ML13148A380
| ML13148A380 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 05/23/2013 |
| From: | Headrick G San Clemente Green |
| To: | Macfarlane A NRC/Chairman |
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| LTR-13-0459 | |
| Download: ML13148A380 (8) | |
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Wright, Darlene From: San Clemente Green [gary@sanclementegreen.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 23,201312:15 PM To: CHAIRMAN Resource
Subject:
It's no joke. The Captain's Log just hit the fan.
lement "Beam me up Scotty, before all Hell breaks loose at San Onofre."
Click on this link to see top paid managers acting irresponsibly.
It seemed appropriate to find a few actual quotes from Star Trek for this story:
Kirk: If Spock were here, he'd say that I was an irrational, illlogical human being for going on a mission like this... Sounds like funl
-Star Trek: Generations "Believing oneself to be perfect is often the sign of a delusional mind:'
-Data, to Borg Queen, Star Trek: First Contact It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.
-Captain Picard to Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Peak Performance" 1
Dear Allison,
While I would be the first to admit that Star Trek was both entertaining and thought provoking, I find it deeply disturbing that San Onofre's top managers were fooling around like this during the same period that I was being made aware of serious problems from licensed reactor operators at this nuclear facility who feared retaliation for reporting concerns like the one below from these very same "actors". Here is the message I got from one of them back in December of 2009 that changed my life and the course of San Clemente Green.
Hello Gary, You may have seen SeE's news release that SONGS Unit 2 is about a month away from startup and they claim the new Steam Generators are going to be "tested", which I think means filling the system with water and doing some ultra sound tests, but not running at normal operating temperature and pressure, without fuel, like they should.
One other piece of info SeE has not released is that the new Unit 3 Steam Generators which were built in parallel with Unit 2's, were so flawed in final testing in Japan that they had to be completely disassembled for rework, which means they will have to rush to finish them in time for the Unit 3 Outage next September.
I'll wait to hear from you.
Thanks, XXX The other piece of hard evidence someone in management provided me with was an internal memo that captured the dysfunctional work culture at the time, which has actually grown worse since then. Not to overwhelm you with additional reading, but I feel it is very important to bring this into the public view once again under these circumstances. Since it happened before Japan's Fukushima disaster, it was not widely covered in the news. Perhaps now it will taken on more significance. I'll leave you with this document and a few recent articles that you may also find interesting. When you finish reading, I hope that you will be motivated to sign our petition and vote in the poll to keep San Onofre Shut Down. If you've already done so, please pass this request on to others, (we've almost reached our goal and hope to blow on past it).
- Thanks, Gary 2
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- The NRC undelst!JM.llhoil see <lOP not hoive ell)' C\JrrtH'lt plans 10 make SCW!: n/lining PIII1 of a co!lI'tnljininQ /ninO III'OIIram (i.e" il wiil be I'8QlJitad as one*!imII lrlHning)
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