ML062540257

Allegations, Summary of Allegations

ML062540257
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek
Issue date:	10/01/2003
From:	- No Known Affiliation
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
FOIA/PA-2005-0194
Download: ML062540257 (2)

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Salem / Hope Creek Allegations Summary of allegations:

1. SOWE - safety conscious work environment (production over safety)

A. Specific SCWE incidents

• Sept 24,2002 at Sale pterates .

confidential report substantiates a legation, Third Step Grievance

• March 17, 2003 at Hope Creek n confide that ft"W ressured or restart withou ýforced outage - bypass valve incident; Forced outage & bypass valve repair occurred.

• March 17, 2003 at Hope tole d alleger he did*

not have the authority to stop the evolution (reactivity e-xcursion during the bypass valve shutdown?) even though he knew itwas ill-conceived.

• June 17, 2003 at Hop~eCreek - ED.G l~akage exceeds LCO time; pressure' to avoid shutdown O WNRdirected operato to not shutdown; shutdown later commenced.

• Fall ()2002 at Salem - Maaeiet NA a ýstartup checklist step'.

• Excessive use of temporary logs to monito~r de graded 'equipment. (NEOs can. provide)

Salem grassing (i.e., heroic effort 's) deviated from expected approachI lessons learned -from 1994 grassing* 10

• Higher Tritium sample concentration in Spring 2003 - "a serious issue that had o bQhandled with kid gloves to keep us [PSEG) out of trouble" B. General SCWE

• Discussions w t Ii pt al, including some taped

• Ineraci. n W perating management & staff Lettrto~mpO nd EUCP - March 25

• Comment (mostly negative) from ECP survery - 40 2002 & IQ 2003 Approach - Inomto nti ecord was deleIW inaccordance with the Freedom of InformatioQ Act, exemptions r7, FDIA--[

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• Interviews with all shift managers at Salem and Hope Creek by tech nica1/0I/con SUltant team to generally address SCWE

• NRC-directed survey of operations staffs to address specific issues raised or should have been raised in an anonymous manner to NRC ?

• Get April 2003 results of Gallup G-12 survey (multi-year effort to measure staff engagement, an indirect measure of SCWE)

2. Technical Review of Specific Incidents

• Technical review of above specific incidents (many previously reviewed) to assure technical Inuclear safety considerations were met in'light of new info;.

Approach - Residents perform review and document in memo to file.

3. Discrimination

• Termination following raising safety concerns triMM

• Termination date of April 16 mo'ved up to March'28 a6 request

• ECP report of July 1'7 and Winston-Str'awn review find her alleged discrimination to be unsubstantiated due to Human Resources' decisions to end position and to advance termination date.

Approach - 01 to open. discrimination case.

4. Wrongdoing

• PSEG destroys unfavorable documents

• Three specifics knows some; as asked to rewrite a notifica~tion, Winston-Strawn investigation differed from interviewees' accounts Ap~proach - Perform additional review to clarify general statements for possible 01 review October 1,2003 G: Br. 3\Salem\allegation-culture.wpd Page 2 of 2