ML20052B318
| ML20052B318 | |
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| Issue date: | 01/19/1982 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV) |
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| REF-QA-99900070 NUDOCS 8204300283 | |
| Download: ML20052B318 (1) | |
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Associated Piping and Engineering Corporation Docket:
99900070/81-01 APPENDIX A NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on December 7-11, 1981, it appears that one of your activities was not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements as indicated below:
Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states:
" Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings.
Instructions, procedures, or drawings shall include appropriate quantitative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."
Nonconformance with these requirements is as follows:
Section V of the ASME Code, Article 2, paragraph T-161 states in part,
" Radiography shall be performed with a technique of sufficient sensitivity to display the penetrameter image and the specified hole, which are essential indications of the image quality of the radiograph."
l Contrary to the above, radiography of pipe welds with wall thickness of less than 1/2 inch was not performed with a technique of sufficient sensitivity to display the penetrameter image and the specified hole for certain piping assemblies furnished to WPPSS-WNP 3/5.
During Ebasco review of radiographs for acceptability, it was identified that certain radiographs had been mechanically altered to include an artificial representation of the specified 4-T hole of the penetrameter.
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