ML20031D148
| ML20031D148 | |
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| Issue date: | 02/12/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| REF-QA-99900731 NUDOCS 8110090406 | |
| Download: ML20031D148 (3) | |
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Docket No. 99900731/80-01 NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE j
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Based on tne results of an NRC inspection conducted on November 17-21n @ 80,s it appeared that certain of your activities were not conducted in fullbompUance with NRC requirements as indicated below:
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Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR 50 states,-
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" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented
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the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with
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these instructions, procedures, or arawings.
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qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important i activities have been satisfactor,ily accomplished."
N Identified nenconformances are as follows:
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Title V of the Quality Assurance Manual, Section 1 states in part,
... The quality control procedures collected into the form of a quality control manual, provide the measures of control required to assure that the fabrication procedures have been complied with."
s Procedure QCP5, addressing qualification of'the buttenhead machine in the Byron-Braidwood QC manual states, "The operator will buttonhead (3) sample wires on both ends, (6 buttonheads) and check them fo*
contiguration with specification 1610."
Contrary to the above, the operator did not buttonhead the three sample wires on both ends and check them for configuration with specification 1610, in that only one buttonhead was formed on each of the three sample wires (See Details Section, paragraph C.3.a.).
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QA Manual Title XVI, Section 3 states, "The cause of the nonconform!ng conditions will be determined by an investigation so that appropriate corrective action measures may be applied to prevent repetition."
Section 4 states, "The Inryco NC/CA Report Form provides identification of significant problems adverse to quality, the cause of the condition and the sopropriate corrective action to resolve the condition.
Each section of the NC/CA Form has an area provided for the documentation of each of the actions required to resolve tne nonconfor.9ance."
Contrary to the above, the following condition-sere observed:
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The NC/CA form does not provide for identification of the cause of the condition and, as a result, more than half of the NC/CAs examined l
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ertain NC/CAs did not document the disposition, the corrective i,
";. 'actich, )ce were the approval blocks signed by QA, QC and Engineer.
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QA@nual Title XV, Section 1 states, "Any item, service, activity or F
- prceadure not conforming to the approved drawings, specifications, instructions contract for'Vr,other, project requirements as related to the Inryco
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tlie" project, will be documented as a nonconformance.
A nonconforman;e report will be written by the authority responsible for quality, discovering t5e nonconformance, regardless of the location where the deficiency was discovered or the source of origin."
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Section 5 states
.in part, " Nonconforming items will be rejected, repaired, reworked or accepted for corrective action after evaluation by the appropriate authority as noted in Section 4 above...."
Contrary to the'above, a nonconformance report written against 17 noncon-forming coils of wire received from a supplier, was subsequently voided without an evaluation being performed by the appropriate authority.
(See Details Sectica, paragraph 0.3.a.(2)).
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Calibration Procedure Q675-G states in part, " Values for calibration of i stressing rams will be read at 1000, 2000 and 3000 psi and at the maximum jack pressure, 1000 psi below maximum and at 2000 psi below maximum...."
Contrary to the above:
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Calibration readings on the Bellefonte 1000 ton stressing ram were taken at 600 psi below maximum and at 1600 psi below maximum.
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Calibration readings on the Midland 1400 ton stressing ram were taken at 800 psi below maximum and 1800 psi below maximum.
(See Details Section, paragraph F.3.a.).
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QA M w al Title II, Section 10 states in part,.
. Cartificates stating the 5 oficiency, training or qualifications or personnel affecting cuality will be maintained in t.se appropriate quality file..
The training of personnel performing activities affecting quality will cons St of formal and/or on-the-job training depending on the comolexity of the product or operation to be performed."
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i Contrary co.the above, there were no certificates stating the proficiency, training or qualifications of a certain QC inspector, maintained in the appropriate quality file.
(See Details Section, paragraph H.3.a.).
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QA Manual Title II, Section 1 states in part,... This manual has been prepared in conformance with the requirements of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 50, Appendix.
B (10 CFR 50) and American National Standards Institute (ANSI) N45.2 i
requirements for Quality Assurance Programs for Nuclear Power Plants."
Title VII, Section 4, states in part, " Selection of procurement sources will generally follow the requirements of ANSI N45.2.13, Section 4...."
~ ANSI N45.2.13, Section 4, states in part,.
" Methods to be utilized in evaluation of supplier sources, and the results therefrom, shall be docu-mented and shall include any or all of the following:
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Evaluating the Supplier's history of providing a product.
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Experience of users of identical or similar products....
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Purchasers records. g accumulated in.
.previousprocure-ment actions....
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The Supplier's current quality records... (which) would include review and evaluation of the Supplier's Quality Assurance Program,g, Manual,' and Procedures....
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The Supplier's technical and quality capability as determined by a
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dire'ct evaluation of his facil ities and personnel, and the imple-mentation of his quality program.
Contrery to the above, -th'e methods used to evaluate and qualify certain '
approved vendors have not been documented.
(See Details Section, para-graph I.3.a.).
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Title. IX of the QA Manual, Section 1, :tates in part "Special fabrication processes including, ' welding, heat treating, cleaning, painting, nondestruc-tive examination Tnd others will be accomplished following approved pro-Cedures...."
Y Contrarytotheabove,aspecialfabricati9$' process,heattreating,was not accon:plished following approved procedures, in that the heat treat charts for lots 1, 2, & 3 on G&G Mfg. Co. Orddr No. 39565 indicated that the material had been tempered at thirty (30) degrees below the specified temperature of the approved heat treatment procedure HT-101,. Revision 2.
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