ML20090K216
| ML20090K216 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Catawba  |
| Issue date: | 11/08/1983 |
| From: | Cauthen B DUKE POWER CO. |
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| References | |
| A-032, A-32, NUDOCS 8405240095 | |
| Download: ML20090K216 (10) | |
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BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFET5' AND LICENSING BOAlkD th3cnnc$
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DUKE POWER COMPANY, et al. )
Docket Nos.
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50-414 (Catawba Nuclear Station,
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Units 1 and 2)
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TESTIMONY OF BOYCE CAUTHEN 1
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STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR WORK ADDRESS.
2 A.
Boyce Cauthen 3
Catawba Nuclear Project 4
P.O. Box 223 5
Clover, SC 29710 6
Q.
WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT JOB WITH DUKE POWER COMPANY?
7 A.
Welding Inspector in the outside area which includes th s Pipe Fab.,
8 Metal Fab., and Pump Structure areas.
9 Q.
SUMMARIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE AND. QUALIFICATIONS, INCLUDING 10 OTHER NON-DUKE JOBS, EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND 11 COMPANY SPONSOBED COURSES AND TRAINING.
12 A.
Rock Hill High - 12 years. Diploma 13 York Tech - 1 year, Welding, blueprints and other related subjects 14 (1973) 15 MAC-FAB, Inc. - Welder & Fitter (1973 to 1975) 16 A.M.E. - Welder &' Fitter (1975 to 1977) 17 Daniel Construction - Welder & Fitter (1973 to 1977) 18 Duke'- Welder (6-13-77 to 9-18-78) 4 e
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1 Duke - Inspector Welding Level II (1978 to 1983) MT & PT, Level I 2
(1983) 3 Q.
WHAT OTHER JOB POSITIONS HAVE YOU HELD WITH DUKE POWER 4
COMPANY?
5 A.
Welder helper (5-2-77 to 6-13-77) 6 Weljer (6-13-77 to 9-18-78) 7 Q.
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH WHAT IS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS 8
THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS WHICH WERE EXPRESSED IN 9
LATE 1981/EARLY 1982?
10 A.
Yes.
11 Q.
WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THESE CONCERNS 12 WERE?
13 A.
We, the welding inspectors, felt like we had lack of support from 14 QA management, and some QA Procedure's were not being followed.
15 Q.
DID YOU EXPRESS ANY CONCERNS AS A WELDING INSPECTOR TO 16 ANY OF THE TASK FORCES OR TO DUKE POWER MANAGEMENT?
i 17 A.
Yes.
18 Q.
TO WHOM DID YOU EXPRESS YOUR CONCERNS?
19 A.
I talked to several people in the Charlotte offices, but I don't 20 remember their names.
21 Q.
WERE YOUR CONCERNS WRITTEN?
22 A.
Yes.
23 Q.
DESCRIBE EACH DOCUMENT WHICH CONTAINS YOUR EXPRESSION 24 OF CONCERNS, AND INDICATE WHO IT WAS SUBMITTED TO.
25 A.
I wrote some of my concerns on a document which is attached to 26 this. testimony '(Attachment A).
I turned this document in to the 27 QA ' office.
However, since I submitted this document I have _had p.
1 other concerns relating to harassment and welds in the plants.
2 These concerns are described in responses to later questions.
3 Q.
DID YOU FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?
4 A.
Yes.
5 Q.
DID YOU EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?
6 A.
No. I have additional concerns related to harassment and welds in 7
the plant.
With regard to harassment three incidents have 8
' occurred.
The first is while running M4-I's,
I had some 9
harassment from other inspectors.
Some times, inspectors under my 10 control found welds that did not meet the L-80 procedure and they 11 were - NCled.
Other inspectors who had previously approved the 12 welds, gave me a hard time for turning this in.
I did not express 13 this because, I felt like I was just doing my job.
14 The second incident related to harassment involved another J
15 inspector, Max Reep, who was harassed by craft in hio.ctempt to 16 NCI some weld filler material.
17 A third incident relating to harassment involved myself. While 18 running M4-I's a few months ago, we found some welds that had a 19 little more reenforcement than was allowed by L-80 Construction 20 Procedure.
These were signed Loff by a Weld Inspector that had 21 come from McGuire.
I mentioned the welds to his foreman, as I had 22 been instructed to do.
This Welding Inspector chewed me out and 23 said I was up to my old tricks again. -He also made the statement, 24 I'll get your f face off the M4-I job.
I went to file 25 harassment charger. on him because I had had all I could stand.
26 The charges were smoothed over and one week later, I was removed 27 from the M4-I job.
I'm not harassed anymore, but I don't feel like U~
28 this was handled in the right way.
I was replaced by an inspector
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1 that I have no confidence in, due to the fact I had to recheck some l
I told Art Allum I had copies of 2
of his lines when he helped me.
3' the M4-l's I had rerun and he said that I shouldn't be keeping 4
notes.
5 Despite the harassment, I feel that the inspectors did not let 6
it affect them doing their job.
7 With regard to concerns about welds in the plant, my concerns 8
stem from four (4) incidents.
First, it was recently discovered i
9 that a welder had made a large amount of bad welds on a Class C 10 system, they just finished repairing the last one a couple of weeks 11 ago.
It makes me wonder if there are other welds made that are 12 unsafe. We, inspectors, could only check the outside.
13 Second,- I also saw a welder that had his stainless pg 14 certification, and he should not have-been certified, he was having 15 a lot of trouble on his root passes.
16 Third, I ran a lot of M4-I's.
I got to look at a lot of welds in 17 all areas.
I did find some that didn't have enough weld metal and 18 some that had too much.
I looked at a lot more'of good welds than 19 bad ones.
Some pipes had to be cut out 'due. to excessive pitting 20.
or other vendor defects.
This was a small amount due to the 21 amount of piping I checked.
I believe that what I checked and 22 later had fixed met what our QA Program called for.
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- Fourth, 'some welds on the system.where we only checked 24 finals may not be made to a Construction Procedure and they may
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t 26 My written concerns attached to this document, together with 27 the above stated concerns reflect. all of the ' concerns' I have, w] !
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HAVE YOU DISCUSSED YOUR CONCERNS WITH ANYONE ELSE?
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Yes.
Some of the welding inspectors have discussed our problems 3
among ourselves.
4 Q.
HAS ANYONE ELSE CONTACTED YOU AND ASKED YOU TO 5
DISCUSS YOUR CONCERNS?
IF SO, PLEASE DESCRIBE WHEN, 6'
WHERE, HOW, AND BY WHOM YOU WERE CONTACTED.
7 A.
(1) A few months ago, a Charlotte Observer reporter called me at 8
home by phone and wanted information for an article in the 9
paper.
10 (2) A few months ago, a lady from New York called and asked if I 11 felt like the plant was constructed safely.
12 Q.
PLEASE SUMMARIZE AND EXPLAIN ~ WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO 13 COMMUNICATE BY YOUR CONCERNS.
14 A.
I was trying to point out that we had harassment from Construction 15 personnel and there were some things we had no control over, like 16 uncontrolled weld filler material.
I was also concerned that some 17 fits were being made that violated Construction Procedures.
18 Q.
WERE YOUR CONCERNS INVESTIGATED BY THE TASK FORCES?
19 A.
Yes.
20 Q.
DID YOU ATTEND ANY MEETINGS WITH TASK FORCE AND/OR QA 21 MANAGEMENT MEMBERS WHERE THE TASK FORCE FINDINGS, 22 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WERE DISCUSSED?
IF 23 SO, PLEASE PROVIDE THE DETAILS OF SUCH MEETING (S).
24 A.
I attended a meeting with the task force and we discussed my 25 concerns.
It was brought out that some of my concerns were on 26 piping systems that didn't carry any hot material.
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WERE THERE ANY CHANGES MADE IN THE QA PROGRAM AFTER 2
THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS AND THE TASK FORCE 3
INVESTIGATION OF THESE CONCERNS?
4 A.
Whue there may have some, I have not had to use them.
5 Q.
TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED ISSUES 6
RAISED BY THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS?
TO WHAT 7
EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED YOUR PARTICULAR 8
CONCERNS?
9 A.
Max Reep, had some trouble about some uncontrolled welding 10 material recently, I don't think the changes helped this situation 11 any.
12 Q.
THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS HAVE BEEN 13 CHARACTERIZED AS CONCERNS ABOUT THE QUALITY AND 14 SAFETY OF CONSTRUCTION AT CATAWBA.
DO YOU AGREE OR 15 DISAGREE WITH THAT CHARACTERIZATION?
16 A.
Agree.
Welding Inspectors are to make sure all welds they check 17 are sound welds and that the Construction Procedures are followed 18 to insure that the plant is safe.
However, systems has shown me 19 figures where they only need so much pipe _ thickness in a system 20 and our pipes were thicker than what was needed, so it should be 21 safe as far as pipe thickness.
22 Q.
DID THE EXPRESSION OF YOUR CONCERNS INDICATE YOUR 23 BELIEF THAT THERE WAS A BREAKDOWN IN THE QA PROGRAM 24 OR INDICATE THAT THE QA PROGRAM' WAS NO LONGER 25 WORKING? - EXPLAIN.
26-A, The QA Program was working I guess, but maybe not the way the
(~T 27 Weld _ Inspectors thought it should work.
We should have had more 28 control over things we found on random inspection.
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DID YOUR CONCERNS REFLECT A BELIEF ON YOUR PART THAT 2
THE CATAWBA PROJECT IS NOT BEING CONSTRUCTED SAFELY?
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3 A.
I don't know if the plant is constructed safely.
4 Q.
IN YOUR VIEW, IIAS THE QA PROGRAM BEEN EFFECTIVE WHILE 5
YOU HAVE WORKED AS AN INSPECTOR AT CATAWBA?
6 A.
I don't know how effective it has been.
7 Q.
ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY DEFICIENCIES IN CONSTRUCTION IN 8
THE QA PROGRAM WHICH WOULD CAUSE YOU TO QUESTION 9
WHETHER CATAWBA IS SAFELY BUILT?
10 A.
Yes. These have been previously mentioned.
11 Q.
IS THERE ANYTIIING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO YOUR 12 TESTIMONY?
13 A.
No.
o" 16 17 I hereby certify that I have read and understand this. document, and 18 believe it to be my true, accurate and complete testimony.
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this fi/'A day of September,1983.
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