[kidd]

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a notice ... to prevent counterfeit parts from posing a safety concern.

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The notice ...stresses that none of these items was installed in a safety-related application.

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The notice is confusing. The notice warns about safety concerns but cites parts that were installed in a non-safety related application.

[Don W]

The notice cites two counterfeit valves at the Hatch facility near Baxley, Ga., of which NRC learned in November 2007, and one of these was installed as a cooling water pump discharge stop check valve on Hatch Unit 2.

Looks like the NRC is speaking out of both sides of its mouth simultaneously.

A stop and check valve IS a safety related device. It prevents reverse flow of the liquid it is controlling even when the pump it is attached to is not operating, and completely seals the downstream side of the piping when used as a stop valve.

For the regulators to say this is not safety related is misleading and disengenuous at the very least.