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089408 1 (1971-10-26)

handle is hein.gao/gaobacvjv0001 and id is 1 raw text is: 2 UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 CIVIL DIVISION OCT 2 6 1971 Dear Mr. Hollingsworth: The General Accounting Office has reviewed the actions taken by the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) to provide for the development and implementation of adequate quality assurance programs in conducting its various activities. Our review was performed at AEC Headquarters, Germantown, Maryland; AEC's Chicago, Idaho, and Richland Operations Offices; and at contractor locations under the jurisdiction of these offices--Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois; Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company, Richland, Washington; Douglas United Nuclear, Inc., Richland, Washington; Idaho Nuclear Corporation, Idaho Falls, Idaho; National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, Illinois; and WADCO Corporation, Richland, Washington. With respect to the licensing of production and utilization facilities, AEC has defined quality assurance as comprising: *** all those planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a stricture, systemi, or component will perform satisfactorily in service, Quality assurance includes quality control, which comprises those quality assurance actions related to the physical charac- teristics of a material, structure, component, or system which provide a means to control the quality of the material, structure, component, or system to predetermined requirements. The programs of the Divisions of Space Nuclear Systems, Naval Reactors, and Military Application have had formal quality assurance procedures for many years. For the past several years, AEC officials have emphasized the need for increased attention to and more effective application of quality assurance practices in reactor development programs to (1) help prevent costly expenditures due to deficiencies, (2) conserve materials and manpower, and (3) provide greater assurance of the successful achievement of program objectives. In our report to the Congress, dated August 17, 1971, on the Cost, Schedule, and Design Aspects of Selected Atomic Energy Commission Construction Projects (B-164105), we pointed out that a quality assurance program was instituted and emphasized by the Division of Reactor Develop- ment and Technology (RDT) for the Loss of Fluid Test Facility project because of problems being encountered in the construction of certain other

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