ML040510102
| ML040510102 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 02/12/2004 |
| From: | Lueke D - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Co, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC/RGN-III |
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| Download: ML040510102 (3) | |
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February 12, 2004 To: NRC, FirstEnergy, Watchdog groups, Elected Officials, Media, Local citizens Fm: Donna Lueke In 2002, we nearly experienced a great loss at Davis-Besse. Opinions differ as to how close we came to losing the plant and incurring catastrophic damage to our health and safety and economy and environment. Since so much damage was found to the reactor head, and since so many other problems have been uncovered in the past two years, one thing seems clear--many people did not do their jobs.
As Davis-Besse prepares for restart, we ask all concerned: to do their jobs, to put safety ahead of profits and promotions, and to be responsible, conscientious, and courageous.
To NRC personnel:
Put safety first, ahead of internal and external politics.
Implement in a timely manner the changes recommended by the Lessons Learned Task Force and the Inspector General.
Continue to improve policies and procedures, so that situations like Davis-Besse 1985 and Davis-Besse 2002 do not happen again here or anywhere.
Proactively seek input from employees and critics, for ideas and to increase objectivity.
Provide real answers to real concerns.
To FirstEnergy executives:
Put safety ahead of production and profits.
Make safety performance the primary criteria for raises, promotions and bonuses.
Do a better job of providing ratepayers with reliable, cost-efficient, safe, electricity.
Proactively seek input from employees and customers and critics, for ideas and to increase objectivity.
Provide real answers to real concerns.
Be good, moral, corporate citizens:
Take initiative and responsibility, instead of waiting for the NRC or PUCO or the EPA or the Justice Department to force changes.
Absorb the costs of your Davis-Besse mistakes internally. Do not punish ratepayers, again.
Dedicate substantial effort and funds to safe and renewable energy sources,now less than 1%
of your generation sources. Be a leader.
To FENOC employees, managers, and executives:
Put safety ahead of raises and promotions.
Immediately let supervisors know of safety problems and ideas. If they dont listen, tell the NRC.
If they dont listen, tell the media or consumers groups.
If you are fatigued, working too many hours in the push to restart, or in the future, tell your supervisor and/or the NRC inspector. Put your and our safety ahead of pressure from your boss or the extra pay.
Be grateful to those who caught the problems at Davis-Besse and had the courage to act. Your health and your job would have been the first casualties of an accident.
To Elected Officials:
Put first the safety and health of your constituents. Your constituents also include the children, the voters of the future.
Discuss and plan for the eventual decommissioning of Davis-Besse, the disposal of its nuclear waste, and future use of the land.
Maintain hyper-vigilance with Davis-Besse, the NRC, and FirstEnergy. Restart was achieved after the 1985 incident, and we still had 2002.
Explore aggregation and other ways to lower the high electric rates that burden your constituents and discourage new businesses.
Explore and demand increased use of renewable sources of energy in our environmentally sensitive area. Learn more about what is being done in Bowling Green, for example.
To Media and Watchdog groups:
Continue to investigate and report on Davis-Besse, the NRC, nuclear power, and FirstEnergy, even when it is not headline material--You are the eyes and ears that protect and inform the citizenry.
To Citizens:
Put safety concerns over economic concerns, for the sake of our children.
Conserve energy, so that we are less dependent on foreign oil and nuclear power and polluting fuels, so that we produce less damage to our environment.
Reduce, re-use, recycle.
Vote. Communicate with elected officials. Attend public meetings.
Lets do our jobs as citizens of a democracy.
In filmmaker Akira Kirosawas Dreams, a young mother clutches her children as they are engulfed by radiation from a nuclear plant explosion, and cries: "they told us that nuclear plants were safe", and then: "human accident is the danger, not the nuclear plant itself."
Lets all do our jobs better. Thank you for the opportunity to be heard.
- Regards, Donna Lueke