IR 05000498/1977014
| ML19347E439 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 12/28/1977 |
| From: | Crossman W, Renee Taylor, Julie Ward NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| ML16251A407 | List:
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| References | |
| 50-498-77-14, 50-499-77-09, 50-499-77-9, NUDOCS 8104270379 | |
| Download: ML19347E439 (4) | |
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I REPORT'0F INVESTIGATION
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OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
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REGION IV
-Subject: South Texas Project, Units 1 and 2
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Docket Nos. 50-498; 50-499
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Investigation based on an allegation that radiographs had shown faulty welds at the site,
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gh:g Period of Investigation: December 15 and 16,1977 g;.
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REASON FOR INVESTIGATION F
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A ' telephone call from an ' individual who claiced to have. radiographs which I"=
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showed defective welds in the liner plate for the two containrent liners
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.in-the Comanche peak and South Texas projects plants.
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SCOPE OF INVESTIGATICH
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To determine the veracity of the' claim and to establish the identity and EsE origin of the all'eged radiographs.
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The radiographs, if they existed, were not of equiptent being put in place
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at the cwo p uer plants. The informant cay have been the butt of a joke E?i.
played on hin by two acquaintances who possibly had access to radiographs 25~
frca a non-nuclear prcduction firm.
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SUMMARY OF FACTS M'
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^:= 9 On December 10, 1977, Individual A rep;rted to the Duty Officer of Recion IV
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that he had radiographs in his possessien which showed that the welds used his at two nuclear power plants under construction in Region IV were defective.
E4i In a subsequent Region IV contact with this individual by telephone on iEE Dececher 10, he indicated that he had in his possessicn questionable radio-
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graphs of electro-slag welds in the liner plate for the contair. ment liners
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ccntacted by a RIV representative at which time-he indicated that he had been 7. '
a victim ~ of a hoax perpetrated by two acquaintances who had. admitted the radio-5pf graphs were not as reported and that neither individual had ever been on either
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. site. At that tire he agreed to confirm his statement in writing to the RIV 5fL i i
contact. His letter dated December 15, 1977, was subsequently received in the
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RIV office en December 19, 1977.
In a personal contact with the individual cn
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- December 15, he professed at that time not to have the radiographs, having
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Dececher.16, he advised that these two individuals had inforced hic they had s. _ l disposed of all the radiographs (reportedly a total of ten). Fren his description 06 l of the radiographs and his -indication of the size of the welds, it would appear sgs.
that the raterial would have a thickness of greater than 1-3/4 inches and not is5-the type of caterial or welding used in the containment liners of the plants-g;r involved.
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Investication at Houston, Texas - Decerber 15 and 16,1977
Individual A was interviewed on December 15 at his office in Houston, Texas by Mr. Taylor and the investigator. He stated that he had had
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one radiograph which had been supplied by his two friends who originally
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had indicated-to hir that this and other radiographs they had were of welds in the containment liner for the tuo projects. He drew a sketch 2.1 of what the weld profile i k
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Individual A stated that he had returned
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the radiograph to his friends but that he would return to his office in
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showed on the radiograph, Individual A did not understand the question
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what the penetrar,,eter would indicate, showing his lack of knowledge'of
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radiography. When Individual A did not return at the end of the two-
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hour period, in fact not at all that afternoon, an attempt was made to contact him at his home without success. At that point, Mr. Taylor MM
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departed from the investigation.
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investigator contacted Individual. A again at his office and confronted him with his lack of returning with the radiographs on the previous day.
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Individaul A stated that he had not been able to obtain the radiographs E=
and he had been held up for a two-hour conference and thus had not been
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able to get word to the investigators about his delay. He stated that
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when he had gotten in touch with his two friends, they advised him that
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the radiographs had been destroyed. There previously had been ten and
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he, Individual A, stated that he had seen three of' them. He reaffirmed
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that neither he nor either of his friends had ever worked at either of
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the two projects which he had originally reported as the source of the radiographs. He stated that the radiographs had not come from either of s
the tv;o plants and that his friends ~had confirmed this. He stated his e
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company in Texas. He stated that the two individuals who were his friends Jay
worked in q'uality assurance for the same company. One, whose name was
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Tommy, and the other, who was a radiographer, did not wish to be identified and that he would not identify them since they would lose their jobs if
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they were found out. He advised that he had told them to contact the MRC
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have been only from a thick material of more than 'l-3/4 inches thick, that this would not be comparable to the containment liner of the projects in E=N question since the thickness of that material is a different dimension.
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Individual A signed a statement-for the 5.=
investigator stating that the "x-rays" were not from a nuclear facility-
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been destroyed, and that he,' Individual' A, was responsible for making
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the false ~ report concerning the radiographs. As noted above, he also had
addressed a letter to the P.egion IV office making this same statetent.
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