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Forwards Updated LER 83-005/03L-1.Detailed Event Analysis Encl
ML20071C077
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Site: Summer South Carolina Electric & Gas Company icon.png
Issue date: 02/22/1983
From: Dixon O
SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTRIC & GAS CO.
To: James O'Reilly
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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LER-2083-005, Forwards Updated LER 83-005/03L-1.Detailed Event Analysis Encl
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Atlanta, Georgia 30303

SUBJECT:

Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station Docket No. 50/395 Operating License No. NPF-12 Thirty Day Written Report LER 83-005, Revision 1

Dear Mr. O'Reilly:

Please find attached Licensee Event Report #83-005, Revision 1, for Virgil C. Summer Nuclear Station. This Thirty Day Report is required by Technical Specification 6.9.1.13.(b) as a result of entry into Action Statement (a) of Technical Specification 3.3.3.7,

" Fire Detection Instrumentation," on January 12, 1983.

Revision 1 to this LER corrects administrative errors discovered by the Licensee. Should there be any questions, please call us at your convenience.

Very trul yours, O. W. ixon, Jr.

CJM:OWD:dwf/fjc Attachment cc: V. C. Summer A. R. Koon T. C. Nichols, Jr. G. D. Moffatt E. C. Roberts Site QA O. W. Dixon, Jr. C. L. Ligon (NSRC)

H. N. Cyrus G. J. Braddick H. T. Babb J. L. Skolds D. A. Nauman J. B. Knotts, Jr.

M. B. Whitaker, Jr. B. A. Bursey W. A. Williams, Jr. I&E (Washington)

O. S. Bradham Document Management Branch R. B. Clary INPO Records Center C. A. Price NPCF File C g, CO'b' gyFL F303010461 830222 PDR ADOCK 05000395 (

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k Mr. James P. O'Reilly LER No.83-005, Revision 1 Page Two February 22, 1983 DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF EVENT On January 12, 1983, at 1440 hours0.0167 days <br />0.4 hours <br />0.00238 weeks <br />5.4792e-4 months <br />, with the Plant in Mode 1, Fire Detection Zone DDD in the Service Water Pumphouse (Room 41-01) failed to reset during the performance of the operational test identified in Technical Specification Surveillance Requirements 4.3.3.7.1 and 4.3.3.7.2. An hourly fire watch patrol was established within one (1) hour of the occurrence in compliance with Action Statement (a) of Technical Specification 3.3.3.7.

PROBABLE CONSEQUENCES There were no adverse consequences from this event since the functional portion of the Fire Detection Instrumentation Surveillance Test Procedures is designed to detect system abnormalities upon the conclusion of field testing. The establishment of the hourly fire watch patrol provided assurance that any fire would have been promptly discovered and extinguished.

CAUSE(S) OF THE OCCURRENCE The cause of the failure to reset was a grounded smoke detector.

The detector head had not been properly installed on the detector base after the completion of the previcusly performed sensitivity test.

IMMEDIATE CORRECTIVE ACiiONS TAKEN An hourly fire watch patrol was established within one (1) hour of the occurrence. The cause of failure was discovered to be a short to ground on Smoke Detector IXA-4985F. The detector head had not been properly installed on the detector base after the completion of the previously performed sensitivity test. Fire Detector Zone DDD was declared operable on January 19, 1983, at 1100 hours0.0127 days <br />0.306 hours <br />0.00182 weeks <br />4.1855e-4 months <br />, upon the satisfactory completion of an operational test performed with the appropriate surveillance test procedure.

ACTION TAKEN TO PREVENT RECURRENCE Test personnel have been cautioned to properly install smoke detector heads so as to prevent future occurrences of a similar nature.