ML17138B002
| ML17138B002 | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 12/07/1979 |
| From: | Gallo R, Mcgaughy R, Beverly Smith NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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| 50-387-79-06, 50-387-79-6, 50-388-79-05, 50-388-79-5, NUDOCS 7912210024 | |
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See also: IR 05000387/1979006
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U.
S.
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OFFICE
OF
INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT
REGION I
50-387/79-06
Report
No.
50-388/79-05
50-387
Oocket No.
, 50-388
CPPR-101
License
No.
CPPR-102
Priority
Category
Licensee:
Penns
lvania Power
8 Li ht
Com an
2 North Ninth Street
Allentown
Penns
1 vani a
18101
Facility Name:
Sus
uehanna
Units 1 and
2
da
e
Investigation At:
Berwick
Penns
lvania
Investigation
Conducted:
Februar
21-23
and Februar
27-March
2
1979
Investigators:
/&
Robert
M. Gallo, Resident
Reactor Inspector
H. Smith,
Ac sng Chief,
n
sti gati ons Staff
Approved by:
Richard
M. McGaughy,
ef, Project Section,
RC8ES Branch
date
dat
Investi ation
Summar
Investi ation on Februar
21-23
and Februar
27-March
2
1979
(Re ort Nos.
50-387 79-06 and 50-388 79-05
Area Investi ated:
Unannounced
investigation of three allegations
concerning the
quality control program that were
made during a pre-hearing
conference in Milkes
Barre,
on January
29-31,
1979.
The investigation involved 110
investigative hours
on site by the
NRC Resident Inspector
and one
NRC Regional
Based Investigator.
Results:
Hone of the allegations
investigated
were found to be substantiated
and
no apparent
items of noncompliance with regulatory requirements
were identified.
Region I Form 167
(August 1979)
y 912210
I.
BACKGROUND
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
A.
Reason for Investigation
B.
Identification of Involved Organizations
II.
SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
A.
Allegations
and Investigation Findings
B.
Concl us ions
III. DETAILS
A.
Introduction
B.
Scope of Investigation
C.
Persons
Directly Interviewed and/or Contacted During the
NRC
Investigation
D.
Limited Appearance
Statement of Mary Kelchner Creasy
E.
NRC Region I Inspection History
F.
Employment of Mary Kelchner
Creasy
G.
Investigation of Portions of the Limited Appearance
Statement
H.
Management
Meetings
I.
BACKGROUND
A.
Reason for Investi ation
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) held a pre-hearing
conference
in Milkes Barre, Pennsylvania
on January 29-31,
1979, with respect to,
Power and Light Company's
(PP8 L) application for an operating
license for Susquehanna
Units 1 and 2.
During the conference,
a limited
appea. ance statement
by Mary Kelchner
Creasy contained allegations
regarding
lost drawings,
drunken inspectors
and supervisors,
and qualifications of
guality Control inspectors.
The ASLB requested
that the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission review these
matters.
An investigation regarding the allegations
contained in the statement
was
initiated at the Susquehanna
Units 1 and
2 site by the
NRC, Region I on
February 21,
1979.
B.
Identification of Involved Organizations
1.
Power
8 Light Company
(PP8L)
Two North Ninth Street
Al1 entown,
Pennsyl vani a
18101
A utility company that has
been
issued Construction Permits
by the
NRC for Susquehanna
Units 1 and 2.
2.
Bechtel. Power Corporation (Bechtel)
Fifty Beale
Street'an
Francisco,
94119
This company is responsible
to PP8L for construction of Susquehanna
Units 1 and 2.
II. SUMMARY OF FINDINGS
A.
Allegations
and Investi ation Findin s
'The
NRC representatives
investigated three allegations
made during the,
pre"hearing conference.
The allegations
and
NRC findings on each are
as follows:
B
3.
~233
2
N.
3
"While I was with Bechtel, in my o'pinion I saw incompetence at
all levels encountered
from lost drawings,
not meaning blueprints,
drawings,...."
\\
The
NRC investigation
found that the licensees
audits
had identi-
fied some field location drawing copies
as missing from stick files
and drawing sepias
and microfilm cards that were not on file
in the print room.
The
NRC investigation
found no information or evidence. that
drawings
had been irretrievably lost.
2..
~313
3
N.'2
".Mhile. I was with Bechtel, in my opinion, I saw incompetence at
all levels encountered from...., to drunken inspectors
and
supervisors."
The
NRC investigation
found no information or evidence that
there'ere
drunken inspectors
or supervisors at the site during
the period from October 24,
1975 to July 22, 1976.
2
3.
3~ii
Al
N.
3
"The qualifications of the
gC inspectors
is also questionable
in my mind;
a few people I know having no background in the
nuclear
industry or construction industry were given jobs beyond
their expertise."
The
NRC investigation
found no information or evidence that gC
inspectors
were given jobs beyond their expertise or that the
gC inspectors
were not qualified to perform assigned activities.
Conclusions
There
was
no substantiation
found for any of the allegations
and
no items
of noncompliance with regulatory requirements
were identified during the
investigation.
III.
OETAILS
A.
Introduction
This investigation was'nitiated
as
a result of the contents of a limited
.appearance
statement. made
by an individual during a pre-hearing
conference
conducted
by the ASLB on January
29-31,
1979, at Wilkes-Barre,
with respect to an application from PP8L for an op'crating license for
Susquehanna
Units 1 and 2.
The NRC-Region I contacted
the individual by telephone
on February 1, 1979,
to schedule
an interview for additional information regarding the statement.
During subsequent
telephone
discussions
on February 5, 1979,
between the
NRC-Region I, the individual, and the attorney representina
the individual,
it was established
that an interview would depend
on the individual being
provided
a copy of papers
and records
by Bechtel regarding
her period of
employment.
Further efforts to interview the individual or obtain information
from her for the purpose of aiding this investigation were unsuccessful
as of
the date of this report.
B.
Sco
e of Investi ation
This investigation
was limited to the portion of the individuals statement
which was related to a period of her employment with Bechtel.
This investiga-
tion included
an examination of pertinent
documents
and records at the
Susquehanna
Units
1 and
2 site; interviews
and contacts with individuals;
observations
by the investigators;
and a review of NRC inspection history
for the Susquehanna
Units 1 and
2 site.
C.
Persons
Directl
Interviewed and/or Contacted
Durin
. the
NRC Investi ation
1.
Penns
lvania Power and Li ht Com an
(PAL
S
Mc'4R
RAJ
8W
R.
"A.
"M.
Beckley, Acting Resident
Nuclear guality Assurance
Engineer
Curtis, Vice President,
Engineering
and Construction,
Project Director
Denson,
Assistant Project Construction
Manager
Featenby,
Project Construction
Manager
Green,
Resident
Nuclear guality Assurance
Engineer.
Gulliver, Senior Project Engineer,
Nuclear equality Assurance
Oldenhage,
Resident
Engineer
Prego,
Project Engineer,
Nuclear guality Assurance
Sabol,
Manager,
Nuclear guality Assurance
Shovlin, Assistant Project Director
Waldrop, Senior Accountant, Auditing Division
2.
Bechtel
Power
Cor oration
Bechtel
G. Bell, Electrical guality Assurance
Engineer
M. Daubenheyer,
Project Superintendent
Services
"M. Drucker, guality Assurance
Engineer
G..Gal]endorm,
Lead Piping Engineer
D. Hollingshead,
Printroom Supervisor
~H. Lilligh, Project guality Assurance
Engineer
D. Montreuil, Lead Civil guality Control Engineer
"J. 'O'ullivan, Assistant Project Field Engineer
- B.. Ott,
Lead Welding guality Control Engineer
C.
Rau, Startup
Systems
Super visor
"G. Shrader,
Project Field guality Control Engineer
"A. Spielhagen,
Project Field Engineer
"C. Turnbow, Field Construction
Manager
P. Walker,
Lead Documentation
8 Receiving guality, Control Engineer
D. Yensen,
Small Piping Drafting Supervisor
A total'f 15 other employees
in guality Control
and Small Pipe
Drafting.
3.
Com an
Nuclear
Ener
Division
NED)
"T. LeVasseur,
guality Assurance
Representative
""Denotes those present at entrance
meeting.
"Denotes
those present
at exit meeting.
D.
Limited A
earance
Statement of Mar
Kelchner
Creas
The following portion of the statement,
as it appeared
in the transcript
of the pre-hearing
conference,
was considered
to be within the scope of
this investigation.
"I am a former employee of Bechtel Corporation.
I was in their
employ for nine months.
While I was with Bechtel, in my opinion I
saw incompetence
at all levels encountered
from lost drawings,
not
meaning blueprints,
drawings, to drunken inspectors
and supervisors.
The qualifications of the
gC inspectors
is also questionable
in my
mind;
a few people I know having
no background in the nuclear industry
or construction industry were given jobs beyond their expertise."
E.
NRC-Re ion I Ins ection Histor
The
NRC issued Construction Permit Nos.
101 and 102 to PP8L on November 2,
1973 for Susquehanna
Units 1 and
2 respectively.
The NRC-Region I office
(including the Susquehanna
resident inspector)
has conducted the following
number of inspections relative to activities authorized
by the permits
during the period from November-2,
1973 to February 21, 1979:
Year
Unit 1
Unit 2
1974
1975
1976
1977;
1978
12.
10
13'9
10
16
1979
F.
.
Em lo ment of Mar
Kelchner Creas
The investigators
ascertained
that Mary Kelchner,
now by marriage
Mary
Kelchner
Creasy,
was employed
by Bechtel at the Susquehanna
Steam Electric
Station construction site from October 24,
1975 to July 22, 1976.
From
October 24, 1975 to March 6, 1976
she
was
a print clerk in .the Print
Room;
and from March 6, 1976 to July 22,
1976 she
was performing drafting
in the Small Piping Engineering group.
G.
Investi ation of Portions of the Limited A
earance
Statement.
1.
.Alle ation No.
1
"while I was with Bechtel, in my opinion I saw incompetence
at
all levels encountered
from lost drawings, not meaning blue-
prints, drawings,...."
b.
NRC Investi ation
The period of employment with Bechtel
was from October 24,
1975
to July 22,
1976.
The investigators
found that an
NRC inspection of Susquehanna
I
was conducted
from October
22 to 24, 1975.~
An item of noncom-
pliance
was identified during this inspection regarding the
failure to control voided production drawings in the construc-
tion areas of the Reactor Building and Primary Containment to
preclude their inadvertent
use
by the construction crafts.
Office of Inspection
and Enforcement Inspection
Report No. 50-387/75-11
0
t
A
4
The notice of this item of noncompliance
was forwarded to PAL
by letter dated
November 7, 1975.
The corrective
measures
regarding the item were described
in a letter to the
NRC from
PP&L dated
December 5,
1975.
During an inspection
conducted
by
the
NRC on March 30 and 31,
1976 the corrective measures
were
verified by the inspector
and the matter was considered to be
resolved.~
The investigators
did not observe
any other items of noncompliance
regarding the control of'rawings in reviewing the inspection
history during the period from October 24,
1975 to July 22,
1976.
The investigators
examined the following items regarding this
matter:
Procedures
for Document Control
equality Assurance
Manuals
Instructions for Drawing Control
Reports of PP8L Audits
Reports of Bechtel Audits
The investigators
noted that the audits were conducted
as
required
and discrepancies
identified during the audits were
corrected in a timely manner.
Some of the discrepancies
iden-
tified and corrected
were:
drawing sepias
and microfilm cards
not on file in print room; missing drawing copies that had been
issued
to field location stick files; drawings
on stick files
that did not have Design
Change Notices and/or Field Change
Requests
attached;
drawings
on stick files that had been outdated
by a revision;
and voided drawings located
on stick files.
~IIRC R
The
NRC investigation found that the licensees'udits
had
identified some field location
dr awing copies
as missing from
stick files and drawing sepias
and microfilm cards that were
not on file in the print room.
The
NRC investigation found
no- information or evidence that
drawings
had been irretrievably lost.
Alle ation
"Mhile I was with Bechtel, in my'pinion I saw incompetence at
all levels encountered
from ...., to drunken inspectors
and
supervisors."
Office of Inspection
and Enforcement Inspection
Report
No. 50-387/76-02
b.
NRC Investi ation
C.
The investigators
contacted
management
representatives
and;
several
individuals that were working at the Susquehanna
Units 1
and
2 site during the period from October 24,
1975 to July 22,
1976.
None of these individuals could recall
any instances of
an inspector or supervisor
being drunk on the site or of any
.instances
of observing
an inspector or supervisor performing
'heir assigned duties'ith. indications of being adversely
affected by.,alchohol.
Due to the general
nature of the allegation,
the investigators
did not request to examine
any individual personnel
records.
NRC Findin s
The
NRC investigation found no information or evidence that
there were drunken inspectors
or supervisors at the site during
the period from October 24,
1975 to July 22, 1976.
3.
~313
1
3.
3
~331
"The qualifications of the
gC inspectors is also questionable
in my mind;
a few people I know having no background in the
nuclear industry or construction
industry were given jobs
beyond their expertise."
b.
NRC Investigation
The investigators
interpreted this allegation to be related to
the guality Control inspectors
employed
by Bechtel during the
employment period of Mary Kelchner,
now by marriage
Mary Kelchner
Creasy.
Based
on Bechtel guality Control records the investigators
determined that there were
a total of 85 gC Engineers
employed
during the period from October 24,
1975 to July 22, 1976.
The investigators
examined the qualification records of each
of'he
85 gC individuals to verify that their qualification had
been
documented
in accordance
with Bechtel Field Inspection
Manual Procedure
G-8, Revision 0, dated
June 3, 1974, titled,
"gualifications, Evaluation,
Examina'tion, Training and Certifi-
cation of Construction
Department
equality Control Personnel"
and Project Special
Provisions Notice SF/PSP G-8.1, Revision 0
dated August 10,
1976 related to Procedure
G-8.
10
The following administrative deficiencies
were observed in the
qual ificati on records of QC personnel:
(1)
The Performance
Oemonstration
Record
forms for two indivi-
duals
were incomplete in that individual item examination
ratings were not recorded
by the examiner.
(2)
The Certificate of Qualification form for one individual
was incorrect in that the individual was recorded
as being
at Level II for one discipline rather than at Level I.
(3)
The record of one individual was incomplete in that it did
not contain documentation
of the required previous experience
of quality control related construction activity.
(4)
The vision examination of one individual had been performed
approximately three
months after the due date.
(5)
The vision examination
record of one individual did not
have the recorded results of a color test.
(6)
. The vision examination record of one individual did not
have complete results
recorded for far distance vision.
The above deficiencies
were corrected
and resolved during the
inveptigation.
The investigators
reviewed audits of QC personnel
qualifications
conducted
by PP8L and Bechtel relating to the period from
October 24,
1975 to July 22,
1976.
These audits identified
items of qualification practices
inconsistent with procedures,
administrative deficiencies
in certification records,
and lack
of orientation training for four individuals.
The investigator
verified that corrective actions
had been accomplished
in
accordance
with QA Program Requirements.
~NRC Fi di
The
NRC investigation
found no information or evidence that
inspectors
were given jobs beyond their expertise
or that the
QC inspectors
were not qualified to perform assigned activities.
H.
Mana ement Meetin
s
A management
meeting
was conducted at the Susquehanna
site .on February 21,
1979 with PP8L representatives
noted in Paragraph
C of Oetails.
The
investigators
discussed
the reason
and scope of the investigation.
At the conclusion of the investigation the investigators
met with the
personnel
noted in Paragraph
C of Oetails
on March 2', 1979.
The investi-
gators
discussed
the findings of the investigation.