
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| Report | IR 05000285/2010005 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2010 (2010Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | K Clayton J Kirkland P Elkmann J Clark T Farina J Wingebach |
| CCA | P.3, Resolution |
| INPO aspect | PI.3 |
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