ML20049E598
| ML20049E598 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 09/30/1981 |
| From: | Kirkpatrick D NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| NUDOCS 8110020409 | |
| Download: ML20049E598 (5) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICE'iSING BOARD In the Matte" of ll
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Docket No. 50-289
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(Restart)
(Three Mile Island Nucle +r Station. )
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AFFIDAVIT OF DONALD C. KIRKPATRICK I, Donald C. Kirkpatrick, being duly sworn, do depose and state:
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I am employed as a Nuclear Engineer by the Office of Inspection and Enforcement, U.S. Nuclear Regulatoly Commission. A copy of my pro-fessional qualifications is attached to this affidavit.
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The purpose of this affidavit is to provide a description of my responsibilities in connection with the preparation of a document entitled " Recommendations of TMI-2 IE Investigation Team (Operational Aspects)," dated September,1979 (" Recommendations") and to oescribe how the NRC Action Plan (NUREG-0660) deals with certain of these Reconnendations. Specifically, the affidavit deals with those Recommendations cited by intervenors Union of Concerned Scientists and Stephen C. Sholly in their motions to reopen the record filed September 10,1981 ("Intervenors' Motions").
In April,1979, I was assigned to the THI-2 Investigation Team in 3.
the Office of Inspection and Enforcement. Tlie purpcse of our team was to conduct a fact-findinq investigation into the events of the TMI-2 accident,
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. The results of this investigation were published in an investigative report entitled, " Investigation into the March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island Accident by Office of Inspection and Enforcenent", NUREG-0600, published August,1979.
During the investigation, the members of the team formulated a number of personal views regarding technic'.1 issues related to the investigation. These views, not baing of a factual nature, were not appropriate for inclusion in NUREG-0600. However, it was felt by the team members that many of these views merited further con-siderstion by the various other groups that were formed or being formed for detailed examination and analysis of the accident.
Accordingly, the subject recommendations were prepared and forwarded to management. These recommendations shculd not be considered to be the authoritative and final rEsults of detailed analysis. They were merely, in my view, ideas to be passed along for review by other investi-gators. As we stated in N!) REG-0600, "[t]he reports from other investi-gations and studies will be needed to fully understand the causas of this accident and the appropriate actions to be taken as a result of that understanding." (Emphasis added.)
I am aware, from discussions with NRC staff members, that the recommendations were given consideration during the development of the TMI Action Plan (NUREG-0560).
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Based on my knowledge of current staff positicn as stated in NUREG-0660, and other documents, I believe those recommendations cited by Intervenor's 1
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UCS and Sholly, have been adequately addressed / resolved or were not of major significance. The above statements and opinions are true and correct to the best of my personnel knowledge and belief.
Oi Donald C. Kirkpatrick Subscribed and Sworn to before me this daydeh !
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TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS i
Don 41d C. Kirkpatrick l
EXPERIENCE:
USAEC/USNuclear Regulatory Commission Ynshington D. C. 20555 1972 to Present Held position as Reactor Inspection Specialist and Nuclear Engineer in theCurrently hold NRC Office of Inspectf on and Enforcement Headquarters staff.
position as Nuclear Engineer developing independunt measurement Technique nuclear power reactors.
US Atomic Energy Comission Atlanta. GA 1970 to 1972 Ir.spected nuclear power reactors in the preoperational Principal Reactor Inspector.
testing and startup phases.
Les Alamos Scientific Laboratory los Alanos. New Medco 196_1 to 1970 Was an experimental reactor shift supervisor Staff Member in the reactor division.
Had primary responsi-on LAM?RE, a sodium cooled, plutonium-fueled,1 MW reactor.
bility for the reactor fuel transfer operations including one co refueling.
Designed the radiation shielding.
the reactor vessel.
of instrumentation and control systems on the reactor.
Collaborated in the design, fabrication, and operation of a sodium :coled test Designed the assembly for the irradiation of reactor fuels in a themal re 1rradiated fuel.
In cooperation with otner investigators, designed and supervised assembly of reactor relsted experiments which required high vacuum and the use of mass l
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l An experiment to investigate defects in high temperature stainless steel 1) sodium systems that can result in sodium leakage.
An experiment to measure the perneation rate of gases t'irough stainless 2) steel.
The development of a high temperature (600*C) mass spectrometer for 3) on-line analyses of reactor cover gases.
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i t University of Oklahoma Noma, Oklahoma 1951 to 1952 Laboratory Assistant (half-time). Worked in the Computer Laboratory as a programmer; in the Chemical Engineering Laboratory doing research on electre-static charge in airc aft fuels, and in the Nuclear Reactor Laboratory developing research experiments.
Member U. S. Air Force
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Air Weather Service. Launched radiosond balloons and reduced telemetered weather data. Plotted weather maps.
EDUCATION:
Rift Valley Acadesty High School. Graduated in December 1951 Kijabe, Kenya, Africa l
1948 to 1951 Oklahoma University B. S. in Engineering Physics. Took elective courses Norman, Oklahoma in Nuclear Engineering.
1957 to 1961 University of New Mexico 34 hours3.935185e-4 days <br />0.00944 hours <br />5.621693e-5 weeks <br />1.2937e-5 months <br /> of course work in Nuclear Engineering.
Graduate Extension School Courses in reactor control; lab work included Los Alamos, New Mexico construction of critical assemblies.
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