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The inspectors reviewed a self-revealing fThe inspectors reviewed a self-revealing finding regarding the improper fabrication of a turbine shaft grounding brush that resulted in turbine trip and subsequent reactor scram. The licensee identified the improper fabrication of a turbine shaft grounding brush as the cause of a spurious main turbine over-speed trip signal from an electrical discharge from the turbine shaft. This issue was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report CR-RBS-2012-9053. Failure to fabricate the turbine shaft grounding brush in accordance with vendor instructions is a performance deficiency. The finding was more than minor because it was associated with the equipment performance attribute of the initiating events cornerstone and affected the cornerstone objective to limit the likelihood of those events that upset plant stability and challenge critical safety functions during shutdown as well as power operations. Specifically, the improperly fabricated grounding brush resulted in a turbine trip and subsequent reactor scram. The inspectors reviewed the finding using IMC 0609, Appendix A, Significance Determination of Reactor Inspection Findings for At-Power Situations. Based on the Phase 1 screening of the finding, the inspectors determined that the finding was of very low safety significance (Green) because it did not affect loss of coolant accident initiators, did not contribute to increasing the likelihood of both an initiating event and affecting mitigating equipment, and did not increase the likelihood of a fire or flood. The apparent cause of the performance deficiency was the failure in 2004 to appropriately perform a post maintenance test for the turbine shaft grounding brush modification. Therefore the inspectors did not identify a cross-cutting aspect because the performance deficiency is not reflective of the licensees current performancective of the licensees current performance  +
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Failure to Properly Fabricate and Install the mid-Standard Turbine Shaft Brush  +