05000400/FIN-2015003-02
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| Title | Written NRC Biennial Examinations Did Not Meet Qualitative Standards |
| Description | The inspectors identified an URI associated with 10 CFR 55.59, "Requalification," based on a preliminary determination that between 20 and 40 percent of the written examination questions administered to licensed operators during the biennial requalification examination were potentially flawed. This item is unresolved pending further inspection to determine whether a performance deficiency exists. The NRC-required biennial written examinations are designed to ensure that licensed operators maintain safe standards of knowledge and ability in order to take appropriate safety-related actions in response to actual abnormal or emergency conditions. As part of the biennial licensed operator training inspection, the inspectors evaluated the content of two NRC-required biennial written examinations (Set 1 Exam 1 SRO and Set 2 Exam 4 SRO) that the licensee developed and administered to licensed operators in 2014. Between 20 percent and 40 percent of items reviewed were determined to potentially contain flaws such as more than one implausible distracter, direct lookup, or low level of difficulty. The standard for determining a question flaw was located within site-specific procedures and further defined within NUREG-1021, Operator Licensing Examination Standards for Power Reactors. Several questions were determined to potentially not contain an appropriate level of difficulty. In many instances there may not have been an acceptable amount of knowledge tested for where to find the answer in an open book exam. Compounding the impact on level of difficulty, answer choices could be eliminated without using nuclear power plant operating knowledge. The licensee entered the issue into their CAP as AR 01940942. Pending further guidance from the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) on the evaluation of the level of difficulty in establishing whether a performance deficiency exists, this issue is identified as URI 05000400/2015003-02, NRC Biennial Written Examinations May Not Have Met Qualitative Standards. |
| Site: | Harris  |
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| Report | IR 05000400/2015003 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Sep 30, 2015 (2015Q3) |
| Type: | URI: |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | G Hopper J Austin M Bates M Richesb Caballerog Hopper J Austin J Dodson M Bates M Riches |
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