This violation of very low safety-significant was identified by the licensee and has been entered into the licensee corrective action program and is being treated as a non-cited violation, consistent with Section 2.3.2 of the
Enforcement Policy.Violation:
10 CFR 50.73(a)(2)(i)(B) requires, in part, that the holder of an operating license shall submit an licensee event report within 60 days of discovery of the event, which includes any operation or condition which was prohibited by technical specifications. Contrary to the above, the licensee failed to submit a licensee event report within 60 days of April 23, 2016, after discovering that the Unit 1 channel C excore was in a condition which was prohibited by technical specifications. The detector was found in a configuration without o-rings at two electrical connection interfaces. Condition Report 16-06735 documented the non-conforming condition, but was closed without performing a reportability review. Significance/Severity Level: This violation was considered as traditional enforcement because the failure to notify the NRC had the potential for impacting the NRCs ability to perform its regulatory function. Consistent with the guidance in Section 6.9, Paragraph d.9, of the
NRC Enforcement Policy, the failure to report the condition prohibited by technical specifications was determined to be a
Severity Level IV violation. Corrective Action Reference(s): Condition Report 18-02569
