ML20094R362
| ML20094R362 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Catawba  |
| Issue date: | 08/01/1984 |
| From: | Guild R CAROLINA ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY GROUP, GUILD, R., PALMETTO ALLIANCE |
| To: | Foster R, Kelley J, Purdom P Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| OL, NUDOCS 8408200548 | |
| Download: ML20094R362 (2) | |
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ROBERT GUILD Aff0ma tv At LA*
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James L. Kelley, Chairman Dr. Richard F. Foster N2.*25 l
Atomic Safety and Licensing P. O. Box 4263 :n..
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Dr. Paul W. Purdom 235 Columbia Drive i
l Decatur, GA 30030 Ret DUKE POWER COMPANY, d gl. (Catawba Nucient Station, Units 1 and 2), Docket nos. 50-413 and 50-414 0 L.
Dear Siro The Board'c Order of July 20, 1984, imposes, wo believe unfairly, certain furher burdens upon Palmetto Alliance and Carolina Environmental Study Group solely as a concocuence s
of the tardiness by Duke and the NRC Staff in their ciccovery of the cerious cafety problemo with the emergency diocol generators common to Catawba and a number of other nucient plants.
The imposition of these burdens now throatens not only to deprive un of the fair opportunity to be heard on theco locues to which we are entitled: but, alco, threatono to deprive this Board of the cound record needed by it to decido those significant enfoty issues.
The Board's July 20 Order, at p. 4. required Palmetto and CESG to certify, by today, that our expert metallurgint, Dr. Robert Anderson (or one of like qualificationo), will review opecified Duke and NRC Staff reports and tootimony, most not yet nynilablo, and be actually present at our Auguot 27 hearingo to provide his technical monistance to us in crous-examination.
Due to Dr.
Andernon's prior professionni commitmento we are unable to make l
cuch certifacation at thin time.
l We believe that Dr. Andorcon in the monc qualified expert l
available to accint Intervenora no well no thic Bonru in th'o ren-olution of the acknowledged c,uentiono about the cafo functionini l
of the Catawba TDI dieselo.
1in qualificatione in thic regard ata reflected in his prior commitments to consult with the government of Suffolk County, New York, in the roview nnd analynin of problems
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August 1,.1984 James L. Kelley, ASL3
_ Page 2 with the TDI diesels trt the Shoreham nuclear station, and to prepare and present' expert. testimony in the operating license proceeding for that facility.
Because of his obligations to the Shoreham Intervenors which, I am informed, extend through our scheduled hearing dates.on into September when the Shoreham hearings will be conducted; I am unable to make the certification required of us by the Board.
Thus,the present scheduling of hearings in this proceeding (adopted over our objection), in advance of and conflicting with pre-hearing requirements in Shoreham, will serve only to deprive theparties and the Board of the benefits of Dr. Anderson's expertise here.
Such a result is,'indeed, unfortunate since it harms Palmetto and CESG while contributing nothing to the resolutio'n '
- of the serious remaining safety issues at Catawba.
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