ML20054E712

Response Opposing Committee to Bridge the Gap 820518 Request for Release of Photograph.Political Association of Certain Univ Employees Irrelevant to Proceeding.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20054E712
Person / Time
Site:	05000142
Issue date:	06/04/1982
From:	Cormier W CALIFORNIA, UNIV. OF, LOS ANGELES, CA
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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12i 13 li 14 j; 15 UNIVERSITY'S RESPONSE TO CBG'S MAY 18th REQUEST l FOR RELEASE OF A CERTAIN PHOTOGRAPH 16 17 lj 18 l

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DONALD L. REIDHAAR l' GLENN R. WOODS 20( CHRISTINE HELWICK 590 University Hall I 21 ll* 2200 University Avenue b Berkeley, California 94720 22 ll Telephone: (415) 642-2822 23 Attorneys for Applicant 24 THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 26 ,,

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L 1 On May 18, 1982, Intervenor (CBG) served a response 2j seeking to compel the release of a certain photograph which n

3;: University had previously objected to releasing on the ground that i

4] the photograph was irrelevant to issues being considered in the 5 proceeding.1! CBG rests its argument for release of the 6 photograph on the faulty premise that the political associations il 7 of certain of University's employees (and presumably students) 8 h are in some way cognizable in this relicensing proceeding. CBG's F

9,, argument is contrived and insubstantial. Whether or not the 10' single photograph is released is a matter of little consequence to lli these proceedings and University declines further argument on the 12r issue. However, University must briefly note that once again I,

13 h CBG has relied on a deliberate misrepresentation of fact in I!

14I support of an argument. This matter is explained below.

15 16 CBG argues that the photograph in question provides 17 evidence suggesting a connection between a certain " extremist" 18 npolitical organization and the staff of the UCLA reactor, raising 19 "a serious question about screening and security precautions". !

n 20 As further evidence of such a connection CBG notes that a 21 candidate of the allegedly extremist organization "was sponsored 22 ,in a public talk at UCLA by an organization working out of the 23 i il 24[ l/ "CBG's Response to Certain Matters in Applicant's ' Memorandum

[ Concerning Disposition of the Photographs'", dated May 18, 1982 25l (hereinafter May 18th Response). The particular matter in  !

d question concerns whether or not a certain photograph of a ,

26 , car bumpersticker is to be released. TheBoardaddressedthel 9 matter in its April 16, 1982 Order.

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1 Nuclear Energy Lab at UCLA and supervised by the reactor's chief 2

f security!"3/ CBG then quotes an excerpt from a paragraph 3 appearing in the 1976 Annual Report of the Nuclear Energy i:

4 Laboratory (NEL) to the effect that the NEL openly provides 5; resources and assistance to the organization, that is, the 6:" organization working out of the NEL" . CBG frils to identify that 7 organization. Instead CBG insinuates that it is a political 8 organization possibly linked to CBG's allegedly extremist political 9: organization and thereby constitucing a threat to facility security.

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10 !CBG knew otherwise.

5 11 12; In fact, the organization working out of the NEL which 13 CBG fails to identify is the UCLA Student Chapter of the American li 14: Nuclear Society (ANS), an internationally respected professional i

15 society of scientists and engineers working in the nuclear field.

16 In quoting from the 1976 Annual Report CBG has conveniently 17 deleted the heading and first sentence of the quoted paragraph i;

18;which clearly identify the ANS. The excerpt appearing on page 4 i

19 llof CBG's May 18th Response is to be compared with the complete b

20l paragraph from page 18 of the 1976 Annual Report, which is 21 freproduced here:

h 22; "IV. D. Student Chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) l 23 l l: The NEL provides space, telephones, and 24; secretarial support for the Student Chapter of the ANS.

g Meetings were held periodically in the laboratory 25 lj lecture area, the elected officers were allowed to make chapter business phone calls, mail was sorted for the 26[i officers, and typing and mailing costs for the Chapter 27! ,

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.i 1[ were borne by the Laboratory. When applicable, technical assistance was provide j to the chapter by the staff and 2[j director of the NEL."

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4 ll By deleting the opening sentence identifying the li 5 " organization working out of the NEL" as the Student Chapter of the 6[ANS, CBG has attempted to deliberately deceive the Board as to the U

7htrue nature of the organization that supposedly forms the l'

8[ dangerous link to the organization described as " extremist" by 9 CBG.5/ Such argument has no place in pleadings filed in this 10 proceeding.

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12j Dated: June 4, 1982.

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131 14j DONALD L. REIDHAAR GLENN R. WOODS 15 CHRISTINE HELWICK 16' 17 By ObV s William'R7 Cormier 18 g UCLA Representative e

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The source of the passage quoted is page 18 of the Annual 23y(4 / Report for 1976, included herein as Exhibit "A" together with l the title page and table of contents to the report.

24 f 25 5/ The " extremist" organization's candidate mentioned by CBG as i  !! speaking at UCLA (as evidence of the link) appeared as part 26 i of an unexceptional two-part speakers program presenting  :

ll both " pro" and " con" views on nuclear power, which was  !

. 271: sponsored by the UCLA Student Chapter of the ANS. The announcement for that program appears herein as Exhibit "B".

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EXHIBIT "A" ANNUAL REPORT NUCLEAR ENERGY LABORATORY January 1, 1976 to December 31, 1976 Ivan Catton, Director

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1 Page, Chapter I. The Year in Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... 1 Chapter II. Historical Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II.A. Reactor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 II.B. Subcritical Facility ................ 4 Chapter III. Description and Status of Facilities . . . . . . . . 5 III.A. Reactor ...................... 5 III.B. Suberitical Facility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 III.C. Supporting Facilities ............... 7 III.D. Undergraduate Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 III.E. Heat Transfer Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 III.F. Tekamak Laboratory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 III.G. Nuclear Safety Research Library .......... 10 III.H. Laboratory Organization .............. 11 Chapter IV. Academic and Community Support ........... 14 .

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IV.A. Classroom (UCLA) .................. 14 IV.A.1. Engineering 135 A, B, C . . . . . . . . . . . 14 IV.A.2. Engineering 139 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IV.A.3. Chemistry 103 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IV.A.4. Engineering 235 C . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 IV.B. Community Support . ................. 16 IV.B.I. Engineering Extension'X497.17 . . . . . . . . 16 IV.B.2. Other School Systems ............ 16 IV.B.3. Weekend Seminars .............. 17 IV.C. Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 IV.D. Student Chapter of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) 18 Chapter V. Reactor Research . . . . . . . . . . '. . . . . . . . . 19 V.A. Survey . ....................... 19 V.B. O pe ra ti on s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 V.C. Users and Their Areas of Research .......... 21 .

V.C.I. UCLA (Excluding NEL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 V.C.2. Other UC Campuses .............. 22 V.C.3. Other Schools ................ 22 V.C.4. NEL ..................... 23 Chapter VI. Research Support (Non-Reactor) ........... 24 11

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VI.A. School of Engineering and Applied Science . . . . . . 24 VI.A.1. Contract Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24-VI.A.2. Unfunded Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chapter VII. Student Support .................. 30 Chapter VIII. Financial Report ................. 32 Chapter IX. Future (1977) Nuclear Energy Laboratory Projects and Business ...................... 33 IX.A. Engineering 139 A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 IX.B. Other Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 IX.C. Reactor Operator Training Class . . . . . . . . . . . 33 IX.D. High Schools .................... 34 IX.E. Local Utilities Education . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 IX.F. Utility Reactor Operations Course . . . . . . . . . . 34 IX.G. Mutation Studies ............ .... 35 IX.H. Organic Synthesis . . . . . . . ... . . ...... 35 IX.I. UCLA Reactor .................... 35 IX.J. NEL Minicomputer .................. 36 IX.K. Activation Analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 IX.L. Colleges and Universities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 iii

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Miscellaneous lecture tours were also given to UCLA Alumni, the j UCLA Chapter of the Society of Women Engineers, minority recruitment, and

.- so on. The NEL participated as usual in the Annual Engineering Week at UCLA by providing tours and a lecturer.

IV.D. StudentChapteroftheAmericanNuclearSociety(ANS1 The NEL provides space, telephones, and secretarial support for the Student Chapter of the ANS. Meetings were held periodically in the laboratory lecture area, the elected officers were allowed to make chapter business phone calls, mail was sorted for the officers, and typing and mailing costs for the chapter were borne by the laboratory.

When applicable, technical assistance was provi,ded to the chapter by the staff and director of the NEL.

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. . . A TWO PART SPEAKERS PROGRAM TO PROV1DE THE UCLA COMMUNITY WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO EEAR OPPOSING VIEWS ON NUCLEAR POWER.

10 FEBRUARY 1982 23 FEBRUARY 1982 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. 12:00-to 1:00 p.m.

100 MOOR 7 ::ALL 51 KINSEY HALL Af1ORY LOVINS, FROM FRIENDS WILLIAM WERTZ, FROM FUSION OF THE EARTH, SPEAKS ON: ENERGY FOUNDATION, SPEAKS ON "THE LINK BETWEEN NUCLEAR "THE TRUE HISTORY OF TOM AND WEAPONS, NUCLEAR POWER, AND JANE AND THE ANTI-NUCLEAR THE SOFT ENERGY ALTERNATIVE" MOVEMENT" PLEASE COME AND LISTEN BROUGHT TO YOU BY A.N.S. STUDENT CHAPTER j STAY INFORMED AND MAKE YOUR OWN DECISIONS, BASED ON FACT!

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1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

, 2 BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD 3

In the Matter of ) 5-4 ) Docket No. 50-142 -

THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY ) (Proposed Renewal of Facilf,ty 5 OF CALIFORNIA ) License Number R-71) J 6-

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_ CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 9

I hereby certify that copies of:the attached: UNIVERSITY'S 10 RESPONSE TO CBG'S MAY 18th REQUEST FOR RELEASE OF A CERTAIN PHOTOGRAPH 11 in the above-captioned proceeding have been served en the follcwing by deposit in the United States mail, first class, 12 postage prepaid, addressed as indicated, on this date: June 7, 1982 .

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'4 John H. Frye, III, Chairman Mr. Daniel Hirsch Administrative Judge Cte. to Bridge the Gap 15 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BDARD 1637 Butler Avenue, #203 U.S. Nuclear Regu'latory Commission Los Angeles, Calif. 90025 16 Washington, D.C. 20555 Mr. John Bay, Esq.

17 Dr. Emmeth A. Luebke ' 3755 Divisadero #203 Administrative Judge' San Francisco, CA 94123 18 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission' Mr. Daniel Hirsch 19 ' Washington, D.C. 20555 . - , Sox 1186 .-

Ben Lomond, CA .95005 20 Dr. Oscar H. Paris Administrative Judge v.

21 ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Law Center 22 Washington, D.C. 20555 y c/o Dorothy Thompson

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6300 Wilshire Blvd. #1200 23 Counsel for the NRC Staff Los Angeles, CA 90048 OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR 24 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 1 25 Chief, Docketing and Service Section 26 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 27 3' jr Washington, D.C. 20555 f . .

28 WILLPAM 8. CORMIER UCLA Representative TEE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA e4 ,

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