ML20090L025
| ML20090L025 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Catawba  |
| Issue date: | 11/29/1983 |
| From: | Gantt A DUKE POWER CO. |
| To: | |
| References | |
| A-058, A-58, NUDOCS 8405240549 | |
| Download: ML20090L025 (7) | |
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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 A. S. GANTT 1
Q.
STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR WORK ADDRESS.
2 A.
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Gantt, Catawba Nuclear Project, P.O. Box 223, Clover, SC 3
29710.
4 Q.
WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT JOB WITH DUKE POWER COMPANY?
5 A.
Welding Inspector in No.1 Reactor.
6 Q.
SUMMARIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS, INCLUDING
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7 OTHER NON-DUKE JOBS, EDUCATION, CERTIFICATIONS, AND 8
COMPANY SPONSORED COURSES AND TRAINING.
9 A.
I graduated from high school, and was a welder for Daniel 10 Construction 7 years.
I have been a Certified Welding Inspector 11 and MT - PT Inspector at Duke for 4 years.
12 Q.
WilAT OTHER JOB POSITIONS HAVE YOU HELD WITH DUKE POWER 13 COMPANY?
14 A.
I started working for Duke Power as a welder at Cherokee in 1978.
15 I transferred to Catawba in 1981.
16 Q.
ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH WHAT IS COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS 17 THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS WHICH WERE EXPRESSED IN 18 LATE 1981/EARLY 19827 19 A.
Yes.
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20 Q.
WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THESE CONCERNS 21 WERE?
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1 A.
These concerns basically addressed management's handling of I
2 inspection technical problems such as procedural requirements and 3
proi'lem solving.
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Q.
DID YOU EXPRESS ANY CONCERNS AS A WELDING INSPECTOR TO 5
ANY.OF THE TASK FORCES OR TO DUKE POWER MANAGEMENT?
6 A.
Yes.
7 Q.
TO WHOM DID YOU EXPRESS YOUR CONCERNS?
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A.
Gail Addis.
9 Q.
WERE YOUR CONCERNS WRITTEN?
10 A.
Yes.
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11 Q.
DESCRIBE EACH DOCUMENT WHICH CONTAINS YOUR EXPRESSION 12 OF CONCERNS, AND INDICATE WHO IT WAS SUBMITTED TO.
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I submitted a handwritten letter to my immediate supervisor.
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14 Q.
DID YOU FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?
l' 15 A.
Yes.
16 Q.
DID YOU EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?
i 17 A.
One concern I did not express and which I feel is of great I
i 18 importance is the morale of the Welding Inspectors.
This was not i
i 19 expressed at that time because I did not have this concern at the 1
l 20 time we submitted concerns to the Task Force.
In my opinion, this l
21 problem has grown greatly.
i 22 Q.
HAS LOWER MORALE CAUSED YOU, OR ANY OTHER INSPECTOR i
23 TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE, TO APPROVE WORK THAT WAS FAULTY 24 OR DID NOT MEET THE QA STANDARDS AND CRITERIA?
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25 A.
No.
26~ Q.
DO THE DOCUMENTS ' ATTACHED TO YOUR TESTIMONY AS i O
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- Yes, i
2 Q.
ARE ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS INCLUDED IN THIS DOCUMENT?
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3 A.
Yes, all of the concerns I had at that time.
4 Q.
PLEASE SUMMARIZE AND-EXPLAIN WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO 5
COMMUNICATE BY.YOUR CONC 3RNS.
6 A.
My concern was that a defective situation may have existed but was 7
not evaluated due to procedure limitations.
8 Q.
WERE YOUR CONCERNS INVESTIGATED BY THE TASK FORCES?
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A.
My specific concern was not discussed with me; however, it was 10 indicated all concerns were investigated.
This problem may have 11
'been investigated by reviewing the radiographic film of this weld to 12 assure no defects, but I was not informed of this.
13 Q.
DID YOU ATTEND ANY MEETINGS WITH TASK FORCE AND/OR QA j
14 MANAGEMENT MEMBERS WHERE THE TASK FORCE FINDINGS,
l 15 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WERE DISCUSSED?
16 A.
A meeting was held with all inspectors and the Task Force where 17 general findings were discussed.
18 Q.
WERE THERE ANY CHANGES MADE IN THE QA PROGRAM AFTER j
19 THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS AND THE TASK FORCE 20 INVESTIGATION OF THESE CONCERNS?
21 A.
Yes.
22 Q.
DESCRIBE THE CHANGES OF WHICH YOU ARE AWARE IN THE QA 23 PROGRAM.
24 A.
Changes were made that shifted some management job positions but 25 later some changed back.
I don't feel there were any changes that 26 overwhelmingly changed decisions involving. resolution of.NCI's.
27 Decisions are still being made that inspectors do not agree with.
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Inspectors aren't aware of where code requirements V
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When management resolves 3.
problems by applying only code requirements, Inspectors are 4
certain not to agree because the inspectors were not aware of the 5
code requirements.
6 Q.
TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED ISSUES i
7 RAISED BY THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS AND TO WHAT 8
EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED YOUR PARTICULAR 9
CONCERNS?
10 A.
Any changes made have not addressed my written concern.
If I 11 see a defective area inside an adjacent weld outside the accessibility i
12 range of QAP-M-4, I am not obligated to report it by procedural 13 requirements.
An example of this is my written concern that while 14 I was performing an internal cleanliness check and root pass 15 inspection of adjacent welds on a Class B piping system, I saw what 1
16 appeared to be oxidation or burn through on a root pass about 8 17 feet away from the opening of the 3" I.D. pipe I was inspecting.
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18 had my senior man, J. R. Bryant, and immediate supervisor, Beau 19 Ross, to look at this and both agreed that there was a possible j
20 defect there.
My next supervisor in line, C. R. Baldwin, was 21 contacted but he chose to ignore the situation because QAP-M-4 22 does not require a root pass inspection that far back inside this 23 size of pipe.
We were told by Beau Ross, who was told by C. R.
24 Baldwin, that we should continue work and not worry about it.
25 Q.
DO YOU CURRENTLY HAVE ANY CONCERNS ABOUT THE 26 FUNCTIONING OF THE QA PROGRAM THAT HAVE NOT BEEN
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No.
2 Q.
THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS HAVE BEEN 3
CHARACTERIZED AS CONCERNS ABOUT THE QUALITY AND 4
SAFETY OF CONSTRUCTION AT CATAWBA.
DO YOU AGREE WITH 5
THAT CIIARACTERIZATION?
6 A.
Yes, to a certain degree.
If an inspector has problems concerning 7
quality and safety of construction that are repeatedly not answered 8
adequately to him, some inspectors may tend to ignore certain 9
situations.
10 Q.
HAVE YOU EVER IGNORED UNACCEPTABLE WORK?
11 A.
No.
12 Q.
DO YOU KNOW OF ANY OTHER INSPECTOR WHO HAS IGNORED 13 UNACCEPTABLE WORK?
14 A,
No.
15 Q.
DID THE EXPRESSION OF YOUR CONCERNS INDICATE YOUR i
16 BELIEF THAT THERE WAS A BREAKDOWN IN THE QA PROGRAM 17 OR INDICATE THAT THE QA PROGRAM WAS NO LONGER i
18 WORKING?
l 19 A.
As I said in my concern, in this area procedure requirements are 20 not adequate to assure 100% quality.
As it relates to my concern,
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21 the QA Program was not working.
As far as I know, the QA 22 Program was working in other areas.
23 Q.
DID YOUR CONCERNS REFLECT A BELIEF ON YOUR PART THAT 24 THE CATAWBA PROJECT IS NOT BEING CONSTRUCTED SAFELY?-
25 A.
My concern reflected that the problem I identified was not 26 adequately investigated.
27 Q.
IN YOUR VIEW, HAS THE QA PROGRAM BEEN EFFECTIVE WHILE 28 YOU HAVE WORKED AS AN INSPECTOR AT CATAWBA?
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Overall, yes.
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ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY DEFICIENCIES IN CONSTRUCTION OR IN 3
THE QA PROGRAM WHICH WOULD CAUSE YOU TO QUESTION 4
WHETHER CATAWBA IS SAFELY BUILT?
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A.
No.
6 Q.
IS THERE ANYTlilNG ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO YOUR 4
7 TESTIMONY?
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A.
No.
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10 11 12 I hereby certify that I have read and understand this document, and 13 believe it to be my true, accurate and complete testimony.
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,m.y 17 A. S.~ Gantt 18 19 20 Sworn to and subscribed before me 21 this M/d day of September,1983.
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