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IE Investigation Rept 50-373/80-46 on 800222-810923.No Noncompliance Noted.Major Areas Investigated:Allegations That Personnel Performing Pipe Stress for Nuclear Svcs Corp & Quadrex Not Qualified
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Issue date: 01/29/1982
From: Joukoff P, Kiessel R, Shackleton O, Warnick R
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U. S. NUCLEAR REGUL'ATORY COMMISSION

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Report No. 50-373/80-46 Docket No. 50-373 License No. CPPR-98 Licensee: Commonwealth Edison Company P. O. Box 767 Chicago, IL 50590 Dates of Investigation:

February 22, 26, 28; March 5, 7, 10, 24-25; May 12, 14,19-22; June 20, 25; and July 8, 16, 1980 Investigation At: Nuclear Services Corp., Division of Guadrex Corp.

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Investigation on February 22, 26, 28; March 5, 7, 10, 24-25; May 12, 14,19-22; June 20, 25; and July 8, 16, 1980 (Report No. 50-373/80-46)

Areas Investigated: Allegations that personnel in Nuclear Services Corp (NSC), Div. of Quadrex Corp., performing pipe stress analyses for LaSalle County Station Units 1 and 2, were not qualified and that proper analysis i

was not being performed by NSC or Sargentf and Lundy; interviewed NSC manage-ment' personnel, reviewed pertinent procedures and selective records. The investigation involved 110 investigation hours by four RV personnel.

Additional inspection hours were exnended by NRR and Region III personnel in subsequent reviews.

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It was determined that NSC was conducting educational and employment verifications of their engineering and technical personnel when contacted by the NRC investigators. Two of four persons identified by an alleger had been found by Quadrex to have falsified their educational qualifications. They were terminated following this discovery. No items of noncompliance were identified. Reviews of design procedures indicated they reflected technically appropriate engineering practice.

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REASON FOR INVESTIGATION On February 22, 1980, a letter to the President of Nuclear Services Corp.

(NSC), dated February 13, 1980, was provided to the NRC. Attempts were made ta contact the writer, Individual A.

On March 5, 1980, Individual A was contacted by the NRC Region V office.

He alleged deficiencies in the design work being performed by the firm of Nuclear Services Corporation, a division of Quadrex Corporation. Additional allegations were received from other individuals on March 24, May 19 and July 8, 1980. An NRC investigation was initiated to review these matters.

SUMllARY OF FACTS I

The four individuals who contacted the NRC Region V (RV) office provided a number of allegations regarding different aspects of the work performed by Quadrex, as follows; (paraphrased)

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The company was not following NRC quality criteria (10 CFR 50, Appendix B).

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Twenty-eight Engineering Change Notices had been sent to Sargent &

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The company had no procedures for the work performed; when procedures were developed, they were backdated.

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S&L knew that the company was not performing adequately and took no action.

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Audits of the company were announced, and not performed in-depth.

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The company was advised during an audit that some people were not

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Six engineers from India had unverified backgrounds.

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Improper design criteria were utilized by Quadrex and S&L.

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One individual's history was questionable.

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Two employees had falsified background information on their resumes.

Investigation of allegations related to employee background falsification, scope of work, and general design criteria was performed during January 22, 1980 and July 16, 1980.

It was found that the company had initiated a program to verify the educational and work experience backgrounds of their employees. Two employees were identified as having provided false informa-tion, and were subsequently terminated. Review of design calculations and criteria indicated that the company was following accepted engineering practices.

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Reviews of the adequacy of design procedures by the office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) Mechanical Engineering Branch, indicated that the procedures were technically appropriate and acceptable.

Further reviews of the adequacy of the Quadrex program were performed by Region III personnel during inspections at the LaSalle site and at the Quadrex office. These inspections took place between August 1980 and September 1981 and are documented in inspection reports already issued (see Paragraph 12).

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1 The inspections resulted in several unresolved matters which were subse-quently resolved to the Region III inspector's satisfaction.

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noncompliance were identified relative to the work performed by Quadrex (one unresolved matter remains outstanding from the inspection conducted on September 22-23, 1981).

Region V personnel indicated that there have been no subsequent contacts from the individuals who provided allegations.

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DETAILS 1.

Personnel Contacted Nuclear Services Corporation (NSC) (A Division of Quadrex Corporation)

S. Naymark, President

  • A. W. McCrae, Director of Projects
  • J. Goldin, Corporate QA Engineer
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L. Wray, Director of Engineering S. R. Holguin, Project Engineer J. Thomas, Manager, Stress Analysis S. Persinger, Executive Secretary A. E. Corker, Manager, Product Services G. Esswin, Stress Analysis Manager H. Lee, Pipe Support Manager G. Long, Stress Analyst C. Oya, Stress Analyst T. Gosh, Stress Analyst M. Moldovan, Stress Analyst

The investigation also included contacts and discussions with other NSC personnel assigned to the LaSalle project.

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Introduction This investigation was conducted upon receipt of allegations from four different individuals who made allegations concerning the Nuclear Services Corporation (NSC) a Division of Quadrex Corporation at Campbell, California. The name Quadrex was used interchangeably with the name NSC by the allegers and is so used in this report. The allegations concerned Quadrex's safety related work on pipe stress analyses being performed for Sargent & Lundy (S&L), Architect-Engineer (AE) for Commonwealth Edison's LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2.

NSC offers engineering and technical services to the nuclear industry in project planning, design and analysis, construction and startup through operations and maintenance.

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History of Quadrex's Involvement with the LaSalle Nuclear Project a.

Pipe Stress Analyses In late 1979, S&L contracted with NSC to provide some of the pipe stress analysis work for the LaSalle Nuclear Project.

The original work was on non-safety related pipe hanger design for approximately 7800 hangers for the turbine building. This is known as the SAR-0302 project. They were 80% to 85% finished with the SAR-0302 work in early 1981.

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As they completed SAR 0302, their people were assigned to the SAR-0303 project. The SAR-0303 project involves safety-related work in Unit 1 of the f.aSalle Project and some safety-related systems in Unit 2.

The re are approximately 160 systems in this work, with with an average of 13 hangers in a system. The same design and procedures are used in SAR-0303 as were used in SAR-0302. The hangers for Unit 2 are to be similar to those in Unit 1.

As part of their contract, they are reviewing as-built drawings for approval or changes.

Quadrex has developed their own Quality Assurance program that has been approved by Sargent & Lundy.

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Fire Protection Work Quadrex is doing an extensive updating of the existing fire pro-tection system on the LaSalle Project. This is projected to be a three year program.

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A1. legations Against Nuclear Services Corporation and Sargent & Lundy a.

Individual A On March 5, 1980, Individual A contacted NRC and made the follow-ing allegations:

(1) Quadrex was not adhering to the 18 criteria of 10 CFR Part 50, Appendix B on work being done for the LaSalle County Station.

(2) Quadrex is a dishonest company. An example of their dis-honesty is when they sent 28 Engineering Change Notices (ECN)

on pipe stress analyses to S&L in Chicago, Illinois without any calculations done on them.

(3) Quadrex performed work on safety-related components without any procedures. Then after doing the work wrote the pro-cedures and backdated them. An unannounced audit by experts in the field of pipe stress analyses would have to be done in order to catch them at this violation of accepted NRC procedures.

(4) Individual A stated he believes S&L knew that Quadrex was not performing their pipe stress analyses properly and was participating in a " coverup." He could not name any specific employees in S&L involved in this alleged coverup. He said persons working for Quadrex that had knowledge of his alle-gations would not talk to NRC for fear of losing their jobs.

(5) Audits of Quadrex were announced by Commonwealth Edison (CECO)

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(6) Audits of Quadrex by CECO and S&L were not done in depth.

Paperwork was examined as to form, but calculations were not checked for accuracy.

Individual A advised that on its face, the paperwork done by Quadrex, looks correct. He said unless you know design criteria, everything looks fine. He went on to say that meeting cost and schedule is Quadrex's whole existence.

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company policy to bypass correct procedures to get the job done.

He advised that unless NRC investigators used a polygraph on members of management to show they are lying, NRC will never get the truth.

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Individual B On March 24, 1980, Individual B, an anonymous caller, contacted NRC and advised he had the following concerns regarding the calculations being done by Quadrex on safety-related piping systems for the LaSalle Nuclear Project:

(1) Recently an internal-QA audit was done on the work for LaSalle by a team headed by Dr. Henry Thailer.

He said Dr. Thailer is very respected in his fiald of engineering and is on an American Society for Mechanical Engineering (ASME) Code Committee. He advised that Dr. Thailer had been with NSC and quit to form his own engineering consulting company with two other men.

When Dr. Thailer was with NSC he was head technical lead for pipe stress and pipe support design. During Dr. Thailer's recent audit he reviewed four or five pipe support designs for LaSalle for compliance with specified seismic criteria and found some calculations to be incorrect. According to Individual B, Dr. Thailer con-cluded that some of the people doing the calculations were not qualified and recommended they either receive additional training or new people be hired.

Dr. Thailer reportedly told Sherm Naymark, President of Quadrex, about his concerns regarding using people not technically qualified to do safety-related work and recommended Naymark do something about'it.

With Dr. Thailer leaving the company, Individual B felt Quadrex would not do anything to correct the problem.

(2) A member of Quadrex's management working on the LaSalle project by the name of Sat Mahan has hired siv. employees from India without conducting any interviews or background verifications as to their education or prior employment.

Individual B advised he has worked in the nuclear engineering field for a period of years and the practice of firms hiring engineers who aren't qualified is not isolated to NSC. He said that, in general, the industry has never been required to put minimum requirements on the engineers they hire.

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In his yit. ion, NRC and General Electric criteria were not being isllowed by S&L in their analysis of the hydro dynamic load respo..se spectra. He explained that the peak frequen-ciea are significantly high, reaching 80 to 90 cycles per

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He advised S&L is using the computer program called r4PSYS for their calculations. He stated PIPSYS only takes the frequencies out to approximately 33 cycles per second and does not use mass point spacing for the cycle calculations.

He said the NSC engineer responsible for these calculations objected to S&L's program and is taking NSC's calculations to approximately 130 cycles per second.

In Individual B's opinion, S&L should develop a new computer program to include much higher frequencies and use the appropriate mass point spacing, depending on the size and type of pipe.

This anonymous caller never recontacted the NRC and was not identified during this investigation.

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Individual C On May 19, 1980, Individual C contacted the NRC. He advised NRC investigators he has been an engineer for over 30 years. He indicated that because he once gave information to another federal agency under the condition that they give him confidentiality, and then they violated this trust, he was reluctant to give the in-vestigators specific information. He made the following comments concerning NSC:

(1) An individual who was fired from three jobs and who approved the Sacrificial Shield Wall at Washington Public Power Supply System Unit 2, now requiring extensive rework, is now a " boss" at Quadrex.

(2) NRC should check Quadrex's involvement in the fire protection system for LaSalle.

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Individual D On July 8, 1980, Individual D advised NRC investigators that he knew there were two people at Quadrex who had false resumes and who left Quadrex in late June 1980.

Individual B gave the investigators the names of four other persons presently working for Quadrex that he had reason to believe had falsely claimed earning engineering degrees or completion of engineering courses.

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Interview of Dr. Henry Thailer On March 24, 1980, Dr. Henry Thailer advised that he participated in an internal audit for NSC's corporate Quality Assurance (QA)

Department of NSC's pipe stress analysis work for the LaSalle Nuclear Project. This was done shortly before his departure from NSC. He said the work being done by NSC is in line with the re-evaluation-8-

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described in IE Bulletin 79-14, " Seismic Analyses for As-built Safety Related Piping Systems". He stated a portion of the project was just getting underway. He advised that>S&L gave a portion of this work to NSC. He described the work as being 90% rec'onfirmatory analysis, and that analysis on safety-related, work has not p'rogressed far. To his knowledge no packages on safety-related work had been issued. He further advised he doesn't know of any major deficiencies in the analysis work being performed by NSC. He stated his findings were that some procedures should,be changed and modified. He stated that the technical procedures were not of major concern in the find-ings of his audit. lie said he did not recall directly talking to the president of Quadrex about the results of the audit.

On the same date Dr. Thailer recontacted the i.nvestigator and advised he had given a lot of thought to the matter of' discussing NSC's audit and S&L work with the NRC. He said because he had signed an agreement with NSC that he would not give out proprietary information he was reluctant to furnish any further information. He advised that after being contacted by the investigator he called the president of Quadrex and told him of the NRC's investigation. He further advised the president stated he was willing to talk to NRC about the inquiry.

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Investigation at Nuclear Services Corporation (NSC), Division of Quadrex Corporation - Campbell, CA During the investigation at Quadrex on May 20-21, 1980, the following information was developed from interviews of the management staff and from selective examination of procedures and records relating to the LaSalle Nuclear Project:

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NSC Personnel Records On May 20, 1980, Mrs. Sally Persinger, Executive Secretary, advised she had been given the task of instituting a system to verify the education and employment for NSC employees assigned to the LaSalle project. This assignment began at the end of March 1980. Prior to this time they did not verify degrees and recent employment.

Three forms were developed for making these inquiries. A release is obtained from each person whose education and employment history is being verified. At that time they were verifying educations through the highest degree obtained and employment histories through 1977. They were performing verifications for approximately 100 contract employees (employees hired directly by NSC). They ex-pected to have these verifications completed by the end of June 1980.

Mrs..Persinger advised that an administrative procedure on the conduct of verifications of degrees and employment is in draft.

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At that time they had identified one employee who had falsified a degree in civil engineering, and he was terminated for this falsi-fication. Verifications for degrees and employment in foreign countries were either taking a long time or no replies at all were being received. Inquiries to institutions in India and the

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On July 8, 1980, Individual D advised NRC investigators that he knew there were two people at Quadrex who had falsified resumes and had left Quadrex two weeks previous.

Individual D said he knew these men had falsified resumes as he had checked the in-formation and found they had claimed degrees and/or college courses they did not have.

Individual D gave the investigators the names of four other persons presently working for Quadrex whose backgrounds he had investigated and found falsifications in their resumes.

On July 16, 1980, an NRC investigator determined that two of the four men at Quadrex identified by Individual D had in fact

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falsified their educational history on their resumes and appli-cations. The other two individuals' background had been checked by Quadrex and found to be correct.

The two individuals whose backgrounds were found to be correct bad furnished different background information to Quadrex than they had to Individual D.

The two individuals whose resumes and applications contained false claims had been discovered by Quadrex's new background investiga-tion program. The information concerning the falsifications had been given to the employees' immediate supervisors, but.they had not taken any action at that time.

Subsequently, the investigator was advised by A. E. Corker, NSC Manager of Product Services, that the two employees who falsified their resumes and applications had been terminated.

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advised they were taking action "to close the loop" by making certain that all supervisors take appropriate action against sub-i ordinates who falsify their resumes / applications.

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Personnel Records of Job Shoppers Employed by NSC Some of the pipe stress analysis work has been jobbed out to l

Associated Technologies, Inc., (ATI), Clifton, New Jersey. The files of background verifications for ATI personnel are being maintained at NSC. ATI is not responsible for design or pro-cedures.

ATI will follow the same design and procedures as required for SAR-0303, in the manual furnished by S&L to NSC.

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and.its accuracy. The use of PIPSYS is S&L's decision.

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vibration of 75 cycles per second in corresponding to whatever the system mode shapes was programmed to be the cut off point.

Above which, little or no significant activities is expected.

NSC has their own computer code program known as NEWPIPE. S&L

did not want two sets of differing computer data in their files

over the years. Therefore, NSC war. required to use PIPSYS.

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Audits Performed at NSC (Quadrex) for Work Performed On the LaSalle i

County Station, Units 1 and 2 During meetings with members of Quadrex management, it was determined

that the company had been audited by S&L and CECO in March 1980 and i

an internal audit by Quadrex QA, was also performed that month, a.

Internal Audit of Quadrex No. 80-03

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investigators their internal audit report No. 80-03, captioned

" Internal Audit of LaSalle Pipe Stress Analysis and Support Design

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(SAR-0303)." Internal audit report No. 80-03 showed the audit,

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requested by Quadrex's Director of Engineering, was conducted i

by a four member team from the Quadrex QA Department. The team i

leader was shown as Jack Weber, and Henry Thailer, supra, was

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shown as an auditor. The audit team was in the middle of their audit when Thailer left the' company, and-the report was completed after his departure.

This audit was conducted on March 3-7, 1980. This audit states that it " Examined the contractual commitments between S&L and Quadrex and the technical and quality aspects of the Quadrex work in compliance with these contractual commitments". This audit was also conducted to assure that " Appropriate checklists and planning documents were utilized to assure that the full scope

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the LaSalle project. Dr.-Thailer made the comment that there i

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As a result of this audit there were some changes made.

Procedures 2.2, Safety Related Piping Stress Analyses, and 2.3, Safety Related-Pipe Support, were revised effective April 22, 1980 to respond to this audit.

According to Quadrex management, Dr. Thailer found errors which they call " code interpretations". They further advised that all of the items identified by Dr. Thailer as needing attention were reviewed by the company and addressed. They stated Dr. Thailer did not find anything Quadrex was doing that did not comply with S&L's directives.

The summary for this audit states:

"VI. SUMMARY

"In determining the status of the Project, it must be remembered that the project has grown considerably from the original concept. With the growth has been an increase in scope with new tasks being added and increasing schedular pressure.

"With due consideration for the rapid expansion of contract scope, a certain amount of laxity has occurred in the con-tractual documents between S&L and Quadrex.

"The number and quality of procedures, Work Instructions and project controls ere by far the most advanced for the early stages of any large project undertaken by Quadrex. The present procedures, instructions and controls are just not sufficient for the magnitude of this project.

"The project is still in an early enough stage to correct

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all problems and assure a quality product. However, a high priority must be given to the development of the appropriate procedures, instruction and project controls. This priority must come from the upper management level, even at the sacri-l fice of some early production."

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Audit of Quadrex by Sargent & Lundy and Commonwealth Edison

conducted March 25-27, 1980 By letter dated June 23, 1980, the Commonwealth Edison Manager of Quality Assurance, made available to the investigators a copy of the Commonwealth Edison Company Audit of Nuclear Services Corporation dated March 26, 1980 and a copy of a June 9, 1980 follow-up surveillance report.

The audit report showed the audit was conducted on March 25-27, l

1980 by the Commonwealth Edison Company Quality Assurance Depart-i ment. Sargent & Lundy Quality Assurance was also a participant in the audit. The purpose of the audit was to determine if NSC

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was properly implementing their quality program. The scope of the audit consisted of questions in the following areas:

Audit schedules and audit follow-up Document Control Qualifications of project personnel Qualifications of audit team leaders Indoctrination and training Technical aspects of design Design Review The audit resulted in eight findings, three observations and three comments.

The Surveillance Report dated June 9, 1980 indicates the surveillance was conducted at Nuclear Services Corp. on June 9 and 10, 1980, to assess the implementation of corrective actions for findings and observations identified in the audit of March 25, 1980. During the course of this surveillance, it was determined that five findings required further corrective action and were

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Quadrex's Audit Program Quadrex performs a continual audit of the work being performed for S&L on the LaSalle Nuclear Project. This QA audit is per-formed by H. Frankel, the Project Quality Assurance Engineer.

Each day he reviews a different facet of the analysis. He reports directly to the Project Manager, A. Morshedi.

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Supervision of Quadrex Employees Working on Pipe Stress Analyses for LaSalle Nuclear Project Quadrex management advised that employees working on pipe stress analyses have their work checked by their supervisors during the first few weeks of their employment to make certain they can perform as required. They stated that where an employee has engineering experience, but does not have a degree, the supervisor is required to formally state that the employee can perform as required. They i

further advised that management is assuring that supervisors are checking their employee's work.

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Exit Interview

An Exit Interview was conducted with members of Quadrex's management on May 21, 1980. Those persons in attendance are identified by an asterisk in Part 1, Persons Contacted, of this report.

The investigators advised that further evaluation of several matters would be conducted by the NRC during future inspections.

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NRR Review of Design Procedures and Criteria A review of statements by the several allegers indicated four allegations relative to design procedures and criteria:

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Thermal expansion stress analysis were not to be performed when the design temperature was less than 150 degrees F.

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Anchor displacement was not included in the analysis.

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Branch lines were not included in the analysis of the main piping runs when the ratio of the moments of inertia was 7 to 1 or greater.

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The computer program PIPSYS was to be used for all piping systems analysis even though the modal capacity of PIPSYS was not sufficient to handle higher frequency loads.

These allegations were reviewed by NRR and consultant personnel (Battele Memorial Institute). On September 15, 1980, a meeting was held at the offices of Sargent & Lundy to discuss the allegations and review piping analysis methods. Additional information was supplied by letters dated October 16, 1980, and October 21, 1980 (Exhibit I). This information was reviewed by Battelle personnel.

By letter dated October 22, 1980, Battelle advised NRR that its review indicated that Quadrex' procedures were technically acceptable (Exhibit II). These findings were documented via memos dated December 1, 1980 (Exhibit III), and December 17, 1980 (Exhibit IV).

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RV Review of Quadrex Program On March 20, 1981, RV personnel investigated allegations that Quadrex had sent ECN's to E&L without performing stress calculations, and that procedures were backdated to appear that they were being utilized earlier. Their findings are as follow:

On February 13, 1980, NSC transmitted 26 (not 28) ECN's to S&L. Of these, fifteen ECNs, which are stress analysis packages, were reviewed and all packages were found to contain appropriate calculations.

Reviewed were ECNs FM 520 LS, 527 LS, 516 LS, 573 LS, 571 LS, 226 LS, 611 LS, 444 LS, 515 LS, 472 LS, 485 LS, 527 LS, 130 LS, 658 LS, and 570 LS.

The NSC procedures which deal with safety-related work are identified as SAR-P-2.6.

The first edition of these procedures was issued on January 10, 1980, well before the first safety-related contract work was performed. The procedures have been subsequently revised due to normal procedure evolution.

Stress analysis methods, including piping system modeling, input data preparation, generation of final stress analyais reports, and checking of stress analysis calculations were reviewed. No items of noncompliance or deficiencies were identified.

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Subsequent to the investigation effort documented in this report, Region III personnel conducted several inspections to review the design program for piping at the LaSalle station in general, and the work being performed by Quadrex as a part of the overall program. These inspections, conducted over the period August 8, 1980-September 23, 1981, are documented in Region III inspection reports as follows:

Report Dates of Inspection 50-373/80-32 8/6-8/80 50-373/80-20

50-373/80-40 8/29, 9/2-5/80 50-374/80-26 50-373/80-48 11/3-4, 5, 13-14/80 (11/3-4 at Quadrex)

50-374/80-30 50-373/81-02 1/12-14, 15, 19, 22-23/81 50-374/81-02 50-373/81-07 3/30-31, 4/1-2/81 50-374/81-12 50-373/81-33 9/21-22, 22-23/ 81 (9/22-23 at Quadrex)

i 50-374/81-17 These inspections resulted in several unresolved items which were i

subsequently resolved acceptably. One unresolved item still remains i

open from the inspection performed September 22-23, 1981 at Quadrex, i

a generic item relative to S&L's use of tack welds in design. No items of noncompliance were identified.

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Attachments:

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As you will recall, you and Sam Moore raised several questions concerning the Sargent & Lundy

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We had indicated at that meeting that the Sargent & Lundy practice was to use

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After reviewing this with our projectsi it was determined that in several instances this was not the case.

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a time his' tory analysis was performed on the sample system, (high pressure core spray subsystem), for both the safe shutdown earthquake and for the chugging load.

Acceleration time histories were obtained from these analyses in.the X, Y and Z directions at three locations on the sample (see circled locations on the attached piping system, isometric and ar.alytical drawing)., _Two of these locations p were locations where the branch piping were connecica.54

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'A three inch branch line is connected to the main system at data point 45.

The associated SSE response spectra are given in figures 1, 2, and 3 and the associated response spectra for the chugging load are given in figures 4, 5, and 6.

It should be noted that just. adjacent to data point 45 another sna11 piping system is connected to the high pressure core spray system, however, because it is a sme.11 bore piping system (nominal diameter less than 2 inches) it would not normally be analyzed on the computer.

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In the case of the small bore piping system attached adjacent to data point 45 this would involve a responsa spectre. which was an envelope of all of the response spectra inside the drywell.

This envelope response spectra is larger than all of the response spectra shown for data point 45.

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It's SSE response spectra given in figures 7, 8 and 9; and it's chugging load response spectra are given in

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This was done to illustrate the conservatism in the response spectra if a line had been attached at this point or was required to be attached at this point at some time in the future.

The associated SSE and chugging response spectra are given in figures 13, 14, 15 and 16, 17, and 18.

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September 15, 1980 The =eeting was held to discuss the issues described in Attach-i ment 1.

The list of people at the meeting is shown in Attachment 2.

Sargent and Lundy (S & L), as part of S & L Specification J2952, provided to Quadrex an " Analysis Manual"; relevant portions of which are in Attach =ent 3.

This manual is identified by Quadrex as SAR-0303 Analysis Manual, QUAD No. 7-30-006, and is a part of the Quadrex "'Jork Instructicn for Use of LaSalle Project Master Lists of Uccu:ents, Por:s, and Sub-syste=s"; see Attachment 4 Attach:ent 5 centains the checklist used by

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These are correct statements concerning the S & L instructions to Quadrex for this particular work.

The above cited documents do not give the " whys" of the S & L instructions. The =eeting was mostly devoted to the "why" aspects.

S & L's involved are presentations and our evaluations of the technical aspects described in the following.

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Thermal Expansion Stress Analyses were not to be Performed when the Design Te=perature is Less Than 150 F Vievgraphs used in S & L's pcesentation on this subject are con-l tained in Attachments 6 and 7.

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The key aspect is that. Quadrex work is outside the containment.

As indicated by p. ges 4 through 8 of Attachment 8, the re-lative displace:ents outside centainment are s=all.

S & L's instructions are shown in pages 260 through 262 of the " Analysis Manual", included in Attadhment 3.

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As indicated in Attachment 10, S & L practice is to use for dynam;; evaluation of branch 31nes (that are analytically separated from the run pipe) either (a) Enveloping rescanse spectra (NS, EW, Vertical) for all restraint points of the run pipe and branch pipe, or (b) Enveloping response spectra (NS, EW, Vertical) for all restraint points of the branch pipe.

The contents of Attachment 10, while limited in scope, are deemed suf ficient f or the immediate scope of Attachment 1.

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While branch lines could be included with the eain run piping in a dynamic evaluation, the result might be less significant than dvaluating them separately. This is becau,e of the possibility of having ill-conditic.ned matrices when a large, stif f pipe and a s=all, flexible pipe are both included in the redel.

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The Coeputer Program PIFEXS vas to_Je l' sed f or All Pipine System Analyses Eten Thouch the Medal capacity of PI?SYS =ay not be Suf ficient to Hindle the Higher Prequency Leads, for Example, These Resultine f,I3p Suppression Pool Dynamics Pages 164,165, and 166 of the " Analysis Manual" (see Attachment 3)

address this question. Also see Attach:ent 5, page 6 of 17, item 4.5.

Page 166 of the " Analysis Manual" specifics a high number of codes for the initial runs. While at the =eeting, we checked the two available " Stress Reports" prepared by Quadrax (piping syste=s IR-6 and Unit-2,DO-5) and found that 30 modes were included; suf ficient in both systems to get into the "zero period acceleration" region of the response spectrum used.

This agrees with the instructions on page 165 of the " Analysis Manual".

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SARGENT & LUNDY DESIGN PROC'JCURES AND CRITERIA In the IE letter (Serial No. !E:RCI:30-04) from G. W. Rei m th (RCI, :LE', to 12, 1980, lead responsittlity.es tr usfered J. P. Xnight (DE,*:RR)~ dated June to ::RR regarding the review of four 311egatir.s icd.jed a;ainst Cu:frn final as-built pi P g (foreerly Nuclear Services Corpcration) in their

analysis for the LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2.

15, 1980, a meeting was held at-the Sargent & Lundy af fices in On Septerrber Cuidrex is Chicago to discuss the four allegations against Guadrex's work.

under contract to Sargent & Lundy and uses the design criteria and Jeccedures l

developed by Sargent & Lundy.

e The allegatiens questioned four procedures specified in the SAR-0303 analysis Mar.ual, QUAD No. 7-80-006, onicn is part of Sargent & Lunay's Specificr. ion J2952 for the Quadrex work. The four procedures in quest $on are as fo11cws.

Thermal expansion stress analyses were not to be ;erf:.rmed when the 1. - design temperature is less than 150* F.

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runs when the ratio of the moments of inertia is 7 to 1 or greater.

The computer program PIPSYS was to be used for all piping systems analjscs 4.

even though the modal capacity of PIPSYS may not be sufficient to handle the higher frequency loads.

The above four issues were discussed with Sargent & Lundy and the NRC staff and its consultants from Oak Ridge National Laboratories.

The findings of the staff and its consultants conclude that the above four procedures when imple.ented as stated in the Sargent & Lundy detailed procedures are technically appropriate and that the design procedures represent reasonable and conservative engineering practices that have been widely adopted thrcughout the industry,

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R. J. Kiessel, Reactor Engineering Branch, M vision of Resident and Regional Reactor Inspection IE SUBJECT:

SARGENT & LUNDY DESIGR PROCEDURES AND CRI?ERIA The Mcchanical Engineering 3 ranch (m). Office of 'luclear ?.eactor Regulation, has completed its revient of the fear Sargent & Lundy design procedures identified in the allegations against Quadrex (formerly fluclear Services Corporaticn).

Tha PE3 has concluded that all four procedures are technically appropriate and that they present reasonable and conservative engineering practices.

A copy of the December 1,1980, memorandum from R. J. Bosnak to C. Jordan, which transmits the MER findings. is enciesed.

I believe that this finding completes my 'perticipation in the investication of waarex. Therefore. I plan no further action on this matter unless you request that something additionel be done.

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4 eta 11urgical Section Reactor Engineering Branch Division of Resident and Regional Reactor Inspection. IE Enclosure
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