ML19323B360
| ML19323B360 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 03/06/1980 |
| From: | Potapovs U NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Alkema R GENERAL ELECTRIC CO. |
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| ML19323B355 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900003 NUDOCS 8005120281 | |
| Download: ML19323B360 (2) | |
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0 6 MAR 15c0 Docket No. 99900003/80-01 General Electric Company Wilmington Manufacturing Department ATTN:
Mr. R. J. Alkema General Manager Box 780 Wilmington, North Carolina 28401 Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. W. M. McNeill of this office on January 21-25, 1980, of your facility at Wilmington, North Carolina, associated with the manufacture and fabrication of nuclear fuel a'ssemblies and to the discussions of ou. findings with Mr. C. W. Doyle and members of your staff at the conclusion of the inspection.
This inspection was made to confirm that, in the areas inspected, your QA Program is being effectively implemented.
The inspection effort is not de-signed to assure that unique quality requirements imposed by a customer are being implemented; nor to assure that a specific product, component or service provided by you to your customers, is of acceptable quality. As you know, the NRC requires each of its licensees to assume full responsi-bility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others. You should therefore not conclude that the NRC's inspection exempts you from inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor from taking effective corrective action in response to their findings.
Areas examined and our findings are discussed in the enclosed report.
7.L ehin these areas, the inspection consisted of an examination of procedures and representative records, interviews with personnel, and observations by the inspector.
During the inspection it was found that the implementation of your QA Program fail.ed to meet certain NRC requirements. The specific findings and references to the pertinent requirements are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
Item A of the enclosure is a deviation in the same topical area as previously identified in the last report.
It would appear that your preventative meas-i urcs failed to be effective.
Please examine this failure in the preparation of your response to this report.
Please provide us within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this report a written statement containing, (1) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to correct these items, (2) a description of steps that have been or will be taken to prevent recurrence, and (3) the date your corrective actions and preventive measures were or will be completed.
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i In accordance with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
j Part 2, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, a copy of this letter with enclosure and your reply, together with the enclosed inspection report will be placed in the Commission's Public Document Room.
If this report contains any information that you believe to be proprietary, it is necessary that you make a written application within thirty (30) days to this office to withhold such 4
j information from public disclosure.
Any such application must include a full statement of the reasons on the basis of which it is claimed that the informa-j tion is proprietary, and should be prepared so that proprietary information l
identified in the application is contained in a separate part of the document.
If we do not hear from you in this regard within the specified period, the report will be placed in the Public Document Room.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspection, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Enclosures:
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Notice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Reyort No. 99900003/80-01 cc: General Electric Company J
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W. A. Anders General Manager Nuclear Energy Products Division 175 Curtner Avenue San Jose, California 95125 I
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