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Title 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, Criterion V, r … Title 10 CFR 50 Appendix B, Criterion V, requires, in part, that licensees shall perform activities affecting quality in accordance with instructions appropriate to the circumstances. Contrary to the above, on May 10, 2016, the licensee failed to perform safety chiller maintenance, a quality related activity, in accordance with the approved instructions. Specifically, licensee personnel failed to torque electrical connections on overload relays on the unit 1 train A safety chiller as required by the licensees work instructions. The inadequate torque was present until June 9, 2016, when the licensee performed thermography on the chiller electrical connections. The licensee discovered elevated temperatures, shut down the chiller, and replaced and torqued the affected components. The licensee determined that the chiller was inoperable from May 28, 2016, when it was required to be in service due to the unit entering Mode 4, until the chiller was restored on June 9. The violation is more than minor because it affected the equipment performance attribute of the Mitigating Systems cornerstone and impacted the cornerstone objective to ensure the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Using Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Attachment 04, Initial Characterization of Findings, and Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process for Findings At-Power, the inspectors determined that the violation required a detailed risk evaluation (DRE) because the finding represented a loss of function of a single train for greater than its technical specification allowed outage time. A senior reactor analyst from Region IV performed the risk evaluation. The licensee provided an analysis demonstrating that the chiller would be able to perform its safety function for at least 24 hours. Based on that demonstration, the analyst was able to determine that the risk was of very low safety significance (Green). The violation was entered into the licensees corrective action program as CR-2016-005798.rrective action program as CR-2016-005798.

Discovered date

23:59:59, 31 December 2016 +

Docket

05000445 +

Event date

23:59:59, 31 December 2016 +

Finding integer

4 +

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

Licensee-identified +

Inspection Manual Chapter

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

Inspection report

IR 05000445/2016004 +

Inspector

Eric Simpson +, L Brandt +, W Gardner +, Kelly Clayton +, Thomas Farina +, Jeremy Groom +, Jeremy Tapp +, Jeffrey Josey + and Rayo Kumana +

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15:54:59, 30 May 2018 +

Person