05000483/FIN-2016002-01
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| Title | Failure to Account for Water Hammer Stresses in Essential Service Water System Calculations |
| Description | The inspectors identified a non-cited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion III, Design Control, for the licensees failure to account for the essential service water pipe stresses caused by pressure fluctuations of the known column closure water hammer phenomenon. The licensee failed to properly account for essential service water piping membrane stress and impact loads as required by the 1974 ASME Code,Section III, paragraphs ND-3112.4 and ND-3111. Specifically, the licensees design calculations for the essential service water system did not account for the pressure fluctuations caused by a known column closure water hammer phenomenon that occurs during a loss of off-site power or load sequencer testing. The licensee completed a prompt operability determination assuring the system was operable under the current conditions and was completing engineering evaluations of the data collected to demonstrate the operability of the system under design conditions. The licensee entered this issued into the corrective action program as Callaway Action Requests 201603472 and 201603819. The inspectors determined that the licensees failure to account for the pressure fluctuations caused by a known column closure water hammer phenomenon in the design calculations for the essential service water system was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency is more than minor, and therefore a finding, because it is associated with the design control attribute of the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone and adversely affected the associated objective to ensure availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Using Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process (SDP) for Findings At-Power, dated June 19, 2012, inspectors determined that this finding was of very low safety significance (Green) because the finding: (1) was not a deficiency affecting the design and qualification of a mitigating structure, system, or component, and did not result in a loss of operability or functionality, (2) did not represent a loss of system and/or function, (3) did not represent an actual loss of function of at least a single train for longer than its allowed outage time, or two separate safety systems out-of-service for longer than their technical specification allowed outage time, and (4) does not represent an actual loss of function of one or more non-technical specification trains of equipment designated as high safety significant for greater than 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> in accordance with the licensees maintenance rule program. This finding has a cross-cutting aspect of conservative bias in the human performance area because the licensee failed to demonstrate that a proposed action was safe in order to proceed, rather than unsafe in order to stop. Specifically, when the licensee recognized that the column separation water hammer phenomenon was occurring in the essential service water system, they only applied the forces to the containment coolers, not the entire system [H.14]. |
| Site: | Callaway  |
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| Report | IR 05000483/2016002 Section 1R04 |
| Date counted | Jun 30, 2016 (2016Q2) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.04 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | J Drake J Josey J O'Donnell M Langelier N Taylor P Hernandez R Kopriva T Hartman |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50 Appendix B 10 CFR 50 Appendix B Criterion III, Design Control |
| CCA | H.14, Conservative Bias |
| INPO aspect | DM.2 |
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