05000373/FIN-2016004-01
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| Title | Failure to Perform Required Monthly Fire Extinguisher Inspections per National Fire Protection Association Code |
| Description | The inspectors identified a finding of very low safety significance with an associated NCV of the LaSalle County Station Unit 1 and Unit 2 operating licenses, NFP11, Section 2.C.(25), Fire Protection Program, and NFP18, Section 2.C.(15), Fire Protection Program, respectively, for the licensees failure to meet the inspection requirements of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101975 for portable fire extinguishers. Specifically, from October 10, 2011, to January 9, 2017, the licensee failed to perform inspections on portable fire extinguishers in high radiation areas on the required monthly frequency, including some fire extinguishers that were in place in case of a fire in safety-related areas, such as outside emergency core cooling system pump rooms. The licensee entered this issue into the Corrective Actions Program (CAP) as Action Request (AR) 02739987. Licensees corrective actions include completion of an evaluation which provided a technical justification for a deviation from the monthly inspection requirements of NFPA10. The performance deficiency was determined to be more than minor because it was associated with the Mitigating Systems cornerstone attribute of protection against external factors, including fire, and affected the cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability, reliability and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Specifically, had a fire occurred in one of the affected fire zones containing safety-related mitigation equipment (e.g., RHR pump room) and a licensee responder attempted to use an extinguisher that may not be functional due to an unknown degraded condition allowed to exist because monthly checks were not performed, the fire could progress further and render the mitigating system inoperable. The finding was screened as very low safety significance (Green) because the fire finding was associated with portable fire extinguishers not used for hot work fire watches. The inspectors determined that this finding affected the cross-cutting area of human performance in the aspect of documentation where the organization creates and maintains complete, accurate and up-to-date documentation. Specifically, the licensee failed to ensure that procedures governing the monthly inspection of portable fire extinguishers contained accurate information regarding the use of a deviation from NFPA10. [IMC 0310, H.7] |
| Site: | LaSalle  |
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| Report | IR 05000373/2016004 Section 1R05 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2016 (2016Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.05 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | B Palagi C Hunt G Hansen J Neurauter K Stoedter R Ng R Ruiz R Zuffa T Ospino V Meghani W Schaup |
| Violation of: | License Condition - Fire Protection |
| CCA | H.7, Documentation |
| INPO aspect | WP.3 |
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Finding List (LaSalle) @ 2016Q4
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