ML19263B534
| ML19263B534 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 10/13/1978 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| Shared Package | |
| ML19263B527 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900021 NUDOCS 7901180361 | |
| Download: ML19263B534 (2) | |
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Pullman Power Products Docket flo.
99900021/78-02 NOTICE OF DEVIATION Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on September 25-29, 1978, it appeared that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with f;RC requirements as indicated below:
A.
The Pullman Power Products corrective action response letter of June 7, 1978, states in part with respect to deviation B in IE Report No. 78-01, "The Weld Procedure Specification is being reviewed and will be modified to delete an Argon backing purge for Nipple to Pipe-type Weldments where the root pass is being removed by a drilling operation.
Pullman Power Products ha qualified this Procedure, WPS No. 27-III 0B-12, using an increased amperage and voltage setting.
(PQR-028.)
A training session will be provided for the Welding Foreman and Welders, highlighting the areas of this deviation and corrective action necessary Compliance with Corrective Action will be verified by Quality Control Welding Insperri'n surveillance.
Steps to Prevent Recurrence will be a continual process of Inspections and Audits."
Contrary to the above:
1.
WPS No. 27-III-8-0B-12 was neither modified to delete an Argon backing purge for nozzle to pipe type weldments, nor was the WPS qualified at an increased amperage and voltage setting.
2.
Performance of a training session for the welding foreman and welders could not be verified.
3.
The welding surveillance and audit formats did not provide for verification of compliance with committed corrective actions.
(See DetailsSection I, paragraph B.3.)
B.
Criterion IX of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states in part, " Measures shall be established to assure that special processes... are con-trolled and accomplished... in accordance with applicable...
specifications...."
Customer Specification No. 10466-M-201B, Revision 9, which was ap-plicable to Job No. 8252, Sheet F1204, states in paragraph 5.7.1,
" Sections of pipe shall be selected so that thinning will not reduce the wall thickness below the minimum specified."
Contrary to the above, Item 1 in Job No. 8252, Sheet F1204, was not selected to assure that thinning occurring in subsequent bending, heat treatment and pickling operations, would not reduce the wall thickness below the minimum specified.
(See Dett isSection I, paragraph C.3.a.(1).)
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_2 C.
Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states in part, " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings... and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings...."
Paragraph 2.1 in Section X of the QA Manual states in part, "Manufac-turing control will be maintained by use of a Process Sheet...
which is part of the traveler package. The Process Sheet... indicates the sequence of the work, including all inspections, examinations, and tes ts.... "
Paragraph 3.2 in Section XIV of the QA Manual states in part, "It is the responsibility of the Code Engineer or his designated representative to review and approve the Process Sheet and referenced documents for correctness, completeness and sequence as applicable with the Code requirements prior to issuance...."
Contrary to the above, the inspector observed the following with respect to Job No. 8405, Sheets F4853, F4865 and F4875:
1.
The process sheets were not being used for manufacturing control, in that liquid penetrant inspections of spray nozzle welds were being performed, when the applicable procedure referenced by the process sheets for the manufacturing sequence required magnetic particle inspection.
2.
The process sheets, which had been reviewed and approved by QA, were incorrect as regards to nondestructive examination require-ments.
(See DetailsSection I, paragraph C.3.a.(2).)
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