05000397/FIN-2016004-01
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| Title | Failure to Maintain Licensed Operator Examination Integrity |
| Description | Severity Level IV. The inspectors identified a Severity Level IV, non-cited violation of 10 CFR 55.49, Integrity of Examinations and Tests, associated with a Green finding, for the failure to ensure the integrity of simulator scenario tests, given as part of the 2015 licensed operator annual operating test, were maintained. The administration practices for the years 2015 and 2016 were reviewed to determine if they were consistent with industry standards used to enforce uniform conditions on the examination process. During the 2015 annual operating test, three licensed operators received two of three simulator scenario tests that had been previously administered to other licensed operators in previous weeks, and two licensed operators received two of two simulator scenario tests that had been previously administered to other licensed operators in previous weeks. Allowing more than 50 percent of an operating test section to be comprised of examination material previously administered on any other test in the same examination cycle is considered an examination integrity compromise. However, an evaluation of the 2015 examination results for the affected population showed that the compromise did not have an actual effect on the equitable and consistent administration of the examination. The licensee entered the finding into the corrective action program as Action Request 358890. The failure of the licensees training staff to maintain the integrity of examinations administered to licensed operations personnel was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency was more than minor, and therefore a finding, because it adversely affected the human performance attribute of the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Using NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Attachment 4, Tables 1 and 2 worksheets, and the corresponding Appendix I, Licensed Operator Requalification Significance Determination Process (SDP), the finding was determined to have very low safety significance (Green). Although the 2015 finding resulted in a compromise of the integrity of the annual operating tests, with no compensatory actions immediately taken when the compromise should have been discovered, the equitable and consistent administration of the annual operating test was not actually affected by this compromise. In addition, the failure to meet 10 CFR 55.49 was evaluated through the traditional enforcement process, which resulted in its association with a Severity Level IV (SL-IV) violation consistent with Sections 2.2.4 and 6.4d of the NRC Enforcement Policy. This finding had a cross-cutting aspect in the area of resources associated with ensuring that procedures are adequate to ensure nuclear safety. A review of the procedure used to develop and administer requalification program examinations revealed that it did not specify the industry standards or guidelines that ensure that 50 percent or less of the examination material is repeated on a given examination in comparison to those examination elements used in previous weeks examinations at the individual level [H.1]. |
| Site: | Columbia  |
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| Report | IR 05000397/2016004 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2016 (2016Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | C Osterholtz D Bradley G Kolcum J Groom J Kirkland S Hedger T. Lamb |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 55.49 |
| CCA | H.1, Resources |
| INPO aspect | LA.1 |
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Finding List (Columbia) @ 2016Q4
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