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The inspector identified a Green noncited … The inspector identified a Green noncited violation of Technical Specification 5.4.1.a, Procedures for River Bend Station fuel handling personnel failing to follow AOP-0027, Fuel Handling Mishaps, when an actual fuel handling event occurred. Instead of entering the AOP, fuel handling personnel continued to move a fuel assembly after equipment damage and potential fuel damage. The licensee entered this issue into their corrective action program as Condition Report CR-RBS-2011-03692. This failure to follow procedures is a performance deficiency. The performance deficiency is more that minor, and therefore a finding, because it adversely impacted the human performance attribute of the barrier integrity cornerstone objective to provide reasonable assurance that physical design barriers (fuel cladding) protect the public from radionuclide releases caused by accidents or events. Using Manual Chapter 0609, Significance Determination Process, Phase 1 worksheets, the inspector determined the finding had very low safety significance (Green) because the fuel cladding barrier was potentially degraded but there was no release of radionuclides. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the area of problem identification and resolution associated with the operating experience component because the licensee failed to implement and institutionalize operating experience through changes to station procedures and training programs (P.2(b)) (Section 4OA3).training programs (P.2(b)) (Section 4OA3). +

Discovered date

23:59:59, 31 March 2011 +

Docket

05000458 +

Event date

23:59:59, 31 March 2011 +

Finding integer

7 +

Finding type

Non-cited violation +

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CL.1 +

IP 71153, Event Followup +

Inspection report

IR 05000458/2011002 +

Inspector

Vincent Gaddy +, D Stearns +, L Ricketson +, G Larkin +, Binesh Tharakan +, Thomas Farina +, Paul Elkmann +, Ron Kopriva +, Antonio Barrett + and David Strickland +

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19:06:12, 30 September 2017 +

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