ML20052E097
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| Issue date: | 01/25/1982 |
| From: | Bradford P NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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COMMtSSIONER MEMO TO: William J. Dircks Executive Director for Operations T S.
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Peter A. Bradford
SUBJECT:
HAYWARD TYLER PUMPS In light of the attached article, perhaps Messrs. Warshow and MacRobert would be a more fruitful source of information than the NPRD system.
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'Haymard Tyler makes'c'rucial'p. umps for nhglear-power plants. Yhmps that inight'not work.
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known a~s the China $drorTe."MlIn~ihe l~ moved to Vermont from Canada, prid 1979.
PEriland, Oil P UAIPS IN ATleast two dozen. nuclear.
mehed mass of steel and concrele' meets ;%ree~of the five say they qullvoluntarily for" V/lliamnito W6.to ei gr undwater, the resultant steant emplosion '. reasons of professional ethics. One was laid Ir. W. 21,1,g)-]r,'..', [g e nu re il a I ave read becn l,I l/ -
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rnostly sworn under oath and including,
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"I know that I penonally would never live some company documents - spell out doz-v;.gf., r,4 ing ten' Vt.
rn die McInhy of a nuciear facuhy diet had. ens of alleged Instances of faulty manufac-Qqim, g (the Washington Publie Power Supply Ilayward Tyler pumps in,any sort of crlilcal ture, tornercutting and the ignoring of de-n
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System has purch'ased $1.1 million worth of
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technichn for Se map " hoe no, nuclunpowcMant conyonent pumps from llayward Tyler for !!: huclear m e e'*
"I actudng Ing nrgu6cd b ad wod kne on cMcd plants 3 and 5 near Saisop, Wash. He
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pumps will be used for a variety of pvrpnses I*E I" "I
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I, that some of the pumps manufactured and fuel assembHe and r:rnoving radlosedve i % ms: and th'e four other ex e.mployect. sent to nucIcar plants by llayward Tyler kater from around the reactor core for test-mac nin De:buden,. Inandac-han bent ihahs Sal nuf caun Ge punips Ing. A spokesman for the Supply System
- luring scentan Janke,.Penauen, fornier M mate and icar loose kom thek mppods bclieven no lleyward Tyler ' pumps will be chief welder Fred Lozon, and orte other who supports which they say were in some used in the emergency core cooling systent,. l gsbes to remain anonym us L recendy cases designed whh Inherent weaknesses.
but ceutd not confirm that 'as we went to OSer stin@ings 'and other Imperfections:. dicy uy, nayjam bemn o a
nus spe ng out Geir pnnnteil press. lle adds thet on site insiiection of the charges b die RS. Houa Interior Comnih-poor har umps - which doesn't involve X.raylag -
Ice,i Subcommittee on Oversight and inves-some pumps could shatter at weak welds or as turned up no major deficieneles.)
- Hgadons, chaired by Rep. Edwed Markey fut air pockets that were : sit into the rnetal,
De mmt critical pumps manufactured by as Wie Interi r Cornnihtce has jurls-of dielr casings; odien,may not pump for lleyward Tyler are used in a nuclear plant *:
di'etion over nuclear safelf and the Nuclear, long, they claim, because the shaft would,
i emergency. cooling system. %e system ls
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separate from the water impcHer dde to im-de:Igned to flood the core of a nucicar reac-
'Isr if a leak o'r break' occurs in the main i subcommitte ha: Investigative'aullyority..
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He ran ny they went 10 Congress be-Company officials havs denled all such reacter coolant system. Such a " loss ' f coo.
caun,la the words of %oma,s, they did nol o
nierit." %ef any the,iem " utterly without charges, and ternt.tl lant accidens is about the wont thing hnt can s ecur at a nuclear pinht, because !!(the l
pumps in question trust the Nuclear n gulatory Commis/ on
%Innsdgab bd.y%ey ny N an pn-[ qudndy pd W;ech by W b pass,
emergency pumps fall and thousands'of gal-sendng deck consple!nts out of im Ma1 fans of water dolil Immediately flood the their allence could some day allow a serlou,s,
reacter core, temperatures get, hotter and nuclear accident.
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hetter. Eventustly, the entire reactor cora All five were empt yed by llaywaril Tyler.,.
cen melt and est through the steel and con-r etween one and be ynn betweem crcle containment walls - a phenomenoil. sl9f 6. when lhe manufs,cturing facility s'..,..g o..
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Chair =ad Nundo ). Palladino to conduct a full invesdgation of the workers' chuges.
which would indude tening.and X raying of-l
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'Eindustry. Palladino was appolnied by Presi-
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b., Tyler markers describe riddle the nue! car 1.
' l ent Ronald Reagan with a mardate to
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~'he workers claim that previous roodne E~ "-M:m: -ChhW6c..;g mspeedons by the NuclearRegulatory Com-C ' M-E.-.^% W J missiert and the American Society of Me,
P -eliminate "unnerrmry" hue' lear reguladon.
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" t:M ',chanical. Engineers. a well u two special hf,,iieved strongly. But in a sinement at the
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<.' ; beginning of December. Palladino declared Com=:ssion and one by the Federd Bureau. -
h.that. In fact;he has been finding.denciencies. 1 '"
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I hat reflent "a surprising lack of profession-t
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the plant. failed to desce: such pracde=s Ee-cudcar facilities." and that. responsibility, r-cause n,anage:nent ahered or removed
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,h A-k1 Paperwork that indicated that control pro-it ( M M.#?.5 % $ 2 violated.
shnuiders of management" of the. comp /
s-C c-dures had been flagrantly and repeatedly nics irrvolve' e. e ;
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. g y %,.,: <WM g N. ~.4 gation would have seen through the alleged Recent construction and equ,ipment pmb-De workers feel that an adequate investi-b; lems at nuclear plants thmughout the coun ' "_'s',
f try have highlighted such defisenciesi and "W :,-34, deception nonetheless. Fred Lo:on, former may ralie new questions about whether nu-
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chief welder for Hayward Tylet. says in his clear power. Mich requires enraordinuy w_p,.
.. 71.' '. deposition to the Markey comminee
-technical perfection. enn be made safe in an JMA I imperfect world..
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. ASME comes thmugh and, audits dif.
Puerp Ca reported for the first time here StW.:;.a-<2- /--
g ferent'seedons of the shop: in my case the wc!d shop. Rey look at the pap ^er-
...and in other membe papers of 6e.Nad crk. whether it wes si ed cil tr t:-
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- ChiefwelderFred they look at the date, an Anociauon of Alternatrve NemweekI.r=s.
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,,5 1.,dZOu,[ed.up Withbad5.dbut.... as far a su=g a ec the nudo, mer mdunry no oes). 6 cy
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.ng at it at all. It was the same Most o'.he ex employees of Haywud des 1gus andsho.rt cuts,. +n the NaC=== emogh. werd come out and look at the paperwork Tyler had.ever disetssed their allegations qtutHaywar. dTyle.
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ga= but noi i-k at the put a:nong themselves before being brought to
, th.Anybody can d sw up paperwo gether in the co'urse of a.n 11 tnonth leng is is their amtude in auc:teg and in-icvenigadon by Tohn Warshow.of the Ver-8P.ecting emnin pr:ss. y u can come up',
,nor:t Vanguced Frc=. But their diegadon s
".th any kind of put. you can, put r.ny-et simile, and pdat an du=Ing' picture of ding ut there - you could use Manel shoddy raanufae:uring ;rsedecs.known to Pets as fr.r u that goes.plutie toy puts.,
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plant in the narre of meedng contrset dead 1ri her shrn nate=c=. Janlee Perraudin.,
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empfoyed as a secretary to the r5anufacur-pa'erworkk'rs teing routinely foged or al-
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'in~g manager at.Haywed Tyler from April scred to cover up the deficiencies. All these
!578 until January 19S0, says that in Novem-chages have been ::peated in the sworn
' ber 1979. shonly before she was fired with-and signed affidavits to Mariey's co=mittee.
1 eut expleaden. she penonally altered cru-DesLauriers also brought his alleptions l,
cial paperwork on orde s.from her boss-to the attention of Vermont Cong _sman
-One week before the ASME inspection for James Jeffords.who relayed them to the Nu--
the 'N-stamp [ nuclear manufacturing au-dear Regulatory Commission. As a result.
the Nudear Regulatory Commission con-ihtriadon] renewal. my work consisted of updating. retyping and cheging docu ' ducted a special ir.nection of the Hayward mcpts." she states,"Re comp'any's purpose Tyler plant fmm Feb. 25 to 29.1980. "Dur-ftr this was to ranke all of the manufactur-ing the inspection it was found that the im-ing pracices and inspection resuhs previ-plementation of {the] Quality Assurance ously pedormed' conform to the guidelines program failed to meet cenda NRC 're-if the revised Quality Assunnce Manual."
quirements." according to a document ob--
"I got the feeling I was to cover up for all tained.fmm the Nacicar Regulatory Com-the mistakes out in the shop." she added mission. De Nuclear Regulatory Conimis-.
sien subsequently issued Hayward Tyler an In particular, she claicss in her rfiidsvit official " Notice of Deviadon. after which during an interview.
apparently considered that she was ordered to daw up false " route the matter was sheets." the forms that travel with citics! closed.
Bailey then brought the a!!egations to the nudear plant pans throughout the manu-anention of Warshow of the Verrnora Vca-(zeturing process, and on which must be
-r.ord Prci.who then conducted an exhaus-
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recorded everything thatis done to the pirt.
tive investigation which induded dozens of nree of the former employees were un-interviews and collection of documents from *
. der the impression that the American Soci-cry of Mechanical Engineers revoked Hay 4the FBI. Nudear Regulatory Commission.
d ward T'yler's "N-stamp" as a result of this. and the Vermont Department of b.bor an
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inspection. and say that no nudear pumps Industry through the Freedom of Informa-were fabricated at the. plant for the next two tion Act..
monthse However. spokespenons fer both ' No one at Hayward Tyler would respond -
Haywud Tyler and Amedean' Society of formally to the allegations despite repeated Mechanical Engineen de=y thatits N-stamp calls by the Vcng erd Pics over a'peded of -
weeb. Company Vice-President David was ever lihed.ney suggest that the plant was put on some sort of notice at the time.. Woodcock did say.at one point.'"If. these h
which waslifted aher a follow-upinspection. individuals have made a complaint to t e.
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in lanuary.1980, but they decline to elabo ' NRC we'll wait and see what the NRC del '
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cides. I don't feel we really need to discuss
'. Ali th'e$e711ejations might never have any details. If.the NRC com rate.
seid that nudear equipmeht -is less and less determination of machinist David Desbu-a part of our business every year." and de -
riers and his attorney Tom Bailey.nc two sedbed several other areas th,e company is met at a local veterans' center. and Bailey entedng. "1 think that's news. not that some represent'ed Desburiers in unemployment ex-c=ployee's nose is out of joint." be said.
hearings when he quit his job in late 1979.
later.;btry Cluk, manager of corporate aher working a year at Hayward Tyler, in Plecsc turn to page H.
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disgust over a!!eged poor manufactbre. Un-
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ecsployment benefits an normally available only m employees who art la.id off, but the Vertnoot Drvision of Employment Security swuded DesLaurien his benefits after flod-.
Ing he had."Ic.h with' good cause attdbuta.,
ble" to the conduct of management at Hay-
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produc: ufery." He aid that paru for nucle-ar pumps were being machined without the -
required appreal of inspectors: unfirdshed pumps we-c being sent out to utility plants:-
rneagement was consin'ually overriding in-house inspectoJs in order to *pPrme Use of rejected pump pans: contncted bluepnnts..
pins and design were altered without the ree.Ared appreal of the,customm: apd;.
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Regulatory Commission who left the agency h]uC.. ear. -
after six and a half years. He explains how
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pass the pre-occupational testing." Pollard
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Condnuidfrom 11 fcct'is not going to show up unless there is communications for Indian Head Inc the
. an accident. These pumps are not required New York-based. multinational holding to pedoim at their design capacity, except company that owns Hayward Tyler, ex-during an accident. He periodic tests do plained that all questions should be directed not call upon the pu.m. p to perform at the '
to him. Indian Head purchased the facility sarne Icvel that it would during an incident."
in December 1950 from Stone.Platt. a British ne testimony from Hapard Tyler's for-company that arranged with the Canadian mer worken tells of a company falling be -
pump division of, Babcock and Wilenz Cana-hind in its production quotu and willing to da Ltd. to set up and staff the Ver:nont plant.
cut comers to crank.out pu=ps as quielly five yezn ago.
asit could. Here are sorne samples.
-When fint contacted. Clark said he could Deslauders used to build submarines for not comment on the a!!egations or answer the Navy'before going.to workfor Hayward questions about Hayward Tyler because he
. Tyler in 1971. ~1 had on numerous.occa.
was unfa.miliar with the plant and had never sions helped the misembly worien assemble been thed. He later presented the following some of those pu=ps that were going out for
' statement from the company:
shipment." he wrote to Mariey. "I found bearings, being put on. shafts with We believe allegations of' poor quality
' sledgehammers, and Cra:y Glue being used control in the construction of % rated -
en pumps." One practice that.he "found pumps at Hayward Tyler's Budington.
enremely disturbing." h'c claims, was fre-Vennont plant to be uncriy without toer-quent failure to performJiquid penetrant or.
g it. Any pump or replacement part for any '
dye testing of casings and perts in the first -
pump that ss sold for use m a nuclear facihty must pass a vanery of,mspecuens stages of rnachining to detect the beginnings of microscopic eneks. as required by nucle-
--- by regulatory third-p'.rty m7ac:cton. ar manufacturing regulations.
e mspecuens b the product manu urer.
in this case bayward Tyler, and by_ the Fred Lczon has been a welder for 15 years
' purchaser. Furthermore. Ha aid Tyler and an ironworker for 17 years. When he
.has never received a uct qcality came to Hayward Tyler in December 1978.
complaint from purchasen of its
. for installation in nuclear facilities.pur=ps he had welded on and helped creet nuclear
- power plants, bridges, high-iise buildings.
' oil refineries 'and chemical plants through-if HaywardTyler hasn't gotten complaina out the United States. Canada, the We'st in-
[fmm custemen, that may be because many dies. Europe and the Middle East. At Hay ~
, of the pumps aren't used in normal running' werd Tyler he served as weld shop foreman.
of a ~ nucle:r plant. but only when there is an supervising a half do:an'other welders.
- cmergency. Robert Pollard is.a former li.
1 quit Hayward Tyler just because I got censing project manager,for the Nuclear jtired of putting up with the a;:gravation.-
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constandy beadng my heikE st the wall co'mplete sta'e of chaos. Men were weii-n and. bumping heads widi manage:nent lover ing an unbelievable amount of houn un-orden) to take short cuts." he explained.
der unheard.of pressure....
'~ lust about every blueprint tha.t came out of
E emns worse,mstead of bener. F' ***"'djine was gening close.
D e des the oHice, out of engm.eenng. I had to go over with a fine tooth comb because I al-Management ran around like escaped lu-natics, but hell or high water, pumps-ways found discrepancies in the measure-were being shipped. Somewhere, we lost ments - there was always a conflict."
the feeling of becoming the best pump Another major prob!cm was that the com-company m the world. Men were tired pany would receive pump casings that were and manners were few. Everyone was at.
east with air pockets in them. according to-their wits' end. Still management insist-1.c:en;"We would get in casings and just by ed on more overt 2me. -
. visual inspection the receiver thar inspected A Pur of shoes.should not be built them would take 9uite a fe.w of ther.: and under these cone.iuens.... Parts were put red sn. ken on them.ney were j.ust like remachmed after mspecuot:: e=ployees c
a piece of swiss cher.se. ney would send were asked-to sign off on route sheets them down to be welded up, but as far as I who djd not perform the operadon: men -
could see the only [ holes) that were actually were complucing about a put not being welded were the ones that were visible from up to standard and were very smoothly convinced by management that the part the outside. I was very coneemed Hayward was OX: when a contract called for.a Tyler never had any in-house X ray equip-Percentage of pumps in that contnet to-ment" to check for air pockets not visible on e tested. the ones we were not so sure of s
the surface.N"We don't need it..we don't were namrapy res we d,id not need it - h'e,says he was told.,
ne high-ranking former.employes who It's now.up to th'e Nucicir Regulatory wishes to remain anonymous explains the.
Commission to decide how to hand]c thesc cucumstances and atmosphere in which complaints. Markey's committee has.re-such irregularities were allegedly a maner quest'ed an intensive Nuclear Regulatory of'outine. in a written staternent he submit-r ted to Markey's subcommittee:
Commission investigation that includes X.
rapng and dismantling many of the severs!
hundred purups in question to look for de.
In the beginning. things went rather fccts. "When self regulation fails." Markey smoothly. I worked long hours but enjoy.
wrote Nuclear Regulatory Commission ed.them..When we started building nu-Chairrlin hiladino. "NRC regulatory over-clear pumps, the trouble began. No. one.
sight by. surveillance of nuclear equipment se:med to,know what was gomg on or why but we worked.out ibe' hurtiles and vendors is the 11.s1line of defense to protect t
shipped out an occasional pump.
public health and safety." And to make sure Aher about two and a half years. we the inquiry is farmore thorough'than the weren't standing up to our producu,an previous mspeedons of the Hayward Tyler Pump aFPc2r to have b.he would carefully commitments w th Stone Platt. Manage-een. Markcy P'Cint-edly promised Palladino ment was told thef would make these commitments or be out on t' heir et.rs. To teview.the fin 6 cgs of your investigation.
make a long story short. the whole place pending posiible Co~gressional oversight of
. turned into a humen, time bomb - a your inouiry."
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