05000298/FIN-2012004-05
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Title | Failure to Adequately Assess and Manage Risk for Maintenance Activities That Affected the A Zurn Strainer |
Description | The inspectors identified a non-cited violation of 10 CFR 50.65(a)(4), Requirements for Monitoring the Effectiveness of Maintenance at Nuclear Power Plants, for the licensees failure to adequately assess and manage the increase in risk associated with maintenance activities. Specifically, on June 20, 2012, and July 27, 2012, licensee personnel failed to adequately assess and manage the increase in risk associated with Zurn strainer maintenance activities. This finding was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Reports CR-CNS-2012-04182 and CR-CNS-2012-05006. The licensees failure to adequately assess and manage the increase in risk associated with Zurn strainer maintenance activities was a performance deficiency. This performance deficiency was determined to be more than minor and is therefore a finding because it affected the equipment performance attribute of the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone, in that the licensee failed to recognize the Zurn strainers were unavailable, thereby directly affecting the cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability and reliability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Using Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix K, Maintenance Risk Assessment and Risk Management Significance Determination Process, Flowchart 1, Assessment of Risk Deficit, inspectors determined the need to calculate the risk deficit to determine the significance of this issue. Therefore, a senior reactor analyst performed a bounding detailed risk evaluation. The analyst determined that the event would be time dependant, alarms would alert operators of the issue before the function would be lost, and recovery actions were available to bypass the strainers. The result was the incremental core damage probability was determined to be less than 1 X 10^-6, so the finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green). The inspectors determined that the apparent cause of this finding was that operators had failed to verify their assumptions associated with using manual actions to maintain equipment available. Therefore, finding has a cross-cutting aspect in the area of human performance associated with the decision-making component because the licensee failed to use conservative assumptions in decision-making and adopt a requirement to demonstrate that the proposed action is safe in order to proceed rather than a requirement to demonstrate it is unsafe in order to disapprove the action. |
Site: | Cooper |
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Report | IR 05000298/2012004 Section 1R13 |
Date counted | Sep 30, 2012 (2012Q3) |
Type: | NCV: Green |
cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
Identified by: | NRC identified |
Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.13 |
Inspectors (proximate) | J Josey J Laughlin P Elkmann R Hagar A Fairbanks C Henderson G Guerra |
CCA | H.14, Conservative Bias |
INPO aspect | DM.2 |
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