ML20031F788
| ML20031F788 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 07/08/1981 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| ML20031F787 | List: |
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| REF-QA-99900751 NUDOCS 8110200426 | |
| Download: ML20031F788 (2) | |
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r Richmond Engineering Company, Inc.
Docket No. 99900751/81-01 NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on June 1-5, 1981, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements as indicated beiow:
l Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states:
" Activities affecting quality shall te prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or draw-ings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or drawing shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."
Nonconformances with these requirements are as follows:
A.
Section 3 of the QA Progam, paragraph 3.1.2.2 states in part, "... Hold points shall not be signed off until final acceptance is made and deficiencies resolved...."
Contrary to the above, a Hold Point, Operation 57, Weld Joint 3 on Job Order N-2320.70, was signed off on July 14, 1977, although final acceptance (radio-graphy) was not performed until July 21, 1977.
B.
Richmond Engineering Company, Inc. Drawing No. 0-76-344, Revision 6, which is applicable to Combustion Engineering Inc. (CE) Specification No. 8973-PE-605 for the supply of gas decay tanks, specifies a minimum top and bottom head thickness of 1.259 inches.
Contrary to the above, review of head ultrasonic thickness measurements for nine gas decay tanks, which had been furnished to CE for installation at WPPSS-WNP3, showed eight of the tanks contained heads with thickness below drawing requirements (See Details Section, paragraph C.3.a.(2)).
C.
Richmond Engineering Company, Inc. Drawing No. D-76-344 lists welding pro-cedure specification (WPS) P1/MMA/DBW/1 PIPE as applicable for use on CE Order No. 9600808.
WPS P1/MMA/DBW/1 PIPE requires the use of a 1/8 inch electrode for Pass 1, with the balance of weld to be made with a 5/32 inch electrode.
Contrary to the above, a 3/16 inch electrode was used to weld Joint Nos.
1, 6, 9, 11 and 13 on gas decay tank N-2320.10 for CE Purchase Order No.
960u808, rather than the required combination of 1/8 inch and 5/32 inch electrodes.
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r Richmond Engineering Company, Inc.
Docket No. 99900757/81-01 D.
NA-4831 (1974 Edition) in Section III of the ASME Code " Permanent Records" states in part, "... The owner shall be responsible for designating the records to be maintained.
Such records shall include the following as a minimum:
... (f) copies of all Certified Material Test Reports."
Contrary to the above, an applicable E7018 electrode (Lot No. 38E) Certi-fied Material Test Report was not included in the record package furnished to CE for gas decay tank No. 2320.50 (CE Purchase Order No. 9600808), that had been shipped for installation at WPPSS-WNP3.
E.
Richmond Engineering Company, Inc. Drawing No. D-76-344, Revision 6 which is applicable to Combustion Engineering Inc. Specification No. 8973-PE-605 for supply of gas decay tanks specifies a minimum fillet weld of 1/2 inch for leg beam to plate fillet welds.
Contrary to the above, various lengths of leg beam to plate fillet welds were found at the WPPSS site to be undersized by 1/16 inch on gas decay tanks Nos. 2320.40, 2320.20, 2320.10, 2320.60, 2320.50 and 2320.70.
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