05000321/FIN-2016010-02
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| Title | Failure to Identify N2E Nozzle Weld Through-Wall Flaw |
| Description | The inspectors identified a Green NCV of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI, Corrective Actions, for the licensees failure to promptly identify a condition adverse to quality regarding a through-wall flaw in the safe end-to-nozzle weld of the reactor coolant system N2E nozzle. The licensee has since repaired the flaw, completed all required postrepair examinations, and entered this issue entered this into their corrective action program as CR 10247856. The performance deficiency was more than minor because it was associated with the Equipment Performance attribute of the Initiating Events cornerstone and adversely affected the cornerstone objective of limiting the likelihood of events that upset plant stability and challenge critical safety functions during shutdown as well as power operations. The inspectors screened this finding using IMC 0609, Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process (SDP) For Findings At-Power, dated June 19, 2012. Because after a reasonable assessment of degradation, the finding could neither result in exceeding the RCS leak rate for a small LOCA, nor likely affected other systems used to mitigate a LOCA resulting in a total loss of their function, the finding screened as Green. This finding has a cross-cutting aspect of Challenge the Unknown in the area of Human Performance (H.11) because upon discovery of a less robust configuration of the N2E nozzle overlay, the licensee failed to consider the implications on the flaw that had existed in that component since 1988. |
| Site: | Hatch  |
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| Report | IR 05000321/2016010 Section 1R08 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2016 (2016Q2) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Initiating Events |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.08 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | B Collins S Walker |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50 Appendix B 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion XVI |
| CCA | H.11, Challenge the Unknown |
| INPO aspect | QA.2 |
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Finding List (Hatch) @ 2016Q2
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