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Oconee 1, 2 & 3 - Docket
Nos. 050-00269; 050-00270; 050-00287
NRC Action Number(s) and
Facility Name |
Action Type
(Severity) &
Civil Penalty
(if any) |
Date
Issued |
Description |
EA-06-294
Oconee 3 |
NOV
(White) |
02/13/2007 |
On February 13, 2007, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a WHITE significance determination process (SDP)
finding involving the identification of foreign material in the Unit
3 A and B train reactor building emergency sump (RBES) suction lines
during the end-of-cycle 22 refueling outage. Specifically, some time
prior to and for the duration of Oconee Unit 3 operating cycle 22,
adequate foreign material exclusion controls had not been implemented
resulting in the discovery of foreign material in the A and B train
RBES suction lines. The violation was cited against Technical Specification
5.4.1, “Procedures,” and Section 9.e of the referenced
Regulatory Guide 1.33 for the failure to comply with Nuclear System
Directive 104, “Material Condition/Housekeeping, Cleanliness/Foreign
Material Exclusion, and Seismic Concerns,” for the failure
to maintain the Unit 3 RBES free of foreign material.
|
EA-06-199
Oconee 1, 2, 3 |
NOV
(White) |
11/22/2006 |
On November 22, 2006, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a WHITE significance determination process finding
involving the failure to effectively control maintenance activities
and the failure to assess and manage the risk associated with removing
an access cover in the south wall of the standby shutdown facility
(SSF) to facilitate installation of temporary electrical power cables.
The violation was cited against technical specifications because
of an inadequate procedure and 10 CFR 50.65(a)(4) because of the
licensee’s failure to adequately assess and manage the increase
in risk from maintenance activities. |
EA-04-115
Oconee 1, 2, 3 |
NOV
(White)
|
09/24/2004 |
On September 24, 2004, a Notice of Violation was issued for a
violation associated with a White SDP finding involving inconsistent
fire response procedures that could result in the failure to maintain
pressurizer level within the required indicating range. The violation
cited the licensee’s inadequate fire response procedures. |
EA-04-018
Oconee 1, 2, 3 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$60,000 |
04/08/2004 |
On April 8, 2004, a Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition
of Civil Penalty in the amount of $60,000 was issued for a Severity
Level III violation involving the failure to adhere to the requirements
of 10 CFR 50.59, in that the licensee made changes to the Oconee
facility as described in the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report
and referenced analyses that involved unreviewed safety questions
without obtaining prior NRC approval. In this case, the licensee
revised an analysis for high energy line break accidents, which permitted
the facility to initiate emergency feedwater up to 30 minutes and
initiate high pressure injection up to eight hours after a high
energy line break accident instead of 15 minutes and one hour as
was discussed
in the Updated Final Safety Analysis Report. |
EA-03-145
Oconee 1, 2, 3 |
NOV
(White) |
12/30/2003 |
On December 30, 2003, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a White SDP finding involving the inability of the
pressurizer to perform its intended safety function under certain
scenarios. The violation cited the licensee’s failure to identify
and correct this condition adverse to safety. |
EA-02-243
Oconee 3 |
NOV
(White) |
02/07/2003 |
On February 7, 2003, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a White SDP finding involving the possible loss of
high pressure injection (HPI) pump function during a postulated high
energy line break/tornado event recovery. The violation cited the
licensee's failure to properly implement the vendor's written instructions
for attaching the electrical connectors on the pre-staged Unit 3 HPI
pump emergency power supply cable from the auxiliary service water
(ASW) switchgear. |
EA-02-048
Oconee 1, 2 & 3 |
NOV
(White) |
08/02/2002 |
On August 2, 2002, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a white SDP finding involving containment integrity
upon a possible loss of reactor decay heat removal. The violation
cited the licensee's failure to establish adequate procedures to assure
that containment closure would be achieved prior to the time at which
a core uncovery and fission product release could result from a loss
of shutdown cooling. |
EA-02-034
Oconee 1, 2 & 3 |
NOV
(White) |
07/26/2002 |
On July 26, 2002, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a white SDP finding involving the vulnerability to
flooding in the Oconee Unit 1 auxiliary building from a potential
rupture of the high pressure service water (HPSW) system piping. The
violation cited the licensee's failure to take prompt corrective action
for the lack of mitigation capabilities for an auxiliary building
flood, a condition adverse to quality. |
EA-01-125
Oconee 1, 2 & 3 |
NOV
(White) |
07/18/2001 |
On July 18, 2001, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a White SDP finding. The violation involved inadequate
procedures for aligning the station auxiliary service water pump to
mitigate a tornado and the licensee's failure to take prompt corrective
action for this adverse condition even though the licensee had identified
the condition approximately one year earlier. |
EA-00-137
Oconee 1, 2 & 3 |
NOV
(White) |
11/09/2000 |
On November 9, 2000, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a White SDP finding. The violation involved the failure
to adequately establish design control measures involving the high
pressure injection system using the spent fuel pool as a suction source
following a tornado. |
EA-98-268
Oconee 1, 2 & 3 |
NOV
(SL II) |
08/05/1998 |
Failure to implement the requirements of 10 CFR 50, Appendix B,
Criterion III, to incorporate design basis requirements into drawings
and procedures; and failure to maintain technical specification equipment
in an operable condition. |
EA-97-297 & EA-97-298
Oconee 1, 2 & 3
|
NOVCP
(SL III)
$330,000 |
08/27/1997 |
Cracks in HP injection line and failure of HPI pump. |
EA-96-019
Oconee 1, 2 & 3 |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 50,000 |
03/05/1996 |
Failure to provide adequate procedures to control fuel assembly
movement in the spent fuel pool. |
Oregon State
University - Docket No. 050-00243
NRC Action Number(s) and
Facility Name |
Action Type
(Severity) &
Civil Penalty
(if any) |
Date
Issued |
Description |
EA-98-320
Oregon State University Research Reactor |
NOVCP
(SL III) |
07/31/1998 |
Due to authorized wiring mod of reactor control panel, reactor
scram functions were disabled. |
Oyster Creek - Docket
No. 050-00219
NRC Action Number(s) and
Facility Name |
Action Type
(Severity) &
Civil Penalty
(if any) |
Date
Issued |
Description |
EA-05-199
Oyster Creek |
NOV
(White) |
01/09/2005 |
On January 9, 2006, a Notice of Violation was issued for
a violation of 10 CFR 50.54(q), 10 CFR 50.47(b)(4), and the Oyster
Creek Generating Station Emergency Plan. This finding was associated
with
a White Significance Determination Process (SDP) finding involving
the licensee's failure to properly utilize the Emergency Plan emergency
action level (EAL) matrix during an actual event.
Specifically, operators did not recognize that plant parameters met
the EAL thresholds for declaring an Unusual Event and a subsequent
Alert. Since an Alert was not declared, licensee personnel did not
activate their emergency response organization to assist operators
in mitigating the event. Additionally, State and local agencies,
who rely on information provided by the facility licensee, might
not have been able to take initial offsite response measures in as
timely a manner had the event degraded further. |
EA-04-213
Oyster Creek |
NOV
(White) |
03/1/2005 |
On March 1, 2005, a Notice of Violation was issued for violations
associated with a White SDP finding involving untimely actions to
change an Emergency Action Level threshold value used to declare
a General Emergency or a Site Area Emergency and revise supporting
emergency procedures. The violations cited the licensee's failure
to maintain an emergency classification and action level scheme and
the failure to properly implement the configuration change process
in accordance with the Technical Specifications. |
EA-04-033
Oyster Creek |
NOV
(White)
|
03/15/2004 |
On March 15, 2004, a Notice of Violation was issued for a violation
associated with a White SDP finding involving a power cable insulation
breakdown that resulted in a loss of the 4kV emergency bus and forced
a plant shutdown. The violation cited the licensee’s failure
to identify and take prompt and appropriate corrective actions for
a significant condition adverse to quality involving power cables. |
EA-98-220
Oyster Creek |
NOVCP
(SL III)
$ 55,000 |
06/15/1998 |
Inoperability of automatic depressurization valves as well as design
errors and apparent qualification concerns that contributed to the
inoperability. |
EA-97-617
Oyster Creek |
NOV
(SL III) |
02/08/1998 |
Equipment downgrading. |
EA-97-421
Oyster Creek |
NOV
(SL III) |
11/17/1997 |
Multiple examples of design control and corrective action violations
involving electrical distribution. |
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