ML19301C491
| ML19301C491 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/06/1983 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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,F' June 6, 1983 Note to William J.'Dircks in response to your request, I have reviewed the extent of HRR's knowledge of Tim Martin's conclusion regarding record falsification, as requested by Comissioner Gilinsky in a memorandum dated May 31, 1983.,
NRR's knowledge of this issue at the time of the staff's presentation on management at the TMl-1 restart proceeding is described in the two enclosed memoranda from Harley Silver, the then assigned project manager.
Ve knew at that time that it was being held in abeyance, and thatthe NRC staff investigation had not been co details should not be discussed because DCJ had become involved.
No one in NRR management knew at the time whether or not the investigators had formed a final opinion.
Seve ral months ago, I was given a copy of a GPU investigation of the Hartman allegations, concucted by Faegre and Benson in 1380. Af ter reading this, and reviewing the safety evaluation report description of the issue, which had been presented to the Restart Board, s a fe ty implications of the alleptions.I met with T m to learn more about the Tim described the details of the allegations, Indicated that the NRC investigation was only weeks away from completion when it was suspended and said records and interviews did indicate lack of adherence to operating procedu es and tended to support some a
allegations but not othe.s.
For example, he said records had been found indicating the addition of water and/or hydrogen during leak rate testing.
I do not recall Tim saying records had been falsified.
In view of information then available, the fact that the DOJ investigation had not yet been completed, and the lapse of time since the staff's previous testimony to the Restart Board on this issue, I decided to clarify the record and conduct a revalidation effort, as stated in staff comments on the GPU-B&W transcript, dated April 18, 1983.
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tM Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Enclos ures:
1 Note to Eisenhut fm Silver dtd 6/3/S3 2.
Note to Stol:: fm Silver dtd 6/1/B3 cc:
G. Cunningham, ELD T. Martin, Reg. I bh q g g, RD Ik 9
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