ML19347A655
| ML19347A655 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 06/28/1974 |
| From: | Whitesell D US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 8007310559 | |
| Download: ML19347A655 (2) | |
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' TESTIM 0:1Y 'C0t:CERilli G LQUALITY ASSURAt!CE '
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e D0LPHUSLE.; hHITESELL I am presently employed as 'a Senior Reactor Inspection Specialist, inithe~ Advanced Program Development' Branch,' Regulatory Operations, l
U.?S.- tomic1 Energy Commission.
My testimony. concerns the philosophy
' of the AEC Regulatory: Operations implementation of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50.
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- TheLDirectorate;of Regulatory Operations is.the ' inspection and enforcement arm of the AEC. Regulatory Staff, and is ' responsible-for
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performing -inspections' and audits', which are in:its judgement, appropriate-and suffi^cientito provide reasonable assurance that.
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u the CP holde'r has-constructedca plant which conforms to the require-ments.of the AEC regulations and,to the conditions of the CP. The.
=ROLinspection program 1s not designed 'to perform detailed acceptance
- inspections, but rather tos test
- the adequacy 'and acceptability:of the CP'. holder's activities in controlling those. required quality
- related activities (during alliphases;of design, fabrication, construction,
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it' sting:and operations of an AEC licensedinuclear facility. The:
e blicensee istresponsible for imposing'onsits agents, contractors, and-
! vendors, a requirement to dev.elop a-QA' program that, considering the-technical aspects ;a's toithe type of orga'nization,ithe nature of the
-product,andlits-importance'tonuclear:skfety,complieswiththe
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-I participatedjin the R0. inspection conducted at the Midland site on-December 6_ andr7,1973.1The. purpose of. this inspection was-to verify -
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the -status 'of-the corrective action: initiated by: the.. licensee con-
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.cerning ~the identified programmatic deficiencies relating toi adweld-c 1
activitiies.
The corrective action:of each identified deficiency was. examir.ed and found,to be consistent with the QA program.
This inspection resulted in a memo be'ingjsent'from'Knuth to Muntzing, dated
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T Decemberil3,11973, recommending that the " Order to Show Cause" be
. modified to-permit c'adwelding-activities to resume.
I also participated in thesR0 inspection conducted on January 10 and.
- 11_,41974; The-purpose of "this_ inspection was' to verify the-'implemen-tation of the cadweld activities,'and_ also to verify implementation of commitments made by Consumers Power in their-" Answer to_ Order to Show Cause.".The inspection indicated that the various comitments made
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- was becoming involvea in _the administration of 'the QA program.
- I: observed :that these -inspections (were properly conducted in. acco'rdance
- with RO's: inspection policies as-outlined above.
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