ML20134H137
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| Issue date: | 10/01/1990 |
| From: | Claxton G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II) |
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h' REPORT OF INTERVIEW WITH FRANCES HANNAH HANNAH was telephonically interviewed on October 1, 1990, by Nuclear Regulatory Commission Investigator Gary H. Claxton. HANNAH is employed by the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Chestnut Street Tower, CST 15-E38A, i
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37401, telephone (615) 751-5820, as a senior purchasing agent. Upon being advised of the nature of the investigation, HANNAH provided the following information.
HANNAH said that in October 1989 she was assigned to locate three Potter and Brumfield (P&B) electric relays for the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant (SNP). HANNAH said the relays were difficult to obtain and none of the normal sources were able to supply them within a reasonable time period because of a production halt at the P&B factory. HANNAH recalled she contacted several sources for the relays without success before she learned of Spectronics, Incorporated, in Mobile, Alabama. HANNAH said she contacted Spectronics by telephone and talked with Peter TOLBERT.
HANNAH said she was told by TOLBERT that Spectronics would be able to supply j
the relays within a few weeks and October 16th was agreed upon as the delivery date.
She said she did not question TOLBERT as to how he could supply the relays so quickly and she did not specifically ask if the relays were new.
She said it was obvious that TOLBERT did not tell her the relays were rebuilt or she would have cancelled the order.
She referred to the confirming order issued by TVA to Spectronics on September 15, 1989, and the accompanying conditions of contract. HANNAH said condition 7 of the standard TVA contract requires that purchased items be new as opposed to surplus or rebuilt.
HANNAH said since the relays were not to be used in a safety system, no traceability was. required; therefore, that question did not arise. However, she said TOLBERT was aware the relays were to be used in a nuclear plant by virtue of her conversation with him, and the fact that he shipped them to SNP.
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