ML19318B468
| ML19318B468 | |
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| Site: | South Texas  |
| Issue date: | 05/15/1980 |
| From: | Keen N AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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V nay 15,1980 2602 cncino Bay Cityt Texas 77414 Dcar '
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Tha 200 rege report of the Nuclear heEulatory Co.uicsio-Special InvestiEation on the touth Texas Nuclear rower riant in natagorda County, Texas, in reference to thic above report cent to nouston Light and Power on April 30, 1980 by the Nuclear hegulatory comission, I respectfully re-quest your assistance in seeing that the citizens of Matagorda County and the ; tate of Texac are granted a public hearing on this governmen-tally documented report.
An reuling thic documented report, the information revealed is both shockin6 and fri htenin6 as to hat:ardous con:truction and 6 rocs mic-6 r.anacement.
I along with other citizens of l'ata6orda County feel it is ecsential that a public hearing be held in may City to the documentation of the condi-tions of the plant can be revealed to the citizens.
As a understand it, we have only until nay 30, 1960 to requent this hearing.
I along with the other citizens of natagorda County eagerly anticipate your help. Pleace let us hear from your.
i nespectfully 1
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" [..,I The Houston Post Q fM Sun., May 4,1980 W M
XRC repo~ rt afdamning document
,8y HANGLD SCARIETT NRC c%ut threats and intimidation of paction criteria," the NRC team Post Environment Wrlier, qual':y control inspectors by construe ~~TerEFfed_.
Turning to pl e welding, another cru-i After soil studies, project engineers cial safety factor in a nuclear plant, the tion. people.
One worker at the South Texas Nu-There had been similar complaints tw had decided adequate soll compaction NRC discosered other serious problems.
clear Pr: ject told federal investigators ore. The regional NRC would send in a would require eight passes with a rolling stop work order on welding last month Brown & Root has said it issued a that management of the $2.7 billion nu-cle:r construction. job was "all fouled couple of investigators. IliAP would file machine - although othe up."
a report that it had taken corrective 12 passes were necessary.r data indicated because of flaws in paperwork proce-dures. Both Browr. & Root and IllAP measures. That was the end of it.
But NRC questioning showed compac-Similar comments came from a num-But this time it was different.
for operators had not been told to make said they knew of no problems with the ber of other workers among the 107 ques-The NRC sent h a team of five inspec-any minimum number of passes, just to Well the NRC found some for them.
welding itself.
tioned over three months by a special tors and one investigator - four of them roll until told to stop.
Th'e,Invistigators reported discoiering I;vestigition team of the Nuclear Regu-latory Commission.
assembled from other NRC regions. They "This information was obtained a number of bad welds - including two A rSport by the NRC team on its almost lived on the site for three months., through an interpreter," the NRC noted, in a safety injection system that "had They investigated a number of individ. "since the compactor operator did not been accepted when (they) should have f51Tdsyg3rQn essence that man 3a Ual stories of threats and harassment, speak English and his foreman didn't beer! rejectedJ' ment of the mammoth project was, in-and they confirmed most of them.
speak Spamsh."
die 3-~rlffouled up.
But they also delved into the perform.
When a test was set up on compaction the job apparently don't kriow wlGft' hey The investigation led last week to the Some weld-testing radiographers on ance of the quality control program.by procedures, NRC investigators noted NRC imposing a $100,000 civil penalty on checking how well it was working in excessive passes by the roller. Challeng-are doing, the NRC said, and the Houston Lighting & Power Co.; and a several key types of construction.
, ed on this, an HL&P tepresentative ex-phy fdms are often so poor it's impossi-wirningIhat construction will be halied..
One of these was the concrete work, a plained f*lt's only human nature" to ble to detect a bad weld anyway.
ynTess things are strii3Iened out.
recurting ar,d highly public!1ed problem make sure they passed 'he test.
Drifting around the job, the NRC team The report, totajl n Including appendfxes,g nearly 200 pages on the project.
In another test. 'ae NRC observed the saw a number of violations of proper is flat and formal flowever, their selective irkluiries rais-compactor was,verlapping "a full hall welding procedurrs.
in tone. But undermeath concealed in its ed questions about other areas of con-drum width," making 16 passes instead Once, the report says, an NRCinspec-dispassionate language is a pretty damn-struction never before in the public of the spectried eight. Challenged again, tamination from neathy sandblasting tor cautioned a welding crew that con.'
ing document.
~~potlight.
HL&P called off the test, The matter re-s in mor2 than one instance, the NRC The investigators found " serious ques. mains unresolved.
could damage the weld. The welding investigators made it ptetty plain that tions" about whether backfilled soll The NRC also discovered that a borin[ in showers of spatks, the NRC said, but torch was igmting floating sand and dust they feli lifAP or Brown & Root Inc.
foundations under and around the mas-
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test 6eaiIliiDdit TrTactor 13Eifdm the]ob contractor{h'aTsiiQIy~6iedlo, con tFem aly_ t goiWs~on' at 'the c5nt- 'sive niiclear buildings met density fountNsfTooie~hialefialnear th71@he of "the welding personnel cou
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'the.'oGrifation mat."
stand why sparks were emitted."
stnRTFn~11Fe near Bay City, "At least six to nine inches of material ' Undue settimg of the reactor buildings and iound he could have saved h4
_Next daytthe,NRC inspector returned
" It all began last Nov. 2 when a project beneath Category I (safety.related) could b'rialIcrucial' pip ~ini~and Ea'Ose employee complained to the regional buildings probably does not meet com other scri,5u{ mis {hipf.7
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THX NUCLEAR RIGULATORY CONXISSION INVESTIGATICE WAS gg UlI CONDUCTID AND/er PIRFORMED P0H NOVD'3IR 10,1979 TO OR THROUGH TII?UARY 7, 1960, ON THE LOCATION SI"I 07 THI SOUTH TIXAS NUCLEAR POYIR PLANT. ECUSTON LIGHT AND POVD CO., CINTRAL POWIR AND LIGHT, BROWN AND ROOT, SAN ANTONIO TIIAS RESIDINTS, AUSTIN, TTIAS RISIDINTS, CORPUS CHRISTI RISIDINTS.& 077ICIALS OF THE A30VI INVOLVID PAETICIPANTS RESPONSIBLI FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THIS PB0 JECT AND THE SAFE OPI*ATION OF THF. PI. ANT SHOULD EI SUPOINID TO 3I IN ATTINDANCI AT THE HEARING TO BI HILD IN PAT CITT, TIIAS.
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