ML20137U486
| ML20137U486 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 12/06/1985 |
| From: | Petrosino J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | Zech G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| References | |
| REF-QA-99901027 NUDOCS 8512090326 | |
| Download: ML20137U486 (7) | |
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,,,,, December 6, 1985 Docket No. 99901027 MEMORANDUM FOR: Garys G. Zech, Chief Vendor Program Branch Division of Quality Assurance, Vendor and Technical Training Center Programs Office of Inspection and Enforcement THRU: Ellis W. Merschoff, Chief Reactive Inspection Section '
Vendor Program Branch Division of Quality Assurance, vendor, and Technical Training Center Programs Office of Inspecticn and Enforcement FROM: Joseph J. Petrosino Reactive Inspection Section Vendor Program Branch Division of Quality Assurance, Vendor, g and Technical Training Center Programs Office of Inspection and Enforcement
SUBJECT:
TRIP REPORT, GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) SERVICE ADVICE LETTERS ATTACHMENTS: APPENDIX A - APPLICABLE GE COMPANY PRODUCT DEPARTMENTS APPENDIX B - LIST OF SERVICE ADVICE LETTERS OBTAINED AT GE On July 29, 1985 J. J. Petrosino of this office met with three members of the Nuclear Plant Services (NPS) department of the General Electric Company's Apparatus and Engineering Services Organization (A&ES0), at their Darien, Illinois offices.
The main subjects discussed were General Electric Company's Service Advice Letters (SAL), manufacturing facilities who utilize NPS for their SAL distribution, and the Quality Assurance organization / program adopted by NPS.
The information obtained will be used for reactor plant inspection followups concerning vendor-licensee communications, contacting GE technical representatives concerning specific service advice letters, and future inspections at any of the three GE Nuclear Plant Service offices.
During the inspection, it was noted that the distribution responsibilities of Service Advice letters has been taken back by the individual product departments, as of January 1985. Appendix A is a listing of the product departments, for which NPS transmitted service advice letters prior to that time,
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, December 6, 1985 Gary G. Zech There are approximately 26 GE product departments which manufacture electrical products. NPS distributed SALs for approximately six of them. Appendix A, lists each of the product departments that the NPS division had agreements with, for distribution of SALs.
Copies of the specific product department SALs were available for review including cover letters from the applicable product departments which specified which customers received the equipment. In some cases, where the end users were not known, the cover letter required all nuclear plant licensees to be notified.
Additionally, the Darien, Illinois office had copies of the actual service advice cover letters that were transmitted. They were kept individually by SAL number. These customer mailing lists indicated each specific nuclear plant where a individual SAL was transmitted.
It was determined that the other approximately 20 GE product departments transmitted their own service advice letters to their customers. They did not utilize the services of NPS for SAL distribution. Some of the major components handled by these 20 product departments are:
a) Wire & Cable e) Metering devices b) Capacitors f) Robotics and visual products c)- Appliance motors g) Speciality transformers d) Lighting components h) Speed variators The other two nuclear plant service offices are in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, with a sub office in Waltham, Massachusetts, and the second is in Norcross, Georgia. Additi,onally, a fourth location in Oakland, California was utilized to transmit SALs to the nuclear power plant licensees. This is also part of the A&ESO services department. However, there was not a ruclear services department at the Oakland office. -
A quality assurance program designed to meet the requirements of ANSI N45.2, Appendix B of 10 CFR 50, and ASME Section III, Division I appears to be in place.
A brief review of the NPS 10 CFR Part 21 Reporting Procedure was also performed and the procedure appeared satisfactory.
I Additional Information Highlights:
Licensee audits have been performed at the Darien, Illinois NPS office.
No NRC inspections have been performed at the Darien, Illinois office.
Additionally, it could not be determined if any NRC inspections had been performed at the other NPS offices.
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No engineering evaluations are perfomed at the Darien, Illinois lucation concerning problems / deficiencies. They are referred to the cognizant product department.
All SALs are generated by the cognizant product departments. NPS does not and has not generated SALs. They are only a distribution point.
There are no electronic record retrieval systems for SALs in place at the NPS office in Darien. Copies were maintained, but no input to any computer system was implemented.
No SAL logging system was in place. Copies of SALs were placed in three ring binders in order of arrival. Assurance of complete SAL files would have to be verified at the applicable product department.
Service Advice letters are generated only by the applicable Product Department. Service Information letter (SIls) are issued only by Nuclear Engineering Business Operations (NEB 0), San Jose, CA. Turbine Information letters (TIls) are issued only by the Medium Turbine Cepartment, Schenectady, New York.
No formal SAL distribution programs were ever in place at NPS, only general policies were utilized for distribution.
End user mailing lists for each specific SAL were provided to NPS by the product department. If all end user's were not know, complete nuclear plant licensee notifications were made.
The address of the fourth plant services office which has transmitted SALs in the Western U.S. is: GE - Fossil Plant Services, 7777 Pardde Lane, Oakland, California.
The three regional nuclear plant service office addresses are as follows:
- 1) Eastern Service Department - Nuclear Plant Services Apparatus &
Engineering Services ATTN: Mr. J. Flyr.n - General Manager Moore Road Industrial Plaza King of Prussia, Pennsylvania Sub-office: 29 Sawyer Road Waltham, Massachusetts
- 2) Southern Service Department - Nuclear Plant Services Apparatus &
Engineering Services
-ATTH: Mr. J. Brown - General Manager 22 Technology Park Norcross, Georgia
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December 6, 1985 Gary G. Zech' 3) Central Service Department - Nuclear Plant Services Apparatus &
Engineering Services ATTN: Mr. _B. Campbell - General Manager 8157 South Cass Avenue
.Darien, Illinois PERSONS CONTACTED Mr. Harold K. Herzog, Technical Support District Manager (312)789-5923 Mr. Robert Frentrop, Technical Support Electrical Service Manager (312)789-5922 Mr. Thomas Mikulski, Quality Manager (312) 789-5374
-**Mr. J. M. . Austin, Norcross, Georgia (404) 447-7271
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2 Appendix A -
Listed below are the product departments which utilized the Nuclear Plant
, Service departments for their service advice letter distribution. The specific product departments below may have other component or manufacturing facility locations which are not listed.
- 1) Breaker Business Section P.O. Box 408 Burlington, Iowa 52601 Mr. H. D. Champion - Manager (319) 753-8424/6424/8400 Product: 5-15 K.V. class circuit breakers
- 2) Breaker Business Section 6901 Elmwood Avenue Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19142 Mr. R. Miller - Engineering and QC Manager (215) 726-2626/2900 Product: 5-15 K.V. class circuit breakers
- 3) Power Systems Management 205 Great Valley Parkway Malvern, Pennsylvania 19355-0715 Mr. W. S.' Gaudioso - Field Service Manager (215) 251-2001 Product: Relays
- 4) Ccatractor Equipment Business Operations 41 Woodford Avenue Plainville, Connecticut 06062 Mr. P. M. Piqueria - Product Service Manager
-(203) 747-7156 Product: 600 volt class circuit breakers, panelboards, and busways
- 5) General Purpose Control P.O. Box 2913 Bloomington, Illinois 61701 Mr. D. Eberhard - Customer Service Manager (309) 662-4311 Product: Contactors
- 6) General Purpose Control P.O. Box 489 Melbane, North Carolina 27302 Mr.'W. C. Zint - Product Service Manager (913) 563-3048 Product: Motor Control Centers 4
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, 1 Appendix B -
Service advice letters obtained from General Electric Company Nuclear Plant
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The NRC has been requested not to supply complete sets of the SALs to the licensees.
SAL #/ TAB SUBJECT DATE 501.1/073B Type NEC 30 & 60A Fuse holders 11/12/82 307.0/073B- 4.16 KV & 350 MVA-78,000 A Hi-Momentary 11/12/82 302.0/073B Vertical 5 & 15 KV BKR Switch Operator 11/12/82 342.2/ SB0 AM 13.8-1000 & 750 MVA Bkrs Arc Chutes 4/7/82 342.1/SBD PM 13.8-500 & 750 MVA Breaker Arc Chutes 10/28/81 343.1/073B SKY & 15KV Vert. Swgr. Positive Interlock 1/28/82 338.1/073 5KV & 15KV Vert. Swgr. Elevating mtr Switchguard 8/26/31 332.1/073B SKV & 15KV Vert. Swgr. Filter Assembly (Outdoor) 11/12/82 330.1/073 SB-12 Aux Switches used with AM & Power VAC Circuit breakers in Nuclear Applications 7/2/79 328.1/073 _ Type AM Magne-Blast Ckt. Bkr. with ML-13 Mechanism Trip armature travel 11/18/73 i 327.1/073 Spring discharge Cam M36HH-13.8KV-1000 MVA Vertical Lift Metal Clad Swgr. 6/7/78 326.1/073 Vertical Lift 5 & 15KV Metalclad Swgr Breaker position switch operator 5/23/78 325.2/073 Magne Blast Breaker Striker Plate 3/8/78 325.1/073 Magne Blast Breaker Striker Plate 3/3/78 324.2/073 Maintenance /Magne Blast Ckt Breaker Power Factor Testing 3/8/78 324.1/073 .Maintenace/Magne Blast Ckt Breaker Power Factor and High Potential Testing 323.1/073- 4.16KV Vert. Lift Metal Clad Swgr. Primary Disconnecting Device 2/1/78 318.1A/073 ML-13 Mechanism Sleeve Bearing Replacement 3/29/77 312.1/073 AM-13 13.8-1000-3H & 4H Breakers Tuf-Loc Bushing & Latching Pawl Stop Block 7/22/84
'9.1/175 AKR-30 Low Voltage Power Ckt. Bkr. Closing Spring Assembly 6/28/78
.9.2/175 ARK 30 & AKR 50 Low Voltage Power Circuit Breaker Ratchet and Roller Assembly 7/18/78 4
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9.3/175 AK 15/25/50/75/100 Low Voltage Power Circuit Breaker with Undervoltage Trip Devices 4/2/79 9.6/175 AKR-30 and AKR 50 Electrically Operated Low Voltage Power Circuit Breakers-possible failure to close upon command 1/2/81 SAL #/ TAB SUBJECT DATE 9.7/175 AKR 30/50 Ckt Bkrs - Flat head screw backs out 11/2/81 9.10/175 AKR and Powerbreak Ckt Bkrs supplied with micro versa trip programmers 3/25/82 9.11/175 AKR-30 and AKR-50 Electrically operated low voltage power circuit breakers -
improperly hardened spring prop -
defective switch 9/13/82 9.35/175 AK 15/25/50/75/100 Low voltage power circuit breaker with undervoltage trip device (IE Bulletin 79-09 followup) 4/15/83 9.15/175 AKR-30/50 Low voltage power Ckt Bkrs with undervoltage devices - maintenance procedures 8/22/83 9.16/175 AKR 30/50 Low voltage power Ckt Bkr -
insulated link abrasion 170.1/721 CT Gamble Industries - Adjustable Resistors 8/31/82 165../721 HEA Relays - Possible Failure due to malformed torsion springs 8/10/81 166.1/721 Uninsulated Flexible Leads 11/12/81 207.1/721 SBN - Stop tab breakage - potential for misoperation of SBM control switches 2/27/84 206.1/721 SBM - switch contact closing potential for contact closure failure 4/11/83 161.1/721 IAC Relays - loose wiring connections 5/5/78 .
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