ML19262A368

Requests 760325 or 26 Meeting W/Nrc in Washington,Dc to Discuss TMI-1 Ring Girder Pour Problems.Also Requests Cooperation in Attempt to Investigate Pouring of Ring Girder on Behalf of Util

ML19262A368
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	03/16/1976
From:	Fox L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Jennifer Davis NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
References
NUDOCS 7910260689
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Dear Mr. Davis:

I have been referred to you by Mr. Ronald Haynes of your King of Prussia office. We represent the Pennsylvania Flectric Company and its parent, General Public Utilities.

de have been retained by our clients to conduct an indepen-dent investigation of the pouring of the ring girder at Three Mile Island Unit No. 1. In connection with that in-vestigation we seek your Agency's cooperation with respect to three different areas.

1. We would like to have an opportunity to talk to your inspectors at that time particularly, S. A. Folsom, J. H. Tillou, D. Hunnicut and M. Howard,though there might be others whose information would be valuable.

2. We would like an opportunity to inspect your files to the extent that they contain supporting data for the re-ports which were issued at that time.

3. The defense has been raised informally that the Three Mile island ring girder pour was unique and consequently s

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DR N KE A B r ocLE & R EAT H March 16, 1976 Mr. John G. Davis We have been represented " state of thethereart problems".

were similar ring girder informed that, in fact, designs successfully poured prior to, and contemporaneous with, the pouring of the Three Mile Island ring girder, and that these pours did not develop similar problems. I can not imagine anyone who would have a better perspective on this question than your Agency and would appreciate any assistance you could provide which might resolve this question.

We are working under considerable time pressure in this matter.

In fact, we will be in Washington, D.C. on If it were possible to arrange the 25th and 26th of March.

a meeting with your Agency with respect to question number I would 3

during that visit, this would be most appreciated.

also like to visit King of Prussia, if possible, within the next two or three weeks. NeedlessI look to say, if you have any forward to a favor-questions feel free to call me.

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