ML20059L911

Petition to Suspend Operation of Plant Pending Criminal Investigation

ML20059L911
Person / Time
Site:	Brunswick
Issue date:	10/14/1993
From:	Kohn M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, KOHN, KOHN & COLAPINTO, P.C. (FORMERLY KOHN & ASSOCIA, NATIONAL WHISTLEBLOWER CENTER
To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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PETITION TO SUSPEND THE OPERATION OF THE BRUNSWICK NUCLEAR POWER STATION PENDING CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION The Nationa) Whistleblower Center, Coastal Alliance for a Safe Environment, and Charles A. Webb, jointly submit, pursuant to 10 C.F.R. 52.206, a petition requesting the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC") Office'of Investigations ("OI") to investigate potential criminal wrongdoing which appears to have 1

began in 1984 and is continuing by the licensee of the Brunswick Nuclear Power Station, Carolina Power & Light Company ("CP&L").

4 To wit, Petitioners allege as follows: '

CP&L has asserted to the NRC and the public that cracks in the shroud of the Brunswick Nuclear Power Station ^

reactor were recently discovered as a result of an inspection. CP&L's assertion is false. CP&L discovered cracks in the shroud some nine years earlier when engineers who detected the cracks brought the  ;

existence of the cracks to the attention of CP&L management. After some heated exchanges between

, managers, CP&L decided to have paperwork prepared to

cover-up the problem. The engineers who detected the

cracks were instructed by management to prepare paperwork so that the cracks would not be reported to the NRC. CP&L's cover-up of significant safety flaws

.n the reactor shroud demonstrates that CP&L management does not have the character or integrity to operate a nuclear facility because it is unwilling to self-report significant safety problems to the NRC and is willing to take unreasonable risks with the health and safety of public. ,

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In addition to the general information provided above, the National Whistleblower center has information from confidential sources that vill be provided to NRC Staff on a strictly confidential basis. . .

Petitioners hereby request the following:

1. That NRC Staff enter into a confidentiality agreement with the National Whistleblower Center to facilitate the release of additional information; j

2. That the NRC immediately require CP&L to State Whether it has, in fact, known about cracks in the shroud since at least 1984:

3. That NRC's Office of Investigations determine whether cPEL management engaged in criminal wrongdoing, commencing in 1984, when CP&L initially failed to report the existence of cracks in the shroud to NRC.

Respectfully submitted,

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Michael D. Kohn KOHN, KOHN & COLAPINTO, P.C.

517 Florida Ave., NW Washington, D.C. 20001-1850 (202) 234-4663 i

Attorney for the National Whistleblower center and charles Webb Ron ShackelforcK/ U (919) 799-452-5200 Representative of the Coastal Alliance for a Safe Environment hated. October 14, 1993 087\206.1 2

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