ML19254E454

Affidavit of GL Reynolds on 790521

ML19254E454
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Site:	Zimmer
Issue date:	05/21/1979
From:	Reynolds G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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I Gorman L. Reynolds, aged 29, residing at Rt. 2, Box 69,Cseaman, County of Adams Ohio, hereby state that I am a member of Millwright Local 1454: that I have been'a journeyman Millwright for six years: ,

that I worked for Reactor Control Inc. as Millwright general foreman at the Zimmer nuclear power station, Moscow, Ohio from October, 1978 to

. February, 1979 and that I have personal knowledge of the facts hereinafter related:

, While working for Reactor Control Inc.(R.C.I.), my crew was required .

to clean metal shavings from control rod blades. These shavings were left by the manufacturer. We first took old cloths wrapped with a

- heavy gray tape and beat the sides of the blades to remove these shavingu.

We then ran a magnet along them followed by a machine shop vaccum cleaner and finally wiped then down with an acetone solution. Quality control inspectors employed by R.C.I. then ran a spot check on the blade con-formity with a "go-no go gauge". Only about one third of the blades i

were checked. -

In February, R.C.I. required my crew to do grinding on all the control rods (at the bottom of the blades) to remove an over-sized' weld.

Small metal fragments from the grinding went into the control rod blades *,

by way of small holes running the length of them. When I informed R.C.I.

engineers of this I was told that these fragments could clog the rods and to wipe them down with an aceton,e solution. I then told my super-1 2 81 ""

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t visors that wiping with acetone alone did not get the shavings out. (The proper procedure for removing shavings was the procedure we initially used to remove those left by the manufacturer.) They inspected the rods and passed them anyway.

When we first started the cleaning after grinding, H. I. Crane, project manager for R.C.I., told me the job would last two weeks it lasted two days. We were rushed through this job and it is to my knowledge that metal shavings still remain in the control rod blades.

I saw them reported them and R.C.I. passed inspection on tnem anyway.

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.Gbrman L.'RVjnolds The foregoing affidavit was sworn to and subscribed before me by Gorman L. Reynolds this 8/ day of Mdu

, 1979 da u > - 46/dr>,,

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