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Violation: Farley Nuclear Plant Unit 2 Tec … Violation: Farley Nuclear Plant Unit 2 Technical Specifications (TS) limiting condition for operation (LCO) 3.7.5, Auxiliary Feedwater System, required all three auxiliary feedwater (AFW) trains shall be operable in modes 1, 2, and 3. For Condition A, one steam supply to turbine driven AFW pump inoperable, the required action A.1 was to restore the affected equipment to operable status within the required completion time of 7 days. If the required action and associated completion time is not met, action statement, Condition C required that the unit be in mode 3 within 6 hours and mode 4 within 12 hours. TS Surveillance Requirement (SR) 3.7.5.5 required verification that the turbine driven AFW pump steam admission valves open when air is supplied from their respective air accumulators.</br></br> Contrary to the above, the licensee determined the steam admission valve (Q2N12HV3235B) was inoperable longer than the required action completion time of 7 days between May 6, 2016 and October 15, 2017, while Unit 2 was in modes 1, 2, and 3. Unit 2 was not placed in mode 3 or 4 as required by condition C of TS LCO 3.7.5. On October 31, 2017, a turbine-driven auxiliary feedwater (TDAFW) pump steam admission valve (Q2N12HV3235B) was tested with a flow scan analysis device during a refueling outage, while the plant was in Mode 6. This valve is the B-train steam admission valve that supplies steam to the TDAFW pump from the 2C steam generator. There is a redundant A-train steam admission valve that supplies steam from the 2B steam generator. During valve flow scan testing of the valve actuator it was discovered that air was leaking past the actuator piston o-ring seal inside the valve air actuator. Air leakage was measured greater than 10 psig per minute which was significant enough that the valve would not meet surveillance requirement (SR) 3.7.5.5 when instrument air was supplied solely from the valves associated air accumulator. Although the valve would stroke open with air supplied only from the accumulator, the SR 2-hour acceptance criteria to maintain the valve open could not be met. Each steam admission valve has an air accumulator associated with it. The air accumulator is designed to provide a sufficient quantity of air to ensure operation of the valve during a loss of power event or other failure of the normal instrument air supply for a period of two hours. Also, the inspectors determined that the licensee missed an opportunity to determine the cause of the o-ring failure since the o-ring was discarded during actuator rework. Procedure NMP-ES-001, Equipment Reliability Process Description, requires the preservation of physical evidence when failures occur. of physical evidence when failures occur.

Discovered date

23:59:59, 30 June 2018 +

Docket

05000348 + and 05000364 +

Event date

23:59:59, 30 June 2018 +

Finding integer

8 +

Finding type

Non-cited violation +

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Hours

6.944444e-5 d (0.00167 hours, 9.920635e-6 weeks, 2.283e-6 months) + and 1.388889e-4 d (0.00333 hours, 1.984127e-5 weeks, 4.566e-6 months) +

Identified by

Licensee-identified +

Inspection procedure

IP 71153, Event Followup +

Inspection report

IR 05000348/2018002 +

Inspector

D Mas-Penaranda +, Alan Blamey +, Adam Nielsen +, Robert Carrion +, Phil Niebaum +, Jonathan Rivera +, William Pursley + and Keith Miller +

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22:35:39, 10 September 2018 +

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