ML20023D910
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/27/1983 |
| From: | Williams J AMERICAN GROUP CO. |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8306060142 | |
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HARRISBURG OFFICE - The Pennsylvanio Center, P. O. Box 88. Harriseurg, PA WT W
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- Federated Centre.160 Water Street, Munienburg Industrici Moll East Reading. PA 1960 5 * (215) 929-4796 May 27, 1983 Nuclear Pagulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
20515 Gen tlemen :
The enclosed news article depicts a shocking display of bureaucratic ineptitude and incompetence by the Nuclear Pegulatory Commission. When will the staff and the commission rise to the occasion and make the hard decisions that are neces-sary to get TMI Unit No. 1 back on line.
It is incomprehensible to me as a resident who lives within five miles of TMI and a businessman that you can ascribe the most recent delays to bring Unit No. 1 back on line to something that happened or did not happen or allegedly happened in 1980 or 1981.
This is 1983 and the costs continue to mount as long as TMI Unit No. 1 is not in operation and these costs are shared directly or indirectly by all of us.
If you feel, for whatever reason, GPU Nuclear did not act properly then and you still entertain reasonable doubts, then you should appoint a person or group to monitar the startup and continued operation until you are fully satisfied with the company's performance.
But, Gentlemen, do something creative, imaginative and meaningful to get this problem resolved!
Let's stop living in 1980.
Let's look to the needs of the present and the future.
If you lack the creative ability to fashion a program to assure the proper dis-charge of your duties, the protection of the public, and the need to get this facility back on line, then, please, take the honorable step of resigning your positions forthwith. You are not performing as public servants or rendering any public service. You evidence the worst of bureaucratic ineptitude and efficiency in the manner that this facility has been handled in the past year.
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Mr. Timothy Martin Mr. Harold Denton Mr. Nunzio Palladino The Honorable H. John Heinz, III The Honorable Arlen Spector The Honorable George Gekas
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TMIFalsification Charge Stirs Doubts TRC Staff Puts Restart Nod on ' Hold' By MICK ROOD The 19481 grand jury in central Pennsylvania tion charges Icveled by Unit 2 cleanup engineers Law-
"OUR CONSULTANT'S an&lysts was mischarac-Washingten Bureas e entually dropped the matter, but renewal of the rence King and Richard Parks.
terized," said Dieckamp, who engaged Denton in an
' WASilINGTON - The Nuclear Regulatory Com-proba last year, together with several other investiga.
- A continuing special task force look at any new animated and angry conversation after the meeting.
mission staff has totally retreated from favorable tions into GPU's management competence, led the NRC information bearing on restart from the recent GPU-
"I am amazed at the way things run! What kind of views on a Three Mile Island Unit I restart, a shift staff yesterday to " hold in abeyance"its Unit I restart Babcock & Wilcox lawsuit trial record.
business is this?" he was heard to tell Denton.
trerntuated yesterday when one of its own said that recommendation.
- Two management audits contracted for by GPU Denton said the NRC staff would have to withhold TMI Unit 2 operators had falsified data necessary to Harold Denton,frector of the NRC Office of Reac-in which some shortcomings in operations and employ-further recommendations on Unit I until the various safe operation.
tor Regulation, acknowledged the staff opinion was "a ce morale are observed-lovestigations reach some conclusions. On strictly poli-Timothy Martin told the commission there was change of mind." The staff had held that no previous "Somehow or another. all this is going to come cy and procedure questions, the staff has recommended cleir evidence during an incomplete, one-month NRC technical issues or outside investigations were "a bar" together in some kind of a fabric,"said NRC director of GPU was competent to handle the restart.
Insestigation in 1980 that leak rate data on water and to Unit I restart. Now, there is too much new informa-operations William J. Dircks.
The statf management competence review last hydrogen levels at Unit 2 had been falsified in 1978. tion, about which various investigators have not month did not take up the veracity of the Hartman M:rtin is director of the regional division of engineer. scached conclusions, for the staff to recommend a go.
MARTLYS CLAIM, which he said was based on a!!cgations. However.the staf f did do things like deter-ing cod technical programs at King of Prussia Pa.
ahead, he said.
interviews with operators and analysis of computer mine that out of 31 GPU cmployees who could have Aside from whether there was falsification or not.
Heartened, one of the Unit I restart intervenors, charts, was hotly disavowed by GPU President Her* had any knowledge of the alleged 1978 falsifications.
Martin said it was only " theory" that altered leak rate TMI Alert Inc., urged the NRC to reopen hearings on man Dieckamp. Saying he could " sit no longer," Dieck* only one was now directly innolved with operation of data could have helped lead to the March 1979 accident GPU's " competence and integnty" and delay any re-amp rose from the audience.
Unit 1.
at Unit 2 of the Londonderry Twp., Pa., power station. start vote until hearings are held.
"We must object to soggestions of falsification of "This is the first indication we've had that the NRC he said "I would demand we be given what ONE QUESTION among many that went unanswered at yesterday's meeting was why the NRC OFFICIALS FRO %1 TMt owner General Public Util. stafI may fmally be recognizing the importance of records you havey * ' It's a serious matter to use that had dropped completely its probe into Hartman's alle ities immediately questioned Martin s claim, demand. management competence and integnty to the safe op-ing to see proof.
eration of TMI. WeNe been say ing that for four years."
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D ecka knew of no report or information gations after Martia had apparently gotten off to a Martin's probe was dropped in April 1980 at the said TMIA s Louise Bradford.
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promising start.
lowell Jensen. head of the Justice Departnient request of the Justice Depa-tment, which then started investigating the onginal leak rate aliegations made by INVESTIGATIONS or new allegations branng on "The Department of Justice has been looking into Criminal Division, advised NRC Chairman Nunzio Pal-i former reactor operator Harold Hartman.
GPU Nuclear Corp.'s management integnty include-this for three years and come up uith nothing," he told ladino last week that the commission had leewry to "I can *ll you for a fact those records were falsi-
- The grand jury insestigation into the Hartn an reporters after the meeting.
investigate the Hartman matter sinte late 1981. Martin, feed." Mart n told a surpr sed commission. It neser leak rate allegations-Dieckamp was especially incensed that Martin said as u eli as Palladino, was surprised.
showed up publicly because the insestigation was nes.
- The NHC Office of Insestigation's protes mto GPU's" contractor consultant reached the same conclu-
"I had understood we [still] weren't supposed to er completed, he said.
falsification of training recorcs and into safet) siola-sion"- that records had been falsified.
talk about it." Martin said.
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