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Applicant Exhibit A-82,consisting of Testimony of Jr Mccoy Re Welding Concerns
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Person / Time
Site:	Catawba
Issue date:	12/01/1983
From:	Mccoy J; DUKE POWER CO.
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	A-082, A-82, NUDOCS 8405240154
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TESTIMONY OF JOHN R. MCCOY 1 Q. STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR WORK ADDRESS.

2 A. John R. McCoy, Catawba Nuclear Station, P.O. Box 223, Clover, 3 SC, 29710.

4 Q. WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT JOB WITH DUKE POWER COMPANY?

i i 5 A. I am QA Welding Inspector, inspecting welding of all kinds ,

!. 6 primarily in the Auxiliary Building.

7 Q. SUMMARIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS, INCLUDING '

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2 8 OTHER NON-DUKE JOBS, EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND 9 COMPANY SPONSORED COURSES AND TRAINING.

I 10 A. I have been a welder since 1970, primarily with Daniels i 11 Construction Company. I have one year of vocational training and

. 12 one year of coUege.

! 13 Q. WHAT OTHER JOB POSITIONS HAVE YOU HELD WITH DUKE POWER 14 COMPANY?

15 A. I was a certified welder prior to transferring to the QC inspector l 16 position in 1979.

, 17 Q. ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH WHAT IS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS i 18 THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS WHICH WERE EXPRESSED IN 19 LATE 1981/EARLY.1982?

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20 A. Yes.

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1 Q. WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THESE CONCERNS 2 WERE?

3 A. The welding inspectors as individuals had some concerns that the 4 Construction and QA Procedures from time to time were not being 5 followed as outlined and they got together and submitted these 6 feelings.

7 Q. DID YOU EXPRESS ANY CONCERNS AS A WELDING INSPECTOR TO 8 ANY OF THE TASK FORCES OR TO DUKE POWER MANAGEMENT?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. TO WHOM DID YOU EXPRESS YOUR CONCERNS?

11 A. I talked to Task Force I, the Technical Task Force, the 12 Non-Technical Task Force, Lew Zwis'sler, and Warren Owen.

13 Q. WERE YOUR CONCERNS WRITTEN?

14 A. Yes.

15 Q. DESCRIBE EACH DOCUMENT WHICH CONTAINS YOUR EXPRESSION 16 OF CONCERNS, AND INDICATE WHO IT WAS SUBMITTED TO.

17 A. I submitted the handwritten statement, which is attached to my 18 testimony as Attachment A, to my supervisor.

19 Q. DID YOU FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?

20 A. Yes.

21 Q. DID YOU EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?

22 A. Yes.

23 Q. DOES THIS DOCUMENT ATTACHED TO YOUR TESTIMONY REFLECT 24- ALL OF YOUR WRITTEN CONCERNS?

25 A. Yes.

26 Q. ARE ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT?

27 A. Yes.

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1 Q. PLEASE SUMMARIZE AND EXPLAIN WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO 2 - COMMUNICATE BY YOUR CONCERNS.

3 A. As I stated in the concerns I submitted, the biggest concern that I E

} 4 had as far as not being supported in~ implementing the QA Program 5 is the fact that at times resolutions and general gray areas seem to i

6 be watered down in order for craft to meet scheduling dead lines.

A lot of these occasions have been exactly opposite of procedure 8 requirements, yet the problems being brought up were to be 9 ignored, because at that point it seemed that quality didn't matter, t

10 only dead lines mattered. -

l 11 Q. ' EXPLAIN WHAT YOU MEANT WHEN YOU SAID IN YOUR CONCERNS 12 THAT RESOLUTIONS TO NCI'S SEEM TO BE WATERED DOWN IN 13 ORDER FOR CRAFT TO MEET SCHEDULING DEADLINES.

. 14 A. Normally craft would strive to meet the more stringent Duke i procedures, but if this was not possible and in most cases this 15 16 would only happen when trying to meet a schedule dead line, that 17 work which didn't meet Duke's procedural requirements would be 18 approved because it still meet ASME, AWS, or ANSI codes.

19 Q. DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE VARIATIONS FROM PROCEDURES 20 RESULTED - IN ANY UNACCEPTABLE OR POOR WORKMANSHIP 21 BEING APPROVED?

l 22 A. No.

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[ 23 Q. DID YOU APPROVE ANY WORK AS A RESULT OF PRESSURE TO 24 MEET CRAFT DEADLINE THAT' WAS UNACCEPTABLE OR OF POOR i

l 25 QUALITY?

26 A. No.

27 Q. WERE-YOUR CONCERNS INVESTIGATED BY THE TASK FORCES?

Ot 28 A. - Yes.

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1 Q. DID YOU ATTEND ANY MEETINGS WITH TASK FORCE AND/OR QA

-2 MANAGEMENT MEMBERS WHERE THE TASK FORCE FINDINGS ,

3 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WERE DISCUSSED?

4 A. I met with a group from the Technical Task Force and my particular 5 concern was discussed.

6 Q. WERE THERE ANY CHANGES MADE IN THE QA PROGRAM AFTER 7 THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS AND THE TASK FORCE 8 INVESTIGATION OF THESE CONCERNS?

9 A. There was a change in the inspection criteria between the time the 10 incident occurred and the time the concern was submitted.

11 Q. DESCRIBE THE CHANGES OF WHICH YOU ARE AWARE IN THE QA 12 PROGRAM.

13 A. We (inspectors) are now not require d to check mismatch in repair 14 cavities as before.

15 Q. TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED ISSUES 16 RAISED BY THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS; AND TO WHAT 17 EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED YOUR PARTICULAR 18 CONCERNS?

19 A. These changes eliminate my concern because we are no longer 20 required to check the area of concern.

21 Q. THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS HAVE BEEN 22 CHARACTERIZED AS CONCERNS ABOUT THE QUALITY AND l 23 SAFETY OF CONSTRUCTION AT CATAWBA. DO.YOU AGREE OR 24 DISAGREE WITH THAT CHARACTERIZATION?

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i 1 A. I do not agree with that characterization. The inspectors had a set l 2 of procedures to inspect by. We saw the procedures as setting the 3 line that established what was acceptable and what was unacceptable 4 from a quality standpoint. We identified problems that did not meet 5 the Duke procedt es and guidelines, but were told that there was 6 no problem because the Duke procedures had been set above the 7 acceptable codes for quality. This had not been communicated to 8 the welding inspectors. i 9 Q. DID THE EXPRESSION OF YOUR CONCERNS INDICATE YOUR 10 BELIEF THAT THERE WAS A BREAKDOWN IN THE QA PROGRAM 11 OR INDICATE THAT THE QA PROGRAM WAS NO LONGER 12 WORKING? EXPLAIN.

13 A. Yes, in certain areas. I think there was a breakdown in 14 communications, but the QA Program was working. These concerns i

15 arose because we as inspectors were not told that in some areas the 16 Construction and QA Procedures were written above ASME and 17 other welding codes and there was a communications breakdown in i

18 the QA Department.

19 Q. DID YOUR CONCERNS REFLECT A BELIEF ON YOUR PART THAT 20 THE CATAWBA PROJECT IS NOT BEING CONSTRUCTED SAFELY?

21 A. No.

22 Q. IN YOUR VIEW, HAS THE QA PROGRAM BEEN EFFECTIVE WHILE

23 YOU HAVE WORKED AS AN INSPECTOR AT CATAWBA?

24 A. Yes.

'25 Q. ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY DEFICIENCIES IN CONSTRUCTION OR IN 1

26 THE QA PROGRAM WHICH WOULD. CAUSE YOU TO QUESTION 27 WHETHER CATAWBA IS SAFELY BUILT?

l- 28 A. No. ,

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1 Q. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO YOUR

.,2 TESTIMONY?

3 A. In my opinion this plant is probably the best built of any nuclear 4 plant ' Duke or anyone else is building.

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7 8 I hereby certify that I have read and understand this document, and 9 believe it to be my true, accurate and complete testimony.

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, O 16 Sworn to and subscribed before me d 17 this /YW1 day of September,1983.

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