ML20081L395
| ML20081L395 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 09/28/1983 |
| From: | Cranston A SENATE |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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| NUDOCS 8311160248 | |
| Download: ML20081L395 (3) | |
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.. r' ALAN CRANSTON caupoassa 3Cn&b Afes,&nafe wasussentose, as, assee September 28, 1983 j
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Washington, D. C.
20555 Enclosure From:
Helen Kingsbury 3210 Gough San Francisco, California 94123 ge.
Please answer constituents questions re " low-power re-instatement and fuel rod loading" at Diablo. Thank you.
I forward the attached for your consideration.
Your report, in duplicate, al'ong with the return of the enclosur f
will be appreciated.
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m an Cranston Please address envelope to:
Senator Al'an Cranston 112 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 i
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September 7, 1983 Representative Morris Udall Sub-Committee on Energy & the Environment 235 Cannon Building Washington, D.C. 20015
Dear Representative Udall:
I think the low-power re-instatement and fuel rod loading is being rushed into without careful consideration, in view of the many defects which have come to light.
I ask that fuel not be loaded nor tests started at Diablo until after the design controls hearing.
As usual, profit take precedence over safety in this country, which is a scandalous shame.
Let us put a stop to that, Congressman Udall.
Please use your power to get this country on the track where environment is concerned.
We have already done so much' damage, been so careless as t.o be in danger of not*being able to undo the damage, and been told so many lies about what is really happening, that the picture sometimos seems almost hopeless.
I ask that you and your committee really bear down on the laws and tests which are required and do-not let the big
-companies harm us any more than they already have.
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Sites of the Reacters
' The plants involved are Quad Cities No. 2 at Cordova, Bl., and Dresden No.
3, at Dresden Bl., both owned by Com.
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3, at Arh-e Ale,
ted by the T* 2 nessee Valley ty; Brunswick No. 2, at Southport, N.C., operated by nh the Carolina Power and Light Compa.
ia ny, and Pilgrim, at Plymouth, Mass, operated by the Boston Wellman Compa.
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cracks. However, after tbs discovery of cracks that penetrated the entire thick.
a 888 Of Vital pipes at the Nine Mue Advisers to Regulatory Body Puint No. I reactor in Oswego, N.Y., in 5*al*a*ii 5e';a'{l'r's*o"f".'"' "igs c3g Assert Test for Cracksin 2
for similar problems. AH,but the five piants in qu.suon have now done so, the PipmgIsUnreliable
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. In me.lus its decision last month, the comminaion agreed to wait untu A committee of expert advisers to
'Aug. 4 for a report from the Electric the Nuclear Regulatory Cammianian
. Power Research Institute, an industry said yesterday that the technique cam.
, trade group, on the efficacy of ultra, monly used to measure the @ of sonic
. According to Mr. Denton, cracks in reactor piping was unroll.
3 hat study ed more problems with able. The panel said that by using the the tests.
system the==mianian was accepting
,' The letter from the advisory commit.
a higherlevel of risk of a major reactor tee, which was dated Aug. 9 and ad.
accident than it usuaUy maalders ac.
, dressed to Nunzio J. Palladina, the ceptable e
chairman of the ca==W said:
De measurements, done with ultra.
1"We can find no consistent experimeo.
sonic devices "can be taken only on "tal evidence or body of expert opinion faith," according to a letter from the indicating that the measured crack Advisory fmmittee on Reactor Safe.
,' depths bear any direct relationship to guards, a panoi of outside experts on
-the actualcrack depths."
widch the commission relies for an in.
The comminaion's reliance on the
, dependent review of safety problems.
measurements,it added, "may accept The said such evaluation of the much higher probability of a a
cra by the reactoroperators and the 1.0.C.A. than has been considred ac.
wnmiazion staff was "a delusion."
'ceptable." The reference was to loss of The five commissioners voted last
', coolant accident.
month to order five plants shut within 30 days for inspection of the piping, but under pressure from the utiliues the panel reversed itself the next day. In a telephone interview yesterday, Harold R. Denton, director of reactor regula.
tion for the commission, said he agreed with the letter, which he said supported his contention last month that the plants should be ordered shut for in.
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