ML19343D328
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| Issue date: | 06/30/1980 |
| From: | Deddens J BABCOCK & WILCOX CO. |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 10
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THREE MILE ISLAND INFORMATION TASK FORCE 5
DOCKET NO. 50-320 6
Conference Room 7
Power Generation Group Babcock E Wilcox 8
3315 Old Forest Road Ly n ch b u rg, Virginia 9
10 Deposition of 11 JAMES C. DEDDENS 4[ 3b[SO 12 cslied f or exasina tion by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission 13 beginning at 9 15 a.m.
when were present on behalf of the O
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16 TERRY L.
HARPSTER, Reactor Engineer JOHN W.
CRAIS, Senior Investigator 17 Office of Inspection and Enforcement United States Nuclear Regulatory Comnission 18 Washington, D.
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20555 19 For Babgock E_'{11gox.
20 GEORGE L. EDGAR, ESO.
Morgan, Lewis & 3a ckir.s 21 1800 M Street, N.
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Washington, D..C.
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0 Esoc Inisos 2 Whereupon, 3
JAMES C.
DEDDENS 4 having been first duly sworn by John W.
Craig, Sen.4.or 5 Investigator, was examined and testified as follows:
6 MR. HARP 5TER:
Jin, would you please state your 7 position f or the racord?
8 THE WITNESSt-I am Manager of the Project 9 Management D e pa rtm en t.
10 MR. HARP 3TER:
For the record, my name is Terry 11 Harpster and this is John Craig.
-We are engineers with the 12 N RC.
13 The purpose of our investigation today is to try 14 and establish the flow of information during the Three Mile 15 Island accident on March 28th, 1979.
The specific purpose 16 of our interview today is to identify and locate any and all l'7 records, notes, facsimile, transmissior.2, tape recordings or 18 documentation of any sort generated by 3CW employees on 19 March 2Eth, 1979, that relate to conversations or 20 communications between REW employees and Three Mile Island, 21 GPU, Met. Ed. personnel or other B&W employees in the 22 vicinity of Three Mile Is.and.
23 Do you understand the purpose as I have explained
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24 it to you?
25 THE WITNESS:
Yes.
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1 EXAMINATION 2
BY ME. HAEPSTER:
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Has anyone either ',old you or suggested to you
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(s) 4 that you should withhold any information from us here today?
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No.
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What was your position or function on March 28th,
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7 1979?
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My pmsition on March 28th was the same as it is l
9 now, Manager of the Project Management Department.
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l 10 addition to that position on arch 28th I was the Acting 11 Division Manager in the absence of Mr. McMillan who-was on I
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Were you pcesent at any time in the so-called war 14 room at B&W, Lynchburg, on March 28th, 1979?
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Yes, I was.
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Can you briefly recount at what times and what l'7 your function was?
18 A
I was in and out of the war room continuously on 19 th a t day.
My office is adjacent to the war room.
The var 20 room was set up as our base of operations here in this 21 building and communicating with th e Met. Ed. and GPU people l
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During tne period of time that you were in the izar
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24 room did you make any telephone calls to Three Mile Island, 25 GP U, Met. Ed. or other ECW employees in the vicinity of O
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1 Three !ile Island?
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Yes, I did.
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Did you take any notes of those conversations?
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No, I did not personally take any notes.
There 5 was a notetaker appointed to keep running logs of the 6 conversations which did take place?
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0 Who was that?
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Ken Wandling.
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Did you make any tape recordings of these l
10 conv ersations?
11 A
No, I did not.
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Are you aware of any tape recordings of them?
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My recollection is that there may have been a few g
4 1-4 tape recordings made of various conversations that took 15 place in the war room that day.
16 Q
Do vou recall at approximately what times?
17 A
No, I don't.
As I stated, my recollection is 18 some what vague on whether or not tape recordings were 19 actually made.
20 Q
Do you recall who might have made recordings?
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Not specifically.
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Did you make telephone calls to Three !ile Island, 23 GP U, M e t. Ed. or ECW employees in the vicinity of Three !ile
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24 Island from any other location than the war roon?
25 A
Yes, I did.
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Where was that?
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F. y office which is adjacent tC the war room?
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Were any notes or tape recordings made of those b]
4 conversations?
5 A
No.
Those were strictly verbal communications 6 primarily between myself and Bob Arnold at GPU who was at 7 that time in his office in Parsippany.
8 Q
Did you participate in any other telephone 9 conversations on that date with Three Mile Island, GPU, Met.
10 Ed. or BEW employees that had been originated by other 11 persons?
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I participated in several conversations in the var 13 room that were either initiated from our end or incoming O
1-4 calls initated at the other end.
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Are you aware of any notes or tape recordings made 16 of -those conversations?
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Only the log that Ken Wandling kept.
Ken 18 attempted to keep a running log of all conversations, and I 19 am n ot specifically aware that those conversations were 20 ta ped.
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Did you tape record or take notes on March 28th, 22 1979, of conversations that you had with other BEW personnel 23 regarding the Three Mile Island accident?
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No, I did not.
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No, I did not.
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Did you take notes on that date regarding the i Three Mile Island accident?
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I probably did make little notes on pieces of 6 paper, but I don't have those any more.
They were just 7 brief, little, maybe momenta ry no tes.
I would jot something 8 down and then initiate.soue action or follow up with a 9 question, that kind of thing.
I did not keep any formal 10 running record or any formal notes.
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Did you subsequently record, dictate or write down 12 your recollections of the activities that took place on 13 March 28th, 19797 j
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No, I didn't.
15 Q
Do you know of anyone else who may have done this?
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The only one that I am aware of is lee Rogers at l'7 the Three Mile Island site.
I believe he did write out a l
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Jim, we have attempted to compile a list of all.
20 persons who made contact with Three Mile Island, Met.
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21 GPU or BCW employees in the vicinity of Three Mila Island on
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22 March 28th or those who were present in the war room on that 23 da te.
This is a copy of the list and we would ask you to
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24 review it and tell us if t.ie list is complete of there a re 25 other names who should be on it.
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1 MR. EDGAR:
Is this the same list that Don Roy had?
2 M3. HARPSTER:
Yes, this is the list that has been 3 also shown to Don Roy and Dick Kosiba.
4 MR. CRAIGs Can va go off the record just a second.
5 (Discussion off the record.)
6 MR. HARPSTER:
Back on the record.
7 THE WITNESS:
Would you ask the question again, 8 the context in which you want me to review this list?
9 MR. HARPSTER:
We are trying to establish if that 10 list is a complete listing of those persons who were present 11 in the var room or involved in any way on March 28th, 1979, 12 with conversations related to the accident either with BEW 13 here in Lynchburg or in the vicinity of the site or GPU, v
l'4 Met. Ed. or Three Mile Island personnel.
15 (The list was handed by Mr. Harpste'r to the 16 witn ess. )
17 (The list contained the following namess
- Bogers, 18 Flint, Schaedel, Winks, Twilley, Kelly, Deddens, Roy, 19 Womack, Taylor, Kociba, Karrasch, Spangler, Dempsay, 20 Kenn edy, Dunn, Hallman, Olds, Ward, Pletke, Culverson and 21 Wa ndling. )
22 THE WITNESS:
I think this is a reasonably 23 complete list except that I do not see anyone on here who
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1 or two people from fuel engineering.
Again, this is just a 2 recollection and I can't say for sure if they were present 3 on the 29th or if it was later, perhaps on the 29th.
Those 4 names would be Jim Tulenko, Dick Defars and Barkley 5 Andrews.
Otherwise, I think the list, to the best of my 6 recollection, is complete.
7 BY MR. HARPSTER:
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We have explained the purpose of the interview 9 here today and you have indicated your understanding of it.
10 Based on this understanding do you have any addi;ional 11 information that migh t be usef ul or pertinen t to our 12 investigation?
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No, I don't think so.
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14 MR. HARPSTERa John?
15 EXAMINATIONd 16 BY MR. CRAIGs 17 C
I want to follow up just a little bit.
You say 18 you may have scribbled down some brief thoughts on a piece 19 of paper on the 28th and that you don't have those now.
Do 20 you know where they are?
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What I meant was in a telephone conversation where
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22 there is a lot of inf ormation going back and forth verbally 23 sometimes it is convenient to just make a note on a piece of
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24 paper f or a follow-up later on.
I probably did that during 25 various conversations, and then by following up later or l
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I did not 3 keep any running formal notes of my own in a person notebook 4 or anything of that nature.
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0 What about informal notes, would you have now any 6 pieces of paper on which you would have scribbled down i
7 anything?
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No.
9 MR. CRAIO:
That is all I have.
10 MB. HAEPSTEEs Thank you.
11 (Whereupon, at 9s27 a.n.,
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12 deposition of J AMES C. DEDDENS concluded.)
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2 I have read the foregoing pages 3
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which contain a correct trans-5 script of the ansvers made me 6
to the questions therein 7
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Signature is subject 8
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9 10 JAMES C. DEDDENS i
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16 f o r the State of Virginia, do hereby certif y that I am 17 not arizing and witnessing signature for the Deposition of 1980.
18 MR. DON A LD H. ROY on this day of 19 20 21 Notary P'2blic in and for the 22 State of Virginia 23 0
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1 CERTIFICATE OF STEN 0%ASK EEPORTER 2
I, sary C. Si=cns, stenosask reporter, do hereby 3 certify that the tasti=ony of the witness which appears in 4 the foregoin deposition was taken by =e in stenomask and 5 thereafter reduced to word processing by me; that said 6 deposition is a true record of the testi=ony given by said 7 witness; that I am neither counsel for, related to, nor 8 employed by any of the parties to the action in which this 9 deposition was taken, and further that I am not a relative 10 or employee of any attorney or counsel employed by the 11 parties thereto, or financially or otherwise interested in 12 the outcome of the action.
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