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Technical Specification 5.4.1.a states, in … Technical Specification 5.4.1.a states, in part, that written procedures shall be established, implemented, and maintained covering the applicable procedures recommended in Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, Appendix A, February 1978. Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, Section 9.a., identifies procedures for maintenance as required procedures. Work order 4831032 is a procedure established by the licensee for performing maintenance on diesel generator 2-02. The work order provided instructions for installation of the magnetic speed pickup sensor cable. Contrary to the above, from October 1996 through March 2, 2016, the licensee failed to install the unit 2 diesel generator 2-02 magnetic speed pickup sensor cable in accordance with the approved instructions. Specifically, the speed sensor cable conduit was not fully threaded onto the cable plug. This inadequate installation was present until 2016, when the conduit threaded connection was physically impacted at an undetermined time. The impact caused the conduit connection to break and the conduit to separate from the plug, leaving the cable leads exposed but intact. A licensee technician identified the broken connection during a system walk down on March 2, 2016. The licensee declared the diesel generator inoperable and restored the cable to its design configuration. The licensee analyzed the apparent thread engagement, and determined that, prior to the break in the conduit connection, the cable would have maintained its function in a seismic event, but after the break, the cable function could not be assured. The licensee determined that a failure of the cable would result in the diesel generator exceeding its allowed frequency, but would not result in a diesel generator failure to run. Because the time that the break occurred could not be determined, the diesel generator was assumed to be inoperable at the time of discovery. The violation is more than minor because it affected the configuration control 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 inspector determined that the violation is of very low safety significance (Green) because the finding did not represent a loss of system or function, and did not represent a loss of function of a single train for greater than its technical specification allowed outage time. The violation was entered into the licensees corrective action program as CR-2016-001941.rrective action program as CR-2016-001941.

Discovered date

23:59:59, 30 June 2016 +

Docket

05000446 +

Event date

23:59:59, 30 June 2016 +

Finding integer

4 +

Finding type

Non-cited violation +

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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 05000445/2016002 +

Inspector

James Drake +, M Phalen +, P Hernandez +, Jeremy Groom +, Jeffrey Josey +, Sean Hedger + and Rayo Kumana +

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15:54:31, 30 May 2018 +

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