IR 05000401/2007012

Notice of Violation from Insp on 850401-0712.Violation Noted:Failure to Assure Conformance of safety-related Structural Steel Welds W/Criterion X of App B to 10CFR50 & Aws Structural Welding Code Aws D 1.1-75

ML20133N825
Person / Time
Site:	Harris, River Bend
Issue date:	08/02/1985
From:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION IV)
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ML20133N822	List: IR 05000401/2007012 ML20133N818
References
50-458-85-29, NUDOCS 8508140016
Download: ML20133N825 (2)

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APPENDIX A NOTICE OF VIOLATION

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Gulf States Utilities Docket No.: 50-498 River Bend Station Permit: CPPR-145 i

During an NRC inspection conducted on April 1-July 12, 1985, a violation of NRC requirements was identified. The violation involved structural steel welds that did not conform with requirements. In accordance with the " General Statement of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C (1985), the violation is listed below:

Failure to Assure Conformance of Safety-Related Structural Steel Welds with Requirements Criterion X of Appendix B to 10 CFR Part 50 requires that a program for inspection of activities affecting quality be established and executed to verify conformance with the documented instructions, procedures, and drawings for accomplishing the activity.

1 Chapter 3 of the River Bend Station Final Safety Analysis Report, through Revision 20 dated June 1985, committed to the use of the American Welding Society-Structural Welding Code AWS D 1.1-75, with respect to welding of

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structural steel, including inspection.

} Section 1 of Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation's (SWEC) implementing

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Specification for Structural Steel No. 210.310, prior to the issuance of i Engineering & Design Coordination Report (E&DCR) No. C-7271 dated May 24, 1985, required that final inspection shall be visual in accordance with AWS D Prior to the issuance of E&DCR No. C-6616 dated May 25, 1985, it also required that temporary attachment welds to pennanent plant members which remain shall meet the visual inspection requirements of Section 8 of AWS 0 ! Contrary to the above, the inspection program for safety-related structural steel welds was not adequately executed to assure conformance

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to the requirements of Specification No. 210.310 and the AWS D1.1-75

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Code, as evidenced by the following:

o Thirty-five safety-related, welded structural steel connections from i

, six safety-related buildings were selected by the NRC inspectors for '

reinspection. The inspection reports, all dated before May 1983, ,

showed that all the welds had been accepted. The reinspection

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activity was performed by a SWEC field quality control certified welding inspector, and was witnessed by the NRC inspectors with j inspection results randomly verified.

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The following conditions were identified in the indicated buildings:

o Fuel Building: two of the five inspected connections exhibited undersized weld returns.

o Control Building

one of the six inspected connections

1 exhibited undersized weld returns and all six had numerous arc ll strike o Auxiliary Building: of the seven inspected connections, seven had undersized weld returns, six had arc strikes, five had slag, one had undercut, one had a crater crack and one had a missing return. Further inspection reports for three of the connections showed that the erection seat temporary attachment i welds were acceptable; however, the return welds were missin This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement II).

Pursuant to the provisions of 10 CFR 2.201, Gulf States Utilities is hereby i required to submit to this office within 30 days of the date of the letter

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transmitting this Notice, a written statement or explanation in reply,

including for each violation

(1) the reason for the violations if admitted,

(2) the corrective steps which have been taken and the results achieved,

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(3) the corrective steps which will be taken to avoid further violations, and

! (4) the date when full compliance will be achieved. Where good cause is shown,

} consideration will be given to extending the response time.

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Dated at Arlington, Texas, this 2d day of August, 198 .

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