ML20106E279
| ML20106E279 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Byron  |
| Issue date: | 10/15/1984 |
| From: | Farrar D COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. |
| To: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20106E269 | List: |
| References | |
| 9314N, NUDOCS 8410290140 | |
| Download: ML20106E279 (3) | |
Text
~x 4
7 N Commonwealth Edison
.i.*
[
) on3 First Nitionti Pina. Chicigo. Illinois i
l'?
7 Address R: ply to: Post Offica Bcx 767 i
X
,,/ Chicago. lilinois 6%%
s l
October 16, 1984 Mr. James G. Keppler Regional Administrator U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Region III 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 Sub ject:
Byron Generating Station Unit 1 IE Inspection Report No. 50-454/84-40 NRC Docket No. 50-454 Reference (a):
August 31, 1984 letter from R. L. Spessard to Cordell Reed (b):
October 3, 1984 letter from D. L. Farrar to J. G. Keppler
Dear Mr. Keppler:
Reference (a) provided the report of an inspection at Byron Station and corporate offices by Mr. H. A.
Walker in June and July, 1984.
During that inspection, it appeared that certain activities were in violation of NRC requirements.
Reference (b) forwarded Commonwealth Edison's response to the Notice of Violation appended to Reference (a).
' Attachment A to this letter provides a revised Page 3 to Attachment B of Reference (b) in response to comments from members yof_your staff.
Please address further questions regarding this matter to this office.
Ve y trul rs,
(,c4 n
A D. L. Farrar
'l Director of Nuclear Licensing Attachments I
8410290140 841023 PDR ADOCK 05000454 OCT 18 E64 O
PDR 9314N
y, W
.s_
- h'
"; ( 2. b. ( 2 )' '. ( b ) : :.During _ the review of aud' itor certification records (for. Operations QA auditors, the inspector noted that certain personnel had limited nuclear quality.
- assurance 1 experience.
Most were recent college graduates:with,short term quality. experience at the Byron. Station.. This is an open item which will be
. reviewed;at a later date (454/84-40-05).
RESPONSE
The array of related experience for. ten of the twelve
~
Operations Quality Assurance Auditors averages 12.79 years per person and ranges from 31 years to 2.25 years (1-31 years, 1-25, 1-29, 1-16.5, 1-10.65, 1-8.5, 1-5.5, 1-3.25 and 2 with 2.25 years) involving NDE, poweriplant operations, Navy nuclear, engineering,
' construction and-Quality Assurance experience.
More specifically lthe Nuclear--Quality Assurance experience for the Station Quality-t 1 Assurance personnel at. Byron Station totals approximately 60.9 years o e an average _ of 5.08 years per person which includes
- Quality Assurance work in Commonwealth Edison and Navy Nuclear,.
Nuclear Quality: Control.and Radiation Protection experience.
The t
Byron QA Department also has one person with an SRO license for Byron Station and one : person ~ attending license training at this ltime.
The licensed' persons will be extensively involved with start-up activities:as'will those with past Navyf uclear N
g experience..
Moreover,.special attention has been given to staffing this group'with. experienced people and graduate engineers needed toicover the various activities.
As to graduate-engineers,=there are two others in this-Quality' Assurance Group.. The two'are-O
-mechanical 1and nuclear. engineers, respectively, with one-being new
'and'the other'having_been at Byron for fifteen months.
These two 4
provide technicalfneeds for thisl group.
The licensee has a very
,agressive-interview-program in selecting college graduates and fatheritechnically~ experienced people for assignments to various Edison Departments,-.which includes the Quality Assurance area.
Once a personiis selected by the Manager Quality Assurance for assignment to the QA' Department, he or she is put through a
.structuredLtraining program within'the Department.
This1 includes i
Jaj401hr. department orientation program,116 hr. class on audit u
ltraining, minimum of 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> of on-the-job training in the
~
, technique ofLauditing._ The progress of the individual in
-.peforming auditsjis then= monitored by their Lead Auditor, the LSupervisor;of Operations _QA and the Director of Operat'.ons.
During the first year in the department, Quality Assurance-people receive structured training which includes ASME Code'and: Standards, Welding, and Non-Destructive Testing and
-e
- to e=
e[ yd,
,,,,m.,,
.,s,,,
,__m,
,,.,9
_A,_
3 t
c
-3a-usually receives _other training such as in maintenance, coatings, plant systems,,etc.
Only as the person completes qualification requirements.can he or she be certified to audit additional areas.
- 2.b.(2)(d)
In reviewing Construction QA Audit No. 6-84-05, which was conducted on Westinghouse pipe support calculations, the CECO auditor determined that two errors were found'in each of the two calculations had been checked and used in pipe support design.
An observation was issued as a result of the e
1