ML19289C892

Forwards 2 Newspaper Articles Re Crack at Plant.Reiterates Request for NRC Investigation

ML19289C892
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Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	12/19/1978
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To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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A crack'.in,,the reactor room wall at t!ie.. . .:

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Wolf Creek Generating Station has been ~ before." White measures'are taken to avoid 'I reported by a Topeka television' station and national press service. - such occurrences. Rives said, occasionally But there. ls no crael.'. , 'l ~ ~ one is discovered. , . h i f, y . , " ,j What has been termed a crack by some Rives said the. term " crack" is a "wr,on2 '

members of de, media is actually a " void." word" to describe' the flaw in the' reacter to quote Bob Rives, vice. president of room.w all. calling it sirnpfy an " air pocket." [

systems services with Kansas Gas and A dictionary def'm es crael as "a narrow I I

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facility. co-owner of the controversial ' said Rives. It sirnply did not reach all the The void was discovered late Wednesday , places it was intended to. , .

when workers raised the forms on the The concrete didn't flowinto an area near reactor room wall la pre;iaration for the the equipment ' hatch. "a hard area to pouring'of another tier er " lift" of concrete." reach." said !!ives. The equipment hatch is, The flaw is part of the sixth lift. 65 feet above a huge holein the reactor room wall which is '

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• covered by a door. The hofe a!!ows access to Rives said the void. which measures about internal components of the power plant.

five feet long.18 inches ~ wide and around The void will probably be filled in with -

three feet deep. occurred when the wet concrete. said Rives. the same method used j to repair sirnilar " alt poelets" in other ;

concrete did not flow into all the airspace locations at.the p,lant.: '. I.A .. '

surroundin2 the reinforcing bar cin the Rives said the fault is being [ reported; to '

outside of the reactor room. .

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) Creek are som ewb c dismayed be'en urnier im:sigz6ee :

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6e'coneme is fxAy4: 4 reactoris"cocJured acculation substandard."The up'.4 . I Aito the kZe ions -illogical bIat nonethel) 'pGit oScial s.sd " e

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- - urar.iudi r6ds', seeping heavy' , "sennet ~ -'.:': ~ 9- wu fu water ard ran pant nuclear *

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- Creek pIst are fancere large crack has been foundin ' thir befJ dat 6e 56x- ~

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an cite'dofwa3 of the twer : ceactor wcu'd b/a arcat

. p! ant. It is t. Lout 65 fece above" tfihed6 aqsIcty the groun3 on the soe6 east. -

resMents.~ne reports ofpc

• wan of the " reactor cenrainer epali:y c:ute: ids 2:Li M g.- feet long,181nches w Je andstructure." The t

more than three f'cer' deep, ac - c!airas and he'p t cording to Robert Rives, pub- o6ers to their ca se. The i-

- , lic information officer, for . cifents dso wu intemify el Kansas Gas' and 'Electrie ' efforts to bk&deEveryofa Company. Moit pe5ple co'n- nuclear reactor wssel- *

., sk!cr a hcde that size 'some , Despi:e the re'eem prob r ..

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.The defter was discovered provide a safe, $ly*W a:=p'ie si.gp, when construcion workers of electricity at a t$ne M

raised forms for the walis as they preparea to pour more o6er scurces cannot meet ds concrete. demand. . ._ -

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- whoare building thepIz::eowe

, their suppor.crs a bcMczpla-Spokesmen'for the uti!ity, companies that are paying for.. . '. .and scme t

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