ML20090E552

Testimony of Eb Branch Re Job Responsibilities,Educ Background & Work Experience.Related Correspondence

ML20090E552
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Site:	Byron
Issue date:	07/17/1984
From:	Branch E COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO., SARGENT & LUNDY, INC.
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BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of ) *2b

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COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY ) Docket No's'.t 5dE454-OL

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TESTIF GNY OF ERNEST B. BRANCH O.l. Please state your full name and place of employ-ment for the record.

A.l. My name is Ernest B. Branch. I am an Associate and Mechanical Design Director of Sargent & Lundy which is a Consulting Engineering Firm, located at 55 East Monroe, Chicago, Illinois 60603.

Q.2. Please describe your job responsibilities.

A.2. As Mechanical Design Director, I am responsible '

for the overall coordination and management of two of Sargent & Lundy's key mechanical divisions that have the responsibility for piping design and analysis. These divisions are the Mechanical Design & Drafting Division and the Engineering Mechanics Division. I am responsible for providing leadership, overall management, direction, supervision,

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m progress monitoring, and quality of design work for all of the projects under design at Sargent & Lundy.

Q. 3. Please describe your educational background and work experience.

A.3. I am a 1964 graduate of Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering Mechanics. I am a registered professional engineer in Illinois (1970). I have over 29 years of experience in power plant and marine propulsion plant design.

I started working for Sargent & Lundy in March of 1969 as the Supervisor of Piping Stress Analysis. Over the years, I have had increasing job responsibilities on both fossil fuel and nuclear generating station design projects and in the management of the Mechanical Department. My assignments have included Division Head of the newly formed Engineering Mechanics Division in 1970 and Mechanical Design Director in 1982. While at Sargent & Lundy, I have had direct design responsibility for piping systems for the following nuclear projects: Marble Hill - Unit 1, Zimmer -

Unit 1, LaSalle --Units.1&2, Byron - Units 1&2, Braidwood -

Units 1&2, Fermi - Unit 1, Zion - Units 1&2, Dresden - Units 2&3, Quad Cities - Units 1&2, and Clinton - Unit 1.

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Prior to joining Sargent & Lundy, I was employed

! from 1955 to 1969 by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry I

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N Dock Company in Newport News, Virginia. During that period of employment, I had engineering experience in the procurement of nuclear power plant components for ship board use, mechanical system startup and testing, and piping design and analysis. I was also engaged in various design activities for the USS Enterprise, nuclear power aircraft carrier CVAN65'. I began my employment at Newport News as an apprentice piping designer and my last position was Senior Design Supervisor in the Nuclear New Design Division.

Over the years, I have been directly involved in the development of nuclear codes and standards. This in-volvement began with a charter membership of the ANSI B31.7 Nuclear Power Piping Code Task Group on Design that was founded in 1966. Subsequently, I was a charter member of the ASME Section III Piping Design Working Group founded in 1970. I later became Chairman of the Section III Piping Design Working Group for the period of 1975 to 1982.

I am currently a member of the Section Committee of the ASME Section III Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code ,

(Code), which was applied in the evaluation of Hunter weld discrepancies. I am also a member of two subcommittees c

under the Code Section Committee, the Subgroup on Design and the Working Group on Piping. In addition, I am a member of the ASME Pressure Vessel Research Council --

Technical Committee on Piping Systems and I am Chairman of

- the Technical Committee Task Group on Industry Practice. I i

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, haveEpublished numerous t'echnical papers on Piping Design and Analysis.

Q.4. Are you familiar with the Byron Reinspection

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1 A.4. Yes, I was' involved in the program in December of 1983 and January of 1984 as a Consultant in the preparation of the Report on the Byron QC Inspector Reinspection Program that was published in February of 1984. The consulting I provided was for Sargent & Lundy's activities associated with the engineering evaluations of the Hunter objective attribute discrepancies, including pipe o*;ality, and ASME subjective attribute discrepancies. I had some direct involvement in the preparation of these engineering evaluations,

, but was not involved in every detail.

l j Q. 5. - Are you-adopting the testimony of Donald L. Leone i as previously filed.

1-A.S. 'Yes.

4 Q. 6. - On what basis do you adopt that testimony? -

Q.6. I have reviewed Mr. Leone's testimony concerning the engineering evaluations of the reinspection program by t

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O Sargent'&~Lundy engineers with respectLto various discrepancies identified by the reinspection of objective and subjective

' attributes of-the work performed by Hunter Corp. As discussed above, I have been involved in the reinspection program and I have been thoroughly briefed by the responsible project

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team members. I have also reviewed the underlying cal-culations and-data for the Hunter evaluations. I understand and adopt that work. Based on the foregoing, I adopt the testimony of Mr. Leone.

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