ML20127L452

Part 21 & Deficiency Rept Re Info on Discovery That Some Masoneilan Valve Parts Supplied by Samole-Webtrol Inc Are Not Genuine.Also Confirms 881018 Telcon Rept Re Notification Criteria of 10CFR21.21(b)(2)

ML20127L452
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	10/21/1988
From:	Johnson B CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (IRM)
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ML20127L416	List: ML20127L410 ML20127L452 ML20127L502 ML20127L554
References
FOIA-92-231, REF-PT21-88 NUDOCS 9301270159
Download: ML20127L452 (7)

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MASONEILAN VALVE PARTS DEFICIENCIES l The attached 10CFR21 Report provides information on the discovery that some j Hasoneilan valve parts supplied by Sample-Vebtrol Inc. are not genuine.

, This correspondence confirms a telecon report made to VLAxelson of the i Region III staff on October 18, 1988 and thus conforirs with the notification l criteria of 10CFR21.21(b)(2) .-

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! CC Administrator, Region III. NRC l NEC Resident Inspector - Palisades

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L ATTACHMENT Consumers Power Company Palisades Plant j Docket 50-255 4

MASONE11AN VAI.VE PARTS DEFICIENCIES -

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i MASONEILAN VALVE INTERNALS DEFICIENCY 10CTR21 REPORT l

l The following information should be provided to the Nuclear Licensing Administrator when a deficiency is considered to be reportable under Part 21:

1) Name and Address of . It dividual informing the Commission (to be filled in by the Nuclear Licensing Administrator),

a. Telecon: DJMalone

Palisades Plant Consumers Power Company 1

b. Written: BDJohnson, P24-606 l

Consumers Power Company 1945 W Parnall Road 4 Jackson, MI 49201

2) Facility Identification, activity or basic component which fails to comply or contains defects is:

Masoneflan valve internals (parts) procured from Sample - Webtrol Inc for use on the Palisades Nuclear Plant, i

3) The fire constructing facility or supplying the basic component which failed to comply or contained defect is:

! Sample - Vebtrol Inc

4) a. Nature of defect or failure to comply is:

, Manoneflan valve internals (parts) procured from Sample - Webtrol as CQ (commercial grade) or non - Q were not genuine Mar.onellan parts.

Parts were manufactured by CVS Inc and Cor-Val.

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b. The safety hazard which was or could be created is:

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. Parts dedicated for use in' basic components may not meet Masoneflan specifications.

5) The date when information of defect or, f ailure to comply was obtained is:

Responsible CPCo personnel informed at 0830 on October 17, 1988.

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6) In the case of a basic corponent which contains a defect or fails to coeply the number and location of all such corponents in use at, supplied for or being supplied for one or more facilities or setivities

subject to Part 21.

j To date 12 purchase orders for 63 pieces have been identified which l vere procured zrom 1983 to 1988 as Masoneflan parts, however, parts were not genuine. 24 of the 63 pieces were purchased CO and dedicated. 20

pieces (CQ and non-Q) of the original 63 had been issued to work orders. The 6 CQ parts of these 20 cay be installed in basic 4

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7) a. The corrective action planned or taken is:

a All suspect materini remaining in the varehousa has been pulled and j

is being controlled. Location of issued material is being identified for disposition or replacement if parts have not yet been replaced.

Notified Big Rock Point who is reviewing sample Vebtrol putchases

! crders (3) for suspect valve parts. Primarily all Big Rock Point parts are believed to be genuine Masonellan parts. Reviewing i

additional product lines distributed by Sample - Webtrol Inc. for applicability.

b. The nare of the individual / organization responsible is:

John Buechler, Consumers Power is responsible for corrective action,

c. The length of tiee required to complete action was or is estimated

to be:

Issued caterial vill be dispositioned prior to start-up from our current refueling outage.

Remaining actions are estfeated to take approximately 90 days.

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6) Any advice related to the defect of failure to cocply about the facility, activity, or basic cocponent that has been, is being, or will be Fiven to purchasers or licensees:

Sample - Webtrol is the authorized Masonellan distributor for 5 other plants: Big Rock Point, D C Cook, Fere1, Davis-Besse, and Perry.

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POWER-l Date. Novembe r 3,1988 - N COMPANY-i Subject PALISADES PLANT-- Internal i 10CFR21 MEETING RECARDING SUSPECT Correspondence i MASONEILAN VALVE PARTS PROCURED FROM l SAMPLE-WEBIROL CONTROLS, INC .

i CC KVBerryhP24-614A RD0ross, Palisades DJM88*061

'ERSJalsonV NRC E 8, JMBuechler, Palieades j DWJoos, Palisades CSKozup, Palisades j JClewis, Palisades. TJPalaisano, Palisades j REHcCaleb, Palisades At 1100 on October 21, 1988, a meeting was held with representatives of i Masonellan North American Operations, Sample-Webtrol Control, Inc, Consumers

! Power Company, and the NRC. This meetinS was held to discuss the 10CFR21

{ notification made by CPCo on October 18, 1988, regarding. suspect Masoneilan l valve part s procured from Sample-Webt rol Cont rol, Inc. The following were in i attendance:

N,, R C CPCo j J Cuillen, Office of Generic R E McCaleb, QA Director

Information J H Buechler, Materials Management J J Fetrosino, Division of J R Johns, Operations Analyst Reactor Inspection D J Malone, Licensing Analyst -

and Safeguards T J Palmisano, System ragineering E R Swanson, Senior Resident Superintendent

[ Inspector D C Tu rn e r , Engineerink_Section i Supe rvisor l D Jones, General Office QA

!- D tiirsch, General Of fice QA j- Masoneilan Sample-Webt rol Cont rol s. Inc W T Allen, III, Quality Assurance R A Ray, Vice President A

Manager -W F Sample, President

! D Ellis, Technical Service Representative >

K Juncewicz, Midwest Sales. Manager R L Saraf, Nuclear Sales and l

Marketing Manager

.The purpose of this. meeting was to provide a forum for -all involved af filia-tions to presenteinfornation_regarding the procurement o t' -the' suspe_ct valve parts and ask questions'of other involved parties.

The issue regarding the suspect valve parts surfaced on.0ctober 14, 1988, when D Ellis , Masoneilan, _ identified -parts issued . for work on turbine bypass valve,.

[. CV-0511, not genuine Masoneilan replacement part's. CPCo personnel contacted 1

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2 t he part s distributor, Sample-Webtrol Controls, Inc (S-W) regarding the s u s te c t parts. On Oc t o be r 17, 1988, S-W had confirmed that several CPCo purchase orders f or Masoneilan replacement part s had been filled with parts manuf actured by corporations other than Masoneilan. This issue was presented to Plant Hanagement at the Plant Corrective Action Review Board (CARB) meeting a t 0830 on Oc t obe r 17, 1988.

At 0930 on Oc tober 18, 1988, in a conference call between S-W and CPCo, S-W inf ormed CPCo t hat they had identified ten purchase orders between 1983 and 1988 where part s other than genuine Masoneilan part s had been supplied to the Palisades Plant when Masoneilan parts numbers had originally been specified.

Of these ten purchase + orders, two were identified as QC with the remaining eight NQ. S-W further identified that the part s were manuf actured by either CVC, Inc , or COR-Val, both of Houma , LA.

The f ollowing represents information, statement s, and questions provided by the representatives present.

CPCo

1. Since the Oct ober 18, 1988, conference call, two additional purchase orders were identified for a total of 12 (two CQ, ten NQ). CPCo did not ask f or certificates of aut henticity for the two CQ purchase orders. A total of 142 purchase orders for Kasoneilan parts have been placed through S-W since 1977 (24 Q, 40 OQ, and 78 NQ).

2. Through the 12 purchase orders, a total of 63 parts were not manufactured by Ma soneil an. Of the 63 parts,12 have been issued to Work Orders (six CQ parts).

3. Approximately 45 percent of all Masoneilan part s procured for use at Palisades.were through S-W. All orders through S-W were procured for stock with a delivery time of approximately seven weeks.

Hasoneilan

1. Masoneilan presently does not authorize other vendors to manufacture their parts. Between September 1975 and September 1980, CVS Inc was authorized to manuf acture Haroneilan parts.

2. All nuclear _ plant orders, Q or WQ, are filled through Masonellan's Massachusetts facilities.

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3. There are ways in most cases to identify genuine Hasonellan parts. Both manuf acturing tolerance and stock raterial source may af f ect component o pe ra bi l i ty.

4 Hasoneilan does not authorize the use of non-Hasoneilan parts in their i

valves; nor do they authorize their distributors to sell anything other then genuine Hasoneilan parts. .

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1. S-W is an suthorized Masoneilan distributor f or sia nuclear plants in the Midwest: Palisades, Big Rock Point, D C Cook, Te rmi II , Da vi s-Be s s e , a nd Perry.

2. No other nuclear plants in S-W territory, except for Big Rock Point , have i received Kasoneilan parts f rom S-W.

i j 3. Some of the 63 parts supplied to Palisades were procured by S-W f rom CVC, l Inc after September 1980.

l 4. A portion of S-W stock was bought as one lot (without all records) from i another distributorship.

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1. J J Petrosino asked S-W how parts not manuf actured by Masoneilan got l

4 substituted. S-V responded thtt at a time, CVS, Inc was an authorized ~

3 manuf acturer that was utilized when lead-times were short. A S-W employee i who procured parts from CVS, Inc after 1980 has had employment te rminat ed l approximately one year ago.

i 2. J J Petrosino asked Masoneilan if part numbers were changed when manufac-turing specifications are changed. Masoneilan responded that each change

i s evaluated, but not in all cases are. numbers changed.

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3. J J Petrosino recommended Palisades verif y adequacy of all Hasonellan

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( 4. J J Petrosino questioned whether other (37 in North America) authorized l- Hasoneilan distributors may be sul-stituting parts manuf actured by companies other than Masoneilan. Masoneilati acknowledged this practice in other

! industries, but were legally bounc' to a degree with respect to actions j t hey could take.

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