ML20105D153
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| Site: | Midland |
| Issue date: | 10/06/1983 |
| From: | Burgess B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| To: | Harrison J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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799 ROOSEVELT ROAD g.g GLEN ELLYN, ILLINOIS 60137 October 6, 1983 MEMORANDUM FOR:
J. J. Harrison, Chief, Midland Section FROM:
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L. Burgess, Resident Inspector, Midland
SUBJECT:
DOCUMENTATION OF MIDLAND CONCERNS Per our phone conversation of September 29, 1983, I am writing to document past concerns associated with various topics provided to me by Midland Site employees during the last several months. These concerns are not allega-tions, and each individual was queried several times during our discussions to verify whether or not their concerns were to be treated as allegations.
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On July 26, 1981, I was approached at the Midland NRC trailers by a member of Bechtel Field Engineering to discuss a concern with the installation of shims in High Energy Line Break Accident (HELBA) whip restraints. The field engineer indicated at the five plants he had been associated with, whip restraint shims had been instal-led prior to Hot Functional Testing (HFT).
At Midland, the HELBA whip restraints were not to be installed until af ter HFT.
As whip restraint coordinator for Bechtel at Midland, the field engineer stated he had two concerns associated with not installing the shims before HFT:
(1) a personnel safety concern in that someone could be seriously injured during an unexpected pipe movement caused by a bound pipe giving way due to thermal growth, and (2) an equipment safety concern - with a pipe break during HFT, the damage caused by lack of installed shims could be beyond that analyzed in the FSAR.
These concerns were relayed by myself to Consumers Power Company (CPCo) on July 27, 1983. On September 29, 1983, the licensee responded verbally to the concerns, and I relayed the CPCo response to the field engineer. CPCo has committed to installing procedural controls into HFT procedures to control excessive growth, binding, etc., and to insure that cognizant test personnel are aware of potential safety problems.
In addition, a specification change is under consideration by project engineering in Ann Arbor to install shims in small bore piping HELBA whip restraints where anticipated growth of the piping is less than one sixteenth of an inch.
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On August 2, 1983, at the Midland NRC trailers, two Midland Plant Quality Assurance Department (MPQAD) QCEs relayed a concern involv-ing the change of a welding specification M-326.
The concern was about the recent change in the allowable undercut on 2 inch welds or greater to 1/8 inch.
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i-tails of the code case were not provided. Both individuals stated their concern had been passed to their management and to project engineering in Ann Arbor, and an acceptable response had not been received as to the basis for the specification change.
Just prior to the conclusion of the discussion, an additional concern was. raised that a major change to Project Quality Control Instruction (PQCI) P-2.30 " Reinspection of Pipe (Component) Supports" had been implemented without sufficient retraining of Quality Assur-ance/ Quality Control personnel.
The change to the undercut specification concern has been verbally transmitted to the region and preliminary investigation revealed that other operational and construction sites.have changed their specifications on undercut of welds.
g' A code case has not yet been identified as the basis for the undercut specifi-cation change. The major change to the PQCI is under review by the Midland Inspection Site Team and will be documented in a future report.
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DATE 10/0T/03 FACILITY / LICENSEE NOTIFICATION ITEM OR EVENT RESIONAL ACTION OFFICE OF SPECIAL CASES NIOLAND ON 10/11/93 RIII WILL MOLO AN ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION.
C0teFERENCE WITM Coel5UNERS POWER COMPANY i
MANAGEMENT TO DISCUSS THE RESULT 5 0F THE O!
INVESTIGATION OF THE ALLEGEO VIOLATION OF THE BOARO ORDER AND PROPOSED ESCALATED i
ENFORCEMENTiACTION.
' IeSER ON 19/11/S3 MR. R. E. SUERGERe OAYTON POWER INFORMATION.
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FUTURE ACTIONS AT IINeeER. ME WILL.NEET WITH 80E55RS. A. S. DAVI5e S. LEWIS, AND R. WARNICK.
M:0 LAND 1 & 2 TELECON FROM SRI DASCOCK & WILCOR (S&Wie THE NUCLEAR STEAN FOLLOWUP PER NC 2512.
000 19/95#93 SYSTEM SUPPLIER AND INSTALLATION CONTRACTOR i
FOR MIOLAN0e PLACEO A STOPWORK 04 ALL: CLASS 1 PIPE M480SER ANO $NUSSER ACTIVITIES. THE STOP j'
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AS A RESULT OF TME STOP-WORKe 132 CRAFT ANO SUPPORT PERSossesEL WERE LAIO OFF.
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MIDLAND, MI, October 7, 1983 -- A comprehensive program to provide the planning and management for completion of the Midland Nuclear Plant has been approved by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Approval of the construction completion plan was announced late Thursday from NRC headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The confirmatory order issued by the Commission culminates. months of development,,and review of the plan by Consumers Power Company and Bechtel Power Corporation, members of the public and NRC staff.
The order directs the Company to adopt and carry out the CCP.
"The Construction Completion Program will enable us to put into place a new set of objectives and procedures to complete the plant and meet all regulatory requirements and expectations to assure licensibility of the plant when construction is complete" said James W Cook, Consumers Power Company vice president for projects,
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engineering and construction.
"We will begin immediately with our plans to complete the Midland Nuclear Plant.
Over the past ten months we have developed a detailed plan to assure the plant is completed successfully.
We now will begin to carefully implement these plans, step by step as documented in our submittals to the NRC.
The overall plan for completing the Midland Plant has been developed in two major phases.
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ur The first phase includes organization of workers from all project segments into teams to determine present installation and inspection status. A quality verification program (QVP) of completed work will proceed in parallel and includes a complete reinspection of accessible work, using recertified inspectors.
The QVP will be carried out solely by the Midland Project Quality Essurance Department.
The second phase includes work completion under the team organization.
Following Phase 1 completion of the first verification and status assessment, a management review will be made of 'the results and of the process and procedures for the construction completior.in Phase 2.
Another important part of the CCP is the third party review of work 4
being performed. On October 3, the NRC approved the Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation to provide third party independent overview of work done at the Midland Plant.
i Consumers Power announced in December 1982 that it was suspending most construction being performed by Bechtel Power Corporation on safety related equipment and would be proposing to the NRC a new plan to guide completion of the two-unit nuclear project. Today's announcement culminated the extensive development process necessary to initiate implementation of the plan.
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G M 0119 MIDLAND, October 13, 1983
--A new senior management team for' Consumers Power Company's Midland Nuclear Plant has been announced jointly by James W Cook, vice president for projects, engineering and construction, and Russell B DeWitt, vice president, nuclear operations department.
Dean L Quamme has been named site manager and Joseph F Firlit has been named plant general manager.
The two managers will share responsibilities to direct the completion, testing and initial operation of the Midland Nuclear Plant.
Quamme succeeds Donald B Miller, who has left the Company, and Firlit succeeds Gerald B Slade, who has been named executive director of nuclear activities in the Company's nuclear operations department.
"The appointment of our new senior management team provides us with two men of proven experience, skills and ability in the nuclear energy industry,"
Cook said.
"The Company's commitment to successfully complete the Midland Plant will be served well by these appointments. Working as a team they will direct the daily activities to complete construction and testing an'd prepare the plant for initial operation.
These two men will join Roy Wells, executive director of Midland Project Quality Assurance Department, to direct all Company activities on site.
As site manager, Quamme will have overall administrative and management responsibility for the Midland site.
Quamme, 47, joined the Midland Project this summer in a project management staff position to vice president Cook.
He previously had an extensive career in responsible management assignments with the General Electric Company Nuclear Energy Division and Ebasco Services, Inc.
an engineer-contractor.
His professional career has included management experience in craftsman supervision, nuclear plant operations, project engineering, marketing, construction and project management.
From 1977 to 1983 he worked for Ebasco Services at the Washington Public Power Supply System Nuclear Project 3 and 5.
He was Ebasco construction manager from 1977 until 1980, when he assumed the role of project general manager.
In that role, he was responsible for engineering and design, construction management and startup services.
Prior to his duties with Ebasco, he had worked from 1960 until 1977 for General Electric in its nuclear energy division.
Included in these assignments were site manager on construction of the Tokai-2 project in Tokai-Mura Japan, construction engineer on the AKM project in Bern, Switzerland, and project engineer responsibilities with GE nuclear division in San Jose, CA.
Quamme received his bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Oregon State University and also attended the General Electric Company management training program, i
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e Firlit, 46, joined Consumers Power Company in 1965 and held prog'ressively more responsible positions, being named general supervisor of the research and testing lab in 1970.
,,In March, 1976 Firlit was promoted to general supervisor of special' studies and resources. Later that year, he was named director of management and
{ budgetfor the Company's nuclear operations department (NOD). Firlit was named director of NOD quality assurance in late 1980, a post he has held until today's appointment.
A native of Holland, Michigan, Firlit graduated from the University of Michigan in 1963 with a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering.
He received a master's degree in business administration from Wayne State University in 1972. Previous to his employment with the Company, Firlit was an electrical engineer with General Motors and was associated with the Apollo space program.
A veteran of the US Navy, Firlit, his wife Carol and two children will soon be relocating to the Midland area.
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g it 1 carries uni-newly created job means he will move ments were join ly announced this senior management teams provides us lie is a U.S. Army veteran. Quamme, 2 hey run out, from Midland to the utility's headquar-
- '"I"9 N James M. Cook and Russell B. DeWitt-. with two men of proven experience.
his wife Suzanne and child Tricia soon ut" tersin Jackson-The two managers will share respon-vice president of the nuclear operations. skills and ability in the nuclear energy will be relocating to Midland.
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sibilities for plant completion, testing department.
.He said Quamme and Firlit willjoin FIRLIT,46, joined Consumers Power 3
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MIDLAND ( AP)- A federal plan for in the studies, and tragments the effort ' know'.' Kelley said.
The EPA: began tdking soil samples studying contamination by dioxin and between so many offices of the EPA llowever, Robert llartian,-a spokes. at Midland on Monday as part ofits $12 9-11 other chemicals at Midland and other that continuity and scientific compara-man for the EPA's Midwest region, said million nationaldioxin study.
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Kellev's interpretation of the agency's Dioxin, specifically the form known gg proper scientific basis for drawing any Kelley said in a speech prepared for strategt was incorrect.
as 2,3,7,8-TCDD,is onebf the most tox-g reliable conclusions,' Michigan's attor-delivery tothe Midland Rotaryclub.
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IlesaidtheplancallsfortestingMid. will be measu' red at parts per trillion the production of certain herbicides, 3,
II'I Frank Kelley said the U.S. Environ-land soil, air and water samples for levels at Midland. The other chemicals and has caused cancer and other ail-mental Protection Agency's strategy dioxin and 1320ther chemicals at parts will be measured at parts per billion ments4in test animals, although its 3
would allow too much variation be-per trillion levels, while testing only levels at Midland and all the other test known effect on humans has been li-BalG u
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MPQAD Soils A3 a result of this condition the following stop work is (JKMeisenheimer) being issued:
- 1) BPCo Field or Project Engineering approval of FCR/FCN.
- 2) Fabrication, installation and inspection of "Q" listed see page 3 of 3 work in the Soils Area.
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A) Actions'to maintain safe plant working conditions.
B) Actions to maintain calibrated instruments.
C) Actions to implement the storage and maintenance program.
D) Receipt of materials (no inspection for receipt acceptance to be 4
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U.S. Testing activities.
{ F) Surveying. modhaQ Mg C) Freeza Wall operations and maintenance.
- E) Instrumentation monitoring.
I) Maintenance of Jacking system, wedge ringing, monitoring of jacking' l
loads, routine jacking ans' non-routine jacking.
j J) -Operation and maintenance of the Dewatering System.
l K) Backfilling in the area of t6 W casing.
L) Training and certification of QA and QC inspection personnel.
E) Training of FSO personnel.
N) Continue with routine FIVP bolt monitoring.
O)'nMaintenance of temporary electrical facilities.
I P) Maintenance,and erection of temporary ventilation systems.
.l Q) Routine maintenance and housekeeping.
j R) Work as required to secure all work areas and maintain all work areas including but not limited to a) Weather Protection b) Backpacking c) Slope Stabilization I
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Concrete /Crouting - (Stripping / Curing) f) Backfilling of shallow surface trenches
'4) As a minimum, the following actions shall be taken prior to. lifting this
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s' A) Perform a review and analysis to evaluate the extent of the problen.
B) Take appropriate programatic action based on the results of Item 4A.
C) Reinstruct BPCo - Project Engineering, Field Engineering and Document iontrol personnel in the generation, approval and distribution of I
the FCR/FCN' forms to prevent the problem from recurring.
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Jackson, Michigan 49201 (517) 788-0333 JACKSON, November 9, 1983 -- Preliminary indications' from a study
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being conducted by Consumers Power Company are that the comunercial operation i
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date of Unit 2, the.all electric unit at its Midland Nucigar Plant, may be i
delayed until mid-1986.
Unit 2 had been scheduled to begin consnercial operation in February 1985.
On October 6, 1983, the Company received notification from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that it had approved the Company's Construction Completion Plan for the remhining work on the Midland Plant. The Plan, designed to overcome perceived quality assurance problems, is a comprehensive program for completion of the facility. NRC approval of the plan had been expected in the spring of 1983.
Consumers Power has been conducting a study to determine the impact f
of several factors on the estimated commercial operation date and cost of the all electric unit.
The factors include the delay in NRC approval of l
the completion plan, implementation of that plan, the expanded reinspection required by the NRC in connection with implementation of the plan, plus the effect of decoupling construction of the second unit due to Dow Chemical Company's attempted withdrawal from a contract to purchase steam from Unit 1 of the plant.
'Ihe study is expected to be completed by the end of 1983.
The construction schedule for Unit I will te revised based on Company 1
cash-flow requirements, the need for power, final cost estimates and the 1
construction schedule for Unit 2.
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.th2 design of wJis underpinning
'teStin ConSuniers PoWeflCo.'{hasibeen project -intended. 2o support the budding which wBI be the nerve'
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testing at the center of the auxil-40J. Jay Harrison of the NRC.The.
yardaresolution..~ t *< N (ary building,-rather than at the i
',taxillarybuilding will house egip :
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'lary tuilding were imymyEdy expected, Harrison said.
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,, owe :(Region -Elhdon't sihink.
'- An NRC memo released nionday Tiers are being placed underneath.
what they4 Consumers Power).<iid' states,*The NRC received addi.
,the building to support it. As each is acceptable,"he added..-. &M6 ti:nal information which calls into ;
pieriscompleted, a hydraubejack n Saari said. Consumers 'fower' tjuestion ibe validity eI the as '
hs p1 aced enitop ~of the pier ~~The.
will send a response-to.thelNR6 zumptions upon.which the (NRC)
Jacks' serve' as a kind of shock!
Dec. 9. The response will address.
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ducted by Region III. Following
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Am-ington, D.C., and is waiting for the th2 review, the regional office in Whatris ein. question is the
' commission to make a determina-Chicago ordered a hc!d on further amount of pressure the jacks can tion on how to proceed ~with the hydraulic jacking of supporting
' withstand before the building will underpinning, Harrison said.
piers, said Harrison, chief of the settle to con unsafe level, Harrison In the meantime, the jacking Alidland Section of the Office of said.
process can only be performed Special Cases.
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"to the hiergentime Corp. workers ty to keep normal soil settlement man Norman Saari said Tuesday
. involved.in the largest underpin -
In check, the NRC will allow it on the stop work orders are expected ining of any structure ever, Harri-a case-by-case basis, Landsman to be lifted within a week. But
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Harrison said Consumers Power Serious settlement also would.
cannot lift the soils related stop-u.. e additional stresses on the
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work orders until problems with building, which would create mapping stress cracks at the aux-cracks in the structure. he added.
lliary building are corrected.
Tbose cracks could inhibit the safe Stress cracks can be. attributed to operation of the plant's nerve building settlement, center.
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October 31. 1983 /
EN 83-69A ~
OFFICE OF INSPECTION AND ENFORCEMENT '
NOTIFICATION OF SIGNIFICANT ENFORCEMENT ACTION Licens$e: Consumers Power Company Midland Nuclear Power Plant. Units 1.and.2 Docket Nos. 50-329 and 50-330
Subject:
MODIFICATION ~TO EN 83-69 This is to inform the Comission that the Notice of Violation and Proposed Imposition of Civil Penalty discussed in EN 83-69 was not issued on October 26 1983. Another enforcement conference is scheduled for November 4,1983 to discuss the excavation and fire-line relocationiactivities. A decision on whether to propose enforcement action will be made after that meeting.
Contact:
G.'Klingler. IE 24923 J. Axelrad..IE 24909 Distribution:
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