ML20033E314
| ML20033E314 | |
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| Site: | 05000000, Diablo Canyon |
| Issue date: | 11/24/1981 |
| From: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
| To: | Damato A SENATE |
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| FOIA-90-44 NUDOCS 9003120268 | |
| Download: ML20033E314 (1) | |
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NOV 2 41981 y". faa L Che-Honorable Alfonse D' Amato c-United States Senate Washington, D.C.
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Dear Senator D' Amato:
1 Thank you for your letter dated November 13,'1981, on behalf of your i
constituents, Mr. and Mrs. Bannister, regarding the safety of the Diablo
... Canyon nuclear power plant in California.
On November 20, 1981, the Nuclear Renulatory Commission suspended the license for Diablo Canyon Unit 1, whsch authorized fuel loading and low L
power operation, pending completion of a specified seismic reverifica-1 4
tion program to the sattsfaction of the Commissioners.
I am enclosing a copy of the Commission's order and a copy of a letter sent by Mr. Harold Denton, Director of NRC's Office of Nuclear Reactor l
Regulation, requesting certain additional information.
I hope that this information is responsive to your constituent's concerns.
j Sincerely,
'A Carlton Kammerer, Director 5
Office of Congressional Affairs
Enclosure:
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I-81 154 FOR !!C4EDIATE RELEASE Contacit Karl Abraham (Thursday, Deca :.ber 10,19 s1)
Gary Sanborn iti,:
215/337-5330 5000 i
1 NRC STAFF CITES CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK TOR ALLEGED V10llsTIONS OF RADIATION PROTECTION RE0'4*.REMENTS Ai INDIAN POINT PLANT; PROPOSES 540,000 FINE j
1 The Nuclear Regulatory Comission' staff has proposed fining the Consolidated:
2 Edison Ccmpany of New York (Con Ed) $40,000 for alleged violations of radiation protection requirements at the company's Indian Point Nuclear Generating Station, Unit 2, near Euchanan, New York.
The NRC staff's allegations and proposed enforcement action a're based on the findings of an investigation conducted between April and July,1981 at the Indian
@oint plant.
The staff's findings include admissions from some employees of Cleanco Industrial Services, a company under contract to Consolidated Edison, thtt they a
delibert.tcly circumvented procedures i'ntended to protect them from excessive radiation j
0xposures.
This included avoiding tho proper recording of actual exposures.
- However, the staff has no knowledge of workers having received exposures in excess of NRC limits.
l The alleged violations involve instances of workers failing to wet.r radiaticn 4
0xposure measuring bedges while working in areas of potentially high exposure, failing Bo correctly record their indicated doses when they completed work in areas of potentially l
Qigh exposure, and failing to follow other reovirements of radiation work pemits Ghat prescribed protective measures for work in these areas.
One alleged violation involves Con Ed's failure to control access to a high radiation area to keep unauthericed verkers out.
The NRC staff believes this was done by these workers to keep then on the.jcb seyond the point where true exposure records might have barred them from further work in these radi6 tion areas.
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- Although we found that these (Cicanco) individuals circumvanted your systems fitaout ycur direc-knoriledge, our revievi disclosed that 90aknesses in your ccntrol Bf Work in re.diation areas by contractors c:.ntributed substantially. to thase violations,"
s iaid Tichard C. DeYoung,ty. Director of the NRC's Office of Inspection and Enforcement, n a letter to the utili "Specifically, we found that weaknesses in your control if per ennel monitoring devices cnd access of personnel to high radiation areas, and l'our lack of meaningful control and surveillance of radiation protection practices pxercised by contrautors. did not provide rocsonable assurance thtt personnel exposures l ould be maintained within the limits...."
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' t '. ! : reit tt:w,ter, : m;any officials and !;RC sitif rembers in July and Au;us; 1911 :p P.10 ir r m e Oh:.!: tid';tenti corrective actions.
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sit'f's alie;t:tcins and proposed *:r.sciittiti Editon has untii January 4,1932 to respond 540,000 fir,t.
.i Ort;;se; fine er pro,est it in whole or in pert. The company nay either ;sy the The State of h'ew York has been informed of this proposed enforcenent actien.
f Identical letter sent to:
The Honorable. Alan Simpson Chairman Sen. Giry Hart ec:
The Honorable Morris Udall, Chairman s
Rep. Manuel Lujan ec:
The Honorable Toby Moffett, Chairman Rep. Joel Deckard cc:
e b5n.AlfonseD'Amato seii.~ Daniel Moynihan Rep. Mario Biaggi Rep. Hamilton Fish Rep. Theodore Weiss Rep. Richard Ottinger Rep. Peter Peyser Rep. Charles Schumer Rep.' Jonathan Bingham 1
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