The following is a summary of the information received from
Flowserve via facsimile:
Contrary to the requirements of ASME Section III & ASME NQA-1 Requirement 2, an employee of Flowserve was found to have performed Non-Destructive Examinations (Liquid Penetrant Testing - PTs) without the required certificate in accordance with ASNT SNT-TC-1A, and Flowserve's written practice. The employee was trained and tested in accordance with the written practice and ASNT requirements. Although the individual section scores were found to pass the (70 percent) minimum, the composite test requirements failed to meet the minimum 80 percent requirement. Actual composite score achieved was 79.176 percent.
The extent of exposure to this condition was on examinations completed between 10/22/18 and 11/21/18. There were ten examinations, totaling 22 pieces that were completed by the employee without oversight/signature by another certified individual.
The scope of impacted valves/components encompasses body, stem, cover, yoke, pin wedge, and disk. Licensees affected include Exelon Company, Pinnacle West Capital Corp, Bruce Power, Xcel Energy, Alabama Power, Entergy Nuclear Operations Inc., and FirstEnergy.
Flowserve issues a corrective action, and is currently in the process of determining the root cause and prevention action measures. This will include identifying the affected valves via communications with affected customers.
- * * UPDATE ON 09/06/2019 AT 1345 EDT FROM KEVIN WORTH TO JEFFREY WHITED * * *
The following is a synopsis of a letter received from Flowserve:
On 09/06/19, Flowserve issued its Final Report for the Part 21, noting the scope of the valves/components affected by the issue described above. Flowserve also noted the corrective actions that were taken to address the issue and detailed the specific actions taken for the individual components.
Notified R1DO (Carfang), R2DO (Shaeffer), R3DO(Edwards), R4DO(O'Keefe), and Part 21/50.55 Reactors Group (e-mail).