ML20090J544

FOIA Request for All Documentation Re Integrated Leak Rate Tests at Facilities

ML20090J544
Person / Time
Site:	Byron, Cook, LaSalle, 05000000
Issue date:	01/06/1984
From:	Gogol E AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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FOIA-84-51 NUDOCS 8405220569
Download: ML20090J544 (2)

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Edward M. Gogol 154 Linden ,

Glencoe IL 60022 l (312) 835-3955 I

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January 6,1994 ADDENDUM to PETITION FOR EMERGENCY RELIEF Docket Nos.: STN 50-454/455 and 50-373/374 EREEDOM OF INFORMATION Mr. Rarold R. Tenton, Director ACT REQUEST Office of Suelear Eeacter Eegulaticn U.S. Suelear Eegulate:7 Cocsission fpyp.g ,gf i Wasning::n 1C 2C555 Qh)g K L Lear Mr. Ienton:

I an in receipt of your letter dated Dec. 16, 1983, regarding your denial of my Fetition for E=ergency Relief regarding the hazardous and illegal situation which now prevails concerning Integrated Leak Rate Testing at U.S. nuclear ~

power plants in general, and in particular at the LaSalle County, Byron, and ,

D.C. Cook reactors. ,

Ycu centinue tc ignere the fac: :na: ene cf the natien's top authori :es on containten: leak rate testing has extensive first-hand kncwledge cf the flaws and defects in toth the theery and practice of these critically important tests. Dr. Eey:blatt has proved that

• laws incerperated in and/or allowed by \ss the current methodology allcw centainments to be passed as having a leak rate in acccrdance with the technical specifications when in fact the leak rate is

=any times higher.

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You further continue to ignore the fact that such cursory materials as I have been acle te obtain regarding the spring 1952 ILET at LaSalle 1, are consistent with LaSalle l's actual leak rate being higher than reported. You offer no evidence to rebut this fact, and you have ignored my request to have all LaSalle ILRT documentation released to the public. ,

You state in your letter that the NRC has in its possessicn three inspection reports which allow you to " find that the licensee's Centainment Integrated Leak Eate Tests for toth the LaSalle County Units 1 and 2 seet the current regulatory requirements contrary to the allegations in your petitions." You further state that "ILET records de in fact exist and are being so retained at LaSalle County and Eyren."

The fact that you claim these things, however, does not =ake thee so. I have repeatedly requested - as long ago as last July 7 - that all documentation relating to ILRT tests at LaSalle and Byron be made public. I mean all ,.

documentation, right down to the individual pressure and temperature sensor measurements, and justification of all assumptions made, including discarding of data points, temperature stabilization times, assignment of weighting coefficients, etc. It is only with such complete documentation that any meaningful review of the validity of any ILhT test can be done.

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1 ADLENDUM to' PETITION FOR EMERGENCY RELIEF Locket Nos.: STN 50-454/455 and 50-373/374 F r>*-

If the NRC does have these naterials in its pcssession, .there can be no justification for not releasing them to the public. If the NRC does not have these materials, it is difficult to see how it can claim that. it has satisfied l' itself that the test " result" is valid. And if the NRC does have these

=aterials in its possession, and continues to refuse, for core than six months, to release them, the public can hardly be blamed for concluding that i the NRC really does have sc=ething te hide, and that IIRT tests are really and truly nc good.

This cannot be an i=possible, or even difficult to fulfill, recuest. We are not talking about =any individual ILET's, nor of an extremely large nu=ber of measuring instruments, nor of data peints, nor of calculations and written documents. Further=cre, you must have already asse= bled this docu=entation in -

order to be able to respond to my petition.

NOW THEREFORE, PURSUANT TO:

a. THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT, as a ended, 5 USC 552;

b. the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 USC 552A;

c. the Atomic Energy Act; and

d. the U.S. Constit'ution 1 hereby re; eat =y de and that the NRC release to the public copies of any and }

all documents in its pcssession regarding all leek rate tests done at LaSalle, {

Byron and Cook, especially any document which can help justify any conclusion that the leak rate tests done at LaSalle 1 and 2 and at Eyret are valid. In ,

order to enable full public access to this material, copies should be sent both to the two local PDR's as well as the regional FDR in Glen Ellyn. And a copy should be sent to me, so that I may obtain the scientific evaluation of these ILET's by Dr. Reytblatt and other independent scientists. '

1 This request includes all documentation, right down to the ' individual pressure end temperature sensor measurements, and justification of all assumptions '

made, including discarding of data points, temperature stabilization ti=es, essignment of weighting coefficients, etc.

If the NEC does not have any of such decu=ents in its possession, then I renew s my request that the NRC recuire Cocconwealth Edison to provide the NPC with i j copies of such material, and that the NRC likewise make this caterial public. ,

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Edward M. Gogol .

cc. Chairman Nunzio Palladino Region 3 Director James Keppler Congressman Sidney Yates i l

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