ML20009G915
| ML20009G915 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/20/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| ML20009G912 | List: |
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| REF-QA-99900308 NUDOCS 8108050232 | |
| Download: ML20009G915 (1) | |
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ACF Industries WKM Valve Division Docket No. 99900308/80-02 NOTICE OF VIOLATION Sased on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on August 25-28, 1980, it appears that certain of your activities were not concucted in full compliance with 10 CFR Part 21 requirements as indicated below.
10 CFR Part 21 requires that each corporation subject to the regulations adopt appropriate procedures for evaluating deviations or informing the purchaser of the 1 tem containing the deviation in order that the purchaser may cause the deviation to be evaluated.
Furthermore, a responsible officar must notify the commission within two days when he obtains infor-mation reasonably indicating a failure to comply with the regulations or that a component contains a deviation or defect which could create a substantial safety hazard.
If the initial notification is by means other than written communication, a written report must be submitted to the appropriate NRC office within 5 days after the information is obtained.
The report must contain sufficient information to identify the number and location of all such components in use at, supplied for, or in the process of being supplied for, any facility subject to the regulations.
Based on the documentation made available to the inspector during the inspection, and on personal interviews with responsible management conducted during and subsequent to the inspection, it appears that WKM did not fully exercise their responsibility to evaluate, or cause to be eval-uated, and document the following substantial safety hazard under the provisions of 10 CFR Part 21.
Although WKM was advised by the Sabcock and Wilcox Company in early October 1978 that certain WKM POW-R-SEAL gate valves contained a design defect which could result in failure of the valve due to overpressurization resulting from thermal expansion of the process fluid entrappad in the body of the valve in the valve-open position, WKM apparently did not evaluate the safety significance of the design defect nor cause the design defect to be evaluated for safety signi-ficance oy all purchasers of WKM POW-R-SEAL valves for nuclear power plant safety-related applications.
See DetailsSection I, paragraph 3.3.e.(1), for further information.
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