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Testimony of D Bentley Re Welding Inspector Concerns
ML20133C491
Person / Time
Site: Catawba, 05000000
Issue date: 09/23/1983
From: Bentley D
DUKE POWER CO.
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,o UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY CO.DilSSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of )

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DUKE POWER COMPANY, et al. ) Docket Nos. 50-413 (Catawba Nuclear Station,

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Units 1 and 2) )

TESTIMONY OF DEAN BENTLEY 1 Q. STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR WORK ADDRESS.

2 A. Dean Bentley, Catawba Nuclear Project, P.O. Box 223, Clover, SC 3 29710.

4 Q. WHAT IS YOUR PRESENT JOB WITH DUKE POWER COMPANY?

5 A. Visual Welding Inspector A, Reactor No. 2 6 Q. SUMMARIZE YOUR EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS, INCLUDING 7 OTHER DUKE AND NON-DUKE JOBS, EDUCATION, 8 CERTIFICATIONS, AND COMPANY SPONSORED COURSES AND 9 TRAINING.

10 A. Inspector - Duke Power - 5 years,1978 to present.

11 Welder - Duke Power - Approximately 1\ years,1976 - 1977.

12 Previously I worked for Daniel Construction Company for 13 approximately 6 years, including 1 year as General Foreman, 14 approximately 1 year as foreman, 6 months as a welder.

15 I have 4 years of high school, and 360 hours0.00417 days <br />0.1 hours <br />5.952381e-4 weeks <br />1.3698e-4 months <br /> Spartanburg Tech in 16 welding.

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.-t 1 Q. ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH WHAT IS CO>D10NLY REFERRED TO AS A 2 THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS WHICH WERE EXPRESSED IN 3 LATE 1981/EARLY 1982?

4 A. Yes.

5 Q. WHAT IS YOUR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THESE CONCERNS

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6 WERE?

7 A. Lack of support from supervision and upper management in the QA 8 organization. .

9 Q. DID YOU EXPRESS ANY CONCERNS AS A WELDING INSPECTOR TO 10 ANY OF THE TASK FORCES OR TO DUKE POWER MANAGEMENT?

11 A. Yes.

12 Q. TO WHOM DID YOU EXPRESS YOUR CONCERNS?

13 A. I expressed concerns to Mr. Wells and management.

14 Q. WERE YOUR CONCERNS WRITTEN?

(' 15 A. Yes.

16 Q. DESCRIBE EACH DOCUMENT WHICH CONTAINS YOUR EXPRESSION 17 OF CONCERNS, AND INDICATE WHO IT WAS SUBMITTED TO.

18 A. I submitted a Technical Recourse to Bill Lee through my 19 supervisor.

20 Q. DID YOU FEEL FREE TO EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?

21 A. Yes.

22 Q. DID YOU EXPRESS ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS?

23 A. Yes. .

24 Q. DO THE DOCUMENTS ATTACHED TO YOUR TESTIMONY AS 25 ATTACHMENT A REFLECT YOUR WRITTEN CONCERNS?

26 A. Yes, the Technical Recourse attached here (Attachment A) sets l 27 forth all of my concerns.

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4 1 Q. ARE ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS INCLUDED IN THESE DOCUMENTS?

2 A. Yes.

3 Q. PLEASE SUMMARIZE AND EXPLAIN WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO 4 COMMUNICATE BY YOUR CONCERNS.

S A. That there was a greater need of support and understanding from 6 technical support and our upper management than was being shown 7 at that time.

8 Q. WERE YOUR CONCERNS INVESTIGATED BY THE TASK FORCES?

9 A. Yes.

10 Q. DID YOU ATTEND ANY MEETINGS WITH TASK FORCE AND/OR QA 11 MANAGEMENT MEMBERS WHERE THE TASK FORCE FINDINGS ,

12 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS WERE DISCUSSED?

13 A. Yes. I met with Mr. Coggins' group.

14 Q. WERE THERE ANY CHANGES MADE IN THE QA PROGRAM AFTER k 15 THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS AND THE TASK FORCE 16 INVESTIGATION OF THESE CONCERNS?

17 A. Yes. ,

18 Q. DESCRIBE THE CHANGES OF WHICH YOU ARE AWARE IN THE QA 19 PROGRAM.

J 20 A. There were avenues opened up, through procedure changes, that 21 provided more communication through technical support and 22 management on problems that occurred in the field.

23 Q. TO WHAT EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED ISSUES 24 RAISED BY THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS AND TO WHAT 25 EXTENT HAVE THESE CHANGES ADDRESSED YOUR PARTICULAR 26 CONCERNS?

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1 A. Management should now be more aware of conditions that arise in 2 the field. Management now has ready access, in most cases, same 3 day access to problems as they occur in the field.

4 Q. HAVE THESE CHANGES LED TO GREATER SUPPORT FOR QA FROM 5 SUPERVISION AND MANAGEMENT?

6 A. Yes.

7 Q. DO YOU CURRENTLY HAVE ANY CONCERNS RELATING TO THE 8 QA PROGRAM WHICH HAVE NOT BEEN RESOLVED?

9 A. No.

10 Q. THE WELDING INSPECTOR CONCERNS HAVE BEEN 11 CHARACTERIZED AS CONCERNS ABOUT THE QUALITY AND 12 SAFETY OF CONSTRUCTION AT CATAWB A. DO YOU AGREE OR 13 DISAGREE ,WITH THAT CHARACTERIZATION?

14 A. There was a concern that existed among the inspectors as to the 15 ability of certain people in the technical support group to interpret 16 procedures and resolve problems that they were required to handle.

17 To the best of my knowledge, these concerns did not adversely 18 affect the safety of the plant.

19 Q. DID THE EXPRESSION OF YOUR CONCERNS INDICATE YOUR 20 BELIEF THAT THERE WAS A BREAKDOWN IN THE QA PROGRAM 21 OR INDICATE THAT THE QA PROGRAM WAS NO LONGER 22 WORKING?

23 A. No. My concern was that there was a lack of understanding by 24 upper management of the duties diat inspectors were being asked to 25 perform at that point in time.

26 Q. DID YOUR CONCERNS REFLECT A BELIEF ON YOUR PART THAT

! 27 THE CATAWBA PROJECT IS NOT BEING CONSTRUCTED SAFELY?

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2 Q. IN YOUR VIEW, HAS THE QA PROGRAM BEEN EFEECTIVE WHILE ' /

3 YOU HAVE WORKED AS AN INSPECTOR AT CATAWBA? -

4 A. Yes. ,

5 Q. ARE YOU AWARE OF ANY DEFICIENCIES IN CONSTRUCTION OR:151' ~

6 THE QA PROGRAM WHICH WOULD CAUSE YOU TO QUESTION 7 WHETHER CATAWBA IS SAFELY BUILT? IF SO, PLEASE EXPLAIN.

8 A. None.

9 Q. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD .TO YOUR

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1 11 A. No.

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15 I hereby certify that I have read and understand this document, and 16 believe it to be my true, accurate and complete testimony. ,,

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21 22 23 Sworn to and subscribed before me 24 this _13M day of September,1983.

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