ML20023D032
| ML20023D032 | |
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| Site: | LaSalle, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 07/26/1982 |
| From: | GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT |
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| FOIA-82-366 PR-820726, NUDOCS 8305190093 | |
| Download: ML20023D032 (2) | |
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CAP also ch.irged that a recently-coms.leter1 RIII probe into alleged concrete voids; hoics core-dritted in tra the reactor pedest.als cheating on thle masonry by diluting n>rtar or even not using mortar for somo,concrcte blocks, among other issucs; may have been sorse than no investigation at all.
fast f all NRC Executive Director William Dircks 6.trii,tted that prcvious NPC probes relied t.oo much on the utility's paperwork, while fotogol'ng witness interviews and indeperu. lent hardware tests. Dircks pledged ttut the s
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