ML20151N789

Notice of Nonconformance from Insp on 850715-19

ML20151N789
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Issue date:	12/31/1985
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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ML20151N783	List: ML20151N777 ML20151N789 ML20151N794
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REF-QA-99901023 99901023-85-01, 99901023-85-1, NUDOCS 8601030118
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APPENDIX A 1 Johnston Pump Company Chattanooga, Tennessee -

NOTICE OF NONCONFORMANCE

- Based on the results of an NRC inspection conducted on July 15-19, 1985, it appears that certain of your activities were not conducted in accordance with NRC requirements.

Criterion V of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 states: " Activities affecting quality shall be prescribed by documented instructions, procedures, or drawings, of a type appropriate to the circumstances and shall be accomplished in accordance with these instructions, procedures, or drawings. Instructions, procedures, or drawings shall include appropriate quantative or qualitative acceptance criteria for determining that important activities have been satisfactorily accomplished."

Nonconformances with these requirements are as follows:

A. Revision 0 of QA Procedure No. JCP-VE-21, Visual Examination Procedure, states, " Personnel shall have an annual visual examination to assure natural or corrected near distance acuity such that they are capable of reading standard J-1 letters on standard Jaeger test type charts for near vision or equivalent methods". In addition, QA Procedure No. JCP-1, Rev.

O, Qualification and Certification of Nondestructive Examination Personnel states, in part, "The [ eye] examination shall be administered on an annual basis."

Contrary to the above, objective evidence of the eye test for one non-destructive examination technician could not be produced to support qualification as a Level II Liquid Penetrant Examiner in 1983.

B. Revision 2 of Quality Assurance Manual (QAM) Section 2-G, Qualification of Welders, Paragraph 2.2.1, states, in part, "After welding, materials shall be reviewed and tested in accordance with the requirements of the applicable ASME Code Section." (The applicable ASME Code Section isSection IX, Welding and Brazing Qualifications.)

Contrary to the above, welder No. 28 was listed on his Welder Qualification Record as being qualified to deposit filler metal using both " upward" and

" downward" weld progression (in vertical welds), yet he was only qualified by test to weld in the " upward" direction. ASME Section IX, paragraph QW 410.16 is listed as an essential variable in the performance qualification of welders using the shielded metal arc welding process, and prohibits a change in weld progression direction from that qualified by test to perform.

C. ASME Code Section III, Division I, Paragraph ND2420 states, in part, "The required tests shall be conducted for each lot of covered, flux cored, or fabricated electrodes; for... submerged arc flux."

Contrary to the above, the weld repair of an 18-inch pump bowl was performed by a Johnston Pump vendor using weld filler metal that had not been tested to determine its actual chemical and physical properties.

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D. Quality Assurance Manual Section 2-C, Revision 1, Paragraph 2.4, Records, states, in part, "JPC indoctrination records shall include date, subject, time (2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br />, 3 hours3.472222e-5 days <br />8.333333e-4 hours <br />4.960317e-6 weeks <br />1.1415e-6 months <br />, etc.), instructor, attendance and shall be initialed by attendees."

Contrary to the above, all attendees of seven training sessinns conducted in 1984 and 1985 did not initial the attendance sheet.

E. Quality Assurance Manual Section 16-A, Revision 0, Paragraph 16.2.3 states, in part, "The Quality Assurance Manager...shall maintain a log by types of nonconformities, respnnsibility, and actions taken."

Contrary to the above, the Corrective Action Log maintained in the Nonconformance file is not so structured.

F. Quality Assurance Manual Section 2-A, Revision 2, Paragraph 1.2.1 states, in part, " Department managers, the Shop Supervisor, and the Procurement Buyer shall semi-annually review all nonconformances and corrective actions applicable to their respective activities. This review shall be... documented...."

Contrary to the above, the semi-annual review of nonconformances and corrective actions that should have occurred in early 1985 was not conducted.

G. Quality Assurance Manual Section 15-A, Revision 3, Paragraph 15.4.4 states, "The Quality Assurance Manager shall complete the NCR listing the technical justification for items dispositioned repair. The Quality Assurance Manager and the Manager of Engineering shall sign and date the NCR."

Contrary to the above, NCRs dispositioned " repair" contained no such technical justification for the repair activity performed.

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