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The inspectors identified a non-cited viol … The inspectors identified a non-cited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion III, Design Control, for the failure to verify the design adequacy of the safety-related ventilation system for the 480-volt AC switchgear and 125-volt DC inverter rooms. Specifically, the licensee failed to verify sufficient ventilation system airflow to ensure the temperature in rooms housing safety-related electrical equipment remained below 104 degrees Fahrenheit. The licensees corrective actions were documented in Notification 50840266. The failure to provide design control measures to verify the adequacy of the 480-volt AC switchgear and 125-volt DC inverter rooms ventilation system design was a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency was more than minor because it was associated with the design control attribute of the Mitigating Systems Cornerstone and adversely affected the cornerstone objective to ensure the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Specifically, the reduction in airflow to the rooms impacts the reliability of the safety-related equipment ventilation system to maintain the temperatures in these rooms below design limits for the duration of all accident scenarios. Using NRC Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix A, Exhibit 2, Mitigating Systems Screening Questions, the inspectors determined the finding was of very low safety significance because (1) the finding was not a deficiency affecting the design or qualification of a mitigating system; (2) the finding did not represent a loss of system and/or function; (3) the finding did not represent an actual loss of function of a single train for greater than its technical specification allowed outage time; and (4) the finding does not represent an actual loss of function of one or more non-technical specification trains of equipment designated as high safety-significant in accordance with the licensees maintenance rule program for greater than 24 hours. The inspectors determined that this finding did not have a cross-cutting aspect because the most significant contributor of this finding occurred more than three years ago, and is therefore, not representative of current licensee performance.sentative of current licensee performance.

Discovered date

23:59:59, 31 March 2016 +

Docket

05000275 + and 05000323 +

Event date

23:59:59, 31 March 2016 +

Finding integer

1 +

Finding type

Non-cited violation +

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Hours

2.777778e-4 d (0.00667 hours, 3.968254e-5 weeks, 9.132e-6 months) +

Identified by

NRC identified +

Inspection Manual Chapter

NRC Inspection Manual 0609/Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process (SDP) for Findings At-Power +

Inspection procedure

IP 71152, Problem Identification and Resolution (PI&R) +

Inspection report

IR 05000275/2016001 +

Inspector

G Guerra +, Binesh Tharakan +, Jeremy Groom +, John Reynoso + and Thomas Sullivan +

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12:56:37, 25 September 2017 +

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