05000395/FIN-2018010-04
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| Title | Unjustified Qualified Life for ASCO Valves |
| Description | The NRC opened a Unresolved Item (URI) to determine if a performance deficiency was more than minor. In 1993, the licensees contractor, Impell Corporation, re-analyzed the qualified life established by ASCO qualification report AQR-67368 and a field notification from ASCO dated 10/27/1989. Impell erroneously used the heat rise temperatures from the field notification for both the AQR-67368 test samples accelerated aging temperature and the actual service temperatures in various plant locations. Replacing the actual test specimens documented accelerated aging temperature with an assumed temperature was not justified. As a result, when using the actual temperature identified in the qualification report, many of these solenoids are currently beyond their qualified lives. The licensee provided an alternate heat rise test report less limiting than the ASCO testing to justify that the ASCO valves were within their service lives, report 8058-001-2000-RA-0001-R00, Environmental Qualification Temperature Test of ASCO 206 and NP Series Solenoid Valves, dated June 2000. The teams evaluation must determine whether the alternate report is applicable to the licensee, and, if so, whether the test report indicated that the ASCO testing was invalid to conclude that the valves are currently within their qualified lives. 10 EnclosureNUREG-0588 Section 4(6) and Regulatory Guide 1.89, Rev. 1, Regulatory Position 5.c, required, in part, that the aging acceleration rate and the basis upon which it was established be described, documented, and justified. The team determined that the failure to justify the aging acceleration rate was a performance deficiency. However, a review of the additional information is warranted to determine if the performance deficiency is more than minor. The licensee entered the performance deficiency into their corrective action program as CR-18-00175 and determined that preliminary calculations indicated that the ASCO valves are currently operable based on the additional information provided for review. |
| Site: | Summer  |
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| Report | IR 05000395/2018010 Section 1R21 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2018 (2018Q1) |
| Type: | URI: |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.21N |
| Inspectors (proximate) | T Fanelli M Riley C Franklin M Sykes |
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