ML19224A806
| ML19224A806 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/11/1979 |
| From: | Notley D NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF STANDARDS DEVELOPMENT |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7905300428 | |
| Download: ML19224A806 (2) | |
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se I,!AY 1 1 1973 MEMORANDUM FOR:
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David P. Notley, EMSB, DES, SD
SUBJECT:
FIRE PROTECTION AND SECURITY DEFICIENCIES AT THREE-MILE ISLAND On tlednesday, May 9,1979, I received a call from a friend of mine, a fire protection engineer whcse judgement I respect.
For personal reasons he asked that ras name not be used.
He said he had been at the Three-Mile Island site and that he felt that NRC should make a comprehensive fire protection inspection to clear up several potential problems as he saw them.
These include such things as:
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Poor housekeeping associated with contaminated combustibles stored in plastic bags outside, with the area delineated only by rope barricade; 2.
Fire protection systems that were impaired or out of service; 3.
Poor storage and use practices concerned with handling of gasoline fuel in and arcund the NRC trailer.
He also expressed concern about activities being undertaken without adequate consideration of other possible pecblems.
He mentioned two specific recent installations each involving a different kind of problem.
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The first concerned new charcoal filters that have been installed on the roof of the auxiliary building.
They are being equipred with water deluge fire protection systems.
No provision has been made for handling contaminated water that would result in the event the deluge system functions either spuriously or as intended.
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The ottar installation that he was ccacerned abeat is an l
c::arec,cy diesel ceneratar h:%up cutska tha auxiliary builcua.
nio lar 2 diesel foal star ce tcrks suscrted i
on uce:.cn chid: have been inscalled cr.d fac1 is daliicred frca the storage t:n h to the diesel engine by a pi a,
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t approxic.:tely 1-1/.?" dim.ui.rr, runaing on the surface of the ground.
The prirca is unprotected frc'1 :rachanical damana.
Thc appnixicately 10,0Z gallons of diesel fuel exposes the pu;/p he'.re hich vill be relied en for long-tcra cociing of th2 dr.nc:3 raactar.
30 dyking, or Other protcctive taasures, have been provided.
On Fri 'ay, i'ay 11, I was again talking to him on anoth:r. atter whaa h2 I
clab; rated sc:.0 cn his May 9 telephone call.
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fr.: grove,ent h:s aten nade i1 Musekcaping. They nrs P. ;;nnia to s? crc their cont:rinuMd u;ste in sual det s, althcut'. r".ch of it is still l
sto:1 d in ;.lattic nys cn tM ground catsida.
It,qs ct this,Mir.t thJt his concern cW.ut lack cf c_2quata s= city at th iMI sito ';?.3 lirst tanticcad. Q D.c eiscu:sc bricily '.a. ne..sp:gr articl= 2 :t caustic havino been O.
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r arson fire Y. ' "lant ur' k. co dtructirt. i n m : i _'rcst.
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he r,nticned i:.at cocurity c t l':I sena vary Ice.,.. hic it is ic;3ible for cn imircicul to..ai
'.scarted cr.: cechell: m at vil? cutsida the exclocimi re2.
fais in ptte of t::a fact t: c all ricincr: cre issuud b.um'n ' W i' r::J O cn-t he~.tir M."
The - d cu:as nd stcena arcs, incl jias t?3 c:.aci a:s ted emri]! stcra:;e F.enticaca ct ove, are loccted outsida ua exclusi.e. c ya.
IP said t!.iacs ara not ruch better rar.rding catry into t,:c relucien area.
Criefcases, lunca pails, ctc. ara not ctccked. Sad in an w to ena of his questions, one of the pli.nt security peuple said that i.' rmacca vantcd l
to bring gasoline in in his tner:'as bottle, thcre's no uay th0y cculd prevent it.
I stopped in to saa Steve Hanauer with the original infornatica on Uednescay arterncon, My 9.
He agreed that scesthing nac : d to be done, cad prcaised to cet cack to r.e.
i:e calica ca Thur day norning bcfore I got int 0 the offica ano lef t the nestare uiO, cy sccratary that he had called John Davis in I2 and that Jchn utuld reley the inforration to the i
appropriate Region pnople. By cans of this tro I au transnitting taa i
further concerns of r:y friend for lax security to Dr. Hanauer.
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