ML20059L911
| ML20059L911 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| 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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| NUDOCS 9311180002 | |
| Download: ML20059L911 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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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").
To wit, Petitioners allege as follows:
4 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
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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:
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That NRC Staff enter into a confidentiality agreement with the National Whistleblower Center to facilitate the release of additional information; j
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That the NRC immediately require CP&L to State Whether it has, in fact, known about cracks in the shroud since at least 1984:
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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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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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