ML20072F305
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| Site: | Zimmer |
| Issue date: | 06/16/1983 |
| From: | Williams J CINCINNATI GAS & ELECTRIC CO. |
| To: | James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III) |
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| NUDOCS 8306270332 | |
| Download: ML20072F305 (4) | |
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Dear Mr. Keppler:
Enclosed are copies of my Letter to the Editor, which appeared in last Thursday's edition of The Cincinnati Enquirer, and a reply which appeared in this morning's edition of the Enquirer.
We are moving along with our efforts to beef up our organization.
The Assistant Vice President for Engineering, Frank Cole, reported to work on Monday.
The Assistant Vice President for Nuclear Projects, E.J. Wagner, who will handle the CG&E direction of the Verification and Construction effort, will be here on June 27; Rear Admiral US Navy retired, Dave cruden, has agreed to join us on August 1 as Assistant Vice President for Nuclear Operations; and Bud Foster, Captain US Navy Retired, will be here on August 1 to pick up Management of Training and Administration.
Messrs. Cole, Wagner and Cruden were formally appointed today at the Board of Directors meeting.
I met with Dr. Henry Myers in Washington on June 8.
I listened to his views on Zimmer, and he listened to what I plan to do.
He said, "if you do those things, you will get support."
Well, I'll keep him abreast of our programs and we will see.
On the 20th of this month, the Energy Research Group is holding a forum in support of nuclear power and Zimmer at the Holiday Inn-Eastgate.
I'll speak for fifteen or twenty minutes and then answer questions.
I'm sure I'll make a boo-boo or two, but it's better to be out there trying than sitting here letting them run over me.
We are requesting permission, through separate corres-pondence, to expand the QCP to cover bolting, masonry walls, and seismic columns and will ask for an exception to the Show Cause Order to permit blasting and repainting of the drywell and immersion pool, which everyone but me is estimating to be a six-month job.
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Readers' Views when the Torrey Pines report becomes quired to properly construct and operate available for our consideration. It should the plant be noted that the Torrey Pines effort will provide an assessment of COLE's man.
Along the way, we will accept con-e agement of Zimmer and recommend strucuve and professional criticism and O.
el S eCreCy management concepts and acDons that will sit down and talk with those who f
can be taken to provide for more effec-have concerns.
et uve management It is not an effort to determine ~the quality of the existing The Zimmer project deserves your i
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construcuon - that assessment will be support and unemotional consideration 1
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%,/X E4 EX ing the show-cause order by an organ-isation such as Bechtel, under the man-JOE WILLIAMS, Jit.
agement direetton of CO&E in Senior Vice President accordance with a plan approved by the Nuclear Operations TO THE EDITOR: It has been five Zimmer. We hope that such involvement NRC' Cincinnati Gas and Electric Co.
weeks since I assumed the responsibility will be objective and professional, so that l
within the Cincinnat! Das and Electric unnecessary and frivolous delays with l
Co. for completing and operating the their attendant costs'will not be foisted By conhchg ou own internal n-I'
[3gn w Wm. H. Zimmer Nuclear Power Station.
On the consumers.
en T rrey e rep rt During that period, I have managed, with the help of some very professional I can assure all interested organiza-comes available to rapidly consider their people within and without the CO&E tions that, contrary to the asseruons in neommendaWns,synmeMze mose wim which we concur with our own conclu-organization, including personnel of the the paper May 26 ("Zimmer Critic Re-Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC),
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- Secret Plans * "), there are no sions, and present our proposals to the E for cona a
- n. W may em-the national board and the Boller In-secret management actions being taken spector Department of the State of Ohio, at Zimmer. Olven the public interest, brace everything Torrey Pines recom-to arrive at a respectable understanding anyone who thinks anything having to mends, tut it is not required, and it is I
of the problems we face and what must do with Zimmer can be done in peerecy is ramer unnely that we wm M in com-
' be done to achieve our objective; Le., fin-naive indeed. I have proceeded from my plete agreement What is required is for 1sh construction of Zimmer in a manner first day under the assumption that any-CO&E, with assistance of Torny Pines assuring its integrity, and operate and thing we do or say will rapidly become and an organisation like rechtel, to de-mtintain it with highly trained person-public, and under the circumstances cide on, and present to the NRC for its l
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populace is guaranteed and the econom-to use to determine and document the le benefits to consumers maxim 14ed.
In passing, I might add that none of 3
the intervenors bothered to call us con-quality of existing construction,, identify The issues we must resolve and the cerning issues of secrecy, and such lack rework re4utred, confirm construction problems we must solve enroute to our of inquiries seems rather unprofessional yet to be done, and then accomplish the nwork and finish the construchn.
objective are not impossible or over-and lacking in objectivity.
wh21 ming. The types of technical, engi-neering and management issues involv-Let me tell you a litut of what we are After an organization and methodol-ed have been encountered before and doing. First, we are not sitting on out ogy are agreed upon, CO&E will provide successfully resolved by a sufficiency of hands niung for someone to tell us how whatever resources are required, manage talrnted people working within the to discharge our responsibillues to the the construcuon to completion and then framework of an efficient organisation.
public. As responsible managers we have operate the plant been analysing our organisation, per-That is not to say that accomplishing sonnel requirements and operating Elmmer is a needed source of safe th? task will be easy. On the contrary,it methodology to identify needed man-economical energy and it has been made will be difficult and tedious, made the agement actions. We are also developing apparent to me, through their support-m:re so because our every move will be our concepts of what will be required to ir.g actions, that the three owners, illuminated, analysed and commented satisfy the show-cause order sad achieve CO&E, Dayton Power and Light Co. and tpon by organlantions that are express-the objective stated above as to be in a Columbus and Southern Ohio Electric ing a variety of concerns regarding. position to move without cosuy deIaF Co., are determined to do whatever is re-
1 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1983 Readers' Views CG&E Finally Emits Fresh A'ir On Zinuner l
TO THE EDITOR: What a delight to Welcome to Cincinnatt, Joe Williams
' hear.such forthrtsht statements from Jr.
l Cincinnau Gas and Electric Co. outlin-Ing a bold, intelligent program to bririg DIAURICE R. FRATHER Zimmer on line. Obviously, Joe Williams President Jr., CO&E's new senior vice president, is Cincinnati Die Casting Co.
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("No Ve11s of Secrecy on Zimmer Opera-Uon," June 9). I have no doubt that, with the technical, engineering and manage, Individual Freedoms ment resources at his disposal, he will put Zimmer into operation as a safe source of economicalenergy.
I wish to respond to Thomas Oe-phardt's column (May 22) concerning censorship and how it should be applied Make no mistake about it, those of us to Warner Amex's decialon to carry the who are in business and work in Greater Playboy Channel.
Cincinnau have our investments and our Jobs at stake here. My company is a Oephardt says that the airing, and heavy energy consumer (CO&E bills ap-thus viewing, of this channel should not proximately 325,000 per month) and we be allowed. I object strongly. Our country employ 96 people. Our current growth was founded on republican principles, plan will double our sales by 1986 with an one of which is that no government shall appropriate increase. In employment-restrict individual freedoms except 8hould CO&E fall to continue to provide where necessary to allow the function-us with electrical energy at competitive ing of a peaceful society. Thus, murder is prices, we will not secure the addluonal lllegal, while reading Catcher in the Rye programs necessary to create these new is not.
Jobs for our workers in Cincinnati.
In that the decision to purchase Play-My home la near the river on the east boy Channel services is voluntarily made-side of the city, and I own substantial by the individual viewer, the viewer real estate in New Richmond and La.:rel, should be allowed to purchase the serv-which is located near Zimmer. I am en-Ice if he so desires, and Warner Amex couraged by the breath of fresh air from should be allowed to provide it using its l
CO&E and have every confidence that private initiative in our free-market our safety is a primary factor in its economy. In addition, illegalizing the considersuons.
Playboy Channel would vlotate both
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