05000445/FIN-2011004-01
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Title | Failure to Maintain Operator Licensing Examination Integrity |
Description | The inspectors identified a noncited violation of 10 CFR Part 55.49, Integrity of Examinations and Tests, for the failure of the licensee to ensure the integrity of annual operating exams. During the 2009 annual operating exam, 17 licensed operators received three of five job performance measures, and 17 additional licensed operators received four of five job performance measures for their operating tests that had been administered to other licensed operators in previous weeks. In addition, five licensed operators received two of three crew simulator scenarios as part of their operating test that had been administered to other licensed operators in previous weeks. Allowing more than 50 percent of an operating test section to be comprised of exam material previously administered on any other test in the same examination cycle is considered an exam integrity compromise. However, evaluation of the 2009 exam 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 Condition Report CR-2010-010851. The failure of the licensee's training staff to maintain the integrity of examinations administered to licensed operations personnel was a performance deficiency. The finding was more than minor because it adversely impacted 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. Additionally, if left uncorrected, the performance deficiency could have become more significant in that allowing licensed operators to return to the control room without valid demonstration of appropriate knowledge on the annual operating examinations could be a precursor to a more significant event. Using NRC Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 worksheets, and the corresponding Appendix I, Licensed Operator Requalification Significance Determination Process, the finding was determined to have very low safety significance because, although the 2009 finding resulted in a compromise of the integrity of operating test job performance measures and simulator scenarios with no compensatory actions immediately taken when the compromise should have been discovered in 2009. The equitable and consistent administration of the test was not actually impacted by this compromise. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of resources associated with ensuring that procedures are accurately translated from industry standards, such that the 50 percent maximum overlap criteria was not exceeded. |
Site: | Comanche Peak |
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Report | IR 05000445/2011004 Section 1R11 |
Date counted | Sep 30, 2011 (2011Q3) |
Type: | NCV: Green |
cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
Identified by: | NRC identified |
Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
Inspectors (proximate) | L Carson W Walker M Young M Bloodgood J Kramer S Hedger J Watkins M Williams |
CCA | H.7, Documentation |
INPO aspect | WP.3 |
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Finding List (Comanche Peak) @ 2011Q3
Self-Identified List (Comanche Peak)
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