ML20041E405
| ML20041E405 | |
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| Site: | 05000142 |
| Issue date: | 02/18/1982 |
| From: | Laverty J NRC |
| To: | NRC |
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February 18, 1982 MEMORANDUM TO FILE i
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Jessica Laverty i
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UCLA RESEARCH REACTOR VISIT On Wednes' day, January 20, 1982, I spoke to Dan Hirsch of the Comittee to Bridge the Gap, the intervenor in the UCLA license renewal pro-ceeding,.egarding Comissioner Roberts' forthcoming visit to the school.
I invited Mr. Hirsch to accompany Comissioner Roberts, Gary Zech, and myself on our tour of the nuclear engineering laboratory. He' accepted my invitation and asked whether the Comissioner would meet with the news media.
(He did not, as was later alleged in a campus newspaper article, request that the Commissioner meet with his group to discuss contentions.)
I informed him that the Comissioner preferred not to meet with the media in light of time constraints. Anticipating that Mr. Hirsch would arrange for the local media to be at the lab in spite of Comissioner Roberts' preference, I called William Cormier, an l
attorney in the Vice Chancellor's Office, requesting his advice on how to avoid meeting with the press.
He advised me to drive to a parking kiosk across from the School of Engineering where I would receive further instructions.
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l On Tuesday, January 26, 1982, we arrived at the parking kiosk at ap-proximately 9:30 a.m.
The instructions we received at the parking. kiosk directed us to Room 7400, Boelter Hall, where we met Dean Russell O'Neill, Professor Ivan Catton, and Mr. Cormier. We were informed that reporters from the local TV stations and from the campus newspaper were i
waiting for Commissioner Roberts at the second floor door to the labora-to ry. Addi-tionally, we were told that reporters from the local TV stations wished to speak to the Commissioner about the Ginna incident..
Commissioner Roberts indicated his disinclination to meet with the press.
He and Dean O'Neill discussed the admissions policy of the School of Engineering.
A photographer from the School's magazine took a picture of the Commissioner talking to the Dean. We were then taken to a v ther entrance to the laboratory. The Commissioner's visit with the Dean was strictly a courtesy call; the university's reactor and/or the licensing proceeding were not discussed. We were in Room 7400 approxi-mately 20 minutes.
Mr. Cormier and I went to the second floor-door of the lab to get Mr.
Hirsch.
He would not come in and from the hallway asked questions about Commissioner Roberts' meeting with Dean O'Neill.
I told him nothing improper had been discussed. When he protested that the meeting was e_x_
parte and continued to refuse to come into the lab (the news media were in the hallway), I informed him that the Commissioner was under time constraints and that, if he did not come in,' the tour would be conducted without him.
Mr. Hirsch, Ms. Dorothy Thompson, an attorney representing
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Committee to Brid'ge the Gap, and Mr. Amory Lovins then entered the lab
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and joined the Commissioner on a tour of the reactor facility conducted by Mr. Charles Asbaugh.
The entire tour group was comprised of Mr.
Hirsch, Ms. Thompson, Mr. Lovins, Mr. Roberts, Mr. Zech, Professor Catton, Mr. Cormier, Mr. Asbaugh, Professor Neil Ostrander, myself, and aUCLdsecurityguard.
At its conclusion, Commissioner Roberts requested to see the secure portion of the facility.
Mr. Cormier informed the intervenors that they would not' be able to accompany the Commitsioner on this part of the tour.
At this point, Mr. Hirsch requested to describe to the Com-missioner what he considered to be security defects.
I said no, that such allegations should properly be raised to the Licensing Board. Mr.
Hirsch and his party left. After a brief visit to the secure portion of the facility, we were led out of the lab (again not through the second floor door) and, at my request, were accompanied by the UCLA guard to our parked car.
Our tour ended about 11:30 a.m.
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