**Nuclear process equipment fabrication: NQA-1 quality assurance and traceability**
An inquiry package arrives for a shell-and-tube exchanger. The data sheet is unremarkable: 316L, TEMA R, ASME Section VIII, Division 1 — a duty a shop has run a hundred times. Behind it sits a supplier quality requirements attachment running dozens of pages. It invokes a quality assurance standard, hold points, submittals for approval, and … Read more
