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TREES AND G ARDENS GIVE TH E EXTERIOR O F TH E REGION V OFFICE IN WALNUT CREEK, California, a most eppealing look. And, what's even better, with the recent interior renovation there,just about all employees have a slew or i

the outside world from their offices.

What's in NR&C?

Everything you've wanted to know about Region V, and mayb, even more!

For a detailed listing, see the index on Page 2.

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Tako N0t3 Region V -- the West lnsjde NR&C NRC's Region V is made up of the five States of the i

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About Region V :

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. WN Within the Regkm there are Gye Dyle Acker................... 39 comtnercial nuclear power reactor sites T

with ten units.. Washington Nucleat 2 in K'

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facility, Palo Verde 1,2, and 3 in Arizona.

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California, has been shut down pennanently Emilio Garcia.................. 27 u a resuh of a recent referendum.

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.. 18 Ihere are no commercial reactor sites in Nevada, nor Incident Response Center.... 27 M MC g are there any in Alaska or Itawall, but these v'

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- 4 Master Carpenter.............. 5 di) aip p number of materials lleensees.

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in Anzona at the University Train Buff...................... 18

( AC of Arizona at Tuscon.

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FrankWenslawski......... 32 Howard Wong.

. 46 in terms of number of employees, Region V is the smallest Region, which means the Greg Yuhas......

.25 staff has to be particularly Ocxible and versatile. And,while rnest of the staff will sing Roy Zimmerman..

..,.10 the praises of California and the lifestyle there, most also agree that distance f.am lleadquarters and the differences in time between the West and East Coasts make communication with lleadquarters an additional challenge that must tw met.

Pl80 Ah0ad NR& C is grateful to Kathleen llamill, the Director of Region V's Division of Resource Management and Administration, for her help in preparing this special edition.

April 20. - Annual Agency Awards Ceremony.

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J ACK M ARTIN, NOT UNDER Tile 1.IllERTY TREE, but in his own back prd it is the job of the irnpectors - luth those based in the Regional office and the Resident Inslwetors who are situatiorm-assigned to each operating conunercial nuclear Iwer plant,- to always be on th-kokout for problems, Mr. "We use the problems we find to illustrate to licensees what Martin says.

improvements are needed in the way they manage their business.

"I like to think every inspector stays awake for a little

-l want to underscore that we take a g(= xl deal of pt-ide in tving tough -

while at night wondering what the serious safety issues but ain consistent and fair. Consequently we don't have a lot of are that we may be ndssmg," he continues.

bickering with licensees "

"We always have to te on the alert, ready to take a fresh All of this is a very people-intensive effort, he says, and, as Regional kmk at a facility. We can't be captives of our own Adrninistrator, getting and keeping he right propic and ensuring that assumptions.'

they perform at their best is his ruajor concern.

"We've done well at finding problems," he continues.

People don't perfonn at their best unless they're rnotivated and focused," he says, and that can be a lough job.

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l ack Martin comitandimmPup 3 Keeping people tuotivated and satisned says,"One's person loss in the long nm can be difficult in a Region, where, will be the Agency's gain."

besides needing a' lot of technical expertise, a Region-based inspector will Mr. Martin says that typically he hasn't spend up to forty percent of the time had trouble finding people to fill travelling.

available jobs in Re gion V, except in the health physics area, where there is a Additionally,in Region V, the smallest shortage of qualified people.

of the NRC s five Regional OfDees, the sire of the staff demands that each Nonetheless, he is pleased with the inspector be well-versed in many employee development programs the difterent areas.

Agency is fostering, such as rotational A cabinet-maker, aug-nts and the imm pn.gmn,.

"The re's much. less cotn pa rt-mentalitation here," Mr. Martin says. Recently, Region V has had a technical O/1OLOPraO/1eT in, tn on rotation from licadquarters as I

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f "That's been very valuable, and I hope On the other hand, he cays, a Regional those programs continue," he says.

assignrnent, particularly in Region V,

" enables people to learn a lot Iccause "Over the long tenn, everyone will

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professional career in the nuclear field, fgg d3 g h ggy fffg, 65' wmking fm Admiral Ridover in

.T. ucanharnthe businessinthe Region the naval reactors program and then at o

rnuch better than you can anywhere the NRC, else*

Mr, Martm says he tries to create an he jo,duate of the University ofIllinois' Master cabinet-maker, photographer' A gra ined tl,ie Navy dunng the Cuban atmosphere where employees can grow missile cr, isis, spendmg four years on hunter, skier, world traveler, patron of the ans.

professionally, active duty.

• We to maintain some tuotion in the lhe remainderof his time whh the Navy At wak, he's aH husiness, focused on the organ tion, which gives peopic an wasspentasacivilservantinthe naval pniblems and people of the NRC s Westenunost Region.

optimistic view of the future," he says. reactors program.

"We have been successful in fe can see New York,roviding lie worked in Washington, at KAPL in But, when he's away fnnn the office, Region credible opportunities so peop at the Navy's prototype V Regional Administrator Jack Martin lives a that they have places to go.

reactors, and at Naval shipyards, life of accomplishment and adventure few can match.

overseeing design, construction, and "We need to make sure opportunities overhaul' continue to extst and that people are First, there's his house - a well-used placed where they do best."

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and a grace ful, sweeping stairway to nowhere but a wild-Dower. filled meadow.

"After four or five years it's time to start lie becatne Region V Regional thinking of something else," he says.

Administrator in 1983.

Inside, there's the furniture - all the prmluct

" Generally moves like that are a mutual Of his thoughts of the future, he says, *l of his hand - of a quality and beauty seldom seen outside a museum.

- thing, that everyone agrees to."

don't want people to lose their sparkle, their interest.

While conceding that it's often hard to There's the bird's. eye maple dining room encourage a good ernployee to move on "That'sa realchallenge forusand forall table, a rfect oval, wuh rounded edges, elsewhere, Mr. Martin phih>sophically the Regions in the next few years.-

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made of sorne sort of creamy colored enarbic rather than wmd "You can be outside so much rnore of the time, and there is so inoch to do if you like the out of doors

%c w alls of the house proside a hac kdrop for his extensis c art collection, w hich inchides carly Arnerican oil 3, an 18th century "And there'.s a ymt quality of ju opic "

portrait of Queen 1.ouise of Provia, and stunning exarnples of Arabic calhgraphy.

He t ultural and pa,tronornic attractions of San I rancis o arc

!cgeratary, and he says he enbo s poing into the city for its spcut

%c stairwell leading to the lowe r !cs ci of the bouw is lined w ith a trat tiorts enlarged color photographs of meinorable sights frorn around ihe world,taken by hirn,on his tuany tras ek a Greek tempic in Sit ily, In fact, he says, when he first nuned to Walnut ('reck hi ha.lto Mont St Mithel on the coast of Fne e, another shot taken in the go to the city for such dartsions south of France near Nirnes,a jungle in Me xico, a IV!phic shrine in Greece.

Ilut thati not true not any longer.

%cre are Iwo bearskin rugs - leth cornpleir with open " Walnut Creek has bn orne a cultural and liusiness center in its mouthed, t = dhy prinned heads - - one on a wall, one on the (h er own right," he says.

of his study, both trophics frorn hunting trips to Aleka- ( A large sahnon, archer trophy captured on a trip to Alaska, is mounted h he a new civic art.s center, w his h has suivrb pn=.luctions and hangs on the wall outside his offL c.)

Itetween San Francisco, Oakland, and Walnut Creek, you're And what does Ln k Martin do for relaxation, w bcn hei not aweh w ith things to do "

rernodehng houws, building furniture, travelline around the worhl or hunting and fbhing in Aleka

If the area has any shorts omings, he says, itN a lack of beat hrs.

1 Ah, then he ruakes tinie to go to the opera in San Frincivo or llicte really are nt > beaches. and. Inides, the w atcr i3 so cold."

l perhaps to go skimp for a weekend m the mountains that arc just he espiains "So, you don't cotur hen for the beach a few hours aw ay-bo W(iritict J,n k Martin says "This is a pre;it pl.a e r4, li s e F t womo % Py 6

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ne same nwe ruotifis carved into the headboard of the PEDIMENT TOP and the carved fintals is one of many outstanding examples of Mr. Martin's cabinet making.

empire bed he made for the same daughter. On the side of the footloard, graceful sw ans' heads and necks take the place of the usual senills.

comanued from rage s "When you're as far south as San Onofre (which is about midway between He stayed ekwe to tradition when he inade the walnut Los Angeles and San Diego), swimming in the Pacific can be okay, but Philadelphia highboy that dominates one corner of his north of there,it's too cold. Besides, there are a lot of great white sharks, bedroom. It has the same delicately hand-carved shelion and there have been many shark attacks. Rey're attracted to the area its bonnet and hand. carved lull.and.cla w fee t found only because they feed on the seals and sea lions that live in the waters near on pieces that cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at here, so it's not a good area for swimming "

plush antique shows But even if there are no good beaches, he says that's more than made up But of the carved posts on the bed he made for himself he for by the fact that "You are within two to three hours of great ski areas." says,"%ese I had to tnake up."

Mr. Martin learned to ski in the East, where, he says, poor weather and After all, he explains, in the colonial era represented by crowds were common.

the highley, people didn't have twd posts with fancy wo x1 carvings. In those days,before the kind ofefficient "The nrst time I went to Tahoe, I couldn't believe it," he says. "He central heating everyone takes for granted today, bed conditions were so different, so perfect."

posts were more utditarian, designed to hold up the draperies that surrounded the led to keep the occupants Perfect also is the term that could be used to describe the workmanship warm on cold winter nights, and usually covered from on the furniture with which Mr. Martin has filled his house.

view by those same draperies. So, to find a suitable -

if not historically accurate match - for the highboy,he ne furniture is truly his own work, frorn start to finish.

relied on his imagination.

He cut the wood for the furniture himself, on the farm of a friend in Everywhere you look inside the house there is another Pennsylvania, and had it shipped to California when he was transferred piece of beautiful furniture that he's inade - cocktail and to Region V.

end tables in the living n>om that have an almost oriental air, a delicate handkerchief table in a corner, a rolltop The designs are his too, his own touches of whimsy or practicality making desk.

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Making those curves requires careful treatinent, he explains, working with thin layers of wood, so they will bend, then gluing them together to y _i o

the desired thickness.

Q He deck is a favorite spot for entertaining old friends from Ileadquarters who come to Region V on business.

nen he'll go into his freezer for the resuhs of his most recent trip to '-

Alaska - caribou or moose steaks, or maybe salmon - and treat them IN Till? LIVING ROOM, a stereo eahinet of Mr.

to a memorable meal.

Martin'a design stands id inmt of the fireplace wall, while hanging.tu,a are two represcotathe picecs is there any downside to his life in California?

from his art collection, frumed Arable calligraphy and an early American portrait in oils.

"Well," he replies, when I was at lleadquarters, my work there was such that I had to travel to Europe maybe three or four times a year, and I rniss internal battles of Langue d'Oe (the language of parts of that."

the North)versus Langue d'Oeil(the tongue of the South).

Rat's atout the only disadvantage of his present job that came to mind, "He southern French largely were kind of heretics," he and, he's made up for those business trips by takmg frequent vacations says, "and their language and unique culture were abroad. IIe says he tries to go overseas as often as possible, with one or destroyed inthe Middle Ages. Now,asyouhavein Wales, both of his daughters - onejust a duated from high school and one is there's a revival of pride in the area and quite a revivalof completing college - accornpanying him. One Christmas vacation the the language."

destmation was Greece, and on a spring vacation he and his younger daughter went to Sicily.

And he can cite llenty Adams, and agree with him, that Iwo of the rnost beautiful places in the world are in France, ucy were ready to go to Egypt for Christrnas 1990 but cancelled that trip Mont St. Michel with its ancient monastery and Chartres because of the war m the Middle East, with its jeweldike cathedral.

He says that a major preoccupation the last several years has been raising But when he's not traveling - on business or pleasure -

his two daughters, but now that his younger daughter has graduated froin and not busy pursuing his many hobbies, he enjoys just high school and started college he speculates about missing the constant relaxing on his deck overhuking the meadow and the tunnoil of teenagers, endless telephone calb, and other trials of hills.

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Foxes live in the meadow, he says. Often you can often Alongwithhismanyotherhobbicsandinterestsgoesaninterestinforeign hear them barking at night, sounding particularly languages.

screechy and eeric when they bark at the full moon.

liesayshe likesFrance alotandhe has kept upwiththe Frenchhelearned And besides the view and the overall ambience of the some years ago.

house, it has one other spectacular attribute in this area where comrnutes of an hour or rnore or not uncomtnon:

lie also can converse at length alout the dialects of France, and the it's a scant sen-minute drive frorn the office.

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- an AEC N RC eteran Boboy 11. Paulkenberry, the Deputy Regional Administrator in experience is very, very important for anyone based at.

Region V, has spent almost a quarter of a century working for the licadquaners, and I believe that the reverw is equally true.

NRC and its predecessor, the Atomic Energy Commission.

"The Regions have a different approach to things.

Tvc really enjoyed it," he says. "His is a very itupressive egency from the standpoint of its being made up of hard-working, "Out here I'm much more effective because of rny experience at dedicated people. I've had a good, rewarding career here."

lleadquarters. I know who to call at licadquarters when I want to bring something to conclusion.

Mr. Paulkenberry was working in California when he joined the AEC in 1968. Ilowever, he was assigned a.= a reactor inspector in "I strongly advocate that people rotate to other assignrnents if Region I where he was responsible for the performance of they have the opponunity construction, preoperational, and startup inspections at such facilities as Millstone Unit 1, Vermont Yankee, Pilgrim, and "We, as an A of people. %gency, place a lot of emphasis on the deve Peach Bottom Units 2 and 3.

ts is important.

In 1972, Mr. Paulkenberry transferred to lleadquarters where he "he most meaningful rotation for someone in the Regions is was assigned as the Traming Specialist and charged with the several years at licadquarters.

re sponsibility of establishing a technical training program for reactor inspectors.

"That's why I encourage it -- so people really understand and get to know pmbleins from both perspectives. Sometimes it can be "We established our first boiling-water and pressurized-water difficult for people to move, but if they do, they'll reap the reactor systerns course classrooms in the East. West Towers benefits "

Building m Bethesda," he recalls. "We also worked with the Ohio State University and established a welding technology course in Of work in Region V, Mr. Faulkenberry says, "I've teen very Dayton, Ohio, and we had the portland Cement Company irnpressed with this Region. We're a small Region, but I believe develop and teach a concrete technology course for us in Skokie, we work very hard. People take a good deal of pride in what they lilinois."

do.

By the time Mr. Faulkenberry left this post in 1978, the training " Region V is sornewhat unique because of the distance from program had grown from one person - him - to eighteen, licadquarters. We have to work hard at communications.

"mostly instructors we had hired from industry," he says.

"We encourage people to call their counterparts at lleadquarters From ficadquarters, he retumed to California, first as a supervisor and in the other Regions often, and I do think they do a goodjob in operating reactors and then as Branch Chiefin the Region V of staying in touch.

Reactor Construction Branch. lie became Deputy Regional Administrator in 1982.

"In the Region our primary responsibility is to fully understand what the licensees are doing at their facihtics, and to im sure that Ilis is the kind orcareer pattern - moving between IIcadquarters what they're doing is being done in a safe manner.

l and the Regions that he strongly advocates for others.

"We ferret out the safety issues that exist, and then we have to

"%c combined time I spent in Region I, at Ileadquarters, and in ensure that proper corrective actions are taken to resolve these Region Vhas been invaluable to me," he says "I believe Regional issues.

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the utilities to do the sarne.

Of course, Mr. Faulkenberry say s,because of the sinaller siec of "We ptah good corninunicatioits with our liceraces, esiveially the Region,"Sorne things we have to do differently. We have to I

their top nunagernent, to anale sure they understand what the tw c fGeient, and sorne people has e ruultipic job re: lunsibilitics.

safety issues are, so the issues don't get lost sornewhere at a inid-For example, in the ruaterials pnigrarn, gropic have to perforrn lesel.

toth rnatcrials licensing and ruaterials insgretion work. In the gewer reactor prograrn, sorne Irople havc to do Inth orriator r

"We have frequent rnectings wi'h the top ruanagers of the liccrtsing and reactor ins [retion work.

utilities, and these necctings sccin to be effectisc7 "You but have to be a littic tighter in escrything that you do?

Of all the prograins in the Rt gion, Mr. Faulkenberry says, "I really take pride in our Resident inspettor prograrn. We put a Mr. Faulkenberry is very proud of the recently cornpleted ofnce good deal of ernpha. sis on it. I feel we have a good staf f, and we renovations in Walnut Creek.

have a very low turnover rate ainong our Residents?

"We made sorne significant iruprovernents in working Region V is the sinallest of the Agency's Gvc Regions, and Mr. conditiorts," he says. " Morale ha.s ituproved, and people snake l

l Faulkenberry says,"Frorn rny irrspective, I..ee sogne benc6ts very positive cornrnents aluut what's happened?

derived frorn being sinali.

To help crtsure that people were happy with the renualcling, he "We have rnore contact with our licensres, and we get to sisit says,"We got grople involved in the renovation. We got their thern rnore frequently. We also probably ha ve rnore interface and input in things like picking colors and in ihnr plan design.

contact with our Re.sident inspectors at cach of the sites.

"I.veryone is very excited atout the new ofGees and the new

• Either Jack (Regional Administrator Jack Martin l or I talk to Incident Respotoc Center. Ilecauw of the way we have tocd each Senior Resident Inspector wee kly, and, ofcourse, w c. ce the glass panels,every office has an outside view. 'ihere are no had s

Region-based inspectors in the of0cc frequently. We all know of0ces.

each other, and we have developed a good Regional tearn We have confidence in each other. 'Ihat works wcil.

"It was a lot of hard work, but it was worth it."

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_ Sy Roy Zimmerman is Director of Region V's Division of Reactor reactor sites (translating into the small site of the Region staff)

Sciety and Projects, a unique division that combines presents some challenges, it also has some tenefits.

responsibilities that are divided between two technical divisions in the other NRC Regions.

"I think we do a goodjob of being aware of plant problems, both licensee. identified and those identified from out own

• Re cornhination poses some unique challenges," he cornments. inspections," he says. "We follow licensee corrective actions "We have to cover a lot of ground, and that means staying on top chwely, and we consider ourselves very knowledgeable about of a variety of diverse issues, with limited resources, the utilities in the Region.

"We also have about the same number of Agency meetings to *We have only sin sites (including Rancho Seco, which is no attend as the larger Regions do, at lleadquarters and elsewhere, so we can get very knowledgeable, learn longer operating), in depth, evaluate the utilities

• strengths and with fewer people to provide coverage. Unfortunately, often we about each facihty con't do everything, and we have to pick and choose what we can weaknesses, ettend.

"llaving come from a larger Region, Region I, I can appreciate "On the positive side, however, our organizational arrangement the benefit we enjoy with a fewer number of sites, liere Regional allows for good integration of the issues. Issues don't transfer managers can take several trips to each facility each year.

froin one supervisory team to another as they are being worked on.

"We know the character and traits of the management tearn at each site quite well. We also have management meetings several a

"We are able to put problerns that come up with our licensees in times a year with the people from each facility. A joint agenda focus, and as issues come to light thmugh our inspections, it's is anived at that includes current plant problems and licensee easier for us to identify common threads, initiatives, The Region and the utilities find these rnectings very useful.

"We don't have organizational bounds that could create communication challenges.

"All that allows us to make more infonned decisions and insightful assessments. We feel very confident that what is said "Overall,I think the benefits outweigh the disadvantages.

is right."

• 1f we had more power reactor sites, it might be too difficult for For the staff members in the Region, the small size of the Region one division to dojustice to all technicalissues, but for now it's poses some additional challenges, Mr. Zimmerman explains.

a good organization for Region V."

"Because of our size many people have to wcar several different Aside frorn its structure, the division, as with other divisions in hats," he says. "As an example, because our engineering section the Region, has to face special hurdles in its relationship with is small, people have to develop expertise in different areas. A Headquarters, person who specializes in guality assurance and procurement might also have to kiok at fire protection and welding issues.

"The geography and the time difference between here and Headquarters could hamper communications, but we just don't "We need our people to be focused in one area one week and allow them to become a problem.

another the next. His means that our staff has to receive considerable training, and the tirne spent in training has to rnesh "Often, it scerns, during the workday,just as we get an issue in with getting inspections done.

focus, the day at fleadquarters may be winding down, and we have to appreciate that fact.

"But this also means that people learn a great deal and have a lot of opportunity for professional growth.

"We do try to limit the tirnes we need to contact our lleadquarte rs counterparts at home, after their regular working hours. And all "We try to ensure that people get cross-training opportunities at cround we get e xcellent support from the lleadquarters staff. We least once a year so that ultimately we will be able to get the keep in close contact with licadquarters, though. We want to maximum benefit from their talents and they will have new rnake sure that the distance from licadquarters - and our small challenges. For example, our operator license examiners are size - doesn't allow an 'out of sight, out of mind' mentality to given a chance to participate in different types of inspections, or develop."

to fill in for a Resident.

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prefers living in the West.

l "We've brought some of those to light, and we Icel considerabic lie met his wife while he was working at GE, and they are the improvernent ha.s been made by licensect But we also Icel there's rnore to be donc in this area -

parents of two sons, 7 and 11 year, old A forrner hall player himself, he says that outside the office these And how does the statf react to the unique challenges it faces? days, he get3 a lot of pleasure coat hing his older son's Little league baseball team.

"Our turnmer rate is usually low," he says "Righi now attrition is low, and rnorale is generally high. "

"I'm enjoying the opportunity to relis e the years I spent in sp rt3 Mr. Zimmennan joined NRC twelve ycars ago, sianing work as an in.spector in Region I,

'l got a lot of satisfaction frorn organi/cd sport.s, and coaching i, After the Resident inspector program got underway, he was assigned first to the Millstone plant for sescral years and then h's also a good diversion f rom woik.

went to Ginna as the Senior Resident innector.

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( As an aside, he notes that he was at Ginna during the sicarn really like to coach and I enjoy scring the kids play and desclop generator tube rupture event there in 1982J friendships. I al30 try to teach them winning isn't cs erything.

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celebrities and elected Clint Eastwaxlits inayor; Monterey,jur.t a hillside away frorn Cannel, where buildings from the Spanish That's because, in Septemlet 1990, the strictly East Coast era cornpete with a siretacular new aquarium for visitors' Perkins f arnily moved West, as Mr. Peskins lecam( the Deputy attention; and the Napa Wiley, famed for its wineries.

I Director of Region V's Division of iteactor Safety and Projects.

"'lhere*a even a petrified forest not far from Napa Valley " he

• We all like California very much now,' he says, but, at first, *We points out,"but that's not really a highlight."

had to make a lot of adjustments."

Now that they've had time to settle in,the threr Perkim children t

"For a while I found tnywif craving old buildings," he says. also have come to enjoy their n:w home, although Mr. Perkins l

They're a feature of the landscape that s very scarce In California, says that the adjustruent period varied for the children.

where so rnuch is so verr ww, in uime ways, he says, the oldest, a son, and the youngest, a

• When I went back to licadquarters and was invited to dinner in daughter, wcmed to become acclimated quickly, while it took a Annapolis, I iminediately accepted, so long as we ate at the little longer for their teenaged daughter to feel at home. Of historic Maryland inn," he says. *Of course, they also wrve a coun.c he says,his sm got his driver'a licenw andjoined the high i

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school football team, which helped.

L The Perkins family had lived in Annaiolis, a city that dates back 'the Perkins far,.ily has found some interesting differences in the to the 1600s, and one that boasts bhick af ter bhick of houses and schools. On the physical side, the ruost surprising was that inany commercial buildings that have been occupied since then.

of the schools have no intrrior conidors. Classranns are built in modules, with each opening directly to the outside, and for the "At first we all ruissed that a lot," he says, but then,"We began nost part schools are built on pleasant campuses, with lots of discovering California and the wonders of the West Coast?

grounds sunounding them.

Among other places, they've been to hemite National Park, in 'Ihe clernentary school program seeins to be harder, with lessons the Central California inountains, the home of %cmite Palls; pmceeding at a faster pace than in the elementary schools bact Lake Tahoe,in the mountains (,a the Califomia-Nevada border, East, with the reverse true of the high schools.

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While the youngsterywere gotting adju.ted to the new ahmi Itut, high prices aside, hit. Perkien says they trally do lite living systtin, the older PcrLins' found they had to get adjusted to a in the area, and "We hote to stay herr a w hile, at least w hile the higher cost of living.

two ohler tids are in high w hml," he says.

• 1here's in question, the cost of lis ing is hight t here than it is in

• 1 also lite working in a wnall of nee,like this one, w here you get the Washington area,* Atr. Perlins says.

to Loow everyone," he says. "You can becorne fatnillar with all the activitics of the of fice, atul you know what everyone clw is ik fore they decided on the ruos e to California,they knew that the involved in."

cost of real estate wouhl be blyher.

As part of his orienta4a to the Region, he spent a werk at each What surprised thetn, he says, was that the cost of inany other of the five operating corntnercial reactor sites, a very valuable things is higher also.

cxperience, he says.

When they hinked for a plat e talk r,he u, they hioted at inore ile says he particularly enjoys the group he wotLs with, and he's than fifty houses and made what they considered reasonable found it interesting that sorne of the issues he was involtro in at of ferson five of thern,before they were ahic to buy the hoine they licadquarters sectned to have followrd hhn West.

are now occupying.

In his last assignment at Ilcadquaners he was Chief of the lhen they got a real surprisc w he n they started to hiok for a de ntist Operator Liecining tiranch in the Office of Nuclear Reactor and orthodontist.

Regulation. Now, he says, "r n involved in those issues here."

Not ordy are their charges higher than they were back fast, *1 in handling his new assignrnent, he says, *lt's been rattemely learned that there are thst Coast braces and West Coast braces," valuable to rue to have the all the knowledge I gained at hesays.

Ileadquarters and to know how NRR as wrli as other parts of the Agency work."

Even though the children were already wearing braces fitted by orthodontists bac k in htaryland,thr onhalontists they contacted hit. Perkins has been at NRC since 1977, lie started work in in Califomia wanted to start over (for a full lie, of course). The Standards Developrnent, now part of the Ofnce of Nuclear style of braces they use and w or L w ith is dif ferent from that used Regulatory Research.

back East.

lie was technical assistant on the staff of the Enceutive Director lhey also found that a visit to the dennatologist costs about twice of Operations and then went on to the stalf of the fonner Office what it does in hiaryland, and that even the services of an auto of insgection and Enforcernent, where, arnong other thinp, he inechanic cost about twice what they did on the IWst Coast managed the design,the construction,and the hnplementation or the Agency's OperationsCenterin the h1aryland Nationalllank "All this,of course,is a tellection of the high real estate prices llullding.

in Walnut Creek and in Danville, where we live," he says.

lic next moved to the Office for Analy>1s and Evaluation of 1 hey have discovered that if they drive further inland for about Operational Data,lefore eventually being assigned to Reactor 20 or 30 minuits, they can get the sune services for less.

Projects in NRR.

• lt's well worth the trip," he says.

With such a diverse NRC hackground, he say s, *l like to tell folks what a tremendous expcHence it is to see difforent pans of the (In recognition of the higher ptices in the San Francisco area, this organitation. "I think it gives you a lcrsgective on how yourjob past year all non-SES Federal employers there received an extra fits into the Agency and how to perfortn your job more eight percent cost of living increase.)

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r... a Another program in Region Y ' hat Mr. Faulkenberty feels is important is the gerformance awards prograrna.

"We have awards ceremonics three times a year, in conjunction with the Resident Impecton' meetings

• he explaim. "About twenty.0ve percent of the staff gets awards annually. We snake an tetive effort to recognite superior perfortnance

• As tothe perumal benents of work in the Reghin, hit. Paulkenterry says that,in a Region,"Because you get out to we the end of your work, you can get a hit of professional satisfaction. product You get to ferret out the safety problerns and develop the luucs. It's not an easy task to le a gml insivetor - to uncove r significant iwues you sornetimes have to dig through Ove or six layers of dust - but it can be very satisfying."

Even though he's not a native, hit. Paulkenberry comiders California home.

• ! was born and raised in Weatherford, Texas," he says, adding,

• Weatherford is htary hiartin's borne, and her son, J. R. (Larry ll:ggman) was one class behind rue in high school."

lie first moved to Califomia in 1951, to study chernistry at San hiaurine Smith,the necretary to Re gional Adrninistrator Jack Diego State, and, he says, *I like the West Coast. I like the climate hiartin,is originally fnun Oklahoma.

cud the life style."

Ilut, she came to California to visit relatives in 1944, aral Oflifein Washin fechtlally. She never went home again.

cnd challenging.gton,I). C. he says,*l enjoyed that, ton it's busy, Washington is a very 8thnulating area. You can get involved in a lot of stirn ulating conversations with a lot of people Whcn she rnoved West, World War 11 was at its peak. She who have strong opinions on a lot of subjects.

says, *lt was a very exciting time and place for a ymmg girl.

It was all so different."

After graduation from San Diego State, hit. Faulkenberry was a research chernist for General Dynamics in San Diego. In 1960, he A fler she got to California, in those hectic war years, she took moved horth to ge to work for Northrop in Orange County, and did a defeme job at the Denicia Arsenal.

gr:duate work in nuclear engineering at UCLA.

• 1 was a 'binner'," she says. That mesm she would select i

At Northrop he became the supervisor.if the nuclear reactor and material frorn bins in the warehouse, then package them for radiation environinental laturatory ar.d froin there accepted a job shiprnent overseas.

with the AFC, And, when she waw't at work, she enjoyed life in San taking back, he says, *In the late 1960s we thought we were gml, Franelsco, but we have made a great deal of progress since th<. We're a lot smarter, we have a better understanding of gewer giant design, and "The city was xi different then," she recalls.

we are rnore capable of identifying safety luues.

"The ClitTilome was going full swing. 'lhere was always so The improvements, he says, have resulted frorn "A combination of much to do.

things. For one, the technical training prograin has given us a mechanistn for training our employees and providing thern with a

" Gas and tires were rationed, so driving cars was at a gmlunderstanding of power plant design and operatmn. Also,the ininirnum. We rule buses to get places, and since iny uncle Resident Impector program provides a rneans for inspectors to dmve cal % we'd get lots of tasi rides, too.

obtain invaluable Geld exlwrience and training.

"We'd also take the ferry to go over to Sausilito."

• In 1968, when I carne to AEC, there were only fourteen operations and construction inspectors in the country. Now there are hiaurinc had studied business in hlgh school, so, after a ycar hundreds -

in herjob as a binner, as the war was winding down, she took a rnore conventionaljob as a weretary.

l And, as to the future, he says,"I'm optirnistic. I think there will le l

enother time when we'll be getting in volved with new construction, in hcr early days in California, hiaurine did go back home, new designs. I think there's going to be a lot ofop[orumity for riew, once, but she says that after a brief stay, she decided she hrh.u,nnH%i wnp "

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M AURIN!: ShilTil So, too, did her husband, also a fonner Oklahornan. (In fact, they first rnet there when they were both fificen years old.)

rny heahh, I have no plans to retire "

lic eventual went to work for the Union Oil Cornpany in California..ater he worked at the Lawrence Liverinore Maurine enjoys traveling, but now, she says, she and her Laboratory at flerkricy, retiring frorn there a few yrars ago.

lanband have their Oftren. rar old granddaughter living with thrin, and that slows down ict travellin witnewhat. Ilowr$ct, Maurine has worked for the govenunent for ahnost Iwenty five r he i ulckly adds, *llaving her is wonde ut. We enjoy her very cam, but her governtnent catert was interrupted sc$ cral tlines by rnut i. She is involved in si inany things - checticading, oth furnity obligatiotu; and by a fiftern year job in private hasketball. "She keeps us young "

injustry, When Maurine does travel, llawall is one of her favorite l

She carne to the NRC in 1977 when the irivate finn for which she destinations

• had worked as the Regional Adtnir istrator's secretary was Inoving froin the area, "With iny fair skin," she says, *l doti's o to the teach. I have "I

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.ccreiary, and that's the ob she has held ever since. It's one she says she likes very inue i.

• llite the polynesian Cuhural Center on Oahu. I've visited the inilitary cornetcry on Oahu, at the Punchbowl. 'Ihat's very

• 1 think NRC is a littic different from other parts of the inipressive. And,there'swinething specialabout prarillarlor.

overnrnent," she says. "This is really a fin.t. class agency, and oln here aren't run of the niill governinent jobs.

.hiaul is also great. 'Ihrre is nothing like driving the ' unusual'

Ihc nuclear indust is so irnportant. You have a differrnt class of people here, lhi is really a first-class act*

Maurine alui has travelled and lived on the other side of the world'

• Of course, as a recretary, I think you can only be as gml as your luss - and I have a superb loss."

While her bhand was with Union Oil, they were overwas for a yrar,in such exotic hwales as Saudl Arabia nnd traq, returning Although her husband has

• retired," Maurinc says he's suyt fully to the United States via a cruisc ship that went frorn Copenhagen retired, lie started Iic own I icksinith bu3: ness, which is very to Canada.

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Ilut,of all her travels,she says,-You know,in alliny yrars with As far as her own plans are concerned,she says, "As long as I ha ve NRC, I've never tren to ficadquarters!"

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-- Agreement States Health Physicist Has a Hobby That Keeps Expanding hck llornor is a train buf f.

• l have to travel so much on the job, I don't have the time or inclination right now for rnuch rnore travel," he says, lie has a w hole runn in his home devoted to rnatel traim, and he says he is continually working on the exhibits there *l guess As the NRC lleahh Physicist for Agrectnen! St3tes in Repion V, the duplay will never be finished," he says, *llut that's what a Jack says he was out of the office iorty-eight percent of the time hobby a all alout."

last year, including holklays, but not including Satunlays and Simdays.

lie says the rest of the home is also decorated with lots of train enernorabilia, and he mllects train vidc<a and trades thern with

• l'm gone as rnuch or rnore than anyone in the Region," he says.

Fred Cornbs of dw State Programs staff at lleadquarters lie goes on to e x plain, however, that hisjob is quite dif ferent frun

• l collect Marx toy trains, videos on toy trains, historic traim, that of a Reghm-based impcetor, anything that's retevant to trains," he says. But,he continues, his re:1 love is real trains.

• 1'm not an inspector.1*m a reviewer, and State Programs is a different environrnent. Instead of working in a regulatory male,

• l like the real ones, especially stearn tralits," he says. *My wife we work in a help t uxle, which Ilike "

and I ride on steam trains whenever we can," and going to the recent Rai(fair 91 in Sacrarnento, which featured steam englies lie quickly recaps the background of the Agreernent States frorn all over the world, was a real treat.

Program. Originally, States regulated their own public health and safety.1 hen, back in 1954, when the Atomic Erwrgy Act was But perhaps the inost e nciting training adventure for this devoted adopted, there was no nern le ft for the States. All eivilian nuclear hobbyist came last year when he actually had a chance to drive materials were to te regulated by the Federal government, a locomotive, through the Atornic Energy Comtnission.

"We found a museurn where we could rent a hicomotive and liowever,in 1959 the Federal governrnent agreed to give back learn to drive it," he explains. *lt's in Portola, California, about some of that regulatory authority to the States that wanted it, fifty rnlles northwest of Reno, Nevada 7 provided they could and would set up adequate programs for monitoring the use of radkiactive snaterials within their boniers, lie explains Otat when the Western Pacine Railroad was sold to the Union Pacific, the Western Pacinc gave one of its retired (1his applies to radkiactive snaterials_only; the regulathm of engineers the rnaterial he needed to set up this unusual snuscuen, commercial gewer reacton, remains the resp)msibdity of including several hecomotives and rolling stock. 'Ihe snuseum I'ederal government and specincally the NRL includes about one and a half miles of track that nms through a pine forest, as well as a large yard and shops. Ibr a fee, Under that legislation, twenty eight states have becorne enthusiasts can " rent" the kicomotive for an hour or so, get the Agreement States, and of the States in Region V, all but Alaska requisite instructiom, and actually drive it around the track, and llawall are Agreement States, hek says he and his wife now are both the proud gmessors of Oack explained that setting up a program to regulate radhiactive certincates that say they have successfully driven a hicomotive, materials is expensive, and the relatively small number of though he adds that in this case it was a diesel, not a steam licensees in Alaska and ilawall makes tadiauon control programs krornotive.

not econornically feasible for those States.)

In addition to his travels in quest of his train hobby, Jack also lhe primary res;onsibility of Jack and his counterparts in the l

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2 range 0 owec an In eres~:ing, Ikth Reidlinger Pranre carne to the NRC as an intern fificen ycars have radioactive devices with kiw levels of radhiactivity, ihan ago, and even diough her career has not followed exactly the path diat lxisition, she advanced to becorne what she descnics as a she once expected, she's still here, and she is happy that she is.

• full fledged rnaterials inspector " a job she held for the next three years.

Ibt one thing,IkIh says, she cxpeeted she would end up working for the NRC in Region 111, chise to het horne in Central lilinois. Then, she says, *l said, 'finough. I want to get a different job as rmn as [msible **

Ihr another, at one point before she joined the Agency, she interviewed for a job with Security at licadquarters.

Like the typical Region based inspector, she found she wasim the niad fnnn one tidrd toone-half or the tirne.and,she says,*l dkin't Neither of those possibilitics carne to fruhion. Instead she is a like that inuch travel."

senior health physicist in the tnaterials licensing area in Region V, and she and her husband of alout a year recently rnoved into That was about ten years ago, atout the time the Agency a new home, just a mile arxl a-half frorn the Region's Walnut regionalind the Ikensing program for snaterials licemeen.

Creek offices.

• 1 hat was appealing to rne, and i got into the program at the start,"

Ikth came to NRC directly frorn graduate r,chool at Michigan she says.

Tech in lloughton, Michigan.

Iking in on the ground floor, so to speak, was exciting.

She started out working as a materials inspector on what are considered low priority licenses, that is licemes for such uses as "We had nothing to start with," she says. *lt was fun setting up priable gages, industrial gages, and small laboratories, which the prograrn, setting up files and file systerns, and setting up our

.ack Homor comunued innu r p to

• fbt example," he says," Washington State has uranium milling facilities. If a questhm cornes up regarding thern, I can contact be cble to share other experiences in stafnng and guidelines "

Vandy, who would relay it to NMSS.

In c11, eleven people work in the State Programs area, one in each *In the case of these facilhics, we aim wark chisely with the NRC of the Reghms and six at licadquarters.1 hey are part of the State Uranium Recovery 14cid Office in Denver."

Programs staff, under the direction of Varx!y Miller, the A/D for the State Agreernents Prograrn.

Jack came to the NRC fnnn the University & California at les Angeles,where he taught and was supervisor of a rescarch reactor The Agreement States Officer positions are different from the for a total of twenty-one years.

Regional State Liaisan Of0cer posillons.

lie started as a reactor instector in Region V in 198 I and eightec n 1he latter positions, which also are part of the State Programs inonths later snoved into his present position.

stoff, tend to focos on political and nontec hnical issues rather than technical ones. And, the State Liaison Officers deal with all the in tuany ways, Jack says, he feels his present job is an extemion States, not just the Agreement States.

of his work at the university.

Of course, says Jack,"Our paths do cross a lot and sometimes we "l'ia still teaching," he says. *l enjoy the relationship with the go places together "

States, and they appreciate what we do for them, lie also points out that in his dealing with the States, he has the *lt makes you feel g(xx!. It snakes you feel that you're doing a rest of the Agency there to help out in case help is needed.

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work on resirws of Apu rmont 5 tate "So, I pot on the phone and rnade a lot of(alh, licensing iwnn, and she trasth to attend Ikth tht n ph es hrt dialt rcsponn 1o remindmp thctn w hat they had to iht s arious workshops and NRC tm rtings 1.iu nsing Assistant Joan Gattia Joan does all the trat king of the lhow calk paid 011. la cryone w ho had to outsidc the oliite,lkth says that these days hcensers' corresp ondence and sen subinit w ontthing pot il in on titur, belore the she h.edren busy tuos ing and petung wttled (bal ibc draf t pors lo w (Ir d jutte 19)d dradhne."

In lier ticW IhHne. IkbMr she w as InarTIrd, processing and pets propctly filed.

she was inmhed in a singles proup that in short, Joan handles all of the ( H ( ourse, as do inany of het Region V pursued such aethities as w hite - w ater adrninistratn e de tad s ol the rn ens wilt arm s, Ikth ac knowledges that the raning,(arnping, and hiking lint no, that's R e g ion's small sier can pri sent sotur not how she inct her hoshaml phry mrt "Joan and i see a lot of probh nn pndr ssional disadv antages along with through sotur of her forturr NRC b: fore other lwople do beauw aduntap s t ol!rapucsi, and w hile she v n may be an wc see the w hole poi nsf Ikth say s.

na asion d camping trip in the future, she

" Jim Wutrornery an i I do all the snatoriah thit sn't rip ( t that ihow as tuitin willir a

• !n other Regiorn,* she npbins, lh etnmg.and it onc ol us n out, thr other trally inajor b s u3 in the futurr "no one or two people are that tlose in h of she say s to the w hole inatoriah lkrn ing ihr other hobbin include crafts, prt K rw. in larpor Repiom, dillerent "In a kopion this si/c, thorr\\ no n"He f or nrt dirpoint, draw ing, and paint mp, and she people wouhlhas c resp onibdity f or sorncone w ho doesn't w or k hard, w ho doesn't hkes photopiaphy, takmg picmres of luth the dificrt nt steps and not src the dahnor hcr sharr You rt,dly base to work hard p opic and su ncry whole thing. liut,because wr are so and work torcihrr

• srnall, w c src rs cry thing, the w hole And sbr is s t ry happy with her job, saying, picture, first h:md ~

Although she no longer ha.s io trasrl as mut b as 'l likr w hat l'ru domg, the propic 1 work she did in la r in.ps tot day s, ikthi job thin wiih. and I pink ularly cnioy the State Ikth's abihty to ser the I ig pk ture requite sanc trau 1. She say s she does vnne prograins area.

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• Sd teen a inistate, but I was told on no uncertain terms m s.,ow up, so 1 did," she says.

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• Ikcause I knew the whole thing was a inistake, and because An engineer whose fin.t professional experit nce in nuclear lower i knew that women didn't get into the progratn, I wasn't came through the Navy's nuclear power program certainly is no rarity worried,' she recalls.

at NRC.

• 1 felt it was definitely going to be a encinorahic experience.

An engineer who takes time of f each year to serve on active duly with a Naval Reserve unit certainly is no rarity either, "There was one tense moment in tny interview with the Admiral. Ile asked *What is your father doingT Nor is the engineer who can regale an audience with tales of a harrowing interview with the father of the Navy's nuclear lower *1 told him in a very inatter of fact way, that I didn't know, program, Adtnital flytnan Riclover, and he didn't like that answer.

11ut when the engineer who's had those experiences is a woman, that's *flut, my father,who had tren Lilled while testing aircrafI as unusual.

a test pilot, was dead, and I couldn't really say what he was doing."

In this case,the worun who's had those ex;wriences is Mary Miller, That difficult inornent aside, r.he continues *lt turned out 1 wholast surntner lef t an assignrnent as an engineering inspector based in Region V's Walnut Creek office to becoine a Resident inspector at was accepted into the program. Life hasn't teen the same the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the California coast.

since.

• 1 have tren koking forward to the opportunity to become a Resident

• Seriously, though, the naval reactors prograrn instilled the inspector for more than a year," Mary says.

• As for being assigned to very highest sense of awareness for plant safety, My three Diablo Canyon

,'s as if everytuly m the world wants to live on the most imgortant priorities are still safety, safety, and safety

• Ontral California coast, it's such a beautiful area."

lier Navy assignrne nts included wot king in the naval re actors (She and her husband are living in Ni omo, Califonda, alout a l

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• l didn't want to live near a lot of the licenser's etuphiyrrs, he uys. "It can be dil0cnh to regulate gropit during the day While for inany [cople living in a sinall town in the iniddic of the and socialire with thern at night..

desert w ouldn't he ternbly appeahng,I;ird says, *l trally like it here.

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West Phoenix, about an hour's drive f rotn the plant. t Van [= = ds are gupular; the Palo Verde parLing toi hols like that of a i ord distributor, with row alter row of identical vans-)

p.n wif. I.e is nnn Suwkhridge, Massac huwits, but at one tiine lived in liarstow, where they inct.

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1.leven years after the.ir first inecting in C,aliforioa, they were niank d in Connecticut, in an old schad houselurned horne.

She tenbr$ weas ing at Project Arts, Inc., a private nonprofit rehabilitation prograin for adults with psychiatric disor&rs, sud a dpheated Californian like l. d evn get to ie ow w here people with chronicinentalillnesseireceive instruttion ( onnndcut in the hrst plact !

in various ionus of arts, ruusic, and crafts in a heahh oriented OnVironinOnt.

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Mary Miller Fred Ringwald comumma in.m P.y 22 r.nitmud f,umi rm 23 prograin on Adtnleal Rickover*a stalf, as wcll as Navy's nuclear lower prograin in 1977, and once his r,cr> ice was e unpleted, shipyard duty and duty at the llettis Lrduratory in he went to work for Nonhcast Utilitiesin 19R3. lie worked Gn. at corturate littsburgh, t iradquarters in inctlin, Connecticut, then at the Connecticut Yankee plant in lla& tarn Neck, and then back at corgurate ficadquarters.

When she got out of the Navy, she stayed in the ikst. She worked for a while for a contiactor to the ills work at Northeast helged trinforce his long-held corn iction that engineers Naval Sea Systerns Cornmand, on the Trident have to learn how to write well, subinaritic project. Later she did wune cornputer consulting, and started a horne remodeling

• l finit develoged that telief when I was at flerLcicy, and it certainly canled business. And, she got snarried to a rnan she'd thniuph to the nuclear quesuon," he says. *juwet schoolin Orlando when every test was an essay When I was at corturate Iles&piarters, I made weekly known for thirteen years, trips to the plants, and rny primary output was a report.

Aluut that tlrne, the y luth decided they didn't like living on the I;ast Coast, and they started looking

• llelieve that there should be a tenninal at every desk at NRC, to malc relort for op{urtunitics out West. 'ihat led to her joti writing casict."

with NRC in Region V.

One of I:rrd's piirnary interests outside the of fice ininging (he is a baritone, lier husband has his own business, with coin.

his wife a wiprano), and while he lived in New London, he sang with the puter consulting contracts that are indeirndent of Southeastern Connecticut Syrnphony and the lla 1 fond Chorale, Inut,asinuch site. 'this allows hirn to work out of their horne, as he enjoyed those groups, the music wasn't cruiugh to sell him on the area nying to a job site when neerssary, as a place to lhe [rtmanently.

Mary has stayed in the Naval Reserves, going to "Connec ticut has too rnany people per wjuare mile," he says.

• When you grow regular drills in San Jose. Ihr her active duty stint up la the ogenness of the Southwest,it becomes part of your life. I like to live this surnmer, she went to the Puget Sound Naval wunew here w here I have ellow nurn.'

Shipyard, leadmg a Total Quality leader. hip team toimprove turblue generator erpair on Navy I red carne to NRC in 19R9, tecause, he says, *l was teady for a new c hallenge, ships.

The Navy in linplesnenting ihe and I knew the NRC would offer rne enorr opiuttunities for perwinal growth.

recommendations that the TQL train made.

Since I had worked at Connecticut Yankee and visited a lot of plants, I knew what the Resident'sjob would be like."

Mary says she found her wor k as a Region based engineering inspector challenging,ich she was lie hasn't been disaptuinted in his assignment at Palo Verde.

particularly with the scope of work for wh res;unsible.

• l lite the Lind of environment we ha ve here,* he says. *With a young utility, like the one here,we've been challenged enore than we wouhl te at a seawmed

• As an engineering instrctor, I would evaluate plant, which snakes the Joh very interesting.'

auch things as mechanical corn lunents, fire protection, design changes, and electrical lie also has found outlets for his cultural interests in the area, lie sings in the distribution, pretty varied responsibilitics," she choir at the Duckeye Cornmunity Church, where he is also involved in a

saya, number of activitics.

• l led the Appendix R fire protretion tearn Ile is a inctnber of the Wrot Valley Fine Arts Council, and he and his wife hold inspection at the Trojan Nuclear plant, and season tickets to the Plueniz O[ era.

participated in the diagnostic evaluation tearn at Httpatrick. Team inspections are treinendous To compleinent his interest in :nusic, he says he has developed a gml quality opportunities to assess plant safety and gain umnd system in his home; to complement his interest in photography, he has professional development at the sarne time, his own darknurn; and to compternent his interest in cornputers (he has a master's in computer engineering science), he has a 3R6 perxmal cornputer

• New, as a Resident inspector, any focus is much at home.

more on safety of operations and effectiveness of plant managennent. It's a very tewarding With that, he says, he does his correspondence "and some Gnancial things,"

challenge."

but *l also like to play with coinputer languages. I've never focused on developing a big prograrn, but I like to do things and understand the Outside the office Mary has hobbies thu vary differences between programming languages."

from windsurfing ("on a lake, not the Pacific, it's too cold") to raising orchids With these activities Fred says there is one hobby he's had to give up, "I havc had to let Dying rest," he says.

- llow does she do it all?

lie got his liccuse and instrument ticket when he was in Connecticut, he "You have to be brutally organized," she says.

c aplains, but he doesn't have the time to Oy now.

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• 1f we were to have another TMI or another Chernobyl,it (IIUMI YUll AS could be the death Lut,ll for a tec huology that, proleily run, nhin dqia&ade or wi, there are fewer and fewer can be an asvt to society' qualified people lecorning available. For instance, he points out,in Im,mly a hmuired and Iifty inaste t's degrees in health physics were

• l hope I can o m Aner qual!!ied people out there who want awarded nationwMe, tu>t an encourag,ing nmnier for an agen y that to make a contribution to society to think al=>ut corning to work for the NRC.

has a need for wellqualined health physicists!

S" '". help rncet that need, Mr. Yuhas has inade a permnal Mr. Yuhas, who is Chief of the Reactor Radiological cor'um truent to aggressively seek th<w who inight be qualified to protecthm Branch,is very tnuch eoncerned about the future work for NRC.

of NRC and about getting the right people to come to work here.

Just recently he wat letten describing career oplununities at the As he sees it,just as the Agency is about to be confronted Agem y to twenty 4mr coHeges and umvenitica, and he also spreads with a new array of cornplex probleins,it is also likely to the, word through phone calls and attending incetings of professional kw many of its rnost experienced and talented people.

soetetles, such as the llcalth physics Society.

Hut even when he does find qualified people, Mr. Yuhas

" Starting in about three years (when the recent Senior acknowledges, working for the NRC, particularly in a Reghmal Executive Service pay talw will be fully reDected in retirernent pay calculation), we will see a major ex<

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That c moths tnay continue for as long as ten years, as those V they have to do everything." In his own Branch, he says, they havc who began their careers in the 1970s start becoming eligible to be prepared to deal with occupational safety, waste trestrnent to retire.

systerns, effluents, chemistry, and environtnental inomtormg.

• Who will fill their slots?," he wonders. "Where will we

~UY.can't specialir.e; they have to do everything because wc*rc so find people with all of the necessary qualifications who smaH, he says.

w at to come to work for the NRC and stay working for the W d @ W niHip W A d m Wid m e R$ w Unfortunately, he continues, necauw of the decline in the conited on P=ge 26 25

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lesed impector's job.

When Mr. Yuhas himself came to the NRC in 1977, he had

• lt is hard for unne people to travel every third week, and then already seen several different aspecis of the use of nuclear power, to have to worry about getting repith out between trips," he says. experience that, he feels, gives hirn a gaxi perspective when he

• people have corne in here fnun other agencies and they have felt in dealing with liceivces.

our folks work too hard. Once they're here, unne people find they can't handle the load, and we lose thern."

J ust three days out of high school, he joined the Na vy and lecame part of its nuclear power program, eventually teaching at the Still others have been hired away by rnore lucrative offers froin Navy's prototype reactor in up. tate New York. That was not kmg consultants.

after the has of two nuclear-p>wered submarines, the USS 1hresher anxl the USS Scorpion, and it was a time when Adtnital

• A consulting i nn just took one of our go<wl peopic," he Rickover,*the father of the nuclear navy," was huking for ways continuen. *1f consultants canlure people awsy,(hances are their to improve the prograrn.

replacernents won't be as g(wwl as they were and anaybe our resulting regulation won't be as good."

"fle recognited that you couldn't just rely on the u.rneyrnan approach, that you had to have procedures for ever / thing, Mr.

Om! regulation is, after all, what it's all about, and gm 1 i uhas recalls. *So we had to write down, step by-step, inspectors are a key to gml regulation.

everything that we did, and then that was review d to determine the best way to do it."

• When I recruit, I show prospective ernployecs a picture of the Cornmission," he uys. "I tell them to think of NRC as a diamond 'that kind of discipline brought success to Adtnital Rickover and with th: Cornmission at the top p> int, and with the bottorn point the nuclear prograrn, and, Mr. Yuhas belle ves, unne of the bene nt fecmed on a single person, the Inspector.

has spilled over into the civilian nuclear p>wer industry.

"It's the impector's respmsibility to identify afety violatiom, After he left the Navy, he worked for a while at Lawrence end it's the inspector who has to be focused on doing the right job. Livermore labr 'ory and then for General Electric before he An inspector Impects by being there, rnakinF rneasurernents, decided that the irtC was the place for him to be. Mr. Yuhas doing the calculations, and then hioking at what the licensee is teFan his NRr.areer in Regmn I where, at the tiene, some doing. "Ihrough close inspections, the impector finds weak utilities were quite surprised to see an impector arrive inside the p>ints.

radiologically controlled area, dressed m protective clothing, instrument in hand.

"When we hok for new inspectors, we need to hiok for talent that's going to be questioning, for pople who are concerned Imking back, he uys, that was an e sciting thne.1here was a lot about safety and want to do sornething about it. 11ut impecton6 for an inspector to do, and his collea g ues included in any who ha ve tre not policemen.1heirjob is to bnng back the facts, becoine well Lhown at NRC: ' Tim" Martin, the Regional Administrator for Region 1; Carl Paperiello, Deputy Regional "If a utility perfonns only to meet the requirements, that would Administrator for Region Ill; and Ed Greemnan, the Director of be a poor utility. 'Ihe inspector has to detennine not only if the the Division of Reactor Projects in Region lit.

regulations are being met but also if there are other safety issues th:t need to be addressed.

"1 hat was a [rriod of e spansive growth, with a lot of plants under constructhm and just coming on line," he says. "It was a lot of

"'ihe inspectors' diligence will affect the utilitics' efforts. If we fun,it was a totally different era."

don't have good inspectors, only the exceptional utility will do well. 'Ihe inspectors are at that pressure point of the diamond, but llut soon a lot was to change. "Ihe inajor precipitator of change the rest of the diamond is there to support them.1he rest of the was the accident at Three Mile Island, and Mr. Yuhas was one of people at the Agency are working hard to make life at the pressure those who was assigned to the NRC investigation team, pomt easier."

"1 hat was an interesting experience," he says. "We found a lot

'T irty years ago," he recalls," President Kennedy talked about going on, and anyone who hiots at the industry will Gnd that we 4

"best and the brightest' going into government work," but, he all learned a hit from TMI. The re is so much more awareness now, says,"In the last 10 years or so, that hasn't necessarily been true." particularly more awareness of emergency planning needs. The amount of energy going into trainmg has changed, and the And that's a trend he wants to change, and why he devotes as utilities have irnpmved."

rnuch time as he possibly can to recruiting.

Despite the decline in the nuclear industry, Mr. Yuhas believes What he looks for, he says, are well-rounded people with varied that in 2000 and beyond, "It will have to e xpand," and the NRC expenence.

will have to have qualiGed people available to regulate it.

• We don't want people with just regulatory e xperience," he says, "Whether we get in qualified p ople or develop out own people, "We need a mix of peopic. We need hands on people, w ho have we've got to reallic that our only resource is people," he says.

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• We have fmr PCs now, but we hope to get enore and network thern to improve out comrnunicathms systern. We will add an

• 1hc sarne is true of the base tearn inanager's office. There the emergency response data system (ERDS) tenninal for the windows slide back so it's also easy for someone in there to talk protective measures [cople. We have five ERDS terminals at to people outside.

Ileadquarters, and one per Region, but very early on I, and tny counterparts in the oti er Regions, reallied that one station per

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direct access to the odier pmple in the center when needed.

The IRC also has its own fax Inachine, a photocopy inachine and "Sc far,in the drills we've had, this has worked out well. people a teleconferencing capability dat includes four teleconferencing are using these windows correctly; that is, they're opening them

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• hree of the bridges can have up to seven people on lines linked in addition to the workspace for the base tearn manager, that together at one lirne, while the fourth can handle three at a tirne.

office also contains chairs for each of the piirnary team rnanagers, m they can work in there when needed, llowever, the prirnary "It used to be that in unne of our busiest areas the phones were team snanagers also have chairs in the areas designated for their just catenskms of one line, m when several [co le picked up on particular teams, as well as assigned phmes in both spaces, the mme line you had a noticeable drop in quallt, he says.* The bridges ensure that the clarity and volutne are etter.

• lt works out well to have the tearn mana gers able to work in both spaces," Ernilio says, *because in ruanaging an emergency it's "So far our systern has worked so well that staff members from vitally important that they keep the base team manager fully AEOD have suggested that our bridges could serve as a tackup informed of all aspects of the situation at all times."

for the lleadquarters system."

The IRC also has a small area set aside as a " reactor safety think necause comrnunications are such a vital part of the incident tank," where reactor.ofety specialists (possibly an operator response process, Emilio explains that cotnmunications drilis are license c xaminer and nuclear engineers, led by a Section Chief or held quarterly.

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p To get all this done, Gall says she nonnally travels about one Gail Goal loves her job as an emergency preparedness week a month, and spends the rest of the time at the ofnce, specialist.

Over the past year, her special assigninent of the Pilgrim task "It's a job I never dreatned I'd have " she says.

force gave her even inore res;nnsibilities and had her on the road even rnore.

She joined the work force right out of high school and has risen to be a well qualified professic,nal level techtdcal ernployer,

'Ihc NRC had agreed to allow the shutdown Pilgrita nuclear plant one of only four women in that category in Region V. And, she to restart. 'this was a move diat evoked a considerable amount has had such challenging an l e xciting professional assignme nts of negative reaction from a taunter of murces, including as serving on one of the special teams that investigated indisiduals, government ofncials, and the IVderal Emergency ernergency preparedness plans at the Pilgrim Nuclear plant.

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back to school to get my degree "

A task force was fonned to rewive diose issues.

As an emergency preparedness specialist, Gall'r, primary job is to inspect einergency preparedness plans and activities at The task force uiok the transcript of the September meeting and comtnercial nuclear power plants. Currently she is resgensible boked into each of the negative issues that was raised.

for overseeing that aspect of operation of four plants in the Region.

Three separate teams were fonned, with each including one member from the lleadquarters ernergency preparedness staff, That rneans that over the course of the year, she will s[end Iwo one mernber from FEMA, and one ernerpency preparedness to three wecks at each plant,ltrfonning routine inspectiom.

specialist from a Region (Regions 11, IV, and V were representedh "We use various inspection rnalules," she says. lior example, "We interview the shift supervisors to ensure they're Over the coursc of the following nine months,Gail says, the tearn 30 1

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rnule a nuinber of trips to the Pdgrim area. *We talled to State advanced into a senior technician job there,ining a cornputer to and local of ficiah,'she c xplairn *We er ally did an ins [rction of doinut h of that work, but she wanted still enore carrer growth and all the negative loues.

felt that the NRC would pnivide that opiortunity.

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diupiointed.

"Our purpisc was to wirt through w hat had l(en said, detennine She has gotten a lot of NRC training. She has been able to cornplete perhaps filtern or twentyjob triated coursesin all,she the state of emergency preparedness and make a recornrnendation to the C<nntnission.

estimates, including all of the boiling water reactor and pressuriied water reactor fundarnentab courses.

• 1here were so many interesting iwurs invoh rd.

In 1985 on the basis of what she described as *a very gructing "h was a wonderful professional experience to be involved in rxarn,* she became a membcr of the National Registry of this task force, and it's given tne a lwiter understanding re garding Radiation Protection Technologists. 'Ihat designation la offsite cinergency preparedness cornidered preliminary to caniing the designation of a heahh physicist, and the Arneti<an Council on liigher Education

• 1 spent six to tight w rc L3 on the East Coast last year, but I was considers carning the designation the equh alent of cornpledng a still ragweted to keep up whh any regular x hedule."

year of college.

1 hat was quite a challenge,butom er all she says, *l enjoy rny job Gail did, in fact, complete one yrar of college at night, but, she and 1*m pleased with the way NRC has allowed rne to grow.'

says once she became an inspector she found it was irnp>wlble for her to continue in a degree prograrn.

Gail has twen with the NRC since Septenda r 1980.

And that has led her to be wunewhat inntrated alout her future.

When she started, she wot Lcd with the inohile lab the Rt gion the n had in operation. She was clawified as a tet hrdeian, resjomible

• Right now I can't go rnuc h iarther without enore education,* she for running computer equiprnent and incasuring radiological says,*llut poing on to finkh w h<ml would be very dillicult with samples.

rny inspection ahedule."

She and a staf f chemist wouhl take the van that housed the mobile Unlike snne subicots in wune areas, there just aren't that many lab on the road and vi.it variom plants in the Region.

s hads around that of fer the courses she needs, particularly on the Lind of xhedule she would have to follow.

• We w ould go to a plant,take a sample, and then split it with the plant staf f,* she says.

• 1've gotten quite a lot of suppirt frorn rny management in trying to find ways that I can continue any education that would benent

'lhen we rach would do the sarne to.t> to see if our result 3 the Agency as well, but so far we haven't come up with a ruatched up.

solution," she says. *Still my go.d k to finish any degree."

"Usually they did, and when there were diff erences, they usually Gairs husband aho is in the nuclear field, working as an were readily explainable?

Indelendent consultant in nuclear engineering.

If the differences couldn't be tradily explained,it was time for *1here's no conflict of interrst,* she explains. *lle works on the further investigation.

goveniment side

• Gail was in that job for about three years, unti! the funds for the lie aho travels frequet.dy, to olants around the country, and, she mobile lab were cut.

says, *We toth spend a nN..f tirne at airports?

1 hat ruded up being soturthing of a plus for her.

It's not unusual for him to go on a Iwo-week trip, only to fmd her on one w hen he returns.

• l got to be an inspector, which w as a protnotion,* she says. *1 hat was in 1983, and I was the second wornan on the Region's "So,* >he says,"we lry to rnake the rnost of our time together. We technical staff. Now there are four wornen in technical enjoy visiting art galleries, we like the bca( h, anJ w e like looking pisitiorn?

at anirnals in their natural habitat? 1hc rest of her free time,she says, she spemh running the house.

• All the time I've been at NRC 1% e been allowt d to grow a lot,*

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They have an 1R foot trailer, and this past spring, they spent thru wer Ls pursuing sorne of their favorite pastimes on a trip along the in fact,it was her interest in career growth that led her to NRC in Cahfornia and Oregon coast.

the firwt place. Right out of high x hool, she w ent to work for a taloratory as a technician, doing what she descrites as "vtry, it was a rnost enjoyable trip, she says, with sceing lots of osprey very manual

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'Ihat's how Frank Wenslawski surns up the year he sient wor king "1he exlrrience gave inc a new persicctive on NRC and a new for the International Atornie Energy Agency in Vienna, Austria. appreciation of our efficiency.

Frank, who is the Deputy Director of the Division of Radiation "When you see how international organizations work, you Safety and Safeguards, served as IAEA's eniergency quickly reallic that the NRC is pretty goal.

preparedness eqert during the tirne he was in Vienna, and, he says, his experience rnade hirn corne to really appreciate the "Sornetirnes at NRC we get frustrated because we don't see our NRC.

job product, or *akes si hing to finally we it.

His IAEA job responsibilitics included overscring the "At IAEA things take even longer, rnuch ruuch longer.

developinent of guidance in the emergency preparedness area f or Cornpared to here, they really work in slow ruotion."

inctnier states and providing direct awistance to developing metnier states that oceded help with their prograins.

I rank found there were other drawbacks to his Vienna assignrnent.

Ikfore taking the I AEA assigarnent,I rank had tren the Chie f of Region V's Radiation protection and limergency prcluredness " Vienna is an international city, but even so there is a perception Branc h, so he had just the right ex[erience for the job.

that all Americans are rith, so it scoins you pay inuch inore for ikfore going to Vienna, he also studied Ocnnan, the native language of Austria. Ilowever,hc says he never really conversed Frank and his wife also found that clothing for their four chihiren successfully in Gennan. But,since English is thc ofikial wor king was particularly high.

language of I AEA, language was not a turrier to the joh "It was actually chcaler for us to have our patents send things liank says that he decided to take the job in Vienna treause 'l frorn the State.s than to buy sitnitar things in Vienna," he says.

had tren working in Region V for fourteen years and I decided I needed a change in routine. 'ihat objective was (criainly 1 hey also had some interesting car prohicms.

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thirds of their furniturr (storing the restl and a car.

One of the thinp the youngster >1ikt d best aluut living in Vienna,

• We took a VolkswaFen, Oguring it would be rasy to get tw says, was the sense of freedinn they fcit because of tlw casily service," he says.

accessible public trarnguirtation.

Unfortunately, their VW had a Califonda exhaust ciniulons "They could corne aint go with vilittle effort," he says. *lt was package.

not hke in California where they have to drive or be driven everyw here."

• 1here were a lot of cars in Vienna that hwiked like ours, but they had totally different etnission packages," Frank says.

I rank says he thinks any of his children wouhl go bat k in a rninute if they were giver.the oggurtunity.

With the different crnission systeins atal the language banier, trying to got the car running well was quite a problern.

Ilowever, he says, as a parent, he would advisc anyone with children to think carefully before taking a Vienna assigurnent, llowever, the stay in Vienna also had inany pluses "Ikcause of the high costs,it's hard to do it with kids,1mrticularly

" Vienna is a beautiful city and very safe," Frank says.

with four kids," he says.

• Public trarngortation is Si casy. We felt coinfortable with When they tetumed fr un Vienna,the farnily tnoved back into the i

letting our khlsjust hop on a strert car to go visit friends across horne they had left a yc at before.

town?

• We krpt the house 1(canse we larw we'd be cofning back,"

The entire fatuity had a lot of opponunity to travel, luth as a i rank says.

fatnily and individually.

• lt was a gimmi thing,'tm, bec.auw the way prices were going up, lhe children attended the Arnerican International S(hool in we geobah! wouhin t have leen able to repurchase it.

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• I was trady tocorne horne after a year,but,allin all it was a gtxxl

"'lhe first week of schmt our eighth gradct went on a five day exgwrience.

get acquainted hike in the Alps," he says.

Ikfore liank joined the Alic in 1972, he worked at the Matt ikfore they rnoved to Vienna, Frank and his wife had 1(en Islarul Naval Shipyard.

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• l would ha ve liked to start rny Ai!C carrer right herr, in Reghm V, but I was assigned to the ficadquarters Radiation Protection "It turned out to be a great year for hini," Frank says.

liranch instead," Frank says.

"It actually rnade him better prepared to go on to college."

"I was part of that large influ x of people who caine afte r the courts rtded that the AllC had to do envmmrnental revicws as part of tlw The um likes to play baschall.

licensing process."

Very shortly after their arrival in Vienna, he was able to join a lie traitsferred to Region V in 1974, and, except for the year he hical tearn and within thtre wecks he was with the tearn in spent working at IAP.A in Vienna,1: rank has been there ever Cicchuslovakia, playing against a Ruwian trarr

smee, ikcause s;ntts teams fnun the Arncrican international Schoolin in Region V, the tuajor gurtion of the work of the Division of Vienna routinely ctunpeted against tearns frorn other American Radiation Safety and Safeguards is in radiation protection, International Schools throughout Euroge, is was r,ot at all cinergency preparedness, safeguards, and security at reactors, unusual for the children to travel to foreign destinatiorts for Frank explains.

sports events.

"llut we also have responsibility for rnaterials liccitses, which "That was fun," I rank says, "but it did get to be expensive *'

rnakes up about a third of the overall work hiad," he continues.

i As far as the children's view of the entire experience, Frank "And here in Region V we are organlied si that the Agrectnent says,"We had to drag the kids to Vienna when we went, because State Prograrn and State 1.laison are in our division, so we have they didn't want to leave Califomia, a pretty complete agenda.

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. and, throughout, the people of Region V work to protect the public.

70ataut 8,ec4, Gaulosata, the home of the Region V office,is centrally placed in this far-flung Region.

located about thirty miles cast of San Franci,co, Walnut Creek sits in the middle of the Contra Costa Valley.

Sheltered by the Oakland liills frotn the Pacific Ocean winds that swirl through rnuch of the San Francisco !!ay area, this small valley contains one of the wanner, and drier, of the arra's remarkable "micraclimates."

The development of today's city of Walnut Crcok began in 1849.

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and its neighloring city, Concord, have grown even enore rapidly.

p Whcre anichoke fanns and w ainut proves stomi twcuty-Dvc years ago,inid riv oltke buihhngs and one of the country'slargest shopping tenters stand talay. liciwcen UNION SQUARE AND PAltT OF Tile SAN FRANCISCO 1981 and 19R8, jobs incrrased fifty-eight percent in the SKVI.INE IlY NIGitT Just a few bh.eks Inun the square, you can rapidly urbanizing valley, d a IMRT % for the trip to Walnut Crott.

Of course, rapid growth in Region V is not liinited to the Sheer distance becornes a factor in inspection planning. It takes right Walnut Creek area. las Vegas, Nevada, the fastest hours of Dying tirne to get to Ibriow, Alaska. lionolulu is five hours by growing city in the United States, is a part of Region V.

planc, and getting to work sites on the other islands can be dependent on

&> are the sprawling Phoenis and Orange County arcas. sgotadic light planc and luat schedules.

Yet unne of the least inhabited parts of the U. S. are also in the Region.

Getting frorn llonolulu to Guarn or Anncrican Sarnoa, the westcru niost pointsin the Region,is anothcr Ovc and a hall hours by jet and invohrs lhe sparse t=>pulation of northern mud castern Nevada cn,ssing' the International Date 1.inc.

offsets 1.as Vwas' growth, giving the State only ainut cleven peol i per square rnile. And it's hard to be at Fnun thc hcights of Mount McKinicy to the dcpths of Ikath Valley. frorn Alaska, with a total gupulation of only 550AQ for truly rainy Portland to lune-dry Yurna, the "stnallest" Region is lug on wide, truly o;rn spaces-disErsity.

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.A COOK Greg Cook,the Region V Public Affairs Officer,has spent enost When the NRC releases anaterial that is of direct interest to the of his professionallife working in govenunent and energy public Re gion Oreg has to ensure that it gets to all the right people at the affairs.

right time.

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very enthusiastic atout the cultural activities offered in the San surnmer, he had to fax a regert surnmary and a related press Ihncisco area.

release to eleven news outlets in the Diablo Canyon area. 'ihose included the small local papers that serve the Region, as well as llowever, he says, at this goint in his career and his life, he the wire services.

wouldn'truindwarkingin the Washington,D.C area fora while.

in addition to disserninating news that the NRC wants to release, One strong ruotivator for rnaking such a move, he says,is what he the Public Affairs Offlee handles requests that corne in from the perceives as a change in the quality of the public schools.

pencral public. These include requests for all kinds of infortnation, many of them coming from high school students.

With three school age children, the quality of the public schcols is a big concern to hirn and his wife, and he feels that the Greg says he tries to resiend to them all, giving the requesters Washingtonarca rnight offer the children sorne advantagesin that what they need when they need it.

regard.

Sometimes, however, that can be difficult.

But he doubts that any move East would be pennanent.

One of his favorite stories recalls the instance in which he A true Californian, *l'd eventually want to come back to received a call frcun a student who was a member of a hlgh school California,' he says.

debate team. The student wanted a lot of detailed infonnation about nucleat tower to use in a debate contest.

Greg describes handling public affairs chores for the Region as a challenging and stimulating job that also offers a few light *No problern," was Greg's first reaction, thinking atout the mornents.

rnaterials he could assernble to send to the student.

'Ihe inajor task of the job, he says, is disserninating infonnation Dut then the student added that this wealth of background alcut the Agency and its actions material was needed for a debate that was to legin in an hour!

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• l dccided we needed this kind of prograrn a fter I attended a heal of the lvdcral Wotne n's Prograrn in Region V,is concerned about wrninar on wornen's iwucs," she says. "I realized how few the issues traditionally considered "wornen's iwucs." llowever, wornen are perpared to be alone. Mmt of us find out what we in her ruind,"wornen's iwues"is sotnetirnes a ruisnotuer. Quite should have known only af ter w c face a dis orce or widow ha ul."

often, she says, thme "worncn's issues" are actually "farnily issues" or " social iwurs" that should be of inictest to society as Terry, who has teen IWP coordinator for the past year, says she a w hole, would like to schedule sorne Lind of activity or prograin aluut once a inonth, although the recent rnove and rernalcling of

' Child care,iuhh care for the aging, and financial planning are Region V offices was sornew hat disruptive tola t ycar's prograrn.

not just 'wotnen's iwucs'," she says, cruphasizing that she wants to plan prograins in the Region that refint their broader *Now that wc*rc settling in, wc*ll be abl erinphasi/c our irnportance, activitics." she says. "I'rn alvistilllearning -.. t the IWP is all about?

As an exarnple, she cites a recent twP sjunsored prograin on

" estate planning for wornen?

One area of f<eus for the Region V progratn is cotninunication.

"l protnoted it as being gcared to a wtirnerl % ncrds," she says, *but Terry herself ap;rars to be a confiderit, crithusiastic, and we added that everyone was welcornc7 articulate speaker, but, she says, *1'in still a basket case any tirne To her great satisfaction, there was a gomi turnout of both nicn and wornen.

"I'se teen urging wornen to speak up. Many wornen have never spoken in public, and I triieve that the ability to speak before a At that prograrn, an attorney discuwed dilferent asitets of very proup is an irn;ortant job skill. So l'rn encouraging the wornen basic estate planning, including wills an ! corninunity propt rty m Region V to speak - on any subject treauw it*> m laws in Cahlornia. It was rnatcrial that inany of the rnen in the im;crtant to be able to inalc your thoughts known. One wornan audience found infonnative.

spoke to a group of us atout her solunteer work with the hical AIDS task force. That was intetesting and very educational, anti "I know we spurred sorne wornen - -- and inen, too - into at tion,"

l' rn pleased to say it was also w cll attended by the Regiotud staff.

she says, adding that she and her husband w c re prornpted to t hn k their own wills and the title to their hoine.

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I third of dern are women," she sa4s. *llowever,only four women Tetry McNally a,e in imhnicai ridens, wid,

,niin va,io. ma,niost,auve conti.ued rn i tsge n paitlom. We have a hard tiene recruiting wornen with gmal tet hnical bac kgnutnds, and when we do get thern,it's hard to keep

• But if a woman only feeis confident enough to speak to the other Owm.'Ihey have so inany other opions. We havc to cornpete not manen aluut het needlepoint,1*ll enetmra ge that toa It's a place only with private irahastry but with everytoc clse in govenunent lo start. 'Ihc irnpirtant thing h for women to becornc eomfortable to hire qualified ininoritics and wornen with technical corntnunicating?

backgrounds. Unfortunately, also,it's tot easy for anyone who doesn't have a technical background to get ahead in the Region.

Corntnunicating to groups is not the only foeta of interest, however. Terry abo is arranging workdois and speakers that *Our technical qualificathwts are wi tight! At lleadcluarten -(v encourage wornen to be better oncam4me corninunicatm.

any larger organitation - there is rnorr opp >rtunity for rnovement within the organisation. 'nwre is also ruote like html She rccer tly kicated wuncone who could present a workslop of 'cnnsover' psithna, where unncone without a technical entitled *hiastering the Gentle Art of Verbal Self&fenxt? In backgnminican move frorn a clerical or adrninistrative peltion this caw, that rneans helping wornen who aren't as assertive as to one offering technical training, a para-professional paithm.

dry rnight be to deal with verbal abuw interxled or uninternled That's generally txt pusible in the Reghm, where there are so

- another issue that wunctimes can lacorne imp rtant in the Irw peitkwu to legin with.

workplace.

• That's a big disapjuintment for unne wome n, but it's wuncthing Terry aho was involved in generating Regional interest in you have to deal with w hen you work in a small ofnce. It doesn't training on equal employment opp rtumty, sexual harassment, incan that advancernent can't happn, or that things will not and cuhural diversity.

change. 'ihey'rejust going toinove more slowly, and it will take rnore work to rnake them happen?

In the area of cultural diversity, she explains, "We wanted to wnsitire rnanagers and other staff inernbers to help them to in Terry's caw, advancernent camc quite recently, when she was reallic the value of umlenstanding cultural differences, and how narned Administrative hinnagernent tiranch Chief. Ilefore that, they can affect what goes on at work. People don't have to be of she was a managernent analyst in DRhtA, a job Otat, she says, o different race or corne innn a different ethnic background or changed all the time. She laughingly estimates that she spent speakanotherlanguage tohavecuhuraldifferences. livendough alcut fifteen percent of her tirne <m tlw duties defined in her we have few obvuxa problerns in the Region that are caused by critical elements and the rest "Dghting fires?

cultural diversity, we want to trach peopic at all levels to reach outside their own cultures. I hope the traming will help people to *1f it had anything to do with cornputers, I probably did it," she expand their minds?

says, "along with inanagernent infortnation repirts, statistics, and managernent analyses?

Terry also is kernly aware of prublerns caused by sexual lerassment.

Terry, wlm has a bachchw's degree in wicial science and a master's in public adtninistration, started her l'ederal career in

• Sexual harassment is wunctimes so subtle it is tot recogn' icd at 1980 in the Presidential hinnagernent Intern Pnigram. She legan oil," she says. *l want everyone in Region V to le aware of what working with the General Services Adtninistration in San it is so we can avoid any problerns?

Francisco through the program and stayed with GS A until 19X4 when she carne to NRC.

As FWP Coordinator she is unnetirnes made aware of pitential wmual harassinent concerns and can often help rew>lve the *l had one child and plans for armther, and I just wasn't willing situation before it becorne serious, to put up with the cornmute into San Francisco, which is hard when you have a family," she says. She says that she reallied

• lt's nuut often a case of behavior tiust wuncone doesn't reallie when she left GSA for a smaller office that her career is offensive until he is told," she says. "That's why one on-one opp rtunities would be more livnited.

comrnunication is so important?

• l recognized that for sorncone with an adeninistrative Terry says she would like toic able to have nt icast occasional background, there's really only one career path in a small prograins the t feature professional wornen in die nuclear huhistry Region," she says. *l had to acce pt the fact that pnnnotions would as speakers, but those sicakers are hard to Gnd, le fewer arxl farther between?

"Ihere just are not a hit of women in this area in the nuclear Terry has a good erspective on her efforts as IMP Coordinator, J

sciences who are willing to speak to groups like ours," she says. She doesn't expect to change the world, but, as she says, *lf a

• lt's also dif0 cult to have someone speak to a group as diver 3c, program doesn t do more than get you to change one habit,it's carect wise, as the women in Region V are?

a success? She says her aims are consciousness raising and helping people to be happict in their careers, because, " unhappy 1he shortage of women in technical professional Gehls in the people don't get things done

• Regi m V are.a has also manifested itself in die make-up of the Region V staff.

Terry is rnarried to Doug Schuster, a Safeguar is inspector in the Region, whorn she rnet after her inove to NRC. She has two ums "We have only about a hundred propic on the staff, and alcut a and firxis herself with one snore demanding role

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Dyle Acxer Sees Career Enhancement at NRC Island Naval Shipyard trefore he joined the NRC as an inspector

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• )n unne ways the work is siinilar, and in others it's ouite a diange

• be wys, "but i find I like it a lot?

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There was aNi a (hallenge in learning how to d< al w ith a variety of plants.

• In the Navy, all of the abanarines of any (lass were the sarne, and you carne to understand everything atout that class of snbmarines very wcil," he says.

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• llcrc,in Region V, when you go to visit the five sites we have here, you find that all the plants arc dif ferent no two are alike? *lt was the wrather," he says. *1 didn't want any snorr of tlutse bitter cold Nebraska winters, wi l decided to ruove to a place that in part because of the standardiration of desigm, he says, the had nice wann weather year round. l'inding the right job came Navy has been able to develop a giuxt data liase of catwes and later,*

soluthins to tbc problems the subinarines exlwilenced. In contrast, he says, NRC has a gami data base covering :najor items, (Dyle's e.ister also moved west and now lives in los Angeles.)

but for sinaller concerns, such as sinall electrical problems,"Ihc data base just isn't there?

11cshles enjoying the California climate as a place to live, Dyle also takes advantage of the weather to engage in a variety of Inthe time he'sbern at NRC,Dylc says muchof histime hastrern out(kor activitics. lic likes to back pack, he says, particularly spent on team inspectiom, where he focuses on the electrical enjoying going out into the desert, hiking with fritmis and engineering concerns.

cxploring dexit canyom.

"We're a srnall Region," he says, and there are only two of us "You have to be careful, though, and watch the weather," he who specialire in the electrical engineering arca, so we both get wams, "lecau.,e a sudden rainfall can send torrents of water involved in a lot of scarn inspectiom?

raging through those canyom, wiping out everything -

including hikers - in its path?

Dyle says he spends alcut thirty nye percent of his time travelling, and,he says,*as long as the airlincs don't break down Ibr a quieter, fatnity vacation, Dyle favors re ntlnt, a houscloat on (and force schedule changes), travel's finc?

Lake Powellin Utah for a very peaceful change of pace.

With two children - aged i 1 and i 3 - Djle says he tries as inuth Dyle also likes to play golf, but, he says, *1 played a lot rnore golf as possible to arrange his travel schedute so that he can 1e at home be fore I came to NRC.1 ra vel does cut down on that sort of thing ?

for imiuttant events in their lives.

Ilis work as an inspector should prove to be challenging for quite Dyle was t ern and raised in Nebraska, and he moved to Califomia a while to conic, but, Dyle says, "I'd also like to be promoted in 1969 some day, and, if that meam inoving to licadquarters in i

Washington,or moving out to a site,or moving to another RcF on, IIis anotivation, he freely admits, wasn't career opgertunity.

I'll be ready?

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Busy Frieca Tay or ugg es t,e Duties o' Frieda Taylor is a busy lady.

• 1 thought it was strange there were noother women around when I went in for my interview," she says, but that wasn't a real Not only is she a new rnother, juggling that set of responsibilities deterrent.

with those of her new job as a radiation specialist and radiation safety officer in Re gion V, she also is hard at work on her master's ~lhen, after she was offered the job, she saw the movie Silkmnt degree in radiological health physics.

which palats the nuclear industry in a bad light. "I almost turned the job down," she says.

And, to comphcate her life even further, the nearest available graduate igram is almost Gfty miles from herjob - and nine' - But her parents encouraged her to take the job and see if she liked twomile rom her homel Fortunately,she sn herhusbanda d it. Sheveryquicklybegantofmdthe obitwifinteresting,butshe her parenti are w ry supportive, says, " Joining the utmr industry or a woman is kind of like

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joming an all boys' ch.o.

) For her husband, that support isn't tm surprising. Ih too,is in j the nuclear field and knows the dernands. In fact, they niet on the *lt's hard at nrst. A lot of your co-workers try to intirnidate you?

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she worked just after carning her tmdergraduate degree in heahh reience.

She went to work at hiare Island in Decernber 1984 as a radiological control technician, and then b,'came a supervisor in And, of her parents, who handle a lot of the baby sitting chores that area. She also worked in hiare Island's equivalent of an generated by her busy schedule, she says,"1 hey love it!"

ALARA program (maintaining radiation dosages "as low as Young Alfred Tomas, alcknamed AJ, who was lern last February, is a happy, smiling bay, and whenever they can, Even though she was enjoying her work at htare island, the fune Frieda and her husband like to take lum whereu r they go in their didn't look too promising. Generally the shipyard was leisure time. But, these days, that leisure time is limited.

undergoing a reduction in force, so prornotion opportunities were scatec.

Normally Frieda leaves home by 5:30 am for the hour.and.and-half drive to work,whichincludesbypassing Region V todrop her To help those ernployees whose jobs were being climinated, the son at her parents' home and the return trip. When she has a class, shipyard held onsite job fairs, inviting employers who might be she faces another hour-long drive (from Region V) ' r San Jose interested in hiring some of those to be let go (Because her ob State University,where she is enrolled in the radiological health wasn't really in jeopardy of being cut, Frieda says she coul n't physics master's program, legally go to a job fair during work hours, so she took leave to go 5

Frieda joined the NRC in July 1990, after five and a half years at hiare Island. She started her studies at San Jose State in the fall At one of those fairs, Frieda met Kathleen Hamill(Directorof the of 1990, trying to fit her course work in with her training to Region V Division of Resource hianagement and hecome an NRC inspector.

Administration), who was recruiting for NRC.

3 For the most part, th" says, she makes the demands of these Kathleen liked what she saw in Frieda and invited her to come compe ting schedules gel pretty well, but on onc occasion she had back the next day for an interview with Frank Wenslawski, to take a final exam just after she came back from a twomeek (Deputy Director, Division of Radiation Safety and Safeguards).

training course at the NRC's Technical Training Center in Frieda did, and she accepted an offer from NRC within a month.

Chattanooga.

Of herjob at NRC,"It's been a real growing exterience," Frieda "Usually Ijuggle things with the school a little better than that," says. "The NRC is even a bigger challenge than h1are Island?

she says with a smile.

Frieda had been accepted into the master's program at San Jose Frieda is pursuing a schedule that she hopes will lead to her State lefore she came to NRC, and she was delighted that her new rnaster's in three years (by the spring of 1993), llowever, she did employer was willing to help her pursue the program.

relax a little and only took one course spring semester 1991 -

because her baby was due in h1 arch.

-1 have a lot of years to go until I retire," she says. "Between the opportunities at NRC and my master's program, I really feel i Frieda grew up in oakland,Califomia. A fter her graduation from have an excellent future?

Imma Linda College, when she heard that the nearby h1are Island Naval Shipyard was hiring, it seemed logical for her to apply So far, she says, management has leen very Dexible in her work there, even though at the time she knew very little about the assignments, helping to tailor them to minimize conflict with her nuclear field, civilian or military.

school schedule. During the school year, while she is taking classes, she generally doesn't travel, although she does travel Two concerns did make her think twice about taking the job.

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At one point in the interview, Torn recalls, the Admiral " threw me out of his office. I was a physics ruajor, and he asked me to Oh, that's a question that's been posed often enough to Tom name five outstanding Arnetican physicists. l couldn't. nc only Meadows, an operator license examiner in Region V.

physicists who came to mind weren't Americans, sc he threw me out."

And, so far, he's always said "no."

Eventually he was allowed back in to finish the interview and "I think they've decided to stop asking me to move back to the subsequently spent six years in the Navy's nuclear program.

East Coast," he says.

After he left the Navy in 1982, he went to work for General "I always have the same answer. I tell them, *1f you can convince Electric out of an office near the Dresden plant in Illinois for four my wife.. '"

years.

It's not that Ton doesn't have ties to the East Coast. Ile was born Then,in 1986, he says,"My wife finally got me to come West."

in North Carolina, grew up on the East Coast, and attended the Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina, liis father owns a farrn hat year he joined the NRC as an operator license examiner, a on the DelMarVa Peninsula.

job he considers vitally important.

"But I'm married to a California girl," he says.

"He job's a challenge," he says. "I've really enjoyed it.

"In many ways, living in the Washington area snight seem to be " Examiners go one-on-one with the potential reactor operator.

similar to living in California, but if you're married to a Examiners are the ones who make the initial evaluation if the California girl.. you live in Califomia."

applicant will become an operator.

Tom was in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps program "nat's important. He recommendations we [ examiners] rnake at the Citadel, and after graduation, he entered the Navy's are important.

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mL Washington, D. C. area is his birthplace, but Ikl Frigillana says "You get to see all the prograin activities," he says. "Each one the Walnut Crerk area is now his "horne,"

is diflerent frorn the rest, and you can view the bigger picture, abnost like a controller would in a larger organization "

lie transferred there fronilleadquarters in 1983, and, he says,"I enjoy living here. It is a costnopihtan tuetropolitan area that ihrs branch also handles contract.s travel, accounting, requests allows tne to pursue so cuany different interests.

received under the Freedorn of Infonnation Act, inanagernent infortnation reports, and data processing, including

" City growth here has teen slower than it's been in sorne other mienwomputers. A very significant new project for him is the places. licre, the people seetn to be rnore consersative as far as Region V 1.AN Ooeal area network).

growth is concerned. They take it slowly.1 hey want to inake sure growth is compatible with planning. 'Ihey also demand the tr.st Getting all the I.AN equipment in place in each of fice has been in education and social amenities "

a rnajor chorr in it.self, and Ikl says he and his staff are hioking forward to the day it will be totally operational.

In addition to liking the area, lit says he finds his job as Chief of the Resource Managernent 11 ranch very challenging.

The LAN has Word Perfect as it.s word p.ocessing program, rt placing the $520 systein, and it has Word Perfect Of fice, with in general, he says, jobs in Region V are more demanding and E mail, Schedular, etc.

interesting than elsewhere because of the smaller staff sisc.

"Part of the challenge is to be sure that we implement the LAN "liere we are responsible for many ddferent things, and when we in a way that makes it an asset to its users, so it provides a tool to work on " project, we do handron work from start to finish. You rnake escryone more eflicient," he says can see it all the way through."

"To do that, we have to include the customized features each In contrast, he says,"At lleadquarters you generally base only a omer needs and then retrain the staff to meet the changes part of a project."

"We have to rnake sure that we constantly challenge ourselve.s by One of his ruajor responsibilitics is desclopment of the Rcgion V asking, 'llow do I u3c this device to inake iny job casierT budget, which gives hirn an opportunity to work clwly with the technical of fices and individual brancIws.

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Resident inspectors at Palo Verde and Rancho Seco and a project inspector,"but I do miss the seasons.

"At licadquarters issues don't have the same sense of urgency they do in the Region.

• llowever, I don 't miss the trafne jams, the pressures, and the anxieties oflife in Washington."

"At licadquarters you get an overview of an issue. In a Region you get a detailed, close-up view."

Mr. Wong moved to Region V last year, after spending most of his first twelve years with the NRC at lleadquarters, and he has Mr. Wong has been with NRC since 1977, shortly after his found the change exciting from a personal and a professional graduation from the University of California at Los Angeles with point of view, a master's degree in structural engineering.

lie is originally from the Los Angeles area and his wife, who was lie started as an intem at licadquarters, in the former Office of bom in liong Kong, went to college in San Francisco, so rnoving Inspection and Enforcement, which included a six-month to Califomia was like going home.

rotational assignment in Region i.'That gave him the opportunity to see the inspection side of NRC Grst hand.

And, they enjoy the climate, and the fact that their two young children, aged four and one, can play outside year round.

After his tour in Region I, he went back to 1& E, and. during what he describes as the " construction heyday of the industry," led "I find the climate makes a real difference in attitudes

• he says, and participated in a number of construction team appraisal

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instections.

Professionally, he has found that the Region presents new and After the reorganization of NRC and the climination ofI& E, he exciting challenges.

moved to the Office of Enforcement to eventually lecome the Deputy to Office Director Jim Lieberman. lie moved to Region

'The biggest difference I find working in the Region is that you V in November 1989.

are dealing with day-to-day issues, and you lu.ve to deal with things as they come up.

"I think that one of the things that's gomi about NRC is the "At Headquarters issues take longer to develop and to be co uau,d oo r ge 4s 46 l

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"I rnoved from utility to sutility v.nd I didn't find much of a plant staff working with you.

dif ference, but the change when I came to NRC was just arnating."

"Now at NRC we are hoking at five programs - one at each of the operating plants in the Region - and they are all a little That's how Jim Reese, the Chief of the Safeguards, Emergency different.

Preparedness, and Nonpower Reactors Branch, describes his reaction when he started to work for the NRC New Year's Ese "You also have to know so rnuch ruote about the regulatiotts. I 1990.

thought I knew the regulatiorts when I was at SN1UD (the Sacramento A1unicipal Utility District that operated Rancho Jim was already a nuclear industry veteran when he came to the Seco), but I found out I had so much more to learn.

NRC. A graduate of Virginia Tech, he had worked first at the Surry plant, spent several years working at Eree N1ile Island, and "For one thing, at the N RC the emphasis is not on implementation had been at the Rancho Seco plant in Sacramento for nine years. of systems or programs but deterinining if they are being implernented to protect the health and safety of the public.

His decision to corne to the NRC stemmed from a combination of circumstances. First of all, he says, he had always wanted to "You can't really prepare for the changes in attitude.

work for the NRC. Operations at the Rancho Seco plant have been shut down, the resuh of a vote by the population in that area, and "I really thought it wouhin't be that much of a change but it was "

jobs there are being pha3cd out. And, his wife, a Californian with family in the area, didn't want to rehicate to another part of the And, he continues, "Not having any prior experience in country.

government has made it even more of a challenge.

"So when the NRC position opened up, it was a great "But my co-workers have been scry helpful."

opportunity," he says.

"I was truly amazed," he says, "at the level of concern of the He ju3t wasn't prepared for the change.

people at NRC. I was also amazed at the attention paid to detail, and I had to learn what can be in an 4spection returt and what "I'm doing the same type of work that I was doing at Rancho Seco, can't.

but it's so different," he says.

"At a utility you are h uking at one program,and you have a w hole Ci nuh=d on Pe e 47

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Howard Wong Comtlaued from Page 4 opportunity to ruake career moves," he says.

• Rere is so rnuch going on at a plant, particularly one as large as Palo Verde, la the work of a Resident inspector, there's a

• There are always positions open, and they represent judgment factor that comes with experience, opportunities."

"That's why we have Senior Resident inspectom, who help the Even thiugh he has been in Region V for more than a year and newer Resident inspectom benefit frorn their experience."

a half, Mr. Wong says, *l*rn still learning the job,0nding ways to do it better, and inore efficiently.

Here are Residents assigned to the Gye operating nuclear power plant sites in Region V.

"My goal is to get firmly settled in in any position, do the best I can, and then see what carect opportumties are available.

"Until recently there also was a Resident hispector assigned to Rancho Seco, which has been shut down pennanently by the "Since 1*ve been here, I've seen that we have to deal with the utility district that owns it. %at inspector is in the pmcess of routine business, as well as with the unexpected.

rehicating to the Regional Office.

• Rete are very interesting day-to-day challenges.

"%cre had been sorne talk of the restart of Rancho Seco, but each week that goes by, that ge ts harder and hanter, and the people who "Overall there are different challenges than you have at want restart have to keep asking ifit's going to be econornically

_ lleadquarters. It's exciting and challenging at the same time.

feasible to do so.

• here are so many issues. It's technically very challenging.

%e Wongs livejust south of Walnut Cree k. enjoying living in the suburbs, with the city of San Francisco within a short dnve.

• You always try to do your best, and then you always hiok back to see if there's a better way or a better decision or conclusion." Since their move to California, their second child has been born and his wife has decided to stay home for a few years to raise the As part of his effort to get to know the Resident trupection children.

program, Mr.Wong last sumine r stent two weeks filling in for the vacationing Senior Resident inspector at the Palo Verde site.

"She Gnds she enjoys being home with them," he says.

That gave him a chance to know the site and to get sorne "As she is trained as a Montessori pre-school teacher, we find that additional operations experience, the benefits of having her horne outweigh the sinall net economic differences that rest'lt (once the expenses of her working, such as Palo Verde is a large plant, the largest in the free world. %e thre e-child care are nald).

'i unit plant hioms up in the ruiddle of the desert, about an hour's drive west of Phoenix. %e NRC has three Resident inspectors "We both feel it is a reasonable sacrifice to make while the kids essigned there, as well as a part-time Office Assistant.

are young."

Mr. Wong describes the job of the Resident inspectors as a Mr. Wong says he finnly believes that *NRC is different frorn any difficult one.

other Federal agency.

"When you're an inspector, you're on the line," he says. 'You "NRC has a higher caliber of people, people who are a step higher have broad guidelines to follow, but you make the first in professionalism, who have a withngness to do conscientious recommendation or conclusions on a number of issues. And, to work.

a degree, the depth you get into issues is your choice.

"Some other agencies may give outsidens a negative perspective "When we do find weaknesses, we continue to probe deeply to of the Federal workforce, but that's not true of the NRC.

- assure ourselves we've found the full extent of the problern.

• NRC is an exciting place to work, if I didn't find it exciting,I

• %at's not easy.

wouldn't have stayed with NRC as long as I have."

Tom Meadows Condaued from Page 44 lie and his wife have three sons, and, Tom says, they all kiok like "Ourjobs are some of the rnost important jobs in the NRC "

real Californians, with typical California blond hair, healthy, and full of life.

When he and his family moved to California five years ago, Torn says he became *an adopted Californian.-

"We're really happy here," he says.

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Ed Frigillana Jim Reese Contiated in m Pup 45 Continurd frumi Pup 47 "Since I've been with the NRC we've Fone frorn inag "I was surprised hio, for instance, at the detailed background work that is cards, to the 5520, with a few steps in between, and done before the NRC issues a notiec of violation.

now the IAN. We've come a long way."

Ed's Grst job with the NRC was,in fact, working as a typist with the old CRESS (word proecssing) unit "But I think it's paid off in the safely ogwrating plants the country has while he was in college.

talay."

nat was in October 1973, just after he left the military hir. Reese says he also was surprised at some of the pressures and cautions where he had tren assigned to a special forces unit on of hisjob at NRC cornpared to that at a utility.

Okinawa.

"he re is a lot enore political pressure," he says, and,

• You have to be very From the military, he went to the University of careful how you interact with the licensees.

hlaryland where he carned a bachelor of science degree in business administration in 1975 and a "Fm very cautious when I talk to them."

master's of business administration degree in 1978.

In snany ways, he says, *nis job has been preuy much like starting over.

lie then worked in the fonwer Of0cc of inspection and I had inoved from utility to utility with no real change, but this is so Enforcement as a budget analyst, as part of the NRC different. And, I love the job here "

intern prognun.

%c res[xmsibilities of his branch include insiretiotts and the operation of nree years later, he moved to the Federal Energy the Region's incident Response Center. He staff includes six inspectors Regulatory Commission. lie was the Assistant to the as well as the Emergency Respmse Coordinator and himself.

Secretary, in the Office of the Secretary, a job he describes as "very exciting and very enlightenmg. It "We do a lot of different things," he says. "h's certainly hard to get bored taught me the inner workings of our govermnent."

around here."

In September 1981 Ed returned to NRC, this tirne as hir. Reese is originally from Richmond, Virginia, and his decision to a management vnalyst working for Dick Vollmer in snove West origtnally was an econornic one.

the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation.

"I was working at Bil and heard that Sh1UD was hioking for a health in October 19R3, he ruoved to Region V as a budget physicist," he says.

analyst. Ile later became Acting Chief of the Resources Nianagement Branch and advanced to his ne salary offered represented a big pay raise, so be applied for and got present position m 1984.

the job. %cn, once he was living in California, he marned a Californian, and, for now, California is home, although he doesn t rule out the eventual

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Outside of the office, in the fall his major interest is possibility of a move to lleadquarters.

football. A former college player for Frostburg State College in Maryland, he has assisted Dean Kunihiro lie and his farnily still live in Sacramento, and he comnmtes to Walnut (also of Region V) coach the la' taimas liigh School Creek daily with Emilio Garcia, the head of the Region's Emergency freshman football team.

Response Center, hat occupies tnuch of his free time from July through

%ey eventually plan to move near Walnut Creek, but the economics of October. %e rest of the year, he spends his free tirne housing is a deterrent for now.

goinng, skiing, or bowling with his wife and children.

"llousing around here is about twice as e xpensive as it is in Sacramento,"

Last spring,he started to develop a totally new hobby, he says. lie adds that even in the general Walnut Creck area, prices vary oil painting, and he and his wife took painting classes tremendously, depending on the specine area. "We'd love to live right on together.

the coast," he says, "but houses there are out of sight as far as price is concerned."

For now, he says, "%c job provides challenge and I enjoy it."

Nir. Reeds wife is a travel agent, specializing in meeting planning for For the future, he says, when he first started college at Frostburg, he rnajored in history and political science One of the benefits of her working as a travel agent, he says, is that she with an idea of teaching. Now he uses his teaching is offered a lot of perks in the fonn of low cost travel.

skills in his work at NRC as well as on the fanball field, and he says,"Some day I ruight like to becorne Unfortunately, for now, with two young sons and one son in high school, a college instructor "

they're not in much of a position to take advantage of them, but travelis something that's dennitely on their agenda for the future.

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4 Region V 3 resents Awarcs at Recent Ceremony Regional Administrator Jack Martin presented awards to a number of Region Y cmployees in a recent ceremony at the Region V OfDee in Walnut Creek, California. Pictured below,with Mr. Martin, arv some of the recipients. They are,Imm orandy and Gene Moller Duck; midddle row, Maurine Smith und Dean Kunihiro; and left to right, top row, David Corp /ollicoffer. bottom row, Dot Riley and Joan >= q w j (gj # Lg g ,y l4L]ML e w c [_'f

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