ML20199A682

Rev 5 to Piping Spec 2323-MS-43A, Shop Fabrication of Piping 2 1/2-Inch Nominal Diameter & Larger & Piping Matl Supply Requirements

ML20199A682
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Issue date:	07/03/1984
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TEXAS UTILITIES SERVICES INC.

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TEXAS UTILITIES GENERATING COMPbNY ACTING 70R DALLAS POWER & LIGHT COMPA9Y TEXAS ELECTRIC SERVICE COMPANY TEXAS POWER & LIGHT COMPANY THIS SPECIFICATION COVERS NUCLEAR SAFETY RELATED EQUIPMEN COMANCHE PEAK STY.AM ELECTRIC STATION UNITS NOS. 1&2 4

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PIPING-NUCLEAR g, 4 SPECIFICATION NO. 2323-MS-43A (SHOP FABRICATION OF PIPING 2 1/2-INCE NOMINAL DIAMETER AND LARGER AND PIPILG MATERIAL SUPPLY REQUIREMENTS)

OCTOBER 24, 1974 REVISIpN 1 - JUNE 2, 1975 REVISION 2 < JANUARY 30, 1976 4

{j REVISION 3 - MAY 27, 1977 REVISION 4 - MARCH 8, 1982

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f 3.7.4.4 PIPE CUTTING Pipe cutting shall be performed by machining, sawing or cutting with iron-free aluminum oxide abrasive discs.

When powder or arc l

cutting is used, all remaining slag, scale, or oxides shall be removed by machining or grinding of the cut surface to sound metal as verified by a

liquid penetrant examination.

Tor.h cutting is allowed for carbon steel, provided the surfaces he ground smooth following the cutting operation.

The material shall be preheated to the same temperature used in the supplier / Fabricator's qualified welding procedures prior to torch cutting.

3.7.4.5 BENDING AND FORMING 3.7.4.5.1 GENERAL g

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Bending and forming shall be in accordance with the ASME I

Section III Code and the additional requirements specified herein.

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All bends and formed materials shall be smooth, free from cracks and surface defects to the ektent that. it does not violate the limitations of the ASME Code.

c.

If heat treatment, hot bending or hot forming is performed, the material shall be degreased

.as specified in paragraph 3.12.6 to prevent carbonization cf the material.

Spools RR-1-85-04-1 and CT-1-RB-268 are exempt from this requirement.

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Pipios shall be sand filled sad tamped before hot be,nding.

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During heating, het bending or hot forming, the temperature of the pipe shall be chec:ted with optical pyrometers or l

approved crayons to prevent overheating and to assure bending h

within the specified temperature range.

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The final band dimensions shall be within the tolerances given by FFI Standards ES-3 and ES-24, where pipe bends in sizes 3-inch through 8-inches shall have a tangent of minimum 2T at each end of the bend.

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Bending of the containment spray system's spray headers to i

the radii shown on Drawings 2323-M1-0504 and 2323-M2-0504 l

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shall be performed using Category 301 piping as shown in the piping specification ' sheets of Appendix 1.

This application does not require selected pipe with closer than standard wall tolerances.

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Pipe bend radii, measured from the center of curvature to the center of the pipe cross-sectional area, shall be a function of the nominal pipe size D and the wall thickness as listed in the following tabulation, unless otherwise indicated on l

the piping drawings:

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ANSI Schedule or ness Prior Size Range Wall Thickness Bend Radius to Bendina h

2 1/2 thru 24" 40, 40s 6D 1.06 ta or minimum wall thickness re-I quirements of paragraph 3.7.3.10.a whichever is.

greater.

14" thru 18" 3/8" 7D 1.06 ta or minimum wall thickness re-quirement of paragraph 3.7.3.10.a whichever is

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20" thru 24" 3/8" 8D 1.06 ta or minimum wall thickness re-quirement of paragraph 3.7.3.10.a whichever is greater.

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Required Wall Thick-1 Nominal ANSI Schedule or ness Prior Size Rance Wall Thickness Bend Radius

'to Bending 2 1/2 and Larger 80, 805, 120 SD 1.08 ta or 140, 160 and minimum wall thickness re-heavier non-s+=adard. wall quirements of paragraph 3.7.3.10.a whichever is greater.

f where ta shall be determined in accordance with paragraph 3641.1 of the applicable subsection of ASME Section III Code or the y

piping specification sheets for pipe specified to mini: a wall,

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considering the tolerances given in Paragraph 3.7.3.10.a of this specificatt.on and with a 1/16-inch corrosion allowance for carbon l

steel piping.

Temperatures and pressures shall be taken from the specification sheets of Appendix 1.

3.7.4.5.2 AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEELS Piping shall not be heated above 1950F during hot bending.

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Bending at temperatures below 800F shall be considered cold bending.

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All stainless steel piping subject to hot bending shall receive a solution anneal and a rapid quench following the bending operation.

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Not bending and subsequent heat treatment can be done in one operation providing the temperature of the material does not fall below 1700F during the bending and prior to quenching.

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Forming operations, except for machining and grinding, on piping larger than 4-inch nominal pipe size which changes the circumference or wall thickness of the piping,by more than i

2 percent shall be followed by solution annealing and

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Forged and bored pipe shall be solution annealed and quenched after the boring operation.

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at a temperature of not less than 1100 F may be fittings, pumps and valves with a nominal pipe size 6 considered to be the tempering phase of the heat in. diameter andless;

.i treatment.

(J) Materials for pumps, valves and fittings without pipe connections of % in. nominal wall NC 2190 NONPRESSURE RETAINING thickness and less; MATERIAL (6) Austeniticstainlesssteels; (7) Nonferrous materials.

Material performing a nonpressure retaining func.

(c) Dropweight tests are not required for the tion welded to a pressure retaining material need martensitic high alloy chromium (Series 4XX) steels, conform only to the requirements of the specifications ne requirements of NC-2331 apply for these steels in i

for material listed in Tables I-7.0. Temporary and all thicknesses.

minor attachments as specified in NC-4435 may be of noncertified material.

NC-2320 IMPACT TEST PROCEDURES f

NC-2200 MATERIAL TEST COUPONS NC-2321 Types of Tests AND SPECIMENS FOR FERRITIC STEEL MATERIAL NC 2321.1 Dropweight Tests.The dropweight test, when required, shall be performed in accordance with ne requirements for material test coupons and ASTM E-208-69. Specimen types PI, P2, or P3 may specimens shall be in accordance with the material be used. He results, orientation, and location of all specifications.

tests performed to meet the requirements of NC-2330

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NC-2300 FRACTURE TOUGHNESS NC-2321.2 Charpy V-Notch Tests.The Charpy V.

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.g.ES'I'ED He test temperature and the lateral expansion, the a a ed energy, and percent shear fracture, or-NC-2311 Material for Which Impact Testing Is sentation and location of all tests performed to meet i

RW the requirements of NC-2330 shall be reported in the (a) ne Design Specifications shall state whether or Certified MaterialTest Report.

t not impact testing is required for the pressure retaining material of which the component is con-NC 2322 Test Specimens j

structed. When impact testing is required, the test NC 2322.1 Imention of Test Specimens. Impact test temperature shall be specified and the tests become a specimens shall be removed from the locations requirement of this Subsection.

specified for tensile test specimens in the material

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specimen located at least % radius or I in. below the However, even when impact testingis'specified in the.

surface plus the machining' allowance per side Design Specifications, impact testing of the materials whichever is less. The fracture plane of the specimen described in (1) through (7) below is not a requirement shall be at least one diameter or thickness from the of thisSubsection.

heat treated end.

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% in,and less; NC-2322.2 Orientatloa of Impact Test Specimens (2) Bolting, including studs, nuts and bolts, with (a) Specimens for dropweight tests may have their a nominalsize of Iin.andless; axes oriented in any direction.De orientation used (3) Bar with a nominal cross sectional area of I shall be reported in the Certified Material Test sq.in:andless; Report.

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TABLE 6.2.2-4 CCNTAINMENT SPFAY SYSTE1 MATERIAIS*

Cc renens cuantity Material Cherical additive tank 1

SA-240 Type 304 Fec rculation su=p screen 2

ASTM A-478 Type 316 Spray Pur.c 4

Casinc SA-351 CF 8M Shaft SA-182 Grade 316L Iroeller SA-351 CF 8M Chemical eductor 4

SA-351 CF 8 Heat exchancer 2

Tubes SA-249 Type 304 Shell SA-516 Grade 70 Valves, 2 1/2 in. or larger 40 SA-351 CF 8 Piping SA-312 or SA-358 RWST 1

TP 304 or 316 Iiner SA-240 Type 304L Structural wall Reinforced concrete Stop valves, che ical additive tank 4

SA-351 CF 8

• All materials conform to ASME BSPV Code,Section III, Class 2 or 3.

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Shepard, R.M., Massie, H.W., Mark, R.H., and Docherty, P.J.,

G Westinghouse Mass and Energy Release Data For Containment Design, WCAP-8264-P-A, June 1975 (Proprietary) and WCAP-8312-A, Revision 2, August 1975 (Nonproprietary).

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Bordelon, F.M., Massie, H.W, and Zordan, T. A., Westinghouse Emergency Core Cooling System Evaluation Model - Summary, WCAP-8339, June 1974.

6.2.2 CONTAINMENT HEAT REMOVAL SYSTEMS The Containment Spray System (CSS) is designed to remove heat from the Containment environment following a LOCA, a main steam line break accident, or a feedwater line break accident. Major components of the CSS are the RWST, Containment spray pumps, Containment spray heat exchangers, spray headers, spray nozzles, and Containment recirculation sumps.

O Each unit of the CPSES is equipped with two redundant Containment spray trains, each designed to provide emergency Containment heat removal in the event of a LOCA. This system, in conjunction with the ECCS, removes postaccident thermal energy from the Containment environment, thereby reducing the containment pressure and temperature.

6.2.2.1 Design Bases The CSS is a nuclear-safety-related system and is classified as seismic Category I.

The system is designed in accordance with NRC Regulatory Guides 1.1, 1.26, 1.29, and 1.82 and in accordance with GDC 38, 39, 40, 41, 50, and 56 of Appendix A of 10 CFR Part 50.

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Please state your name and address for the' record.

4 Q:

P' lease tell us a littTe about youi Eapground at Comanche Peak plant.-

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I worked for Brown & Root at Ccmanche Peak for almost f,ive years.

6 It would have been five years in February 1983.

I started out in cabl'e tray 7

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_I was busted back, supposedly for absenteism but I believe for a egea y 4, 11 pookingr,ibstha'weldrodcan. (Iwasn't.) About the end of November 1982, I 12-was, contacted by~

about the waste of materials, and ordering of equip-13 ment for dril-ling through rebar and ' concrete and gifts received by me and others 14 for ordering all the equipment for drilling through the rebar and concrete.

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authorization to Ron Tolson.

I asked Mr. Vega if I was going to have a job 2

Monday morning; he said, oh yeah, yeah, no problem, no problem, nobcdy's going 3

to know about this. And I was fired, on

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and I were over in the cdntainment building delivering a tool that we had borrowed.

5 and we were fired for. leaving 'our work area two minutes before the first whistle t

6 blew.

7 Q: Tell us about the drilWQhrough the rebar you mentioned.

8 A: You know the agticle that came out in the paper about rebar drilling g

and all that?

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10 Q: The article from the FORT WdRTH STAR-TELEGRMi dated 1/7/83 titled 11

" Cover-up at Comanche Peak is charged" which I3.3. svwn you as being CASE At' tach,

12 ment 9 to CASE's 1/11/83 Written Argument on issues? "

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13 A: Yes, that's the article. Well, I@ t{e cie. that started the rebar 14 drilling.

I'm.the one that ordered the material to, get it, and. I'm i;he one 15

.that broke in.. H.e used to work 16 for me. I went t ho was my imediate supervisor and told him 17 that I wanted something besides what I had, that I didn't want to go to the 18 next' Brown & Root job and say I knew how to drill holes through concrete and 19 rebar. And I got out of it.

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20 Q: They were buying'these -- what do they call them -- rebar eaters?

21 A: Yes, from Orillco Manufacturing Company at their branch office in 22 Miami, Florida.

I told Mr. Vega that I had taken a trip to~ Miami, Florida, 1

l 23 watched the Dallas Cowboys play; that I took about $300 down there with me l

24 and came back with mor.e money than I'took;- that me and my wife took an all-

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Orillco Manufacturing Co.; and that I had been sent $400 from them as a gift 2

or whatever you want to call it through Western Union. All this was because 3

I had ordered those parts from Orillco.

I told him I, also knew for a fact that 4

another man had t-eceived two motorcycles as a gift because he ordered Drillco 5

parts. And a week later I was out on the street.

6 Q: They're not supposed to use rebar eaters onsite?

7 A: Well, they 'are and they aren't.

If they've got documentation and authorization from engineers, it's all right to use Shem in certain parts of 8

9 the buildings.

If there's no documentation for it, you're just not allowed 10 to use them, period, because it'll cut through anything.

It's that type of 11 drill.

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But if they cut through any of the reba'rinlhe wall, they're suppo. sed 13.

to be, careful n'ot to damage the rebar any more, _than they have to and they, have 14 to get approval.before they do it, is that right?

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Right. You've got to have approval and you ve got to have documentation i

16 by engineering. And some of it was done with.out having any kind of documentation

17 or approval.

'18 Q: Did you do some of that too?

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Yes, I'm the one that originated it.

I'm the one that ordered it from

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It was over $50,000 or so when I ordered the first order of equipment

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Q: And he was are of it and approved it?

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He approved the ordering of it and what it did because it was like 90%

4-difference in that and Hilti bolt. What it amounted tio is Hilti organization came in there with the same thing, but basically you had to drill more holes 5

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in the wall and you $1ad to mount Hfiti bolt drills to hold this particular app 1

2 tus they had; and Drillco had a vacuum plate where all you had to do was plug it in the wall and hook it on the wall, and drill it.

3 In man hours, it saved 4

a lot of time.

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But were things done that weren't supposed to be done they way they 1

6 were done?

7 A: Well, that's sort of what it amounted to.

I've 'got documentation for

'3 the past ils years when I took it over, and later made foreman 3

over it.

10 Q: Ycu've got documentation on.that?

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I've got about the holes that I've drillad and was ordered to drill b ecause my job was on the line. I've got about' a year-and-a-half of documenta-2 3

tion.

It's like a hiary.

I kept a daily Trg"on-what, percent I cut out of the rebar, wh'en it was done, the date, a d everything else.

4 And what I was. told by general foremen and three stripers (which are next to a gold hat, which is 5

a superior general foreman); I was told to do-it or go out the gate.

6 And this is the documentation I was 'old to turn in to Ron Tolson.

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3 Q; Did you turn it over to him?

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Yes. -Also, I was ordered on several occasions to loan out my rebar

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I can't swear what they did with it, but they could have used it to dril.1 holes in the concrete and' rebar without anyone knowing 3

l or authorizing it and without documentation.

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'line?

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15 A: Right.

I've been in steel fabrication all m'y life.

I'm no young pup. 'I'm not an engineer, but I know if that pipe ever gets in 16 17 a bind and comes loose, it's going to be like a rubber band that's held taut.

13 The hangers aren't going to do a bit.of good.

I put in about 90% of the feedwater hangers, which is for your. main lines

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I had a crew of.8 to 14 people, and this was my job.- I had

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5-Q: We've just,shown you a copy of NRC Form 3, Hotice to Employees.

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flo, I don't. You've got bulletin boards in front of the main tool room, one on the turbine deck, and one in the Administration Building.

I had to all of them, and I don'.t remember ever seeing it.

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access as I dan't know what can be done about the waste, the materials, and I

the back-stabbing that goes on at Comanche Peak. ' There are $100 plus per t

Hilti bolt that are scrapped daily'by the skip pan full. There's wood, lumber, steel, and what it's costing the taxpayers, it's ungodly. There's no reason for it.. It's,. ridiculous, it's tive misfits, it's the supervision you've got out there.

For instance.the general foreman on nights built a gold hat a l

sun deck or porch on his house.

I tried to fire this man three times but I

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couldn't do it; they wouldn't let me do it because he'd begn-out there five or six years, and l e was argood ole boy.

I tried' to fire.htm three times for i

inadequate work.

He could not handle his position. And_heFe' they were paying him 514 or more an hour; liow this man is a:ganeral foreman,-underneath a gold.

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can't do his work. He's cut holes in hangers where if there were any kind of aw-vibration the. hanger would fall off the wall; he used a cutting torch, and AH.io you're not allowed td use a cutting torch on any kind'of material out + Sere M i rdata on a pipe hanger unless it is done in the Fab Shop.under QA supervision.

l L'all, he cut holes in them so that sometimes he couldn't even figure out his

' holes, he couldn't figure out the tolerances or anything. And this man is now a general foreman on nights o I can tell'you lots of things.. I was a supervisor for four years out there.

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I've.been in steel work all my life -- I've been a fabricator, I've supervised 2

a shop, and the whole bit.

You've got people out there who do rebar tying.

3 You've got two pieces of. steel to tie together with a piece of wire.

This is-4 rebar people, all right? A1,1 they've got to do is to go up there and tie 5

the rebar, and pour the conIrete around it.

It's all a hidden object, right?

This entire rebar organization and building department has come into pipe hanger 6

The entire rebar staff out there is a kind of clique, and they went into the 7

8 hanger department. They suddenly became hanger geniuses. There's one man out thgre right now who, three weeks before he was transferred from scaffold

g and rebar said, " Man, I don't know how in.the hell you read these blueprints 10

-- I don't know~how in the hell you can make these things (pipe hangers)."

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pipe hangers.

He was a general foreman next to a gold hat over pipe hangers.

14 He suddenly. knew all about pipe hangers. He sudddaly ' knew all about steel.

And here was a man that has done nothing but concrete and rebar all his life.

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But all of a sudden he is a ste'el genius because he is in the clique, because

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There's jokes floating all over that plant where t!.ay show a pipe hanger tied together with wire cr nailed together with wood because of the carpenters o

and rebar hands that came over into pipe hangers. They're coming over. as "foremed 1

they're coming ever as General Forer.en and they're coming over as gold hats

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And.all of'a sudden they know everything about pipe hangers and about steel.

'I'm just ; fed up.with it, cause I've got to-Tive here.

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I'll testify in the hearings, I'll talk to nyone who can see that.

l something's done about this.

I'm not sure. that Comanche Peak is safe.

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n this, the 3rd day of February,1983, personally appeared Robert L.. hesserly, 10 known to me to be the person whose name is subscribed to the foregoing instru-

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Subscribed and sworn before me on the"3rd dg of February,1983.

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y-a former Brown & Root (B&R) at the Comanche Peak Steam Electric Station (CPSES), was telghanically interviewed by NRC Investigator H. Brooks GRIFFIN. M had worked in w iA%cvas,$962=-

pipehanger crew until he left his employment with B&R in

@ stated he used a Hilti drill to drill holes in concrete, but stated he never used a Drillco drill or made cuts through rebar.

said that when he struck rebar, he attempted to relocate he hole within the tolerances imposed by procedure.

@.ated that when he could not relocate the hole, he turned the matter over to gwho would arrange to have the rebar cut.

tated he was unaware of any imoroper or unauthorized cuts made on : hangers using a torch.

said the B&R supervision was very " touchy" about using torches nn hangers, and,that crew members were required to use radial arm'sawi to.-

alter hangers even though it was very time consuming.@ said gping a torch was " strictly forbidden", and that he never used one.@ also said he was not present nor was he aware of the reloca' tion of the main steam line using the polar crane in Unit I.

stated that during the time he was employed a CPSES, nobody ever inti..ica:ed or attempted to intimidate him into conducting his work improperly.

stated thateveryoneheworkedwithfollowedpr&t#Eeasfarasheknew.

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a problem, you've got to to figure some holes were 2

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hanger to try and find a decent spot to hang it 4

without hitting rebar.

This brings o, n frustration 5

on the men, they go to their foreman, the foreman 6

goes to says go down and qllllllland drill the damn thing and put it up.

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Let's move on.

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That is absolutely corjggt.

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Could you explain it to 16 me, please?

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What it amounts to is the la main steam pipe has a condensation joint like for

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It's a huge 20 horseshoe type shape, and this thing is coming out 21 of the tarbine building.

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What was that guy's 14 name?

Have I got his name down there?

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I don't think you have 16 got a name in here.

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through that area.

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Look him up out there, you will 14 he's got a head on him that big around.

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