ML17161A011
| ML17161A011 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 12/17/1996 |
| From: | NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML17161A009 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99901304 99901304-96-01, 99901304-96-1, NUDOCS 9612190388 | |
| Download: ML17161A011 (3) | |
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NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE C8D Charter Power Systems, Incorporated Blue Bell, Pennsylvania Docket No.: 99901304 Based on the results of an inspection conducted September 16 through 18 and October 7 through 9, 1996, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with the requir-vents of the U.
S. Nuclear Regulatory Ct'mmi ss ion.
A.
Criterion V, "Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings," of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states that, activities affecting qua1ity shall be prescribed ty documented instructions, procedures, or dr'awings, of a type appropriate to 'he circumstances and sha11 be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or drawings shall inc1ude appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished, r
Section 3.0, "Responsibi1ities a'nd Authorities," of C&D Procedure 01-003.6, "Document and Data Control (Corporate),"
January
- 1996, states in part, that department managers and supervisors are responsib1e to assure that the correct documents are available at the locations where needed and that they are being us; d.
A. 1 Contrary to the above, assembly line and manufacturing personnel in severa1 areas at the Attica, Indiana facility were not aware of any procedures or instructions to control the work activities which they were performing.
The Attica facility supervisors and managers did not ensure that procedures or instructions were being used in areas such as plate pasting, pasted plate curing, cell assembly, post sealing and cell cover gluing.
(99901304/96-01-02)
A.2 Contrary to the above, C8D performed its site specific seismic analyses without the benefit of written procedures.
(99901304/96-01-03)
A.3 Contrary to the above, although C8D stated that it was performing battery cell dedication for customers who imposed 10 CFR Part 50 Appendix I', ":D did not establish a dedication procedure to identify and verify the adequacy of each of the critical characteristics important to ensure that the battery cells would perform satisfactorily in service.
(99901304/96-01-04)
B.
Criterion III, "Design Control," states
- that, measures shall'e established to assure that the design basis for those components that Appendiv.
P applies are correctly translated into specifications,
- drawings, procedures, and 'nstructions.
these measures shall include provisions to assure that appropriate quality standards are specified and included in design documents and that deviations from such standards are controlled.
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Criterion V, Instructions, Procedures, and Drawings," requires that activities affecting quality shall be accomplished in accordance with instructions, procedures and drawings.
Section 5.3.4 of C8D Product 8 Process Specification (PPS)-X4, Revision 3, states:
>mmediately following cover installation, the
'cell/unit shall be held in place for a minimum of 30 minutes with a pressure equal to 80-100 psig.
The co.er shall be held to the jar in a
way to eliminate movement and to distribute the pressure uniformly over the entire sealing area.
B.I
- Contrar, to the above, although CKD had translated a design requirement into Section 5.3.4 of Procedure PPS-X4, it did not ensure that the activity was accomplished in accordance with the procedural requirement.
Consequently, deviations from the design basis contained in the C&D Procedure were not controlled for that work operation.
(99901304/96-01-05)
Please provide a written statement or explanation to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Conmission, ATTN:
Document Control Desk, Washington, D.C.
20555-0001, with a copy to the Chief, Special Inspection Branch, Division of Inspection and Support
- Programs, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, within 30 days of the date of the letter transmitting this Notice of Nonconformance.
This reply should be clearly marked as a "Reply to a Notice of Nonconformance" and should include the following for each nonconformance:
(I) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to orrect these items; (2) a description of steps that have been.or will be taken to prevent recurrence of these items; and (3) the dates your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
Dated at Rockville, Haryland, this 17th day of December, 1996 H