ML060540057

2-16-06 Ltr R. Webb to C. Paperiello TMI-2 Safety Analysis Report. Requests Investigation Re Whereabouts of Document

ML060540057
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	02/16/2006
From:	Webb R Studies of Nuclear Hazards & Constitutional Law
To:	Paperiello C Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research
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Studies of Nuclear Hazards and Constitutional Law Richard E. Webb, Ph.D.

American Scientist (Physics)

RaiffeisenstraBe 1 86868 Mittelneufnach Bayern (Bavaria), Germany Telephone: 49-8262-960236 (within Germany 08262-960236) e-mail: richard.webb~t-online.de www .technidigm.org/webb Dr. Carl J. Paperiello, Director 16 February 2006 Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, Md. by telefax, 301-415-5153

Subject:

The TMI-2 Licensee's Safety Analysis Reportfor Transition to Natural Circulationduring the Three Mile Island Unit-2 Reactor Accident - a vitally important, but missing Document.

The NRC's Public Documents Room office has informed me that they do not have the document, Safety Analysis Reportfor Transition to Natural Circulation, issued by Metropolitan Edison, April 12, 1979. This document ought to be in the NRC file for the TMI-2 reactor license docket, number 50-320. This document contains the TMI-2 licensee's technical analysis and justification for their then proposed trial of natural circulation for cooling the TMI-2 reactor during its accident in March-April 1979.

The TMI-2 licensee was assisted during the TMI-2 reactor accident by a group of experts from around the country, called the Industry Advisor Group, and therefore, I think that it is likely that members of that IAG had advised and assisted the licensee, then Metropolitan Edison and GPU, on the matter of that Safety Analysis for natural circulation cooling. I have judged that that document is a vital document recording important information on the states of the reactor during the time interval from the about 18 hours2.083333e-4 days <br />0.005 hours <br />2.97619e-5 weeks <br />6.849e-6 months <br /> into the accident to the date of that Safety Analysis report, April 12, 1979, and revealing the perception, understanding, and assumptions of the license and perhaps also their advisors and the IAG assistors, of the condition and changing conditions of the reactor during that critical period.

Therefore, I having been seeking a copy of that important document.

I request your office to investigate the whereabouts of this document, and do what is necessary to secure the authentic original or copy, and enable me and other citizens then to obtain a copy of that.

Sincerely yours, Richard E. Webb P.S. My telefax machine is now restored, and can both receive and send faxes.

My email is richard.webb@t-online.de.