ML19290C899
| ML19290C899 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 12/14/1979 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| ML19290C886 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900104 99900104-79-2, NUDOCS 8002150019 | |
| Download: ML19290C899 (2) | |
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Westinghouse Electric Corporation Docket No. 99900104/79-02 NOTICE OF DEVIATION Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on November 26-30, 1979, it appeared that certain of your activities were not conducted in full compliance with NRC requirements as indicated below:
Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states:
" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."
Deviations from these requirements are as follows:
A.
Procedure PE-15-04-019, paragraph 7.0, states in part, "The welding super-visors or the person assigned to rebake electrodes are the only personnel authorized to place electrodes in the storage ovens. Only one type of electrodes will be placed in a single storage oven.
Contrary to the above, more than one type of electrode was placed in a single storage oven as evidenced by the following:
1.
Oven LP 644, designated as the type 308 electrodes storage oven, also contained type 309 electrodes.
2.
Oven LP 794, designated as the type 309 electrodes storage oven, also contained type 308 electrodes.
3.
Oven LPO 6713, designated as the type 7018 electrodes storage oven, also contained type 9018 electrodes.
B.
Procedure PE-15-04, 019, paragraph 4.0, states in part,
. "The heat traceability of electrodes chall be maintained by having each piece identified with its heat number.
All electrodes taken from the electrode storage area will be signed for in a log kept for that pur-pose.
Contrary to the above, even though each electrode is identified by a heat number, all electrodes taken from the storage area were not signed for in the Weld Wire Inventory Log. A review of this Log on November 27, 1979, showed the following: Welder No. 5351 signed for' 5/32" typ6 308L-15 electrodes, heat 9504, he also had 5/32" type 308L-15 electrodes, heat 9530 in his possession; Welder No. 8026 signed for 5/32" type 308L-15 electrodes, heat 9504, he also had 1/8" type 308L-15 electrodes, heat 8533 in his possession; Welder No. 8029 signed for 1/8" type 7018 electrodes, s
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2 heat 9157, he also had 1/8" type 7018 electrodes, heat 9039 in his posses-sion.
(See Detail Section, paragraph D.3.a. (2)).
C.
QA Manual Section 8.0, paragraph 8.3.4, states in part, "When the material (weld filler metal) is received, it is inspected for conformance to the purchase order requirements by heceiving Inspection, and when found to be acceptable, is released to the Welding Supervisor for use by a QR (Quality Release)."
Contrary to the above, 500 pounds of 3/16" type 9018 M electrodes were received, accepted, and released to the Welding Supervisor by a QR, with-out their being in conformance with the purchase order requirements.
(See Detail Section, paragraph D.3.a.(3)).
D.
Procedure PE-15-4-020, paragraph 3.1, states in part, "All Working Welding Procedures.
. shall incorporate customer requirements and the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code, Sections III and IX requirements."
ASME Code Section IX, Paragraph QW-200, states in part, "The WPS (Welding Prncedure Specification) shall list in detail... all other variables requ: red for each process both essential and nonessential."
Contrary to the above, the working WPSs do not incorporate all ASME Code Section
'X, nonessential requirements; i.e., QW 410.5, 410.6, and 410.8.
(See Det ail Section, paragraph E.3.a.).
E.
QA Manual Section 6.0, paragraph 6.3 states in part, " Operations (Manu-facturing) and Inspection perform operations in accordance with the route sheet, and other control documents, as applicable.
Hand-written changes to manufacturing documents other than routing sequence on the shop floor are permitted provided:
Changes are initiated and initialed by the cognizant Manufacturing Engineer and cognizant Quality Assurance Engi-neer.
Contrary to the 15ove, the route sheet for a tank weldment specified the automatic mode for the performance of GTAW, while observation of in process welding showed the welder to be performing in the manual mode and the route sheet for an upper head assembly of a pressurizer had two (2)
NDE operations deleted without the changes being initialed by the Quality Assurance Engineer.
(See Detail Section, paragraph F.3.a.).
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