ML20058P230
| ML20058P230 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 12/14/1993 |
| From: | Murley T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Kohn S NATIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER CENTER |
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| ML20058P234 | List: |
| References | |
| CON-#394-14527 2.206, NUDOCS 9312230161 | |
| Download: ML20058P230 (4) | |
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(([g December 14, 1993 Docket Nos. 50-325 and 50-324 Mr. Stephen M. Kohn, Chairman
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Board of Governors National Whistleblower Center 517 Florida Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20001-1850
Dear Mr. Kohn:
This letter is in. response to the petition you filed on April 28, 1993, on behalf of the National Whistleblower Center.
Your petition was considered pursuant to Title 10 of the Code of Federal Reaulations, Section 2.206 (10 CFR 2.206).
You assert that you received allegations from a Brunswick-Steam Electric Plant, Units I and 2, (BSEP or Brunswick) employee on which you based your petition asking the United States' Nuclear Regulatory Comission
-(NRC or the Comission) to'immediately shut down Brunswick until such time as the problems have been fully resolved. These' allegations stated that (1) there has been a complete breakdown in the quality assurance.(QA) program that' oversees the integrity of the plant's vendor manuals; (2) there has been a breakdown in the plant's security system, which may leave the facility open to terrorist attack; (3) there has been harassment and intimidation _of employees who raise safety-related concerns to their management; (4) there has been a failure of Carolina Power & Light Company to train the contractors it has employed in the proper QA procedures and a failure to implement a QA program in the work assignments of the contractors; and (5) there has been a breakdown
.i in the Brunswick preventive maintenance program.
On June 7, 1993, I informed you that your request was being treated under
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10 CFR 2.206 of the Comission's regulations and that a formal decision would be issued within a reasonable time.
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For the reasons given in the enclosed Director's Decision un' der 10 CFR 2.206,.
your petition has been denied. A copy _of the decision will be filed with the Secretary of the Comission for the Comission's. review in accordance 'with 10 CFR 2.206(c). As provided by this regulation,- the decision will constitute the final action of the Comission 25 days after the date of issuance of the decision unless the Comission, on its own motion, institutes a review of the decision within'that time.
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- A copy of the notice of decision that is being filed with the Office of the Federal Register for publication also is enclosed.
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Mr. Mark S. 'Calvert Karen E. Long Associate General Counsel Assistant Attorney General Carolina Power & Light-Company State of North Carolina Post Office Box 1551 Post Office Box'629' Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 j
Mr. Kelly Holden, Chairman Mr. Robert P.!Gruber.
l Board of Commissioners Executive Director j
- Post Office Box 249 Public Staff. NCUC Southport,. North Carolina 28422 Post Office'-Box 29520 l
Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0520 Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mr. H. W. Habermeyer, Jr.
i Star. Route 1, Post Office Box 208 Vice President l
Southport, North Carolina 28461 Nuclear Services Department i
Carolina Power & Light. Company 1
~ Regional Administrator, Region II Post Office Box 1551 - Mail OHS 7 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 101 Marietta St., N.W., Ste. 2900 1
Atlanta, Georgia 30323 j
Mr. Dayne H. Brown, Director I
Division of Radiation' Protection i
N.C. Department of Environmental, Commerce and Natural Resources-Post Office Box 27687 a
Raleigh, North Carolina 27611-7687
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i Mr. J. M. Brown Plant Manager - Unit 1 Carolina Power & Light Company Brunswick Steam Electric Plant Post Office' Box 10429 Southport, North Carolina 28461
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.Public Service Commission State of South Carolina
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Columbia, South Carolina' 29211
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Mr. C. C. Warren Plant Manager - Unit 2 Brunswick Steam Electric Plant i
Post Office Box 10429 Southport, North Carolina 28461 i
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