05000483/FIN-2011005-02
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| Title | Failure to Maintain Simulator Fidelity |
| Description | The inspectors identified a non-cited violation of 10 CFR Part 55.46(c), Plant-Referenced Simulators, for failure of the licensee to ensure that the plant-referenced simulator demonstrated expected plant response to transient and accident conditions to which the simulator has been designed to respond. Specifically, the licensee failed to ensure simulator modeling of power-operated relief valve and pressurizer safety valve operation was consistent with the actual plant, introducing the potential for negative operator training. Due to errors made in modeling updates after steam generator replacement in 2005, each pressurizer safety valve was sized in the simulator to allow approximately 3.3 times higher than the design flow rate in the actual plant, and each power operated relief valve was sized to allow approximately 3.5 times higher than the design flow rate capacity provided in the actual plant. The licensee documented their corrective actions for this issue in Callaway Action Request 201101255. The failure of the licensees simulator staff to ensure that the plant-referenced simulator demonstrated expected plant response to transient and accident conditions for which the simulator has been designed to respond was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency is 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 training on related accident scenarios could have a negative impact on how licensed operators would respond to an actual event in the control room. Using 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 (Green) because there was no actual event at the plant similar to the simulator scenario where inappropriate actions were taken in the control room based on training with incorrectly sized components in the simulator. This finding has no cross-cutting aspect assigned because the cause was not representative of current licensee performance |
| Site: | Callaway  |
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| Report | IR 05000483/2011005 Section 1R11 |
| Date counted | Dec 31, 2011 (2011Q4) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.11 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | S Hedger C Alldredge Z Hollcraft G Apgar L Ricketson K Clayton D Dumbacher L Willoughby N O'Keefe C Long A Fairbanks T Buchanan D Reinert |
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Finding List (Callaway) @ 2011Q4
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