ML071700441
| ML071700441 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | University of Texas at Austin, 05000083 |
| Issue date: | 08/28/2005 |
| From: | Brenner E Office of Public Affairs |
| To: | Ross B ABC |
| References | |
| FOIA/PA-2007-0176 | |
| Download: ML071700441 (1) | |
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From: Eliot Brenner 1 '
To: brian.ross@abcnews.com Date: 8/28/05 2:32PM
Subject:
NRC request for information Mr. Ross and Ms. Sauer, I, and the other members of the NRC staff that visited your Washington, DC offices on Thursday, wish to thank you for opportunity to understand the findings of your investigations. We are evaluating the information you have provided.
First, the following related to our ongoing evaluations and you should not make it publicly available at this time to ensure the integrity of our evaluations. That is, we do not wish the Universities to know that we are evaluating these matters until we have chance to complete them and ensure appropriate corrective action is taken.
We wish to clarify at least one point on University of Florida as soon as possible. We saw on film clip that the University of Florida allowed the interns access before the reactor cell without ID check. We need to know whether University of Florida personnel checked the interns IDs before they went into the reactor cell or not. Our notes on this are not clear and we need it for our evaluations. (The. University of Florida has previously said that the interns were confused when they were looking at an external experimental facility (pneumatic experimental system). They said the interns thought they were looking at the reactor at that point when they were not.)
This further emphasizes the importance to our evaluations of getting all the film you have on these visits and we appreciate your efforts to get us that information.
Mr. Mendonca received Ms. Sauer's e-mail that the guard shack was at University of Texas. That guard shack is not part of the required security plan at the University of Texas.
Again, you should not make it publicly available at this time to ensure the integrity of our evaluations.
We appreciate your prompt cooperation on these and other matters as we raise them to you to provide us complete information for our evaluations.
- Regards, Eliot Brenner CC: Alexander Adams; Janet Schlueter; Marvin Mendonca; Roy Zimmerman