ML18144A141
| ML18144A141 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 05/22/2018 |
| From: | Tom Gurdziel Public Commenter |
| To: | Kristine Svinicki, Jim Clay NRC/Chairman, NRC/RGN-III |
| Shared Package | |
| ML18144A142 | List: |
| References | |
| LER 2016-008-01, LTR-18-0215 | |
| Download: ML18144A141 (2) | |
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CHAIRMAN Resource From:
Sent:
Tom Gurdziel <tgurdziel@twcny.rr.com>
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 10:11 PM To:
Clay, Jim Cc:
Subject:
Bridget Frymire; 'Ed Stronski'; Holden, Tammy L:(GenCo-Nuc); Lyon, Jill:(NMP);
DLochbaum@ucsusa.org; Screnci, Diane; CHAIRMAN Resource
[External_Sender] RE: LETTER TO MR. GURDZIEL Good morning Jim Clay, Thank you for the letter. I read it and also quickly read over LER 2016-008-001 (which I found on the NRC website.)
I think the LER, very early, (first paragraph on page 1), gives a clear view of why these plants are going bankrupt today. How can you justify spending 29 hours3.356481e-4 days <br />0.00806 hours <br />4.794974e-5 weeks <br />1.10345e-5 months <br /> and 22 minutes doing scheduled maintenance on a level transmitter at 100% power? Can you afford such an expense? Can you afford the risk exposure? Suppose that the I & C technicians were allowed a full 12 hour1.388889e-4 days <br />0.00333 hours <br />1.984127e-5 weeks <br />4.566e-6 months <br /> shift to do the repair and completed the job in that time. Do you realize that Channel 1 would have been back in service BEFORE Channel 2 failed (at 15 hr 13 min)? In other words, there would have been no need to write an LER. How much money would that have saved FirstEnergy? I will bet we are talking here of $50,000 to $100,000.
Also, I don't know what "normalized deviation" on page 1 of 7 means. (Also on page 4 of 7).
And I think they have inaccurately described their actuation logic on page 2 of 7 where, in paragraph 1 they mention "two-out-of-four" but, in paragraph 3 of the same page they seem to be describing 1 of 2, taken twice logic. Did anybody notice this? They are NOT the same thing.
Observe, too, on the bottom of page 5 of 7 that, when "culpability" is shared, nobody is held responsible. At least, that is the way I would look at it.
These nuclear merchant plants today need to be thinking of how things can be done better, faster, cheaper, more effectively. Then they have to implement those changes. I'll bet that is how their gas turbine competition acts.
Thank you, Tom Gurdziel From: Clay, Jim [1]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2018 8:55 AM To: tgurdziel@twcny.rr.com Cc: West, Steven
Subject:
LETTER TO MR. GURDZIEL On behalf of Steven West, Regional Administrator, Region Ill, I am forwarding Region Ill's response to your April 20, 2018, email.
Jim Clay, CWCA Administrative Assistant to Steven West Regional Administrator, Region Ill Phone: 630-829-9657 Purpose means intention, objective. goals based on your deepest core values Meaning is of value, significance, and important to me Email: iim.clay@nrc.gov 1
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