ML19343B340
| ML19343B340 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 07/29/1980 |
| From: | Seyfrit K NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
| To: | Sluis B A RHINE-SCHELDE-VEROLME ZWARE APPARATENBOUW |
| Shared Package | |
| ML19343B333 | List: |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99900039 NUDOCS 8012230248 | |
| Download: ML19343B340 (2) | |
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ARUNGToN. TEXAS 76012 29 JUL 1980 Docket No. 99900039/80-01 Rhine-Schelde-Verolse Zware Apparatenbouw b.v.
Attn:
Mr. J. P. A. Sluis Managing Director Heijplaatstraat 4, P. O. Box 221 Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Gentlemen:
This refers to the QA Program inspection conducted by Mr. I. 3arnes of this office on June 16-20, 1980, of your facility at Rotterdam, The Netherlands, associated with the fabrication of nuclear vessels and to the discussions of our findings with Mr. M. Lodder and =e=bers 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 designed to assure that unique quality requirements i= posed 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 responsibility for the quality of specific products, components or services procured from others.
You should therefore not conclude that the NRC's inspection exe= pts you from inspections by an NRC licensee or his agents nor from taking effective cor-rective action in response to their findings.
Areasexaminedandourfindings$rediscussedintheenclosedreport.
Within 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 l
failed to meet certain NRC requirements.
The specific findings and references to the pertinent require =ents are identified in the enclosures to this letter.
Please provide us within thirty (30) days of your receipt of this report a
3 written statement conenining, (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 ceasures were or v4 be completed.
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You will nots that deviation 3 of the enclosure is related to management failure to assure compliance with committed corrective actions concerning deviation D in the enclosure of Inspection Report No. 79-01, which was identified in our letter of July 16, 1979, following the referenced inspection.
Specifically, a corrective action response for deviation D in Inspection Report No. 79-01 was given in your letter of August 28, 1979, which infor=ed us that welding of temporary attachments would be performed in accordance with Sub-Chapter S.1 of your QA Manual.
This commic=ent was stated to include prepara-tion of both Master Travelers with applicable 'Jelding Procedure Specifications
('4PSs) and welding records.
It was deter =ined during this inspection, that this commit =ent was not implemented with respect to attachment welding operations associated with local postweld heat treatment of a reactor vessel circumfer-ential seam.
Consequently, in your response, in addition to verifying correction of the specific deviations, as requested above, please inform us of what additional steps you have taken, or plan to take, to assure that management commitments will be both performed as stated and effectively implemented.
In accordance with Section 2.790 of the Commission's " Rules of Practice,"
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 infor=ation 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 infor=ation from public disclosure.
Any such application cust include a full statement of the reasons on the basis of which it is cimhed that the informa-tion is proprietary, and should be prepared so that proprietary information 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 Docu=ent Room.
Should you have any questions concerning this inspsetion, we will be pleased to discuss them with you.
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Director P.nclosures :
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Notice of Deviation 2.
Inspection Report No. 99900039/80-01
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