05000416/FIN-2015007-01
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| Title | Failure to Ensure Safety-Related Alternating Current and Direct Current Equipment Operability and Functionality at Maximum Allowable Voltage Levels |
| Description | The team identified two examples of a Green, non-cited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion III, Design Control, which states, in part, design control measures shall provide for verifying or checking the adequacy of design, such as by the performance of design reviews, by the use of alternate or simplified calculational methods, or by the performance of a suitable testing program. Specifically, prior to September 3, 2015, the licensee failed to verify or check the adequacy of: (1) Safety-related motors and control power circuits fed from Division III 480 V ac emergency safety feature bus 17B01, which were not designed or analyzed to operate using higher voltage ranges that are supplied to the safety-related buses; and (2) safety-related equipment connected to the 125 V dc system were not verified for satisfactory operation at elevated equalizing voltage of 140 V dc. In response to this issue, the licensee performed an operability determination which determined that the condition would reduce the life of the equipment but not cause spurious malfunctions. This finding was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Reports CR-GGN-2015-4413 and CR-GGN-2015-5130. The team determined that the licensees failure to assure that allowable high voltage conditions are within alternating and direct current equipment ratings was a performance deficiency. This performance deficiency was more than minor, and therefore a finding, because it was associated with the equipment performance attribute of the Mitigating Systems cornerstone and adversely affected the cornerstone objective to ensure the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Specifically, the operation of the equipment outside of its equipment ratings adversely affects the reliability of safety-related equipment. In accordance with Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process (SDP) for Findings At-Power, dated June 19, 2012, Exhibit 2, Mitigating Systems Screening Questions, the finding was determined to have very low safety significance (Green) because it was a design or qualification deficiency that did not -3- Attachment represent a loss of operability or functionality; did not represent an actual loss of safety function of the system or train; did not result in the loss of one or more trains of nontechnical specification equipment; and did not screen as potentially risk significant due to seismic, flooding, or severe weather. This finding did not have a crosscutting aspect because the most significant contributor did not reflect current licensee performance. |
| Site: | Grand Gulf |
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| Report | IR 05000416/2015007 Section 1R21 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2015 (2015Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.21 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | D Loveless H Leake J Watkins L Brandt R Latta T Farnholtz W Sherbin J Mchugh |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion III, Design Control |
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