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Jan 2020 NUPIC NRC Update
ML20024G515
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Issue date: 01/28/2020
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NRC UPDATE January 28, 2020 NUPIC General Membership Meeting St Petersburg, FL Nicholas Savwoir and Greg Galletti Quality Assurance and Vendor Inspection Branch, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

TOPICS

  • Vendor Inspection and Findings
  • ISO 17025-2017 Update Inspection
  • EQ Initiatives
  • 2020 Vendor Workshop Inspection
  • OpE Reviews
  • IQVB Public Outreach

NRC VENDOR INSPECTIONS &

SinceFINDINGS October 2019 Meeting:

  • ENSA Equipos Nucleares S.A. S.M.E., Cantabria, Spain 10/21-25/2019 (ML19331A615)
  • Bechtel Power Corporation, Reston, VA 12/09-13/2019
  • No NUPIC Audit Observations during this time period

NRC VENDOR INSPECTIONS &

FINDINGS Recent Findings FY2019 - 7 NONs issued (10/19 - 12/19))

Criterion III Criterion IX

ENSA MDEP INSPECTION Oct. 21-25, 2019 Cantabria, Spain (ML19331A615)

Multinational Inspection NRC-lead, United Kingdom Office for Nuclear Regulation (ONR) and French L'Autorité de Sûreté Nucléaire (ASN) comprised team One NON Failure to perform adequate NDE (PT)

Reinforce the value of observing work in progress Reinforce Expectations for Quality and Inspection Personnel tasked with oversight Finding also independently addressed by ONR &

ASN under their respective programs

SCWE & VENDOR INSPECTION Agency Transformation and Reorganization Updating IMCs, IPs, and Guidance Added Safety Conscious Work Environment (SCWE) into the Vendor Inspection Plan Under Revision - IMC0617 Vendor Quality Assurance Implementation Inspection Reports to include guidance on SCWE Does not change expectations or past practices Document identified strengths and weaknesses

OPERATING EXPERIENCE (OpE)

REVIEW Part 21 was designed to implement Section 206 of the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974.

Provides mechanism for reporting and ultimately sharing industry information regarding defects with a focus is on highly safety significant items or services.

Easily accessible at: https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/event-status/part21/

Examples Failure to prevent installation of defective components identified in a Prior Part 21 report (Relays)

Failure to account for potential age-related degradation of equipment (EDG Governors)

Failure to control nonconforming parts (Relays)

OpE REVIEW (CONT)

Part 21 2009-01-00, dated January 26, 2009, Ametek Tyco/Potter & Brumfield Relays - age degradation The licensee installed the defective AMETEK board, PC201, with the defective relay identified on the Part 21 above into the Unit 2 control room indicating and display (CRID) 3.

On March 2017, the defective relay in CRID 3 inverter failed and subsequently resulted in the inverter transferring to the alternate power supply.

Part 21 2001-21-00, dated June 19, 2001, Engine Systems, Inc. - Woodward electronic controls with electrolytic capacitors Installed capacitors were found beyond industry and vendor recommended useful life. Degradation, would impact safety-related functions of the EDGs.

The licensee had an opportunity to identify the condition in March 2011, when researching the acceptability of the capacitors in the EGAs during the 2011 EDG outage Part 21 2016-19-00, dated May 10, 2016, Electroswitch - Various Electroswitch products The Licensee received information from a vendor that more than 124 relays installed in SR applications did not potentially conform to Appendix B QA requirements.

2018, the NRC identified that the licensee failed to take appropriate steps to accept these commercial-grade relays as basic components by dedicating the relays for use in their safety-related applications.

OpE REVIEW (CONT)

Conclusion It is important to consider evaluating Part 21 reports to make a determination if your plant is affected and take preventive action in a timely manner.

Part 21 reports provide industry with information that could increase the level of safety by the reducing the probability of a failure in a basic component while it is performing a safety function.

FLEX EMERGENCY RESPONSE (SAFER)

  • National SAFER Response Centers:

Memphis, TN and Phoenix, AZ

  • NRC Mitigation Strategies Order EA 049.
  • NEI 12-06 Diverse and Flexible Coping Strategies (FLEX) Implementation Guide and NEI White Paper Assessment
  • Alternating SAFER facility
  • Triannual basis

ISO 17025-2017 UPDATE

  • NUPIC Observation for Accreditation Renewal Assessment of Technical Safety Services (ML19253C411)
  • NRCs provisional recognition expires November 30, 2020
  • Received fee billable review exemption
  • NRC Point of

Contact:

Yamir.Diaz-Castillo@NRC.gov

EQ INITIATIVES

  • Regulatory Guide 1.89, Environmental Qualification of Certain Electric Equipment Important to Safety for Nuclear Power Plants
  • Revision 2 is coming soon
  • NRC Point of

Contact:

Matthew.McConnell@nrc.gov

  • Unaccounted for Error Terms with Irradiation and EQ
  • Recent vendor inspection example

2020 VENDOR WORKSHOP

  • Seventh Vendor Oversight Workshop
  • Bringing it Back to Basics

IQVB PUBLIC OUTREACH

  • 32nd Annual Regulatory Information Conference(RIC)
  • March 10-12, 2020
  • Online Registration is NOW OPEN

QUALITY ASSURANCE VENDO

QUESTIONS

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