05000390/FIN-2016001-08
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| Title | Charging Pump 1B-B Room Cooler Fan Bearing Failure |
| Description | Inspectors identified an unresolved item (URI) associated with the failure of the 1B-B charging pump room cooler. This item is unresolved pending review of an equipment apparent cause evaluation that was performed after deficiencies were identified by inspectors in the past operability evaluation. On September 27, 2015, the licensee installed a new bearings on the 1B-B CCP room cooler fan shaft as part of planned maintenance (PM) under WO 115790759. The WO noted the room cooler had a broken lubrication line close to the point where it is attached to the outboard fan shaft bearing, but the new bearing on the fan shaft, including the outboard shaft bearing, were installed without an immediate repair of the lubrication line. The bearing replacements for WO 115790759 were accomplished in accordance with maintenance procedure 0-MI-0.16, Maintenance Guidelines for Belt Driven Equipment, Rev. 7. Appendix D, Bearing Installation, Step 14 requires, All remote lubrication lines, remote vibration attachments, etc. shall be verified as attached prior to return to service. The work order noted at this step that the lubrication line to the outboard fan shaft bearing was broken in half and will need to be replaced prior to return to service and the step was left blank. The licensee did not initiate a CR for this degraded condition. Due to the broken lubrication line, the outboard fan shaft bearing was the only fan shaft bearing that was not greased during installation. October 15, 2015, the licensee completed the PMT for the room cooler and noted it to be satisfactory. The broken lubrication line documented in the PM WO was identified and CR 1093983 was initiated to document the condition. This CR stated that the broken lubrication line did not affect the functionality of the fan and could be repaired at the next scheduled PM. This assessment was not questioned during the review of the CR for operability. The fan was returned to service and declared operable. On December 4, 2015, the room cooler failed in service. The licensee declared the 1BB charging pump inoperable and entered the applicable TS LCO. Investigation revealed that the outboard fan shaft bearing had failed. At this point, the inappropriate treatment of the degraded lubrication line under 0-MI-0.16 and the associated PMT was identified. This issue was documented in the licensees CAP in CR 1111791. The licensee performed a past operability evaluation (POE) for CR 1111791 which concluded the fan was operable until several hours before the time of the failure. The POE was based largely on statements from the bearing vendor indicating that the new bearing was pre-lubricated at the factory and should have performed under load for a long period of time without needing to be pre-greased at installation. The POE was hampered by the fact that the licensee did not retain the damaged bearing for failure analysis. The inspectors reviewed the POE and determined that it failed to adequately document sufficient information to either discount the broken lubrication line as a cause of the bearing failure or to identify another cause. In response, the licensee opened an investigation of the cause of the bearing failure under an equipment apparent cause evaluation. Because more information is necessary to evaluate the cause of the 1B-B CCP room cooler fan shaft bearing failure, future inspection is required to determine if a more than minor performance deficiency or violation exists associated with this issue. Specifically, the inspectors need to review the equipment apparent cause evaluation, which was not completed by the end of the inspection period. This is identified as URI 05000390/2016001-08, Charging Pump 1B-B Room Cooler Fan Bearing Failure. |
| Site: | Watts Bar  |
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| Report | IR 05000390/2016001 Section 1R15 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2016 (2016Q1) |
| Type: | URI: |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.15 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | A Blamey A Lerch C Young D Dumbacher D Jones G Callaway J Eargle J Hamman J Jandovitz J Nadel L Micewski N. Pitoniak R Fanner S Sanchezb Bishopc Kontz D Jones D Kern D Lanyi J Austin J Eargle J Hamman J Montgomery J Nadel R Reyes S Shah |
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