ML20086G361

Intervenor Exhibit I-MOSBA-67A,consisting of Sonopco Project:Georgia Power Clarifies Recent Publicity About Vogtle Diesel Generators

ML20086G361
Person / Time
Site:	Vogtle
Issue date:	05/17/1995
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OLA-3-I-MOSBA67, NUDOCS 9507140261
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){ Georgia Power clarifics recent publicity about Vogtle diesel generators  :.:

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$ llecent news media repoils liave stated that Georgia P g giy _ yl mis-  :::

.: lead the Nuclear itegulatory Conunission (NitC) carlier s yegg in providing i

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- data about the reliability of cincrgency dicscl generators at Plant Vogtle. "That is  :.:

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not true." said Ken McCoy. vice president of the Vogtle ProJcct.

U "The original data submitted was in error, but we had no Intent to misicad the  :.:

NitC. As soon as Georgia l'ower detennined that there was a concern in (lint O

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.: vided a written correction."  :::

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I: The issue concerned tlic ntunber of times two backup dicscl generators suc-  :::

cessfully operated during testing. "The NitC had people there while we werc  :.:

- running the tests and they reviewed the results. lu their review, Clie NIRC had all  :::

$ of the same infornmtion we had." McCoy said. O

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.- Problems in getting a generator started contributed to the March 20 site arca

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-:. cmcrgency at the plant. But contrary to recent news media reports. the NitC O

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reviewed and was briefed on the dicscl generating testing after the March 20  ::.

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incident and before the restart of Unit 1.  :.:

Georgia Power had originally submitted information that said one of the genera-  :::

..: tors successfully started 18 times. while the second generator successfully :c-

- started 19 times without failurcs or problems occurring. ,

Actually, it was detennined later that the employces who gathered and prepared .$.

- the data for the NIRC did not use all available information in determining suc-  :::

cessful generator starts. .:.

Instead, they used data from the operators' logs only. Operators consider a test 'd

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. " successful" if the dicscl generator starts up. Based on that, the operators  ::'

$ logged these start attempts as successful for both generators.13ut a subsequent  :.

review of an engineers' log showed that some of the start-up tests did in fact  :

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have problems or failurcs af ter operating for a period of time.  :::

.: "That's the basis of the confusion," McCoy said. "Our first report was based on  :::

an incomplete revicw of the logs." 0

$ The erroncous statement is one issue raised in a pctillon filed with the NitC by  :-:

.: Allen Mosbaugh, a fonner Georgia Power employce. The NitC is treating Mos-  :::

haugh's filing as a pelillon pursuant to federal regulations that pennit anyonc 0

to file a request to the NIRC regardless of merit. The pclition is based on false  :

. and inaccurate statements. and the issues raised in the pctillon already have  ::

(^'j been reviewed and discussed by Georgia Power with the NitC.  ::

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