ML19327A648

Requests That Questions Re Util Ability to Operate Plant Safely,Per Procedural Inadequacies,Be Thoroughly Addressed Before Further Low Power Operations Permitted at Plant

ML19327A648
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	06/30/1989
From:	Markey E HOUSE OF REP.
To:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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FOIA-89-309 NUDOCS 8908070046
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! chairman j l w atear moeulatory commission an, a str..t, ww washington, DC 20585 j Dear chairman techs l j

2 as writing concerning the suspension of low power operations ,

at the Seabrook plant and the consiesion's prior knowledge of j procedural inadequacies at sembrook.

A Seabrook licensee event report (12R) from earlier this Year,  !

as well as an internal NRC assorandum concerning seabrook1s low ,!

l power license, raised questions about the utility's ability to operate the seabrook plant safely. with low power operations i

l l at Seabrook suspended at the res01% of Operaterst-falluru te l I

f611eV pY6446ures, it is imperative that those questions be l thoroughly addressed before any further low power operations '

are permitted at Seabrook.

l An NRC licensee involving mispositlened report ofvalves April 9,tedt1989 sta concerning two events i 1  !

"The root cause for both events #6n be attributed to procedure inadequacies and inattention to detail.#

Ifh memorandum, issued subsequent to the 1.tk by the Regional t j

AdminietWater, statede

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• neotntly several miner events and problems have' ooeurred i at the site which raise N1tc conoorn over the attention to detail in operations displayed by the plant stett. The l nost signit,,oant of these involvs two violations of the special stro power license conditions assoolated with ,

r looked valves. While none of the individual evente or  :

probland &&d AR 15S45% 8R Batety, tanga tagstaur they  !

Indicated a performanoe.Uesibletooliningtrendinfacility .

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- In light of last week's insident, as well as New Nampshire Yankee president Edward Brown's admission that Seabrook operators failed to follow their own procedures during that *. f incident, it seems clear that the "possible declining trend in  :

i facility perforsanosa referred to in the memorandum has become e dangerous reality. ,

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,r-The Menorable Lande W. Seeh, Jr. .

Gune 30, 1989 Page 8 I an dienaved that given this May 3 memorandus, the low power license until the NRC's own safety concerns were

/ thorough 1w investiested. You now have the esportunity to the I urge 1

\ T corrvot that aistate and prevent curther testlne. commission b untti it la certsin that the utility con safely operate the plant and will follow the procedures necessary to guaranteeMoroever, pub}io health and safety.

must reennlms na seulslun that the lisansee the commission will fn11aw must V44WARine its its own operating procedures [111ty's own anergeney avamation plan . ,

past dedition that the u Ji adequate and can be followed. )

1 as concerned by an item in an additional seabrook 1949. On April 7, 1989 I

Finally, station inspection report dated May 25,igarette. was found in a a venttulled substaness one marijv aa c i

protected area of the plant, but was not reported While to theco  !

73.71. In fact, it was not reported for over 48 hours5.555556e-4 days <br />0.0133 hours <br />7.936508e-5 weeks <br />1.8264e-5 months <br />. j the commissi'en now considers this matter closed, I ta troubled t by the more presence of a controlled substanoe in the protected t area of the plant, particularly in lieht of the documented I i

^ history of drug abuse at the plant site during t;onstrvotion. j ask the commission to' provide me with any rekorts receivedound within the ,

since January 1, 1987 concerning contraband I ask that the Coanission respond

?f@b protected aret at Seabrook.

within 7 working days or by July 1W, 1989.

x f Thank you in advance for your assi6tance.

With best wishes, ,

sincerely,  ;

WtL~

Edward J. b kgf Member of Cong M as  ;

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