ML19320D126
| ML19320D126 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vallecitos File:GEH Hitachi icon.png |
| Issue date: | 06/07/1980 |
| From: | Philbrick S PHILBRICK, S.S. |
| To: | Kerr W Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| References | |
| ACRS-CT-1248, NUDOCS 8007180609 | |
| Download: ML19320D126 (1) | |
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up with a feeling that the U3GS and the NRC Staff are engaged in gg series of studies based on the premise that the GETR should be
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shut down! Fermanently! Even,1f evidence is lacking for such, the most dangerous condition is assumed as being in existence.
gj No where is any mention made of methods or means or ways of su offsetting or countering the effects of undesirable conditions, ma real or assumed, in the foundation or environment of the GETR.
8o To one who has spent his life in engineering geology where un-desirable conditions were common and remedying them or adjusting n2 to them was the normal cource of ac. tion, I find this lack of effort eo to make things go, just inexcusable.
- o Let us be absolutely clear on this point--- I desire an absolutely d
g-Q safe project -- safe within the capability of Eood engineering 2%
and good science. I am not sure that the latter is being shown in the SER.
gy I accept the Verona Pault as real and as described and as exposed p
WA in the B1 /33 trench. I do not feel any where near as sure about the shear zone in the 32 trench -- it may be a landslide shear.
The shear in the H trench may be either a fault or a landslide me 80 shear. And at this point I take difference with the SER on the oo of occurrence of shears on faults coming in contact with the GETR either on its foundation bottom or its embedded sides..The con-5e struction photos of the walls of the foundation excavation did o
Ei not show readily recognizable faults. The assumption that new shears will develop in the immediate presence of the Verona shear 0
seems far fetched. But that is what is assumed -- new shears g
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between the 31/33 and the 32 which would come in contact with the concrete walls and/or floor of the GETR. Then comes the great
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I think the whole drill is unrealistic and I doubt if it should be the governing effort but I am sure that the Staff and the USGS i
will hold to such a position with a vigor and tenacity unmatched c
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since the last Mich-OSU game in November.
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With these thoughts and beliefs in my mind,I look forward with little enthusiasm to two days of flying and two days and evenings M
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doubt if I can remain silent even in the face of the prestigious array of the USGS geologists and geophysicists.
Under these conditions, do you wish me to attend the GETR meeting?
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