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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 August 6, 1992 NRC INFORMATION NOTICE 92-56: COUNTERFEIT VALVES IN THE COMMERCIAL GRADE SUPPLY SYSTEM Addressees All holders of operating licenses or cunstruction permits for nuclear power reactorc. Purpose The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing this information notice to alert addressee; of the results of an NRC invest:gation of suspect valves, suggesting that counterfeit commercial grade valves may have been procured by NRC licensees. It is expected that recipients will review the 1 information for applicability to their facilities and consider actions, as appropriate, to avoid similar problems. However, suggestions contained in this information notice are not NRC requirements: therefore, no specific action or written response is required escriptionp f Circumstances In 1987, Coffeyville Valve, incorporated. (CVI) supplied approximately 47 Crane Company (Crane) valves through a valve supplier, to the Swinerton & Walberg Construction Company (Swinerton), for installation in the Impell Co-Generation Plant. Camarillo, California. Upon receiv;ng the Crane valves. Swinerton, with the assistance of a Crane Company representative, determined that all of the -ane valves were counterfeit. One of the flaws in the fraudulent namepiate labels found by the Crane Company representative was that only "Crane" was imprinted on the label, instead of "Crane Co." In June 1988, Crane won a civil court action for trademark infringement against CVI The NRC staff determined that, in 1987, CVI purchased approximately 7500 rnamepiate labpls from a label manufacturer, and -hese labels were imprinted w;th several valve manufacturers' names The manufacturers' names that were imprinted on the labels that CVI purchaseo incluud Crane. Pacific. lJ.lri. ahel., and unrke.r~imer. On Decemner 16. 1987, CV! shippe twoc Crane, 14-incr gate .aive., t the Consolidated Edsor Company of New Yo6r (Cfn Ed) In'iar Point Statiorn Unt 2 (IP-2), through a valvP ',upier rln Fd prot•,' The- twc Crane valved fc its nonsafety-relate "FeeFed d ~nd Conenrtate SytPT' a r, . , n~ re-,.re *he valve supplier tc meet the NR. recairements cf Appendc, t C 1 P CFR Part 5 c'~ 10 CFR Part 2i. PDk ;rt foi-'r, J;-O(5ý 93ZoyoX0
Transcript of NRC Info Notice 92-056, 'Counterfeit Valves in Commercial ...united states nuclear regulatory...
UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555
August 6, 1992
NRC INFORMATION NOTICE 92-56: COUNTERFEIT VALVES IN THE COMMERCIAL GRADE SUPPLY SYSTEM
Addressees
All holders of operating licenses or cunstruction permits for nuclear power reactorc.
Purpose
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is issuing this information notice to alert addressee; of the results of an NRC invest:gation of suspect valves, suggesting that counterfeit commercial grade valves may have been procured by NRC licensees. It is expected that recipients will review the 1 information for applicability to their facilities and consider actions, as appropriate, to avoid similar problems. However, suggestions contained in this information notice are not NRC requirements: therefore, no specific action or written response is required
escriptionp f Circumstances
In 1987, Coffeyville Valve, incorporated. (CVI) supplied approximately 47 Crane Company (Crane) valves through a valve supplier, to the Swinerton & Walberg Construction Company (Swinerton), for installation in the Impell Co-Generation Plant. Camarillo, California. Upon receiv;ng the Crane valves. Swinerton, with the assistance of a Crane Company representative, determined that all of the -ane valves were counterfeit. One of the flaws in the fraudulent namepiate labels found by the Crane Company representative was that only "Crane" was imprinted on the label, instead of "Crane Co." In June 1988, Crane won a civil court action for trademark infringement against CVI
The NRC staff determined that, in 1987, CVI purchased approximately 7500 rnamepiate labpls from a label manufacturer, and -hese labels were imprinted w;th several valve manufacturers' names The manufacturers' names that were imprinted on the labels that CVI purchaseo incluud Crane. Pacific. lJ.lri. ahel., and unrke.r~imer.
On Decemner 16. 1987, CV! shippe twoc Crane, 14-incr gate .aive., t the Consolidated Edsor Company of New Yo6r (Cfn Ed) In'iar Point Statiorn Unt 2 (IP-2), through a valvP ',upier rln Fd prot•,' The- twc Crane valved fc its nonsafety-relate "FeeFed d ~nd Conenrtate SytPT' a r, . , n~ re-,.re *he valve supplier tc meet the NR. recairements cf Appendc, t C 1 P CFR Part 5 c'~ 10 CFR Part 2i.
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