Failure to promptly identify and correct
conditions adverse to quality as required by
10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI. The team identified a backlog of
conditions adverse to quality that the licensee had failed to timely correct. The oldest of these conditions was approximately 10 years old, with several hundred having been identified at least two operating cycles prior to the inspection. The team determined that the licensee was appropriately addressing degraded components that had an impact on safety or security, but was not always tracking or timely correcting nonconformances with its design bases in cases where these nonconformances had been assessed as not impacting safety-related functions. Further, the licensee was unable to initially determine the scope of its nonconformance backlog. The licensee documented this deficiency as Condition Reports 18-13549 and 18-14426. Screening: The performance deficiency was minor because if left uncorrected it would not have led to a more significant safety concern and it did not adversely affect any cornerstone objectives. Enforcement: This failure to comply with
10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criterion XVI constitutes a minor violation that is not subject to enforcement action in accordance with the NRCs
Enforcement Policy.
