ML19241B925

FOIA Request for 17,000 to 18,000 Licensee Engineering & Design Coordination Repts Describing Inadequacies in Facility Const

ML19241B925
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	05/22/1979
From:	Grossman K ISLAND CLOSEUP NEWS SERVICE, SAG HARBOR, NY
To:	Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
FOIA-79-196 NUDOCS 7907250385
Download: ML19241B925 (2)

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?hy 22,1979 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION Joseph Hendrie ACT REQUEST Cha irman [ .g g p ' g' g

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Dear Mr . H2 ndrie ,

f ffO ~ 7 k It 's been almost two years since we were together at Brookhaven l'1tional Inboratory and I interviewed you at length in the midst of the proceedings on your appointment to the lac chairma ns hip. It's been a most interesting period for us both, I'm sure, and I send best regards .

I have been having great difficulty recently investigating the safety situation concerning the Shoreham nuc1 car power plant, now under construction.

Recently, a boxload of Stone & Webster Engineering and Design Coordination Reports concerning problems in the construction of the plant and found at the Southold Town dump were brought to m3 Some 416 of the reports involve " nuclear safety related" problems at the plant. The documents tell repeatedly about construction on the nuclear plant not being up to specification and not adhering to engineering drawings, with the consistent remedy that the specifications and drawings be changed. The pattern that comes through is of a nuclear plant being designed while being built, with frequent references to items not in conformance being left as is, even when in violation.

The reports are numbered 16,000 to 18,000 and after spending much time looking into them and writing a story on the matter --

a copy is enclosed -- I wondered about the reports that might have corre before.

1 I spoke yesterday to Albert Toth, the IBC project ins p3ctor

$ on the job and he told m3 tha t the re we re, indeed, "17,000 to

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18,000" such reports ke pt by LIIf 0 on " site . "

He said it was "up to" LIIf 0 to let me see them. Ira Fre111cher, the vice president for public affairs for LIIf 0, denied my request to review the reports accompanied by a nuclear e nginee r. f . i' 0 ; 0

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Joseph Hendrie . . . . . . 2 I*r. Freilichar said "we 're not a government acency" ao the reports could not be inspected under the Freedom of Information Act.

That may be so, technically, for LILCO, but the IMC is a public agency and nuclear power is an enormously government-subaldized and supported undertaking. I note the covernmant 's role in this untter, especially through the Price-Anderson Act a limit in liability for the utility in the event of a catastrophic nuclear accident, tint might be caused by these problema detailed in the reports.

Furth2r, the IMC, I'd hope , has looked through these safety problem reports and made notes on them.

So, pursuant to tin Freedom of Information Act I would like to see the 17,000 to 18,000 reports and I'd also like .

to inspect any and all notes and correspondence the lac has on those docunants .

Again, regards, and I hope you get a chance to get back to tha Island this summer.

S ince re ly, Y v II.Yl/h Karl Grossnan, Editor Island Closeup ?!cws Service KG/jg ene.

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