ML19331A611
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| Issue date: | 03/16/1976 |
| From: | Hart P SENATE |
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Dear Mr. Cederberg:
Your letter of March 19, 1976, to Chairman Anders, which enclosed the March 8,1976, letter from Ms. Mary Sinclair of Midland, Michigan, regarding the Midland Plant Units 1 and 2, has been referred to me for reply.
Ms. Sinclair axpressed' her concern regarding tne design of tne Aicland Plan; in lign; of tne fire wai:n occurrea a year ago at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant, and the allegations made recently by three angineers who resyned thair positions. tith the General Electric Company. Specifically, as. Sinclair requesced blueprints of the electrical circuitry for the Midland Plant.
Preliminary layout drawings and schematics for tne electrical circuitry for the Midland Plant are included in Chapter 7 Of tne Preliminary Safety Analysis Report for the Midland Plant. This report is available for examination in the 10 cal Publi: 00 ument ROOM establi:hed at the Grace Dow Memorial Library,1710 W. St. Andrews Road, in the City. of Midland, Nicnigan. We do not have final desi;n drawings for tne Midland Plant electrical and instrumentation circuitry at this time.
Such drawings will be submitted by the applicant in conjunction with our deview of tne Final Safety Analysis deport for the plant, now tentatively scheduled for submittal during the su=cer of 1977. These drawings will be available for Ms. Sinclair and her engineers to review at that time.
As Ms. Sinclair pointed out in her letter, the Browns Ferry fire did reveal aome deficiencies in tae design of c.he Srowns Ferry units.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission established a Special Study Group within a few days af ter the Browns Ferry fire to examine the circum-stances surrounding the fire and to make recommendations to the Commission for possiole improvements. The results of the Special Study Group's effort were published in February 1976 as a document entitled,
" Recommendations Related to Browns Ferry fire," document number NUREG-0050. A copy of this document has been forwarded to all Local Public Document Rooms and Ms. Sinclair may examine the report at the Grace Dow Memorial Library if sne desires. Shoula hs. Sinclair wisn to obtain her own personal copy of the report, it is available from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161. The cost for a printed copy is $5.00, but a microfiche copy may be obtained for $2.25 8007180 h/
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Honorable Elford Cederberg a Basically, the report of the Special Study Group concludes that the probability of disruptive fires of the magnitude of the Browns Ferry fire is quite small. The report does recognize that improvements can be made in fire protection for nuclear plants, however, and recommenda-tions are made for additional efforts in the areas of fire prevention and fire control, and for design measures to limit the potential consequences of fires.
In tnis connection, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been reviewing its criteria for fire protection for nuclear plants and, in tne near future, we expect that revised criteria will be issued. The proposed design of the Midland Plant will be reviewed in light of thace ravised critaria and such alterations or improvements in che design as may be indicated to obtain improved fire prevention, fire control, and consequence limiting layout will be made. Accions taxen in cnia regara will ce saae a part of tne paclic record and will be available for Ms. Sinclair's inspection in the Local Public Document Room in Midland, Micnigan.
The allegations regarding nuclear plant safety made by the tnree engineers who resigned from tne General Electric Company, as well as those made Dy tne engineer who resigned from tne Nuclear Aegulatory Commission, have oeen tne subject of public hearings held by the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. Eacn allegation has been examined in depth by the Nuclear Regulatory Com=ission scaff ana eacn nas been responded to on the public record. A complete copy of all tne allega-tions and the results of the staff investigation of each has been forwarded to the Local Puslic Document Room in Midland. These documents are available for study by Ms. Sinclair.- In essence, wnile the
" revelations" alleged oy caese four individuals made great press copy, no substantive issue was raised of wnich the staff and the l
industry nad not been aware.
l We recognize that nuclear plant designs are not perfect in cne sense l
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unattainable just as other affairs of life cannot be guaranteed with absolute assurance. Nonetheless, the present designs of nuclear plants are " safe" in the ordinarily accepted meaning of tne word.
The concerns raised by those individuals who resigned are largely j
in the realm of matters whose resolution might make an incremental improvement to plant safety. If it is determined that changes are l
necessary to assure that the public is not exposed to any undue risk, such changes will be applied to the Midland Plant, just as to other nuclear plant designs.
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Honorable Elford Cederberg I cannot address specifically Ms. Sinclair's allegation that Mr. John Harris has " deliberately lied" about the siting of tne Mid-land Plant since she has not identified any specifics.
Ho. wever, I can assure you and Ms. Sinclair that, while she may not agree with decisions that have been made,. such matters have been handled in accordance with the regulations under which we operate and in what we considered was the public interest. Should Ms. Sinclair have specific matters she wishes us to investigate in this regard, I would be pleased to initiate such an investigation, but I sust first have some details with wnich to work.
I trust that this information will enable you to provide a responsive reply to Ms. Sinclair.
Sincerely, t
Lee V. Gossick Executive Director for Operations
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Ms. Mary Sinclair 5711 Sucmerset Drive Midland, Michigan. 48640 Esspectfully referrei to:
Mr. Carlton Kac=erer, Directer Office of Congressional Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Senator IIart:
I hope you will assist Congressman Cederberg in getting the information from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that I have requested in my letter.to him which is attached.
Enclosed are the credentials and letters of resignation of the three management-level engineers who resigned from G.E.
because of their concerns about nuclear safety and its other problems which threaten life on the planet.
I hope you will read them and think about them.
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COPY 5711 Summerset Drive Midland, Michigan 48640 March 8, 1976 The Honorable Elford Cederberg The United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
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Dear Congressman Cederberg:
Last March there was a serious fire in the Brown's Ferry nuclear reactors in Alabama that caused great concern nationally.
The fire was started when a workman used a candle to check air flow and the foam insulation in the reactor caught fire.
In the investigation which followed the accident, it was noted that all the electrical circu!.try that controlled the safety systems for both reactors was routed through one area in the reactor complex.
Since this was one area damaged by the fire, the redundancy in safety that the nuclear industry has assured the public was part of all reactor designs; was knocked out for both reactors.
This unexpected incident was one of the reasons that the G.E. engineers resigned recently to urge that the nuclear pro-gram be halted until these flaws in design are corrected.
The engineers also stated the following:
1 Mistakes are inevitably made in implementing a new technology, but in the nuclear industry we lack a co-herent program for correcting the mistakes.
The govern-ment and industry, when they discover design defects, re-write safety regulations for future designs.
But they have repeatedly exempted previously approved nuclear plants from the safety requirements applicable to new nuclear plants.
As a result we have accumulated a large number of plants with serious flaws.
Since the design for the Midland n-plants has been approved and is now under construction, I beliave it is essential for us who must live so close to these plants to find out if the design '
of the Midland reactors has the serious flaw in its electrical system, similar to that of the Brown's Ferry reactor.
I would like to have the people in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in charge of approving the design and licensing of the Midland reactors answer this question for us and send us blueprints of the electrical circuitry approved, so that our i
engineers can review them.
Cong. Cederberg. March 8, 1976 As you know, Mr. John Harris, Director of Public Information of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has in the past deliberatel lied to both you and me about the questions the Regulatory staff had raised over the appropriateness of the siting of the Midland and Permi # 2 n-plants.
Therefore, it would do no good to have him answer this inquiry because he has no credibility for us.
Please follow up this request with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
It is of vital importance to the people and industry of the Tri-County area.
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// ldq Nary Sinclair Saginaw Walley Nuclear Study Group P.S.
The letters of resignation of the G.E. engineers are on-closed, as well as their credentials.
They are very c:cplicit about all the dangers of the nuclear technology and its threat to our national security and to the life of the planet.
I hope you take time to read them.
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~s For immediate rele News Release Washington, D.C. (February 6, 1976)... Three engineers who resigned this week fro.n the nuclear industry are asking the U.S. Nuc1 car Regulatory Commission (NRC) to undertake an I
icmediate'~ review to determine whether it is safe to-continun to operate the country's 56 licensed nuclear power plants under existing safety regulations.
The three engineers, until Mor 'ay managers in General Electric 's ' nuclear energy efforts, said that " nuclear power plants nou operating in the U.S. are plagued by design de-fccts and cperating problems to an extent that poses a major safety dilcemn for the nation that must be promptly addressed" and resolved."
Dale Bridenbaugh, Richard Hubbard and Gregory Minor will outline some of their major concerns to the NRC today at a 2:00 P.M. meeting with NRC Chairman William Anders.
"The safety of existing nuclear power plants has been badly compromised by the nuclear industry's rush to build more and more.new plants," the engineers told a Washington press conference.
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"Mi stakes ara inevitably made in implementing a new technology," they said, "but in the nuclear industry we
' lack a coherent program for correcting the mistakes. The government and industry, when they discover design defects, rewrite safety regulations for future designs. But they have repeatedly exempted previously approved nuclear plants from the safety requirements applicable to new nuclear plants. As a result we have accumulated a large number of plants with serious flaws."
The engineers cited a fire last year in a nuclear plant in Alabama, the browns Ferry plant. The fire showed that the installation of control cables too close together was extremely dangerous since the fire knocked out redun-dant safety systems. Yet almost all of the nuclear plants currently in operation, they said, "contain the same, or even lese satis' factory, cable routing systems." The same fire demonstrated the need for improvement in remote shutdown capabilities, a feature nonexistent in most older plants.
Another example cited by tha engineers was the belated disco"ery that some of the containment systems intended to,
prevent the release of large amounts of radioactivity in certain types of accidents nay be unable to function because the containment could itself be breached during the accident.
Because of the containment damage, portions of the emergency core cooling syntetis could als.) be rendered inoperable.
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Dear Neil:
This letter is to advice you that I am resigning from the General Electric Ccapany effective immediately.
My reason for leavina is that I have become deeply concerned ebout=the im.o';t -- environmentally, politically, socially and genetica*Aly -- that' nuclear power has made and potentially can make tc life on earth.
As we have discussed in the past, there la en inherent close intertie between commercial power and weapons - technologies and capabilities.
I am strongly opposed to the deployment of such capabilitics and I fear the impJications of a platonium economy. 'The risk involved in such a syrtem is for too great for the short term benefit.
I see no way for un to develop the cbility to' maintain the perfect human and technical control needed for the long periods of time necessarilyLinvoJvec. with the highly toxic materials we are producing.
Thic problem is noe something I wish to pass on to my cr.ildren and to succeeding generations to control.
Contributing to the advancement of such proliferation now seems immoral and is no longer an acceptable occupation for me.
F ;r thermo re, in my recent ansignn.cnt ac the Project Manager of the Mark I Containnent assassment, I have become increasingly alarmed at the shalicwness of understanding that has' formed the basis for many of the current designs.
It is probable that many more problems vill emerge alth severe consequences, in'pacting either the saf ety or the economic viability of the nuclear power program.
It is hard for the mind to comprehend the immensity of the power contained in the relatively small reactor core and the risk associated with its control.
In the past we have been able to learn from cur technological mintakea.
With nuclear power we cannot afford that luxury!
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This is not me:.nt as t.n it.dictes,t vf any specific individuals; it is juce a statorent of the human imperfoetion which leads, ultinatcly,-to the importection of the compicx technological syst.ea.
1;acicar power has hacome a "tochnological monster" and it is not clear who, if anycne, is in control.
In summary, I am no longer convinced of the technical safety of nuclear pouer and I fear the high risk of political and human factors that will ultima tely lead to the misuse of~ its byproducts.
This makes it impossible for me to work in an objective manner in my current position and I, therefore, have decided that my only choice is to got out oC the nucicar business.
This seems the only course of action for me to take if I am to be fair to my associates,. the Ccmpany, to you, and to myself.
I also must tell you that I have becom.e so convinced that nuclear power is not right for this country or for this world, that I_have decided to volunt'cr my time for the next several e
months to work in support of the California Nuc1 car safeguards Initiative.
Following this, I will be looking for a job either in a non-nuclear crea or, if possible, where I can use my cxperience to help safeguard the substantial nuclear legacy that has already been created.
I am norry that I have been unable until now to fully confide in you the concerns I have had.
This has not been an easy decision for me to make, but I finally came to the conclusion that it is something I must do.
Perhaps my action will cause other people to consider the vast implications of the nuclear power program before it is too late.
I have como to believe very deeply that we cannot afford nuclear power and I intend to do whatever I can to get the message to the public where the decision on its continuation must ultimately be made.
Sincerely, Dale G.
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For the past 10 months on special assignnent as Manager of
-Mark I Containment, a special project formed to evaluate the safety and adequacy of the primary containment of 25 nuclear power plants in the United States.
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February 2, 1976 Mr. Abdon Ruoio, General Manager Nuclear Energy Control A Instrumentation Depart ment General Electric Co., Nucicar Enoray Systems Division 175 Curtner' Avenue San Jose, California
Dear Don:
During the past year and a half I've experienced a series of events which have forced me to question the continued operation and proliferation of nuclear power plants.
I see that we have become an industry of narrow specialists with little comprehension of the total impact of our individual actions.
I feci it is imperative that the people of California know the truth about nuclear power and know that there are people within the industry who have serious doubts and reservations about continuing our present course.
Consequently, I have decided effective today, February 2nd, to terminate my employment with General Electric and to devote myself full time to the task of educating my fellow Californians on the moral and technical issues encompassed by the Nuc1 car Safeguards Initiative.
When I joined the nuclear division in 1964 I was very excited about the promise of the new technology -- the promise of a virtually limiticas source of safe, clean and economic energy for this and future generations.
Like many of my colleag#ues, I consciously chose to bypass the technical and financial glamour of tlfe defense /acrospace inductries, and instead to pioneer in the infant nuclear industry.
There was a common sense of excitement in the industry that approached a missionary zeal in those early years.
Now, twelve years-later, the vision has faded and the promises are still unfulfilled.
I have seen too many instances where engineers did not consider all the relevant parameters, whero craf tsmen did not foll'ow the prescribed manufacturing and construction n.othods, where the plant operator acted in error when called upon for a split-second decision, and where plant maintenance decisions were based on continued power production - not plant safety.
I know that very few people are aware that one of the plant wastes, plutonium, must be safeguarded from the biosphere for nearly 500,000 years; that there are presently no long-term radioactive waste storage facilities: that the genetic affects of the wastes challenge our continuing existence; and that the disposal safeguard record of the existing government weapons and
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submcrine fuel facilitice is repicte with f ailures.
In addition to the ecological significance of the radioactive legacy, the g]chal political' impact'; of a plutonium energy economy must be faced.
India's construction of an atom bomb from nuclear fuel clearly demonstrates that ' nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons are inseparable.
If the forecasted nuclear power plants are constructed in the U.S.
and if the rush to export the nuclear technology to the emerging nations continues unabated, then plutonium will be readily available for weapons diversion, hijacking, sabotage, and The power of the atom will be available to any ransom.
tyrant or dis:sident group.
We Californians cannot ignore our-global interdependence.
I have struggled.hard in arriving at today's decision.
I considered. continuing in my position, hoping that technology could somehow overcomu all.the obstacles.
After my experience, I am now convinced that businesses and individuals can no longer take the risk of contaminating our environment, ups'tting the ecological balance, or take any other steps whic.t could irreversibly affect future generations.
The limited comprehension of the present technology, coupled with the technoJogical requirement for 100% human perfection, is a situation 1 can no longer rationalize as responsible or acceptabic.
I came to San Jcae with the vision and hope that I could benefit mankind through my contributions in harnessing' the atom.
Now I sense an even greater purpose -- the sharing of the knowledge gained in this pursuit to help awaken the people to the dangers and.to the imperative to act now in order to preserve our planet.
The issue we face is not the survival of an industry, rather it is the survival of mankind.
Sincerely, Richard B.
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Instrumentation Department General Electric _Cc:npacy As Manager of the Quality Assurance Section, Nuclear Energy Control and Inctrumentatton Department, Mr.
!!ubbard is responsible for developing and imple:aenting quality plant, programa, methods,, and equipment which
. assure that products produced by the Department raect all quality requir< cents as defined in MRC 10CFRSO.
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involved in the manufacture of radiation sensors, reacter vessel internals, fuel handling and nervicing tools, nuclear plant control and protection instrumentation systems, and control room panels.
With GC, he has held a variety of ' technical and rispervisory positions in the application, manufacture and marheting of instrumentation and control systems for nuclear power plants.
Mr. Hubbard 'in an active :ac aber of the IEEE standards subcommittee on quality assurance and has published soveral papers on incore neutron detector syctema and.
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Dear liarry:
This is to inform you that I am resigning from the General Electric Company effective today.
My'rcason for leaving is a deep conviction that nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons now prosent a serious danger to the future of all life on this planet.
I am convinced that the reactors, the nuclear fuel cycle, and waste storage systems are not safe.
We cannot prevent major accidents or acts of sabotage.
I fear that continued nuclear proliferation will quickly consume the limited uranium supply and force us into a plutonium-based fuel economy with even grenter dangers of genetic damage and terrorist or weapons activity.
From my earliest days at I!anford, I have been dcaply concerned about the dangers of radioactivity.
I can still remember my wife's shock at having a container for urino sampling placed on our f ront doorstep for the use of our family.
I wonder now if that police-stato atmosphere at Hanford wasn' t an omen for all people for the future.
I cannot be a part of an industry that promo'tes a policy that would lead our generation to consume 30 years of nucicar power for our own selfish purposes and leave behind radioactive wastes that will be a health hazard for thousands of generations to ecme.
In recent months I have become increasingly dismayed at the industry's opposition to the Nuclear Safeguards Initiativo.
I have scen the attempts to confuse and whitewash the issues by claiming that there are no unsolvable problems and appealing to individual's fears for their jobs.
The public must be told that there are many problema.
I am confident that an informed public --
given the truth -- will decide against continued nuclear proliferation.
. 2-I am also sure that there are others in the industry.
who share my concerns and I hope my decision will cause them to stop and consider the enormou:i implications and dangers of the nuclear-legacy ve are creating.
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Mr. Minor began his career with General Electric in 1960 when he was assigned to a position at Hanford, Washington.
In 19G3 ha served as an Electronic Design & Development Engineer in the Muciaar Power Genaration Control Department in San Jose.
There he was responsible for design of major instrumentation channels and control systems.
lie has served as Manager of Reactor Control Systems Engineering where he was responsible for the design of protection, containment, and related control systems.
Since 1971'he has been Manager of. Advanced Control &
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aid "Wyo talke ! at:.
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might cause creat puhtic 0;-
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,} length with Mr. Po!l2rd, cr.d lie charged specif.en:iy that-the flo. 2 reactor had a "seri..
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!r;. lad. haw to.n thor.vt.61y on.: dc>ir.n defcet-sWnercedi
'ern.laat ac.! presiaw!y red
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valves-that could render re.1 I
t' solv:d."
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E4 quired nfety systerns inupery j
M. W.
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n'.D tive durl:3 aa accidmt.d He,
,, W.e bebo we havo ta.r.:n every renocah'e step fn Sr.are; b.OM-3 E
said also thatvalves on the' t% safety of the Indian Poir.tj
%gi%[k.g.pd No. 3 plant "whicit are sup-
.3 posed to prevent escape of
%.tt., ElI.;sf.y )
radioactMty durin;; accidents
- p!Snts." said a. spokesnan fori hF#
l Coruwtidatal Edison, which M
NJF # I were defective.
owns two of the Ottee nec:nr cnerators at Duche.sr, re.tr annem Furthermore, he said, ci:c-
'le liedson River shore abou;'
Robert D. Pollard. ptvjxt trical systems on the No. 2 t
'30 mi!cr nerth of New York suans,*ee for Nuc! ar nes.
plant " suffer from tt:* same fundarnents! ma nesses as City.
tilatory Comnt!3sion, tell.
And the Ate Tocr Author.
In3 of Problems fit indlan -
thoa.e which allowed a fire fast t
Polnt 3csterday*
yea at the bn s Ferry plant g :y. which owns the third n.
in Alabama to para!vze rnarh i
- a tor, said th.aue a spob.
rc::ubtory system hot hsd fi.
'of that plant's vit'.it.wirty
- inaru *1Ne're conv!rce<i that na:8y coxicded it would he appa ratus."
- !nthe.n Point No. 3 is a safe better to worir for sucis chan ;
- s land effimnt pitiat."
" fred do out'.!de."
lie snid tl.at riext week he-Of tha three rextrart..w.s.1 iwould become the WeCrin,tted repre*.eatative of tha tJnion ofj is owrd by Con IXitsn but
[ Concerned Scienth.ts, a Mana.3 iha*. heen shot down s;rce 0:-
.taber 1974 t.ecause it lacks a
[cht:setts-imed rt:curr! ;roup; ilnd of coolin.t system reqai e l' that condac:s inde;r'nrient stu.l.[
'es of reclear powd an ! na.
%y the Federal Gmerne.rct. ;
tioul enerry pohey. His salary.j I'No. 2. owned and operatet bc.
Con Fditon. is an f*73.0G3 ki;J.-
wll1 bs abcut two-thirds of hisl' h,wned hv the Power Antb9r.tv-it p:n rator, and No. 3f paasert p ay.
DCCIMi4T thst! he rou!d not.'
Out c:vr.ite:d by Con 1.r'.m. 4 l"in comircee. re nwn si! cat' r
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. !V3.ON tilowatt plaet ut.ter.
%50"t tN re.-3 runcbted weM the t're!.% rwr-r-.
i,n og em::wratwnat testtr;;.
Mr. Tidlard's re ir.eut:en, cf.
er 3.rorrei." tir %!;nr: ua 7 ave next Frilay, wes c.n.:
itha tw.1,1W5 or I.vhan p.e 7t e f;UMetI at.1 ne A$ Cohrt r't:
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