ML19327A648
| ML19327A648 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| 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 | |
| Download: ML19327A648 (2) | |
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Dear chairman techs l
2 as writing concerning the suspension of low power operations,
j 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 power license, raised questions about the utility's ability to l
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operate the seabrook plant safely.
with low power operations l
at Seabrook suspended at the res01% of Operaterst-falluru te l
f611eV pY6446ures, it is imperative that those questions be l
I thoroughly addressed before any further low power operations l
are permitted at Seabrook.
An NRC licensee report of April 9,tedt1989 concerning two events involving mispositlened valves sta 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
AdminietWater, statede j
- neotntly several miner events and problems have' ooeurred
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at the site which raise N1tc conoorn over the attention to i
detail in operations displayed by the plant stett.
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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 performanoe.Uesibletooliningtrendinfacility Indicated a t
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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 facility perforsanosa referred to in the memorandum has become i
e dangerous reality.
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p 33,.g3 3s:33 FROM CONS MARNSY PA0I.*888
,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 You now have the esportunity to thorough 1w investiested.
I urge the 1
corrvot that aistate and prevent curther testlne. commission
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untti it la certsin that the utility con safely operate the b
plant and will follow the procedures necessary to guaranteeMoroever, pub}io health and safety.
must reennlms na seulslun that the lisansee will fn11aw its the commission must V44WARine its own operating procedures [111ty's own anergeney avamation plan.
past dedition that the u Ji adequate and can be followed.
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1 as concerned by an item in an additional seabrook 1949.
On April 7, 1989 Finally, inspection report dated May 25,igarette. was found in a station a venttulled substaness one marijv aa c protected area of the plant, but was not reported to theco i
While 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 73.71.
by the more presence of a controlled substanoe in the protected t
area of the plant, particularly in lieht of the documented t
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history of drug abuse at the plant site during t;onstrvotion.
j ask the commission to' provide me with any rekorts receivedound within the
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since January 1, 1987 concerning contraband
?f@b protected aret at Seabrook.
I ask that the Coanission respond within 7 working days or by July 1W, 1989.
f Thank you in advance for your assi6tance.
x With best wishes, sincerely, WtL~
Edward J. b kgf Member of Cong M as i
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