05000313/FIN-2009004-02
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Title | Failure to Maintain Seismic Design Bases Control |
Description | The inspectors identified a noncited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion III, Design Control, for the failure to assure that applicable design basis for applicable structures, systems, and components were correctly translated into specifications, procedures, and instructions. Specifically, the licensee approved a nonconservative engineering calculation which led to operating procedure changes that allowed the removal of safety-related, motor-operated valve actuator rigid seismic restraints in the support of maintenance without verifying conformance to meet seismic design basis requirements. The issue was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report ANO-C-2009-0710. The performance deficiency was determined to be more than minor because it was associated with the protection against external events attribute of the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone, and affected the associated cornerstone objective to ensure availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences, and is therefore a finding. Specifically, the engineering calculation used to support removal of rigid seismic restraints and maintain operability only analyzed the deadweight of the motor-operated valve actuator, not any dynamic seismic loading. Using NRC Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 Worksheets, Mitigating Systems Cornerstone, the finding was determined to have very low safety significance because it did not represent an actual loss of safety function and did not screen as potentially risk significant due to a seismic initiating event. This finding did not have a crosscutting aspect because the engineering calculation used to determine the acceptability of removal of motor-operated valve actuator seismic restraints to support maintenance and maintain system operability was made in 1994 and was not indicative of current plant performanc |
Site: | Arkansas Nuclear ![]() |
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Report | IR 05000313/2009004 Section 1R15 |
Date counted | Sep 30, 2009 (2009Q3) |
Type: | NCV: Green |
cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
Identified by: | NRC identified |
Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.15 |
Inspectors (proximate) | C Graves T Mckernon A Sanchez J Josey J Clark B Larson M Bloodgood T Pate S Hedger J Rotton |
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