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Forwards Draft Affidavit of C Van Vo,Providing Addl Info Re Alleged Discrimination & Possible Hanger Deficiencies, Specifically Improper Cold Pulling of Steam Generator Feedwater Pump,For Use in Review of Allegations
ML20134G075
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Site: Harris Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 11/28/1984
From: Lankford J
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
To: Gibson A, Herdt A
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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  • 101 MARIETTA ST., N.W SUITE 3100 o ATLANTA. GEORGIA 30303 NOV 2 81984 MEMORANDUM FOR: A. R. Herdt, Chief, Engineering Branch, DRS A. F. Gibson, Chief, Operations Branch, DRS THRU: P. Be' mis, Acting Director, Division of Reactor Safety FROM: J. B. Lankford, Investigation / Allegation Coordinator

SUBJECT:

'SHEARON HARRIS - ALLEGED DISCRIMINATION AND POSSIBLE HANGER DEFICIENCIES CASE N0: RII-84-A-0143 The enclosure contains a draft affidavit from Mr. Chan Van Vo which provides additional information regarding the alleged improper cold pulling of the steam generator feed water pump. The affidavit is provided for your use in your revies of the allegation.

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I j My name is Chan Van Vo. I an also known as Van Vo Davis. I am giving this j .

otatement to Robert Guild, Attorney-at-Law, of Charleston, South Carolina, who i

j h:s identified himself to me as a representative of the Government Accountability i Proj ect. I have been asked to provide further information to the Atomic Safety  ;

cad Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Cosmaission about the significance '

l cf the improper cold pulling and misalignment of the Steam Generator Feed Water '

Pump; and CF&L's mishandling of my efforts to identify and properly correct this ,

c nconformance.

2. I repeat my professional opinion expressed in my October 6, 1984, _

i Affidavit that the effective function of these pumps, valves and piping are f

cuclear safety significant. At the time I attempted to document the deficient  ;

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, fit-up of the Feed Water piping and the resultant stress-induced misalignment

cf the pusy in August 1982 - and during the entire course of construction of 1

i the Barris Plant until then- the Feed Water system, its piping, pipesupports, ,

! I valves and pumps, were classified by the Architects / Engineers, Ebasco Services,. j Inc., by CF&L and by their contractors as " Safety Class 4/ Seismic Class I,"

an acknowledgement of its nuclear safety significance. This classification l cpplied to the Feed Water system in the Barris Turbine Building. Conformance ;l totheCommission'sIbCFRPart50, Appendix 3,QualityAssuranceCriteriasuch

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) co detailed inspection and ' documentation were required for the Feed Water system.

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. D Building at the Barris Flant, CF&L faced the prospect of performing extensive and costly rework including necessary inspections and documentation as required by the NRC's QA regulations. Instead of seeing that the job was done right-by the same standards that even CF&L had cousitted to honor- CF&L sought to circumvent quality standards and thereby " alleviate all concerns related to the cdditional inspection and documentation requirements for the supports in the Turbine Building," by attempting to "de-classify" the Feed Water and Main Steam cystems inside the Turbine Building.

4. In my opinion such attempts by CF&L Engineers Ed Willett and Alex Fuller to "de-classify" these important systems simply represent efforts to cover-up their own shoddy work; as did their responses to my attempt to document cod correct the Feed Water Fump misalignment.
5. Even the limited documentation available to me now supports my position.

For Example,1' attach as Exhibit 1 Work Directive No. 2836, dated 7/13/83, for .

Turbine Building Feed Water pipe support T-3-261-1-FW-B-11, which reflects this "de-claesification" of the Feed Water hangers in the Turbine Building: " . . this hanger is considered non-seismic and will require no CI or QC involvement or cceeptance." This Work Diiective cites generic Field Change Request FCR-B-1145,

" Reclassification of MS & FW Supports in the Turbine Building." Revisions 0 and 1 reflect site approval by Ed Willett on 1/14/83 and Alex Fuller on 5/13/83, res-pectively. They are Exhibits 2 and 3, attached.

These generic FCRs rely on a November 12, 1982 Ebasco letter EB-C-14332, l

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3 Exhibit 4, for authority to " reclassify the mainsteam and feedwater pipe supports and the main steam piping, in the turbine building. These items are to be non-seismic, in accordance with letter D-C-14332." Bo mention is made of the l

Feed Water piping lines themselves in the FCRs. since the Ibasco letter expressly

! ascepts the Feed Water piping from de-classification: "Please note that the generic FCR should also cover the feedwater supports in the Turbine Building. From the

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inspection and documentation aspects, these supports can be handled as 331.1 non-seismic, however, the lines will not be declassified to non-seismic." Thus, even long after my observation of the improper fit-up of the Feed Water pipe-to-pump connection the Feed Water piping line r===4aad geismic Class I- requiring Quality Assurance program compliance. The Bergen- Patterson drawing for pipe-support FU-E-11. Exhibit 5. dated 5/27/83, continues to reflect " Safety Class 4/

Seismic Class I" for this hanger. f 1 1

6. I continue to question the validity of CFM.'s attempts to solve their probisms of shoddy work at the Barris Plant through such "de-classification" of quality requirements. The nonconformance I observed was a violation of such quality requirements applicable at the ties they were violated. Ny concerns should have been investigated and documented properly at the time by my management.

They were not. Neither "de-classification" of defective work nor discarding employee complaints will aske the Shearon Barris Nuclear Power Plant safe. I only hope that this NRC Licensing Board will.

SWORN to and subscribed before me Chan Van To this day of November, 1984.

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cd I' st Complainant, duly represented by counsel, and having reached a satisfactory resolution of the matter with Respondent Company, has requested that this matter be dismissed with prejudice.

Accordingly, IT IS ORDERED that the complaint herein be, and it hereby is DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE.

Ernest G. Barnes Administrative Law Judge Dates November 15, 1984 et I

CERTIFIC ATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I camed the attached document to be mailed this date to the following persons or ceganizations at the addreses given below:

Robert Guild Attorney at Law 21351/2 Devine Street Columbia, South Carolina 29205 Carolina Power & Light Company P.O. Box 1551 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Ms. Margaret Glas Asociate General Counsel Carolina Power & Light Company

. P.O. Box 1551 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 United States Regulatory Com mission 101 Marietta Street Suite 3100 Atlanta, Georgia 30303 Mr. James C. Stewart Area Director Wage and Hour Division United States Depmment of r.ahne .

P.O. Box 27486 Raleigh, North Carolina 27611 l I

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. Administrative Law Judge Dated: November 15,1984 l

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