ML060580491
| ML060580491 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Salem, Hope Creek  |
| Issue date: | 02/04/2004 |
| From: | Blough A NRC Region 1 |
| To: | Meyer G NRC Region 1 |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2005-0194 | |
| Download: ML060580491 (3) | |
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avid o - Fwd: Hello R esire to cilita meen w Salem employees Page 1 From:
A. Ra olph Blough To:
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2/2/04 3:24PM
Subject:
Fwd: Hello Randy: UCS desire to facilitate meeting w/ Salem employees Glenn, please work with Dave Vito to come up with a proposed approach, including details as to who should attend, format, etc.
thanks.
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From:
"Day@ochbaum" <dlochbaurneucsusa.org>
To:
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Date:
2/2/04 2:35PM
Subject:
Hello Randy:
Hello Randy:
Just following up on our telephone call from last Wednesday. There are approximately five workers, plus or minus a couple, at Salem and Hope Creek that would like to sit down with you as soon as your schedule permits it (i.e., your next trip to the area) to discuss their safety concerns. These workers are a combination of management and union. To protect their identities, they are proposing to meet at a Friends Meeting Place in Woodstown, NJ, north of the site.
I briefly sketched out the value of such a meeting in our call last week. These workers have lost faith in the company's promises to reform.
Their lack of patience has them ready and willing to go to the media.
Their meeting with you would not replace existing NRC processes for handling/evaluating safety concerns (i.e., the allegation and 01 processes). Instead, it would supplement those processes. My expectation for the meeting would be that the workers would leave with the belief, as I believe, that the NRC is taking the problems very seriously and will get them fixed in time and that you would leave with a more complete understanding of the situation at the site.
I realize such a meeting is not business as usual for the NRC. I would neither advocate it nor seek it unless I felt it stood a very good chance of benefitting all participants.
Please contact me when you, or a member of your staff, can to schedule this meeting.
- Thanks, Dave Lochbaum Nuclear Safety Engineer Union of Concerned Scientists 1707 H Street NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006-3962 (202) 223-6133 x113 (202) 2:23-6162 fax Make your voice heard on important environmental and security issues. Join the Union of Concerned Scientists Action Network at www.ucsaction.org.
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- Heilo Randy:
Page 1 l From:
A. Randolph Blough To:
Dave Lochbaum Date:
2/2/04 3:34PM
Subject:
Re: Hello Randy:
- Dave, Glenn Meyer or another Region 1 staff will get back with you on this. We are all booked with "End-of-Cycle" review activities this week, so it may be tough to make progress this week.
I know, from you and one other person, that the group understands that anything of nearterm safety concern should be brought up quicker than the proposed meeting, and that will happen if anything new comes up that fits in that bin.
Thanks for your patience.
Randy
>>> "Dave Lochbaum" <dlochbaum~ucsusa.org> 02/02/04 02:37PM >>>
Hello Randy:
Just following up on our telephone call from last Wednesday. There are approximately five workers, plus or minus a couple, at Salem and Hope Creek that would like to sit down with you as soon as your schedule permits it (i.e., your next trip to the area) to discuss their safety concerns. These workers are a combination of management and union. To protect their identities, they are proposing to meet at a Friends Meeting Place in Woodstown, NJ, north of the site.
I briefly sketched out the value of such a meeting in our call last week. These workers have lost faith in the company's promises to reform.
Their lack of patience has them ready and willing to go to the media.
Their meeting with you would not replace existing NRC processes for handling/evaluating safety concerns (i.e., the allegation and O0 processes). Instead, it would supplement those processes. My expectation for the meeting would be that the workers would leave with the belief, as I believe, that the NRC is taking the problems very seriously and will get them fixed in time and that you would leave with a more complete understanding of the situation at the site.
I realize such a meeting is not business as usual for the NRC. I would neither advocate it nor seek it unless I felt it stood a very good chance of benefitting all participants.
Please contact me when you, or a member of your staff, can to schedule this meeting.
- Thanks, Dave Lochbaum Nuclear Safety Engineer Union cf Concerned Scientists 1707 H Street NW Suite 600 Washington, DC 20006-3962 (202) 223-6133 x113 (202) 223-6162 fax Make your voice heard on important environmental and security issues. Join the Union of Concerned Scientists Action Network at www.ucsaction.orq.
Its quick, easy, and FREE.