05000528/FIN-2017007-01
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| Title | Failure to Analyze Shutdown Cooling and Feedwater Lines for High-Energy Line Break Pipe Whip Effects |
| Description | Green. The team identified a Green non-cited violation of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B, Criterion III, Design Control, which states, in part, Measures shall be established to assure that applicable regulatory requirements and the design basis, as defined in 50.2 and as specified in the license application, for those structures, systems, and components to which this appendix applies are correctly translated into specifications, drawings, procedures, and instructions. Specifically, from August 11, 1982, to March 3, 2017, the licensee did not analyze dynamic pipe whip effects of a main feedwater line for a high-energy line break of a shutdown cooling line. In response to this issue, the licensee performed immediate and prompt operability evaluations and determined that the piping systems remained operable and could withstand the effects of a high-energy line break. This finding was entered into the licensees corrective action program as Condition Report CR-17-02815. The team determined that the failure to perform an adequate analysis for shutdown cooling and feedwater lines for high-energy line break pipe whip effects was a performance deficiency. This finding was more-than-minor because it was associated with the design control attribute of the Mitigating Systems cornerstone and adversely affected the cornerstone objective of ensuring the availability, reliability, and capability of systems that respond to initiating events to prevent undesirable consequences. Specifically, the failure to analyze the main feedwater piping for high-energy line break effects called the operability of the piping system into question. In accordance with Inspection Manual Chapter 0609, Appendix A, The Significance Determination Process (SDP) for Findings At-Power, dated June 19, 2012, Exhibit 2, Mitigating Systems Screening Questions, the issue screened as hav ing very low safety significance (Green) because it was a design or qualification deficiency that did not represent a loss of operability or functionality; did not represent an actual loss of safety function of the system or train; did not result in the loss of one or more trains of non-technical specification equipment; and did not screen as potentially risk significant due to seismic, flooding, or severe weather. The team determined that this finding did not have a cross- cutting aspect because the most significant contributor to the performance deficiency did 3 not reflect current licensee performance. Specifically, the licensee performed the calculation in 1982 and revised it in 1991; therefore, the performance deficiency occurred outside of the nominal three-year period for present performance. |
| Site: | Palo Verde  |
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| Report | IR 05000528/2017007 Section 4OA2 |
| Date counted | Mar 31, 2017 (2017Q1) |
| Type: | NCV: Green |
| cornerstone | Mitigating Systems |
| Identified by: | NRC identified |
| Inspection Procedure: | IP 71152 |
| Inspectors (proximate) | C Smith J Drake J Watkins T Farnholtz W Cullum |
| Violation of: | 10 CFR 50 Appendix B |
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