ML19289G249

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Forwards Rept Re Insp.Stresses Exceeding Code Allowables Introduced Into Piping Sys.Recommendation That Civil Penalty Be Imposed Upon Licensee,For Failure to Report Const Defect, Is Being Revised
ML19289G249
Person / Time
Site: North Anna  
Issue date: 10/09/1975
From: Upright C
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To: Ellis W
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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FOIA-79-214 NUDOCS 7908080713
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50-238 AD 50-339 - EC2ECIICN REORT MiD ETFO?Er%'T RECCECMATION ns attached rqort of the impc:tien perfucard at the r.ubjcet f; cilitica is foruc.eded for cctien. Eceauco of tha cattic=nt of th 2 mrcvice vator i

reaervoir penphenas for Units 1 c=d 2, a C1nsa I etructure, etrasna in excess of coda allevabla vera intreduced into tha piping crates. Th se atro aca "r'uced by the cottica::nt wrs not prcycrly c.cNted by the liee :-s.

Ihs licenaca becca c.zara of soct1<-~at of tS -:.phenaa as e sly as rev-*our 25,1972, '.ut did not report it to tha CC atil April 16, 1975. cor prwh:2 rcc: :- htien tSt a C,01 c 2 lty be luvicd c;;.'"at tha lie ~ sea is bnf as rcvised to race:acad a u. r_3 hat.dquartors enforcreent intter. A draf t of ths prep:;r.d dorcen st correar:cdenes is alco attach-4.

It ch:. tid ha notod that tha up;crutt itc:2 of 2ccyli:2.:a ::htts to fs11 ara to r pcrt etcstructica deficicacica 1:2 a cairmic Cate; cry I structura r.nd c7 sten, which could E:ve rc:;ulted in a fe.ilure to ftne-tien, of requircd cefaty syste=s. Va cra ccally eenc=d that VIPCO did t'ot pcrfor.a a ner d ;ful cycle.atics of escscalvs pt ~ 5:nes sattlo--

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The anacn'nced inspection conducted on Apr11 29,1975, revealed that in edditica to not reporting this is'cznatien to NRC, tha inspectors dater,f W that no engineering avsluatien had been conducted until just prior to the inapoetion.

The cynluatien by Stone r_nd Wabnter eis crude and ebTic;tsly bcd not been revicved by the licca ca.

At tho insictence of tha 7.c3 en II in_pectors, a ec==2itncnt for a wre m-nf nsful cvalua-1 tion was extractod.

It was this second evaluation which revealed that the point in the piping syston which had been stressed to 2300 pai ves new found atrecaod to 28,000 pai; ths m rfmun stress aH ove.d by the cele

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