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The team identified a non-cited violation The team identified a non-cited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion III, Design Control, for the licensees failure to verify the adequacy of design to prevent water hammer on the reactor building cooling unit (RBCU) service water (SW) return lines following a potential design basis accident and a delayed closure of SW valves 3107A/B. This was a performance deficiency. The licensee entered this issue into their corrective action program as condition reports 13-04877 and 13-05139. The licensee restricted the alignment of SW to the RBCUs during normal plant operation until changes to procedures or additional control circuit interlocks between 3107A/B and the service water booster pump (SWBP) could be implemented to mitigate the consequences of a delayed closure of the valves. The performance deficiency was more than minor because it was associated with the Structures, Systems and Components and Barrier Performance attribute of the Barrier Integrity cornerstone and affected the cornerstone objective to provide reasonable assurance that physical design barriers (i.e. containment) protect the public from radionuclide releases caused by accident or events. Specifically, startup of the SWBP following a delayed closure of 3107A/B would cause a water hammer event on the RBCU SW return lines inside containment. The water hammer loads would challenge SW piping and/or valve integrity and could compromise containment isolation. The team determined the finding to be of very low safety significance (Green) because the finding did not represent an actual open pathway in the physical integrity of reactor containment, containment isolation system, or heat removal components, and it did not involve a reduction in function of hydrogen igniters in the reactor containment. No cross-cutting aspect was assigned to this finding because the team determined that the cause of the finding was not indicative of current licensee performance.ndicative of current licensee performance.  +
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Failure to Prevent a Water Hammer Event in the RBCU SW Discharge Piping  +