ML17059C323
| ML17059C323 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Nine Mile Point  |
| Issue date: | 11/02/1998 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| ML17059C321 | List: |
| References | |
| 50-220-98-16, EA-98-473, NUDOCS 9811130044 | |
| Download: ML17059C323 (4) | |
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION Docket No: 50-220 License No: DPR-63 EA 98-473 During an NRC inspection conducted from August 10 through August 21, 1998, a violation of NRC requirements was identified.
In accordance with the "General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," NUREG 1600, the violation is listed below:
10 CFR 50, Appendix B, Criteria XVI, "Corrective Action," requires, in part, that measures shall be established to assure that conditions adverse to quality, such as failures, malfunctions, deficiencies, deviations, defective material and equipment, and nonconformances are promptly identified and corrected.
Contrary to the above, from March 4, 1996, to August 22, 1998, the licensee failed to promptly identify and correct a crimp cooling coil in the 122 core spray pump motor cooler, a condition adverse to quality. The licensee had multiple opportunities since March 4, 1996, to identify this adverse condition when thermography testing showed elevated motor cooler inlet temperatures.
As a'result "
of this deficiency, the 122 core spray pump was declared inoperable on August 22, 1998.
This fs a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I).
The NRC has concluded that information regarding the reason for the violation, the corrective actions taken and planned to correct the violation and prevent recurrence and the date when full compliance was achieved is already adequately addressed on the docket in LER 98-016.
However, you are required to submit a written statement or explanation pursuant to 10 CFR 2.201 if the description therein does not accurately reflect your corrective actions or your position.
In that case, or if you choose to respond, clearly mark your response as a "Reply to a Notice of Violation," and send it to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, ATTN: Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C. 20555 with a copy to the Regional Administrator, Region I, and a-copy to the NRC Resident Inspector at the facilitythat is the subject of this Notice, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Violation (Notice).
If you contest the enforcement actions, you should also provide a copy of your response to the Director, Office of Enforcement;United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555-0001
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Because your response will be placed in the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), to the extent possible, it should not include any personal privacy, proprietary, or safeguards information so that it can be placed in the PDR without redaction.
If personal privacy or proprietary information is necessary to provide an acceptable
- response, then please provide a bracketed copy of your response that identifies the information that should be protected and a redacted copy, of your response that deletes such information. If you request withholding of such material, you must specifically identify the portions of your response that you seek to have withheld and provide in detail the bases for your claim of withhold-ing (e.g., explain why the disclosure of information willcreate an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy or provide the information required by 10 CFR 2.790{b) to support a request for withholding confidential commercial or financial information) ~ If safeguards information is necessary to provide an acceptable response, please provide the level of protection described in 10 CFR 73.21.
Dated at King of Prussia, Pennsylvania this 2nd day-of November, 1998.
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