ML20058P243
| ML20058P243 | |
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| Site: | Brunswick  |
| Issue date: | 12/14/1993 |
| From: | Murley T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| 2.206, DD-93-21, NUDOCS 9312230170 | |
| Download: ML20058P243 (3) | |
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7590-01 CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50-324 AND 50-325 BRUNSWICK STEAM ELECTRIC PLANT. UNITS 1 AND 2-OPERATING LICENSE NOS. DPR-71 AND DPR-62 ISSUANCE OF DIRECTOR'S DECISION UNDER 10 CFR 2.206 Notice is hereby given that the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, has issued a Director's Decision concerning a request (Petition),
dated April 28, 1993, filed pursuant to 10 CFR 2,206 by Stephen M. Kohn on behalf of the National Whistleblower Center (Petitioner).
The Petitioner requested the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to immediately shut down the Brunswick Steam Electric Plant, Units I and 2 (Brunswick). As basis for this request, the Petitioner asserted receipt of allegations from a Brunswick employee that (1) there has been a complete breakdown in the quality assurance (QA) program overseeing the integrity of the plant's vendor manuals; (2) there has been a breakdown in the plant's security system, which may leave i
the facility open to a terrorist attack;-(3) there has been harassment and intimidation of employees who raise safety 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 to implement a QA program in the work assignments of the contractors; and (5) there has been a breakdown in the Brunswick preventive maintenance program.
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. l The Director of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) has determined that the concerns raised in the Petition are sufficiently well understood by the NRC as a result of NRC inspections and other reviews and are capable of resolution. Therefore, the Director of NRR has determined that issuance of a Director's Decision, with regard to this matter, is appropriate.
On the basis of review of the issues in the allegations, the Director of NRR has determined that certain of the concerns raised by the Petitioner are partially substantiated in that the conditions addressed had existed.
However, the licensee and NRC knew about these conditions previously, and the licensee had taken appropriate corrective actions before the receipt of the Petition. The remaining concerns raised by the Petitioner are not substantiated by this Director's Decision.
As a result of the NRC review, the Director of NRR denied the Petitioner's request. The reasons for this denial are explained in the
" Director's Decision Under 10 CFR 2.206," (DD-93-21), which is available for public inspection and copying in the Commission's Public Document Room at 2120 L Street, NW, Washington, DC 20555-0001, and at the local public document room at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, William Madison Randall Library, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403-3297.
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L A copy of the Decision will be filed with'the Secretary of the Commission for the Commission's review in accordance with 10 CFR 2.206(c). As provided in 10 CFR 2.206(c), the Decision will become the final action of the Commission 25 days after the date of issuance unless the Commission on.its own motion institutes a review of the Decision within that time.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
&==-$ Me h Thomas E. Murley, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville, Maryland this 14th day of December 1993 t
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