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Rept of Interview W/Jv Padovano,Pullman Higgins Employee Re Alleged Falsification of NDE Repts by Interviewee While Employed at Plant
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Report of Interview with Mr. James V. PAD 0VAND James V. PAD 0VAND, former Pullman Higgins (P-H) Level 2 Nondestructive Examination-(NDE) Technician, was interviewed by Investigator R. A.

MATAKAS at Dover, NH, on June 21, 1983.

The purpose of the interview was to discuss the alleged falsification of NDE reports by PAD 0VANO while he was employed by P-H at the Seabrook Station.

PAD 0VANO was pre-l viously interviewed on May 15 and 22, 1983, and executed a sworn state-ment (Attachment (3)) wherein he denied falsification of P-H NDE reports.

During this interview with PADOVANO, he initially denied that he had falsified P-H NDE reports while employed at the Seabrook Station.

After approximately thirty minutes of being interviewed, PAD 0VAND admitted that he had falsified "a good number" of P-H' magnetic particle (MP) and liquid penetrant (LP) NDE inspection reports wh'ile employed at the Seabrook Station.

PADOVANO said he did actually perform, and accurately document, all of his assigned safety related NDE assignments.

However, he said he

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did not perform all of his assigned non-safety related HDE assignments but did submit the reports which falsely documented the work as being completed.

He said he could not now identify the welds he did not do and could not guess as to their number.

He cited samples of welds which he did not per-form his assigned NDE work as " socket welds in the, turbine building" and other non-safety related welds that were "hard to get to".

He said in these instances he did submit the NDE reports, falsely reporting that the NDE examinations had been completed.

He said that neither his supervisor (Ed BOWLES) nor P-H management was aware that he was not performing his assigned NDE inspections and he did not know of any other P-H NDE personnel who were falsifying flDE reports.

The reporting investigator showed PADOVANO the inspection reports contained in Attach 5ent (7 which PAD 0VANO was sus-o 4" pected of falsifying, and PADOVANO said he coul identify the reports as 3

those in which he did not p'erform the actual NDE examinations.

The report-ing investigator then questioned _ PADOVANO about the " lug weld" that PAD 0VANO allegedly performed a MP examination on just before his employment with f

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PAD 0VANO said he did recall the weld and admitted that he had submitted the inspection report without actually performing the MP inspec-tion.

However, he said that he had previously performed a MP inspection on the weld and mistakenly submitted a:1.P report.

PADOVAN0 further admitted that he did not have any accredited college

. credit f, rom the University of. Denver (U of D) and had documented that-he.

l did have a B.S. Degree from the U of D to. impress P-H.

He said that he.

made up the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory NDE Certification document (Attach-inent (6) pertains), that he submitted the document to P-H and that he had. forged James LEE's signature on the document.

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I, RAYMOND R. DONALD, HEREBY MAKE THE TOLLOWING VOLUNTARY STATEMENT TO MR. R.

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I MAKE THIS STATEMENT WITH NO THREATS HAVING BEEN MADE OR PROMISES HAVING BEEN EXTENDED TO ME.

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MANAGER AT THE SEABROOK STATION AND HAVE BEEN IN THIS POSITION SINCE ABOUT J 1982.

IN JANUARY 1983 MARK DANIELS, P-H NDE TECHNICIAN, REJECTED A WELD BASED ON g

A PT TEST THAT HE CONDUCTED TO CLEAR AN NCR. THE WELD HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN AC BY JIM P000VANO, P-H NDE TECHNICIAN, WHO 'ALSO HAD CONDUCTED A PT ON THE WELD.

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A RESULT OF DANIELS' EXAMINATION, BOTH DANIELS AND JOHN BELIVEAU, P-H QAE NCRS, WROTE A SUPPLEMENT TO NCR 1147 AND FORWARDED SAME TO UE&C. THE DISPOSITION C BACKFROMUE&C,gEDAPRIL 11, 1983, TELLING US ESSENTIALLY, TO SPOT CHECK A SAMPLING 0FP0f0 VAN 0'SWORK.

PRIOR TO THIS, ON APRIL 6, 1983, I ATTENDED A MEETING WITHUE&CTHEPURPOSEOFWHICHWASTODISCUSSWHATAg0NWESHOULDTAKECONCERNING THE ROBLEM.

INITIALLY, IT WAS MY FEELING THAT P070VANO HAD JUST MADE A HUMAN ERROR j

n IN EVALUATING HIS INSPECTION OF THE WELD. ON APRIL 6, 1983, I TALKED TO BOTH NgANIELS ABOUT WHAT WE (P-H NDE) WERE G0ING TO DO TO CLEAR PO VAND BASICALLY, HE I TOLD P070 VAN 0 THAT WE WERE G0ING TO REINSPECT SOME OF HIS WORK.

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P-HNgTECHNICIANSACREEANDDANIELSWERESUBSEQUENTLY ASSIGNEDTOREINSPECTSOMEOFP0f0 VAN 0'SWORK.

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ME AND TOLD ME THAT HE AND DANIELS HAD PERFORMED SOME'0F THE REINSPECTION AN p tb-HAD STRONG SUSPICIONS THAT P070 VAN 0 HAD NOT PERFOR"ED SOME OF TUE INSPECT g

HE HAD BEEN ASSIGNED TO D0. 4 I N S THIS CONVERSATION WAS A FRIDAY S0 I TOLD ACREE TO REPORT WHAT HE HAD TOLD ME TO HIS SUPERVISOR, ED B0WLES, ON MONDAY MORNING.

ON MONDAY, APRIL II, 1983, I TALKED TO BOTH ED BOWLES AND P.ICHARD DAVIS, P-H QA MANAGER, ABOUT ACREE'S FINDINGS AND DAVIS SAID THAT HE UOULD NOTIFY MR. SINGLETON, OUR f;DE SECTION THEN STARTED TO REINSPECT YANKEEAT0gIgYA),ABOUTOURSUSPICIONS.

MORE OF P0/QVAN0'S WORK TO DETERMINE IF THEY C0'JLD FIND EVIDENCE TO S WAS OR WAS NOT PERFORMING HIS' ASSIGNED INSPECTIONS.

BY APRIL 15, 1983, SOME OF THE REINSPECTION HAD BEEN COMPLETED AND IT WAS REPORTED TO ME THAT DEFIEN FOUND THAT CONFLICTED WITH POD 0 VAN 0'S ORIGINAL INSPECTIO*'S.

ON APRIL 19, 1983, I CCNDUCTED INTERVIEWS WITH SEVERAL OF OUR NDE PERSOMMEL ANC THE RESULTS OF INTERVIEUS LED ME TO BELIEVE THAT THERE MAY EE 501E VALIDITY TO OUR CONCERNS I FELT THAT THERE MAY BE' SOME PROBLEMS WITH P0 riiN0'S PAST INSPECTIONS. MYM g p B C< S [ 2, Page 1

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CONTIN'UhTIbN OF SWORN ' STATEMENT BY MR. RAYMOND R. DONALD '

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'WAS PRESENT WITH ME WHEN I CONDUCTED THE AFOREMENTIONED INTERVIEWS.

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'THE FACTS AS WE KNEW THEM, DAVIS AND I BOTH FELT THAT WE SHOULD NOT TERMINATE POD 0VANO BECAUSE WE STILL WANTED TO HAVE MORE CONVERSATION WITH HIM REGARDING OUR CONCERNS; HOWEVER, I INSTRUCTED BILL HINZ, P-H NDE LEVEL 3, TO PULL POD 0 VAN 0'S NDE CERTIFICATIONS.

ON APRIL 27, 1983, DAVIS, B0WLES AND I SAT DOWN WITH POD 0VAND AND QUESTIONED HIM CONCERNING OUR CONCERNS.

POD 0VANO DENIED NOT HAVING DONE HIS ASSIGNED INSPE,CTIONS BUT ADMITTED.THAT HE HAD " PUSHED" THE DWELL AND DEVELOPING TIMES ON OCCASION DURING l

l PT~ EXAMINATIONS. AS A RESULT, POD 0VANO WAS TERMINATED FOR " POOR WORKMANSHIP".

OTHER THAN AS STATED AB0VE, I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY OTHER ACTUAL OR SUSPECTED FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS NOR AM I AWARE OF ANYONE IN P-H MANAGEMENT OR SUPERVISION WHO MAY HAVE SUCH INFORMATION.

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REGARDING DAILY ACTIVITY RECORDS, I DO NOT ROUTINELY REVIEW THESE DOCUMENTS.

DURING THE DECEMBER 1982 - FEBRUARY 1983 TIME FRAME, THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL l

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g NDE PORTION OF THE SEABROOK CONTRACT.AS A RESULT, WE TOLD THE NDE TECHNICIANS

'THAT THEY WOULD HAVE TO WORK LONG HOURS AND WEEKENDS; HOWEVER, I DO NOT FEEL WHAT WE WERE ASKING THEM TO DO WAS UNREASONABLE.

AT NO TIME DID WE ASK OUR TECHNICIANS TO SACRIFICE QUALITY FOR PRODUCTION.

UE&C WAS MAINLY CONCERNED WITH THE RT BACKLOG.

THE PT AND MT BACKLOG WAS MAINLY A P-H CONCERN AND TO A LESSER DEGREE A VE&C CONCERN.

AGAIN, WE NEVER ASKED OUR PEOPLE TO SACRIFICE QUALITY,FOR PRODUCTION AND I DO NOT FEEL THAT OUR ACTIONS INDICATED SUCH.

I HAVE READ OVER THIS TWO PAGE STATEMENT AND HAVE DISCUSSED ITS CONTENTS WITH MR. MATAVAS.

I HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED ITS CONTENTS WITH MY INITIALS, CORRECTED ERRORS AND IT IS THE TRUTH TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE AND BELIEF.

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SWORN ST/.TEMENT u MR. EDWARD R. BOWLES, JR., P-H NDE SUP'ERVISOR, AT SEASRDOK, NH.

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I, ED'<lARD R. B0WLES, JR., HEREBY MAKE THE FOLLOWING VOLUNTARY STATEMENT TO MR.

R. A. MATAKAS WHO HAS IDENTIFIED HIMSELF TO ME AS AN INVESTIGATOR WITH THE U.S.

f' NUCLEAR REGULATCRY COMMISSION.

I MAKE THIS STATEMENT WITH NO THREATS HAVING BEEN MADE OR PROMISES HAVING BEEN EXTENDED TO ME.

I AM CURRENTLY THE P-H NDE FIRST SHIFT SUPERVISOR AND HAVE BEEN SO SINCE FEBRUARY 1982.

PRIOR TO THIS I WORKED FOR P-H

- AT SEABROOK AS A NDE TECHNICI AN.

I AM A LEVEL 2 NDE CERTIFIED RT, UT, VISUAL AND HOLIDAY TING INSPECTOR.

I AM A LEVEL 3 NDE CERTIFIED MT AND PT INSPECTOR.

I vrnc5 HAVE 8 OAEXPERIENCEINTHENDEFIELD.

IN JANUARY 1983, MARK DANIELS, P-H NDE TECHNICIAN, REJECTED A WELD BASED ON A PT TEST THAT HE CONDUCTED TO CLEAR AN NCR.

THE WELD HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN ACCEPTED BY JIM P0D0VANO, P-H NDE TECHNICIAN, WHO ALSO HAD CONDUCTED A PT ON THE WELD. AS A RESULT OF DANIELS' EXAMINATION, BOTH DANIELS AND JOHN BELIVEAU, P-H QAE NCRS, WROTE A SUPPLEMEf;T TO NCR 1147 AND FORWARDED THE SUPPLEMENT TO UE&C.

I SUBSEQUENTLY SPOKE TO P0D0VAND ABOUT DANIELS' FINDINGS AND POD 0VANO TOLD ME THAT HE HAD DO THE PT ON THE WELD AND HE DID NOT UNDERSTAND HOW HE COULD HAVE MISSED A REJECTA INDICATION.

I THOUGHT THAT POSSIBLY SOME GRINDING OR SOME OTHER EVENT HAD TAKEN PLACE AFTER POD 0 VAN 0'S EXAMINATION WHICH WOULD HAVE ACCOUNTED FOR DANIELS' FIN1 I TOLD DANIELS TO REPORT HIS FINDINGS TO MR. DAVIS, P-H QA MANAGER, AND MR. DONALD, Cd P-H ASST, QA MANAGER, TO SEE HOW THEY WANTED TO HANDLE THE SITUATION.

IN EARLY 6)j APRIL I HAD TWO 0F MY TECHNICIANS, ACREE AND DANIELS, GO OUT INTO THE FIELD AND REINSPECT SOME OF P000 VAN 0'S WORK. THEY REPORTED BAC,K TO ME THAT IT WAS THEIR PRO-FESSIONAi.OPINIONTHATTHEWORKTHATTHEYREINSPECTEDSHOWEDNOEVIDENCETHATTHE WELDS HAD EVER BEEN NDE INSPECTED.

I PERSONALLY WENT OUT WITH THEtqND LOOKED AT 6OR70FTHEWELDSINQUESTIONANDIAGREEDWITHTHEIRCfb5 WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT THE PROCESS SHEETS AND NOTED THAT IN EACH CASE, POD 0VANO HAD SIGNED OFF ON THE PROCESS SHEETS INDICATING THAT HE HAD PERFORMED THE WORK.

I INFORMED BOTH DAVIS AND DONALD OF OUR FINDINGS.

DURING EARLY - MID APRIL, POD 0VANO WAS OUT OF WORK.

WHEN HE RETURNED, I CALLED HIM INTO MY OFFICE AND ASKED HIM IF HE HAD EVER PERFORMED THE WORK WHICH HE INDICATED AS HAVING BEEN DONE ON THE PROCESS SHEETS.

I ALSO ASKED HIM IF HE HAD TAKEN EXTRA PAINS TO CLEAN THE WELOS AFTER HIS EXAMIN HE TOLD ME THAT HE HAD DONE THE WORK AND THAT ON OCCASION HE HAD TAKEN EXTRA P TO CLEAN UP A LITTLE EXTRA.

I TOLD HIM THAT I HAD 8 - 10 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN THE

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BUSINESS A"D THAT IT WAS VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE TO REMOVE ALL TRACES THE RESIDUE FROM EITHER A PT OR A MT EXAMINATION.

I ALSO TOLD HIM THAT I NOTICED AN ACCUM'JLATIDN OF DUST AND DIRT ON THE PIPES THAT HE ALLEGEDLY RECENTLY INS

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.hND THAT I COULD NOT SEE HOW HE COULD HAVE PERFORMED ANY TYPE O THE DUST AND THE DIRT.

ONE WELD IN PARTICULAR THAT I LOOKED AT WAS A LUG WELD.

THE PROCESS SHEET INDICATED THAT POD 0VANO HAD PERFORMED A PT EXAMINAT WHEN I LOOKED AT THE WELD, THE SURFACE CONDITION WAS 50 BAD THAT NO ONE COULD WELD.

HAVE POSSIBLY COME UP WITH ANY TYPE OF INTERPRETIVE RESULT.ACREE HAD BROUGHT THIS WELD TO MY ATTENTION.

1 CONFRONTED POD 0 VAN 0 ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR INSPECTION AND HE TOLD ME THAT HAD HAD NOT HAD ANY TROUBLE INTERPRETING HIS TEST.

I EXAMINED THIS WELD WITHIN A WEEK OF THE TIME THAT POD 0VANO Alt.EGEDLY PERFORMED HIS E l

THE SAME I, TOLD POD 0 VAN 0 TO G0 BACK AND RED 0 THE INSPECTION USING THE MT METHOD.

DAY OR THE NEXT, HE REPORTED BACK TO ME AND TOLD ME THAT HE HAD DONE AS I ASKED AND THE WELD WAS ACCEPTABLE.

I THEN ASKED ACREE TO SEE IF THE JOB WAS DONE AND TO FURTHER REINSPECT T'HE JOB TO VERIFY P0D0 VAN 0'S FINDINGS. THIS ALL TOOK P 24 HOURS OF POD 0VAND REPORTING THAT HE HAD PERFORMED A MT ON THE WELD.

MIKE REPORTED BACK TO ME THAT HE SAW NO EVIDENCE THAT POD 0 VAN 0 HAD PERFORMED A MT THE WELD. HE TOLD ME THAT HE DID REINSPECT THE WELD AND FOUND IT TO BE A PRIOR TO MIKE REDDING THE JOB, I LOOKED AT IT AND LIKE ACREE, I COULD NOT SEE ANY EVIDENCE THAT POD 0VANO HAD EVER PERFORMCD THE INSPECTION.

I DISCUSSED MY REINSPECTION FINDINGS WITH BOTH DAVIS AND DONALD AND TOLD THEM THAT IT WAS MY OPINION, CONCERNING 1,'.

THE JOBS THAT I LOOKED AT, THAT I WAS TOTALLY CONFIDENT THAT POD 0VANO HAD NEVER N

PERFORMED THE INSPECTIONS.

I RECOMMENDED THAT POD 0VAND BE FIRED. THIS TOOK PLACE O

DURING THE TIME PERIOD IN APRIL THAT P0DOVANO WAS OUT OF WORK ON LEAVE.

DAVIS AND DONALD TOLD ME THAT THEY FIRST WANTED TO TALK TO POD 0 VAN 0 BEFORE T ACTION. DURING THE FIRST PART OF THE WEEK OF APRIL 18, WHEN POD 0VANO RETURNED TO I TOLD WORK, I CONFRONTED HIM WITH MY FINDINGS IN THE PRESENCE OF DAVIS AND DONALD.

l HIM THAT HIS CERTIFICATIONS HAD BEEN PULLED AND THAT WE WERE G0ING TO REIN SOME MORE OF HIS WORK.

ONCE AGAIN HE DENIED NOT HAVING PERFORMED HIS. ASSIGNED EbED42 TIONS.

DURING THE REMAINING PART OF THE WEEK, ACREE AND UILKINS R GEDLY PERFORMED EITHER A MT OR A PT INSPECTION ON l

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DURING $ PREVIOUS INSPEC THE LIST OF POD 0 VAN 0'S JOBS WERE TAKEN FROM HIS DAILY WORK SHEETS.

THEY WERE LISTED ON ANOTHER BLANK WORK SHEET WHICH WILKINS US DOCUENT HIS FINDINGS ON WHEN HE REINSPECTED THE JOBS ALONG WITH ACREE.

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NOT MAKE NEW PROCESS SHEETS OR INSPECTION REPORTS OUT FOR THEIR REINS 1

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OF THE 42 WELDS THAT THEY REINSPECTED, THEY REPORTED THAT 13 WELDS HAD REJECTAELE l

INDICATIONS. THESE WECDS HAD PREVIOUSLY BEEN f.CCEPTED BY POD 0VANO.

I ASKED ACREE AND UILKINS WHAT THE OVERALL CONDITION OF THE 42 WELDS LOOKED LIKE 3, Page 2

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AID,MEtiEVI, THAT SOME OF THE WELDS LOOKED AS THOUGH NO PREVIOUS NDE WORK HAD BEEN PERFORMED ON THEM AT ALL.

I ()lSCUSSED THESE FINDINGS WITH DAVIS, DONALD AND l

BILL HINZ AliD TOLD THEM THAT MY OPINION WAS THE SAME AS BEFORE, THAT POD 0VANO HAD j

1 NOT BEEN PERFORMING ALL OF HIS ASSIGNED INSPECTIONS AND THAT HE SHOULD BE FIREDi ON APRIL 27, 1983, I CALLED POD 0VAND INTO MY OFFICE AND TOLD HIM THAT HE WAS BEING TERMINATED FOR " POOR WORKMANSHIP".

OTHER THAN AS STATED ABOVE, I AM NOT AWARE OF ANY OTHER ACTUAL OR SUSPECTED i

FALSIFICATION OF RECORDS NOR AM I AWARE OF ANYCNE.IN P-H MANAGEMENT OR SUPERVISIO j

WHO MAY HAVE SUCH INFORMATION.

MR. MATAKAS HAS ASKED ME IF I HAD ANY PRIOR INDICATION THAT POD 0VANO WAS NOT' PERFORMING HIS ASSIGNED WORK BASED ON THE NUMBER OF INSPECTIONS THAT HE WAS LISTING ON HIS DAILY ACTIVITY RECORDS.

ON OCCASI HAD NOTICED AN UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF WORK ON POD 0 VAN 0's DAILY WOP '

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=t=Y DID NOT TAKE NOTE OF IT UNTIL a

MI,INSNOTUNUSUALFOR.SOMEUNETOPUTMORETHAN0!!EDAYSWORK-THIS INCIDENTj ON A SINGLE SHEET EECAUSE THEY MISSED FILLING OUT A WORK SHEET ON A PREVIOUS DAY DR EVEN TWO DAYS.

THIS WAS ESPECIALLY TRUE DURING THE DECEMBER 1982 - FEBRUARY f

1983 TIME FRAME WHEN WE WERE WORKING. WEEKENDS AND A LOT OF OVERTIME. I HAD ALSO NOTICED POT 0 VAN 0'S CLEANLINESS AS COMPARED TD. ME OF THE OTHER MEN BUT DID NOT ve% N Sua weuw % LNaF' RELATE IT TO HIM NOT DOING HIS WORK; buc To

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DURII;G DECEllSER - FEBRUARY TIME FRAME I MYSELF FELT A LOT OF PRESSURE RE-1 GARDING THE CLEARING UP 0F THE NDE BACKLOG IN ALL OF THE NDE AREAS.

BOTH BOB oi K0VNTZ, UE&C, & DEAN SMITH, UE&C, WERE CONSTANTLY ON ME TO GET THE RT, MT l

& PT BACKLOG CLEARED UP.

THEY INDICATED TO ME THAT IF WE DID NOT GET IT CLEARED UP, WE WOULD BE REPLACED (THE WHOLE NDE DEPT).

THEY NEVER INDICATED OR TOLD ME TO SACRAFICE QUALITY FOR PRODUCTION.

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IN TURN, I BROUGHT THIS SAME PRESSURE 0HTO MY PEOPLE BUT I NEVER TOLD THEM THEY HAD TO SHOOT "X" AMOUNT OF JOINTS OR SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN.

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James. Vincent Padavano The Grand Jury charges:

On or about the dates' set forth in.the counts of this indictment listed below and all occurring within the District' of l

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New Hampshir,e and all in matters within the jurisdiction of'the 1

l Nuclear Reg ulatory Commission, an Agency of the ' United States, JAMES VINCENT PADAVANO, did willfully and knowingly make and use f alse writing s and documents containing materially false, 'ficti-tious and fraudulen?. statements, knowing the same to contain such' statements, in that the defendant caused to be submitted'to the Pullman Higgins Company, a subcontractor at the Seabrook Nuclear Power Station, completed Reports of Liquid Penetrant Examinations 1

allegedly performed by the defendant on certain welds of piping j

systems in Seabrook Station when, as the defendant then and there-well knew, the Liquid Penetrant Examinations reflected in said reports had not been performed.

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RC 801 - 0101 7-30-82 9

CS 465 - 0101 10-23-82 10 NG 1656 - 0106 2-28-83 11 DG 4419 - 0307 1-17-83 All in violatior. of Title 18, United States Code, Section i

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't Tp.1147. cnd supp3 ement s u. r c o nc r.;cd i..:. :: J.ierre ancy in the results of the

r.r: icns performed on thL inlet initial and subsecuent Licai_ ~ unt:rcn

.n nc:zle of Unit 1 Stear. Gencra:cr "A".

Thc. rub:w. ncn: enacination revealed reject-able indications in an area tha: had been previous;:- accepted by another Inspector.

Resultant of a meeting held involving personne~. from pullman-Higgins, UE6C, YAEC and Royal; Globe (ARI) on the abeve subject, the decision was made'to re-inspect a sa pling of work done by the Inspector during the week he performed the inspections in question to determine if it was an isolated incident, or if a potential problem existed.

Successful results of such E re-examination vould clear supplements to

- ti.is NCh.

During the re-inspection acir:vi:iet, it was suspected by several' Inspectors in-c;pavett in the eff ort that the person ir. question,had never. performed some of the r

4:i:ns.

The lack cf -hyri:t; < :?c':e 5dri"a.s traces of Magnetic Particle r

Ltnin; fibres from viping cloths were

vcar residual penetran; rr.:er :if tr.:

.tnc.: asis of such suspicion.

These cenittarns vcre witnessed by several Level II

'nspe::crs as well as the :CI supcr. iter wh: holds level Ill certifications in MT cnd TT.

The pullman-Higgins QA Manager and his Assis:cnt vere notified of suspicions at

-his :ine.

The Assis:zn: OA Mtnsper hcid interviews with all 1st shift NDE In-spectors te gather errs inferst:icn.

The decisien was made to re-inspect addi-tienti verk signed by tne inspecter outside of the original (1) veek time frame.

pric: :: the actua- (?!) re =rzeint:icn. t technicue was tried on several velds hr.::.r :: re er- '

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r-e viO p ositive results.

A coating of r tr : e + r.:s r :7. _..

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C:nsidering the surface con-di:1:., s: e : nit:':i:- :f:--

r:r: should have been drawn out and made 1.

- :e:- this var not the case (with the cfri'.;c :

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2.4 ' t:s '_ eve'. :11 and several' Inspectors wit-nessed the operation.

TheareasweretheninspectedperProcedureIX-PT-1h77,resultinginthefinding cf rejectable indications in 11 of 42 cases,further verifying ~ suspicions.

vere MT'd showed ne evidence of traces of the red Magnetic particle e.r ca s ::.a tevier used.

Normally, red dye used in the coloration of particles that has been I

c;;ra::ed te yoke pele cents:: areas will remain Irns af ter the examination has been ec=pleted.

The Site Level III suspended the Inspecter's NDI certifications on 4/20/83.

Due t: illness, the Inspector had beer absent fr:r the site from 4/8/83 through 4/20/E3, having done no inspection sin:t 7/!1.

Ee was retained f or questioning upon his rc urn to the jobsite 4/21/83.

On 4/25/63 a meeting was held in the OA Mana;er's office with R.G. Davis, R.R. Donald, L.R. Lovies, W.R. Ein: and Jir ic: ver ir 2 :endance.

Upon questioning, the In-F e signing off of work that had no,t been sre::cr denied cliepaticnr c--:cr.ing" :5 ed :he dwell tires, c little" during the

nspe ci, but dit admi; :.i -

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p! inspe :1en process, :hur v :ltting :-rejec: Inspection procedures.

He did this ordcr te "save tine" durir; a perici of time when the depar: ment had a sizeable ir i

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Af:cr this evidence was pre-(,

sented, the Inspectcr was terninct ed by the s.A 1.c:.mpcr.

inicrnatien cbtained f rom the required Daily 7trh Sheets indicated that approxi-cately 2,400 welds had been siened off b; this inspector during his employ with Pullman-P.iggins between 2/1/E2 and u/25/83.

The majority of the velds he inspected were E31.;, as he was assigned primarily to the Unit 1 Turbine area.

He had performed MI, RI, p1 and UT thickness examina-Ident.

Et perferced NDI for other Site 0-.:ra::crs including, Perini, UE6C, GE, TL., '.n;:: L:iler cnd Jchnser. Cen :;....

n:) :c ncted that a number of these veld inspec: ions were witnessed by the A51, Site Level III, YAEC Auditing personnel,

-r c:her inspecters.

In the case of retic rreph.. he was primarily an assistant, ut:ct :ne an;ervisicn cf t Letd Radi:prt7.ur

.cre the results were interpreted by

1. c cetiftsted Fil: Interpreter.

1:c: aced lis:s of velds and assccicted inferr.ition for re-inspection are presently being conpiled.

Ec.cercr, it may be noted that sent ef these velds ray now be inaccessible.

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Penetrant examine to ASME Code Section III, paragraph NS-2546.

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SUBJECT Supplement to NCR #1147 i

The work required according to the disposition of this NCR has been previously accomplished through the completion of 1.S.I. grinding of the 1.D. surface of field veld RC-1-01, 70101, per app 1dcable process sheet.

A re-visual inspection, per process sheet for NCR 1147, shows the surface condition to be acceptable. Re-liquid penetrant examination shows the " presumed" build-up area to be acceptable also. Bovever, rejectable indications have been located in the area assumed to be liquid penetrant containing the I.D. weld surf ace of RC-1-01, T0101. This veld area had been previously accepted by the liquid penetrant method at the time ofPicase l

I.S.I. grinding f or RC-1-01. F0101 1.D., per original process sheet.

evaluate and disposition course for repair of def ects located within previously accepted material.

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RESP.3:SE 7T3.5 K" PORI NO.__ v.n 1167 c,m,1, PUI.UIAN-HIGGINS Date 4-11-83 Site Contre: tor ASME III

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Expe/ Identify UNIT lil, N0ZZLE HOT LEC. A--STEd GENERATOR. RC-1-01 Class 1

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E. Required Interim Actim: P-11 shall spot check other acceptable PI's performed by the individual responsible for the initial PT performed on this weld.

Spot checking shall Results of the be a random sampling of work performed the week followine the initial PT.

spot checking shall be reported to the NRB.

NOTE: This NRBRT works in conjunction with NRBRF dated 7-30-81.

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The dispositi t as stated herein, will meet code and desien specification requirements and assure the integrity of the cladding of the steam generator nozzle has not been compromised.

Reference:

"A" Loon - TW RC-1-01, F0101.

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Required Sig:stures:

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1. ~ Re:nove all PT rejectable linear indications from the I D. of weld area and weld repair the resulting cavity area (s).

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The weld area and the ISI area of the stez:n generator nozzle'shall be i

etched to insure that the P-3 material is still protected by the stain-less steel cladding.

Violation of the cladding shallbe reported to 'the CM for disposition.

i All work shall be performed in accordance with current project approved procedures and with review and concurrence of the ANI and the Westinghouse Site Representative.

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