ML19224A971
| ML19224A971 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/13/1979 |
| From: | Weiss B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| To: | Thompson D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7906130342 | |
| Download: ML19224A971 (2) | |
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APR 1 0 1^73 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Dudley Thompson, Executive Officer for Operations Support, IE FROM:
Bernard H. Weiss, X005
SUBJECT:
RECORDING TAPES OF TMI INCIDENT We have checked around regarding the duplication of the master tapes.
There is no neat duplicating machine for this as there is for cassette tapes. Basically, you need a playback machine like we have, but moaified to have 20 outputs rather than the one that it comes with. Then you would play the tape on the playback machine at the normal speed and make two recordings.
Consequently, two copies of two weeks of tapes would take at least two weeks excluding either time for modifications or making arrangements with another group.
There appear to be several alternatives to this:
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Modify our playback and multi-channel recorder so that we can do the taping.
This would cost about $5,000 and take at least two weeks if we don't go competitive.
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NASA can provide such a facility.
However, they want us to man the facility 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> per day. Time for taping would be half real time; that is they can reproduce 14 days worth of tapes in 7 days, j
but only one copy.
3)
Dictaphone has a modified playback machine or could modify one of theirs and possibly play into as many as three machines, which could give 6 recordings at a time.
We have not yet established Dictaphone's willingness to do this or whether they have several machines operational at one location.
I would like to note that irrespective of the difficulty in obtaining duplicate tapes, I don't believe that it is such a good idea to distri-bute them around.
As a counter proposal, I believe that they should be available to any individual at, for example, the PDR or Volgenau's office. We could have the masters and playback machine there.
(The playback cannot record or erase.)
If there is some interest and pres-sure, we could duplicate.
However, individuals will quickly learn of the difficulty in trying to monitor the 18 channels with conversation.
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This is not a good way of learning what went on.
It's biggest benefit is settling discrepancies. However, one would have to know the time of a call and, hopefully, the line used (from the log).
Unless this request cemes from a high authority outside of the NRC, with whom we do not argue, I do not believe the NRC should volunteer these tapes.
They will not aid an individual it understanding the progress of the incident.
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