05000298/FIN-2012004-06
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Title | Failure to Obtain Prior NRC Approval for a Change Regarding the Supplemental Diesel Generator |
Description | The inspectors identified a non-cited violation of 10 CFR 50.59, Changes, Test, and Experiments, associated with the licensees failure to adequately evaluate changes in order to ensure that they did not require prior NRC approval. The inspectors determined that a procedure change performed by the licensee to allow the use of the supplemental diesel generator for responding to a station blackout should have required prior NRC approval. Specifically, this change resulted in a more than minimal increase in the likelihood of the occurrence of a malfunction of a structure, system, or component important to safety that had been previously evaluated. This issue was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report CR-CNS-2012-05558. The licensees failure to implement the requirements of 10 CFR 50.59 and adequately evaluate the use of the supplemental diesel generator for responding to a station blackout event was a performance deficiency. Because this performance deficiency had the potential to impact the NRCs ability to perform its regulatory function, the inspectors evaluated it using traditional enforcement. In accordance with section 7.3.E.6 of the NRC Enforcement Policy, the inspectors used Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process For Findings At-Power, to determine that this performance deficiency was of very low safety significance (Green) because it: (1) was not a deficiency affecting the design or qualification of a mitigating structure, system, or component and did not result in a loss of operability or functionality; (2) did not represent a loss of system and/or function; (3) did not represent an actual loss of function of at least a single train for longer than its technical specification allowed outage time, or two separate safety systems outof- service for longer than its technical specification allowed outage time; and (4) did not represent an actual loss of function of one or more non-technical specification trains of equipment designated as high safety-significance in accordance with the licensees maintenance rule program. Therefore, in accordance with section 6.1.d.2 of the NRC Enforcement Policy, the inspectors characterized this performance deficiency as a Severity Level IV violation. As described in section 07.03.c of Manual Chapter 0612, Power Reactor Inspection Reports, no cross-cutting aspect was assigned to this violation. |
Site: | Cooper ![]() |
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Report | IR 05000298/2012004 Section 1R13 |
Date counted | Sep 30, 2012 (2012Q3) |
Type: | TEV: Severity level IV |
cornerstone | Miscellaneous |
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 |
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