ML052440337

Exhibit 13: Interview Report of Kenneth F. Moore

ML052440337
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek
Issue date:	05/03/2003
From:	Monroe K NRC/OI
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Case No. 1-2003-010 Exhibit 13

INTERVIEW REPORT OF KENNETH F. MOORE On Monday, May 5, 2003, Kenneth F. MOORE, Technical Manager, Operations Department, PSEG LLC (PSEG), working at the Salem and Hope Creek Generating Stations (Salem/Hope Creek), Artificial Island, New Jersey, was interviewed by Kristin Monroe, Special Agent, U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), Office of Investigations (01), Region I Field Office, concerning an allegation that Senior Engineer, Salem/Hope Creek was discriminated against for raising a safety concern. The interview took place in a conference room in the TB2 Building at Salem/Hope Creek and began at 9:30 a.m. MOORE stated substantially as follows:

iwsbos social security number is MOORE's home mailing address i He has a B.S. degree in Nuclear Engineering Technology from Thomas dison UniversiV and an M.B.A. degree from Widener Universi MOORE w He has worked at Salem/Hope Creek for approximately 22 years. MOORE currently repo s to Lon WALDINGER, Director, Operations, Salem/Hope Creek. MOORE's office telephone number is (856) 339-2537.

AGENT'S NOTE: Prior to starting the interview, MOORE was given the opportunity to review PSE&G Notification Nurnbe (notification) that was initiated by on regarding Post-Transient Response Requirements (TARP).

MOORE explained that the TARP team is a multi-disciplined team that is called in by shift managers to help station operations if the plant had any type of issue which needed extra management or engineering input. MOORE got involved with TARP when he was asked to take the TARP roster and rework it because the TARP schedule did not align with the Emergency Response Organization (ERO) schedule, in that an individual might be on both the-TARP team and in the ERO and could potentially be in an on call status two weeks out of each month.

MOORE rerl t was one of the people selected for the TARP team. He did not Who wse to b n TARP. MOORE learned fro (andsupervisor), that had some issues a out bei on e team and was somewhat "miffed" about being assigned to TARP.

MOORE became involved with thidated notification whe asked him to perform an independent review o response to the notification. The notification involved several concerns _aad with the TARP procedure

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MOORE recalled th a s issues were that there were not enough ERO qualified people to validate if an event classification was correct and that there was non-compliance with the flCf~r-t 1 EXHIBIT J..

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- fi e.d TARP procedure. Regarding the procedural non-compliance aspect o1_ concern, MOORE thought that it had to do with being ERO qualified. MOORE ' ot that TARP members did not need to be ERO qualified and indicated that there were a lot of people on TARP who were not on the ERO.

MOORE reviewedts response and told _n hat it looked good. MOORE did not make any modcation to the notification and viewed it as almost a non-issue. He opined that~real issue was that he had been asked to be on the TARP team when he did not want to be on it.

This Report of Interview was transcribed on May 15, 2003.

Reviewed by MOORE on May 16,2003.

Reported by:

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