05000423/FIN-2016003-02
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| Title | Failure to Scope Safety Related Acoustic Valve Monitoring System into the Maintenance Rule |
| Description | The inspectors identified a Green NCV of Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 50.65(b)(1), for Dominions failure to include the safety-related Unit 2 Pressurizer Safety Valve, Acoustic Valve Monitoring System (AVMS) SSC within the scope of the maintenance rule program. Specifically, Dominion removed the Millstone Unit 2 AVMS, which is required to remain functional during and following a design bases event to provide indication to operators in the control room of significant abnormal degradation of the reactor coolant pressure boundary and monitor for loss of coolant due to an open safety relief valve, from the scope of the maintenance rule monitoring program. Dominion has documented this condition in their CAP as CR1049493. The inspectors determined that the finding was more than minor because it was associated with the equipment performance attribute of the Initiating Events cornerstone and adversely affected the objective to limit the likelihood of events that upset plant stability and challenge critical safety functions during shutdown as well as power operations. Specifically, Dominions removal of AVMS from maintenance rule performance and condition monitoring and the failures observed have resulted in the complete loss of availability and reliability of each channel of AVMS such that they cannot perform their intended function. The finding was determined to be of very low safety significance (Green) because the conditions associated with the most applicable design basis event are bound by the small break loss of coolant accident (LOCA) analysis and did not affect other systems used to mitigate a LOCA. This finding has a crosscutting aspect in the Human Performance cross-cutting area associated with Procedure Adherence, in that Millstone Maintenance Rule Expert Panel (MREP) members did not follow the Dominion maintenance rule program implementing procedure, ER-AA-MRL-100, which provides guidance for scoping systems into the maintenance rule. [H.8] |
| Site: | Millstone  |
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| Report | IR 05000423/2016003 Section 1R12 |
| Date counted | Sep 30, 2016 (2016Q3) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Initiating Events |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71111.12 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | C Highley E Dipaolo H. Anagnostopoulus J Ambrosini J Deboer J Kulp J Schussler K Warner L Mckown |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50.65 10 CFR 50.65(b) |
| CCA | H.8, Procedure Adherence |
| INPO aspect | WP.4 |
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