05000298/FIN-2011003-09

Finding

Title

Failure to Initiate Condition Reports for Nonconformances Identified During System Walk Downs

Description

The inspectors identified a noncited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI, Corrective Actions, for the failure of licensee personnel to take actions to promptly correct a condition adverse to quality. Specifically, the licensee did not take any interim actions to eliminate procedure steps that allowed venting of emergency core cooling systems without determining the amount of gas accumulated and the potential impact on system operability. The performance deficiency associated with this finding involved the failure to correct a condition adverse to quality. This finding was more than minor because it affected the equipment performance attribute of the Mitigating Systems cornerstone objective to ensure the availability, reliability, and capability of the emergency core cooling systems to respond to initiating events and prevent undesirable consequences. Specifically, licensee personnel failed to promptly correct the previously identified condition adverse to quality of not tracking emergency core cooling system gas accumulation and its potential effects on system operability during surveillance testing. The inspectors performed the significance determination using NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0609.04, Phase 1 Initial Screening and Characterization of Findings. The finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green) because it was not a design or qualification deficiency confirmed not to result in loss of operability or functionality; did not result in loss of a safety function, did not result in loss of safety function of a single train for longer than its allowed outage time, did not result in loss of a risk-significant nontechnical specification system per 10 CFR 50.65, and did not screen as potentially risk significant because of a seismic, flooding or severe weather initiating event. The finding was determined to have a cross-cutting aspect in the area of human performance, associated with the resources component, in that, the licensee failed to provide maintenance of design margins. Specifically, the licensee did not ensure that station procedure were adequate to assure nuclear safety, in that they did require measuring of the amount of entrained gas and any impact on equipment operability.

09
Site:	Cooper
Report	IR 05000298/2011003 Section 4OA5
Date counted	Jun 30, 2011 (2011Q2)
Type:	NCV: Green
cornerstone	Mitigating Systems
Identified by:	NRC identified
Inspection Procedure:
Inspectors (proximate)	G Pick J Josey L Ricketson M Chambers M Young N Greene V Gaddy
CCA	H.6, Design Margins
INPO aspect	WP.2
'
v • d • e

Finding - Cooper - IR 05000298/2011003

1(0)2(6)3(12)4(7)5(9)6(5)7(0)8(6)9(1)10(0)201(0)202(1)301(0)403(0)501(0)

IR 05000298/2011003: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Finding List (Cooper) @ 2011Q2

CCA Matrix: 2011Q2

	Q	CCA	Title
05000298/FIN-2010004-02	2010Q3	P.2	Failure to Follow Procedure Results in Repeat Equipment Failure
05000298/FIN-2010004-01	2010Q3	H.14	Failure to Adequately Monitor the Performance of the Screen Wash System
05000298/FIN-2010005-03	2010Q4	P.5	Failure to Adequately Assess and Manage Risk During Maintenance Activities
05000298/FIN-2010006-01	2010Q4	P.1	Inadequate Post-Fire Safe Shutdown Procedures
05000298/FIN-2010006-02	2010Q4	H.14	Failure to Monitor the Performance of the Emergency Lights Against the Maintenance Rule Criteria
05000298/FIN-2010005-01	2010Q4	H.14	Failure to Implement Fire Protection Plan Requirements Related to Hot Work Activities
05000298/FIN-2010005-02	2010Q4	H.14	Failure to Assess and Manage Risk for Electrical Switchyard Impacting Maintenance
05000298/FIN-2010005-05	2010Q4		Diesel Generator Overspeed Governor Loose Bolting Issue
05000298/FIN-2010005-06	2010Q4		Failure to Update Flood Protection for Safety Related Buildings
05000298/FIN-2010005-04	2010Q4	P.3	Failure to Have Guidelines for the Choice of Protective Actions During an Emergency Consistent with Federal Guidance
05000298/FIN-2010007-04	2010Q4	P.5	Inadequate Design Control
05000298/FIN-2010007-06	2010Q4	S.2	Faulty General Electric Switches
05000298/FIN-2010007-01	2010Q4	H.7	Failure to Translate Design and Operating Requirements into Procedures
05000298/FIN-2010007-02	2010Q4	H.14	Failure to promptly Correct Conditions Adverse to Quality
05000298/FIN-2010007-03	2010Q4	H.7	Inadequate Test Control
05000298/FIN-2010007-05	2010Q4	H.14	Ice Deflector Pontoon Barge Storage in Service Water Discharge Canal
05000298/FIN-2010007-07	2010Q4		URI 05000298/2007011-07, Fuel Oil Storage Tank Required Submergence To Prevent Vortexing And Available Volume Are Marginal Without Accounting For Instrument Uncertainties
05000298/FIN-2010007-08	2010Q4		URI 05000298/2007011-08, High Pressure Coolant Pump Swap-Over from Emergency Condensate Storage Tank to Torus Vortex Calculation
05000298/FIN-2011009-01	2011Q1	P.2	Inadequate Post-Fire Safe Shutdown Procedures
05000298/FIN-2011002-02	2011Q1	P.3	Failure to Assess and Manage Risk for Maintenance That Could Impact Initiating Events
05000298/FIN-2011002-04	2011Q1	P.3	Repeat Failure to Follow Procedure for Initiating Condition Reports
05000298/FIN-2011002-03	2011Q1	H.8	Failure to Adequately Implement Foreign Material Exclusion Controls
05000298/FIN-2011002-01	2011Q1	H.14	Failure to Properly Evaluate All Senior Operator License Holders during Annual Operating Test
05000298/FIN-2011002-05	2011Q1	H.14	Failure to Notify the NRC within Eight Hours of a Nonemergency Event
05000298/FIN-2011003-08	2011Q2	H.12	Failure to Follow Procedure Results in Degraded Emergency Diesel Generator
05000298/FIN-2011006-05	2011Q2	H.14	Failure to Correctly Translate Design Requirements into Installed Plant Configuration
05000298/FIN-2011003-01	2011Q2	H.14	Failure to Assess Potential Adverse Effects on Internal Flooding Analysis
05000298/FIN-2011008-01	2011Q2	H.8	Unclear Work Instructions
05000298/FIN-2011008-02	2011Q2	H.5	Failure to Recognize Work Order Risk
05000298/FIN-2011008-03	2011Q2	H.12	Failure to Implement Human Performance Procedure
05000298/FIN-2011008-04	2011Q2	H.14	Failure to Revise Unclear Work Instructions
05000298/FIN-2011008-05	2011Q2	H.5	Failure to Perform an Adequate High Radiation Area Briefing
05000298/FIN-2011008-06	2011Q2	H.12	Failure to Follow Radiation Protection Job Coverage Procedures
05000298/FIN-2011003-04	2011Q2		Communication of an NRC Inspectors Presence by Station Personnel
05000298/FIN-2011006-02	2011Q2	P.2	Failure to Report Conditions Prohibited by Technical Specifications and Safety System Functional Failures
05000298/FIN-2011006-03	2011Q2	P.2	Failure to Perform 10 CFR 50.59 Evaluation for Design Change
05000298/FIN-2011006-04	2011Q2	P.2	Failure to Take Action for an Ineffective Corrective Action
05000298/FIN-2011003-02	2011Q2	P.2	Failure to Follow Procedure Results in Inadequate Operability Determinations
05000298/FIN-2011003-03	2011Q2	H.4 H.5	Failure to Follow Procedure Results in Personnel Contaminations
05000298/FIN-2011003-05	2011Q2	H.11 H.12	Failure to Follow Radiation Work Permit Requirements
05000298/FIN-2011003-06	2011Q2		Failure to Correctly Translate Design Requirements into Installed Plant Configuration
05000298/FIN-2011003-07	2011Q2		Failure to Adequately Assess and Manage Risk When Disabling A Hazard Barrier
05000298/FIN-2011003-09	2011Q2	H.6	Failure to Initiate Condition Reports for Nonconformances Identified During System Walk Downs
05000298/FIN-2011003-10	2011Q2	P.1	Failure to Promptly Correct an Adverse Condition Related to Emergency Core Cooling System Venting
05000298/FIN-2011006-01	2011Q2	P.1	Failure to Promptly Identify and Correct Conditions Adverse to Quality

Self-Identified List (Cooper)

	Q	Title
05000298/FIN-2010004-03	2010Q3	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000298/FIN-2010403-01	2010Q4	Security
05000298/FIN-2011002-06	2011Q1	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000298/FIN-2011003-11	2011Q2	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000298/FIN-2011003-12	2011Q2	Licensee-Identified Violation

[Cooper Findings full list]

05000298/FIN-2011003-09

Navigation menu

Search