05000483/FIN-2011003-06
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| Title | Failure to Correctly Implement a Plant Safety System Test Procedure |
| Description | A self-revealing noncited violation of Technical Specification 5.4.1.a, Procedures, was identified when the licensees failure to correctly follow a test procedure resulted in a negative reactivity excursion due to excessive boration. On May 27, 2011, with the Callaway Plant at 100 percent power, maintenance was in progress to perform a functional test of the plants safety system trip actuating devices. During the test the instrument maintenance technicians failed to place the mode selector switch in the test position. This resulted in switching the charging pump suction from the volume control tank to the refueling water storage tank. The inadvertent actuation resulted in a reactivity excursion that required lowering main turbine power and reactor power to about 92 percent. The crew stabilized the plant and returned critical parameters to their normal control bands. The licensee entered this issue in the corrective action program as Callaway Action Request 201104451. This finding is more than minor because it was associated with the configuration control attribute of the Initiating Events Cornerstone and affected the associated cornerstone objective to limit the likelihood of those events that upset plant stability and challenge critical safety functions during power operations. Using Manual Chapter 0609.04, Phase 1 - Initial Screening and Characterization of Findings, this finding was determined to be of very low safety significance since it did not contribute to both the likelihood of a reactor trip and the likelihood that mitigating equipment or functions will not be available. This finding had a crosscutting aspect in the area of human performance associated with the work practices component because the instrument maintenance technicians failed to adequately use human error prevention techniques, such as self- and peer-checking to ensure that work activities are performed safely. |
| Site: | Callaway  |
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| Report | IR 05000483/2011003 Section 4OA3 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2011 (2011Q2) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Initiating Events |
| Identified by: | Self-revealing |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71153 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | C Alldredge C Graves D Dumbacher G Guerra G Miller J Groom L Ricketson P Elkman R Latta |
| CCA | H.12, Avoid Complacency |
| INPO aspect | QA.4 |
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Finding List (Callaway) @ 2011Q2
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