NRC CAL – NOV (White)

On January 31, 2011, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation to Carolina Power and Light Company for two violations associated with two White Significance Determination Process findings. The first violation involved the failure to adequately implement requirements, as required by Technical Specifications 5.8.1, "Procedures," of multiple procedures during an uncontrolled cooldown of the Reactor Coolant System (RCS) and subsequent safety injection. Specifically, on March 28, 2010, following a reactor trip, the licensee: (1) failed to take required procedural actions to stop an uncontrolled cooldown that resulted in a safety injection; (2) failed to identify a loss of component cooling water flow to the thermal barrier heat exchangers coincident with a failure to identify a loss of charging pump suction that resulted in inadequate seal injection flow; (3) re-energized electrically faulted equipment that damaged surrounding equipment and resulted in electrical ground alarms, which required an Alert emergency declaration. The second violation involved failure to adequately design and implement operator training based on learning objectives as required by 10 CFR 55.59(c)4. Specifically, prior to March 28, 2010, training lesson material failed to identify the basis of a procedural action involving reactor coolant pump seal cooling, as required by a systems approach to training, as defined in 10 CFR 55.4.