ML19257B621
| ML19257B621 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/21/1979 |
| From: | Gossick L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Harold Denton, Dircks W, Levine S NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR REGULATORY RESEARCH (RES) |
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August 21, 1979 MEMORAfiDUM FOR:
Harold R. Denton, Director,fiRR William J. Dircks, Director, f4 MSS Saul Levine, Director, RES Robert B. Minogue, Director, SD Victor Stello, Director, ILE
?!arman M. Haller, Director, MPA Robert G. Ryan, Director, SP Howard K. Shapar, ELD James R. Shea, Director, IP FROM:
Lee V. Gossick Executive Director for Operations
SUBJECT:
REPORTIfiG TO COMMISSI0t1 0F IriFORMATI0t1 0F SIGrilFICAf!CE TO SAFETY I call the attention of the Office Directors to the fact that information received by the staff in April 1979, regarding a transient of safety significance occurring in a foreign reactor, was not brought to my attention nor. forwarded to the Comission until August 1979 -- at least three months after the information first reached the staff.
The requirement for promptly reporting to the Comission of any information of safety significance has been the subject of discussions at numerous staff meetings, and of past memoranda from the Comission citing instances where it was clear that there is insufficient sensitivity within the staff to the importance of promptly reporting such information.
By copy of this memorandum, and by emphasis on this subject at your weekly staff neetings, I want you to impress.upon your people the absolute, unfailing requirement that any matter of safety significance be promptly reported.
Your judgment must determine the most appropriate means for such reporting.
Some matters are properly the subject of the Daily Report; others the topics of Plis; others should be the subject of telephone reports.
1' hen in doubt, consult with me or the Deputy Executive Director for Operations.
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