Alert

Due to a lapse in appropriations, the NRC has ceased normal operations. However, excepted and exempted activities necessary to maintain critical health and safety functions—as well as essential progress on designated critical activities, including those specified in Executive Order 14300—will continue, consistent with the OMB-Approved NRC Lapse Plan.

Part 21 Report - 1998-050

LICENSEE: DUBOSE NATIONAL ENERGY SERVICES,INC SITE: TUBE FORGINGS OF AMERICA EN NUMBER:33500 DOCKET: EVENT DATE: 01-07-98 RX TYPE: EVENT TIME: 10:00 VENDORS: NOTIFY DATE: 01-07-98 EMERGENCY CLASS: N/A REGION: 2 STATE: NC TIME: 10:00 OPS OFFICER: JOHN MacKINNON 10 CFR SECTION: CDEG 21.21(c)(3)(i) DEFECTS/NONCOMPLIANCE 10CFR PART 21 REPORT - DUBOSE NATIONAL ENERGY SERVICES, INC, (DNES) SHIPPED A TOTAL OF 40 PIECES OF 4 INCH, 90 DEGREE ELBOWS WHICH DID NOT MEET ASME SEC II SA-234 REQUIREMENTS TO SEVERAL NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS. TUBE FORGINGS OF AMERICA (TFA), A VENDOR OF DNES, NOTIFIED DNES THAT MATERIAL SUPPLIED TO TFA BY US STEEL/KOBE STEEL WAS MIXED AT THE MILL. FROM ONE TO FIVE LENGTHS OF PIPE, OUT OF A SHIPMENT OF 1,614 LENGTHS, WERE MADE OF A DIFFERENT HEAT/GRADE MATERIAL. THIS SHIPMENT WAS USED TO MANUFACTURE A TOTAL OF 40 PIECES OF 4 INCH, 90 DEGREE ELBOWS WHICH WERE SHIPPED TO THE FOLLOWING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: CUSTOMER ORDER NUMBER QUANTITY WASHINGTON PUBLIC POWER 251756 20 PIECES NE NUCLEAR 02017957 16 PIECES TU ELECTRIC S02208826D2 3 PIECES SC ELECTRIC & GAS SR 700786 1 PIECE THE ABOVE CUSTOMERS WERE NOTIFIED OF THE PROBLEM.

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