05000458/FIN-2010004-04

Finding

Title

Failure to Maintain Licensed Operator Examination Integrity

Description

The inspectors identified a noncited violation of 10 CFR Part 55.49, Integrity of Examinations and Tests, for the failure of operations training personnel to ensure the integrity of an operating test administered to a licensed operations crew was maintained. One licensed operations crew received two scenarios for their operating test that had been previously administered to a licensed operations staff crew. This failure resulted in a compromise of examination integrity, but did not lead to an actual effect on the equitable and consistent administration of the examination. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of human performance associated with decision making because the licensee did not use conservative assumptions when adopting a 50 percent operating examination overlap practice H.1(b). The finding is more than minor because, if left uncorrected, the finding could have become more significant in that allowing untested licensed operators at the controls could be a precursor to a significant event if undetected performance deficiencies develop. The finding was determined to have very low safety significance (Green) because the finding resulted in a compromise of the integrity of operating test scenarios and compensatory actions were not immediately taken when the compromise should have been discovered. However, the equitable and consistent administration of the exam was not actually impacted by this compromise. The inspectors applied Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Appendix I, Licensed Operator Requalification Significance Determination Process, and determined that the finding should be dispositioned as a Green noncited violation (Section 1R11.2).

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Site:	River Bend
Report	IR 05000458/2010004 Section 1R11
Date counted	Sep 30, 2010 (2010Q3)
Type:	NCV: Green
cornerstone	Initiating Events
Identified by:	NRC identified
Inspection Procedure:	IP 71111.11
Inspectors (proximate)	P Elkmann C Osterholtz R Hagar G Larkin V Gaddy C Norton D Strickland R Kumana C Stancil G Guerra
CCA	H.14, Conservative Bias
INPO aspect	DM.2
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Finding - River Bend - IR 05000458/2010004

1(0)2(3)3(4)4(7)5(7)6(4)201(1)301(0)302(0)402(0)403(0)404(0)405(0)501(0)31(0)

IR 05000458/2010004: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Finding List (River Bend) @ 2010Q3

CCA Matrix: 2010Q3

	Q	CCA	Title
05000458/FIN-2009402-01	2009Q4	H.14	Security
05000458/FIN-2009005-02	2009Q4	H.7	Failure to Ensure the Emergency Contact had Knowledge About a Shipment
05000458/FIN-2009005-01	2009Q4		Main Steam Line Plus Seal Failure Results in Loss of Reactor Cavity Inventory
05000458/FIN-2010002-03	2010Q1	H.2(a) H.6	Failure to Adequately Verify a Suitable Replacement Part Essential for Emergency Diesel Generator Operation
05000458/FIN-2010002-02	2010Q1		Failure to Verify Control Building Chiller Operability During Low Service Water Temperatures
05000458/FIN-2010002-01	2010Q1	H.5	Failure to Evaluate a Revised Equipment Tag Out
05000458/FIN-2010003-01	2010Q2		Inadequate Risk Assessment for High Pressure Core Spray Pump Room Unit Cooler Maintenance
05000458/FIN-2010201-01	2010Q2	H.7	Security
05000458/FIN-2010003-03	2010Q2	H.11 H.12	Failure to Follow Radiation Work Permit Instructions
05000458/FIN-2010003-02	2010Q2		Inadequate Procedure Results in Loss of Offsite Power to a 4160 Vac Safety Bus
05000458/FIN-2010006-03	2010Q2		Failure to Implement and Maintain in Effect all Provisions of the Approved Fire Protection Program
05000458/FIN-2010006-04	2010Q2		Failure to Implement and Maintain in Effect all Provisions of the Approved Fire Protection Program
05000458/FIN-2010006-02	2010Q2	H.7	Failure to Ensure Alternative Shutdown Procedure could be Implemented as Written
05000458/FIN-2010006-01	2010Q2	H.4 H.5	Failure to Ensure at Least One Train of Equipment Necessary to Achieve Hot Shutdown Conditions is Free of Fire Damage
05000458/FIN-2010004-06	2010Q3		Inadequate Maintenance Results in Unplanned Opening of Main Turbine Bypass Valve
05000458/FIN-2010004-05	2010Q3		Inadequate High Pressure Core Spray Pump Room Cooler Bearing Maintenance
05000458/FIN-2010004-04	2010Q3	H.14	Failure to Maintain Licensed Operator Examination Integrity
05000458/FIN-2010004-03	2010Q3		Use of a decommissioning funding mechanism that did not meet the requirements of 10 CFR 50.75(e)(1)(v)
05000458/FIN-2010004-02	2010Q3		Failure to provide complete and accurate information by failing to disclose its reliance on a contract in the March 2009 funds status report (10 CFR 50.75(f)(1) and 10 CFR 50.9)
05000458/FIN-2010004-01	2010Q3		Failure to provide adequate decommissioning funding assurance from Dec. 31, 2008 through the present (10 CFR 50.75(b))

Self-Identified List (River Bend)

	Q	Title
05000458/FIN-2009005-03	2009Q4	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000458/FIN-2010003-04	2010Q2	Licensee-Identified Violation
05000458/FIN-2010004-07	2010Q3	Licensee-Identified Violation

[River Bend Findings full list]

05000458/FIN-2010004-04

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