ML20100N560

Intervenor Exhibit I-32,consisting of Pp 1,106 & 107 to Transcript of CS Mathews 840508 Deposition (Vol II - Afternoon Session) in San Francisco,Ca

ML20100N560
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	11/01/1984
From:	Mathews C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:
References
OL-I-032, OL-I-32, NUDOCS 8412130224
Download: ML20100N560 (4)

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CO Y BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING DOARD

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) D rT4M DEPOSITION OF CLINTON S. MAT!!EWS tAY 8, 1984 VOLUME II - Afternoon Session l

l 2 I Reported by:

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G Uhen was the design for the replacement block developed I

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() 5l i A I don't know exactly.

It stems out of development 6l work that we did on the 850 horsepower per cylinder R-5 i

7 I engine development. l 8 G And can you state approximately when it was developed?

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9 : A The R-5 project started approximately 1970. And the I block cross-sections that we are talking about were part of 10 - l h .

, 11 , that product development effort that became incorporated I 12 in the RV blocks first, probably three years ago, and in-l

! 13 corporated in the in-lino engine blocks more recently, within ,

I 14 the last year or two.

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• 15 G Is there any R-48 engine now operating in the .

l field which utilizes the new design of the replacement block?

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17 ! A I don't know.

i) I 18 l G How was the new design replaccmont block tested by i 19 Delaval, if at all?

20 i A That portion of it was tested on the N-5.

o 21 G By that portion, you are referring to what?

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A The portion of it that was changed on the R-48, the 23 upper entablature section, the cross-section thicknesses, the

() 24 l stud arrangement, the boss arrangement.

25 G Uss the entire newly designed engine block for .he l 26 DSR-48 engine ever tested in its entirety by Delaval?

I) f.7 i A I can' t answer that. It wasn't an entirely newly  :

designed block. It was design modification to the section 1:

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i the upper service of the block and the bosses.

% Is the cylinder block that we are referring to D 2 3 manufactured in pieces or as an entire casting, or some 4 other way?

ig 5,l A The cylinder block is manufactured as one caseing.

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f "6 l\ :tR. SMIT 1:: Mr. Dynner, do you have any idea how 7 much longer you will be?

\ l 8 s :1R. DYNMER: Yes. I hope just about another ten

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10 l 1 G  !!r. :tathews, do you or does anyone at Del al l 11  ! know wha caused the cracks in the cylinder bl k/of the  !

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Shoreham en ine which is being replaced?

i 13 . A I was old by LILCO personnel th ..the block being i

14 , replaced was exp ed to,some kind of eident where the l O nd some electrical uaset 15 engine was operatin at f'ull cower 16 occurred overloading t. engine perhaps overheating the i

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engine, and the crack pro ag ion was noticed prior to that,  !

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19  !' R . S: TIT!!: Pri e to o after? ,

20 T!!E WITNESS: I mean subs que,nt to that. Thank you.

5) 21 j MR. DYNN  : G Do you kn when that occurred 22 approximately? N 23 1 Ear to mid-April, approximateli \

O 24 ! Q. O d they tell you or do you otherwi e know by how I

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{} 27 ! G / Dy reason of this accident? No?  ;

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