ML20092C330
| ML20092C330 | |
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| Site: | Vogtle  |
| Issue date: | 08/09/1995 |
| From: | External (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
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| OLA-3-I-MOSBA-1, NUDOCS 9509120351 | |
| Download: ML20092C330 (5) | |
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regional office on April the 9th, the Georgia Power letter ELV s
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This was a letter in response 9
to our confirmation of action, a letter that we issued to you 10 on March the 23rd, 1990, and the LER is90-006, rev. O dated 11 April the 19th, 1990.
Who compiled the diesel generator 1-A 12 and 1-B successful start information used in the regional 13 presentation?
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Jimmy Paul Cash compiled that information. &
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When was this information compiled?
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It was compiled prior to the presentation.
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April the 9th was a Monday.
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Operator logs.
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diesel generator starts?
Would that strictly be operator logs?
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I didn't ask him any of.the details at that time, and 10 I really haven't, subsequent to that time, asked him any of the 11 details of which logs he looked at or didn't look at.
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Okay.
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So I don't know what he looked at.
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MR. ROBINSON:
For the record, it is now 9:04 2
a.m!, Tuesday, August 14th, 1990.
This is an interview of,
Mr. George Bockhold, General Manager, Vogtle Electric 3
4 Generating Plant, Waynesboro, Georgia.
Present at the interview are Mr. Bockhold, his representative from 5
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7 MR. LhMBERSKI John Lamberski.
8 MR. ROBINSON:
... Mr. John Lamberski, Larry Robinson from NRC Office of Investigations, and Pete 9
Taylor from NRC Region II Technical Staff, Inspection 10 11 Staff.
The nature of the interview pertains to the diesel generator information that was presented to the NRC in a 12 13 verbal presentation to Region II in response to a confirmation of action letter of April 9th, 1990, and in
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that information come to you in what fashion?
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Just verbally from Jimmy paul.
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presentation in the regional offlee with respect to the status 1
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The status of the diesel generators?
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some sensors, but I hadn't heard of any problems that would not 9
make the diesel inoperable that -- again, really from the 10' flavor of if we had a need for an amargency start on this j
11 engine, okay, the engine would go ahead and start the 12 performance function.
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Un-huh (yes).
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. so basically I asked Jimmy for successful 15 starts and he gave me a number ans~I wrote tne number down.
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Do you know what timeframe these successful starts
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