ML20126G694

Discusses Review of Texas Observer 790713 Article, Toil & Trouble of South Texas Nuke. None of 16 Items Attributed to IE Insp Repts Appear to Merit Investigative Effort Beyond Normal Const Deficiencies Followup

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UNITED STATES 7,

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s11 RYAN PLAZA DRIVE, SUITE 1000 D

AR LINGTON. TEXA5 76012 September 18, 1979 Docket No. 50 498 50-499 I.

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MEMDRANDUM FOR: File TERU:

W. C. Seidle, Chief, RC&ES Branch W W. A. Crossman, Chief, Projects Section

'FROM:

W. G. Hubacek, Reactor Inspector, Projects Section i

.SUB.ECT:

REVIEW OF AP.TICLE ENTITLED, " TOIL AND TROUBLE AT THE i

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SOUTH TEXAS NUKE" IN THE TEXAS OBSERVER OF JULY 13, 1979 j

Review of the above article written by Andrew Sanson. disclosed sixteen items l

which were apparently gleaned from, and attributed to, IE inspection reports by the reporter. Some of the items (1100 anchor bolts, surveying error. lift i

8 voids) were reported to XIV se construction deficiencies by the licensee l

and are still open and being monitored by the RIV staff. None of the sixteen f

items appear to merit.an investigative effort beyond our normal follow up of l

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construction deficiencies and items of noncompliance.

l The only apparent significant information conesined in the article that was 4

not taken from NRC inspection reports is a statement that, "The overriding l

inspection problem at STNP, according to SWAYZE and a senior Brown &~ Root i

engineer still employed at the plant, is a safety system that emphasizes form

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over substance. They maintain that the primary purpose of the voluminous documentation of construction and inspection processes is to fullfil the paper-work requirements for HL&P's operating license application now pending before i

the NRC..... But, he and Swayze say, making sure all the b1mahm are filled j

' in does not necessarily guarantee that the plant will be safe to operate and, i

in fact, may have the~ opposite effect." RIV has, during previous inspections i

and investigations, observed work and reviewed related records. Some items of noncompliance related to records were identified but there has been no reason to believe that records have been generated merely to have the blanks l

filled in without completion of the corresponding work activities.

e: iip.f/.9%4 W. G. Rubacek, Reactor Inspector e

Projects Section cc:

W. A. Crossaan i

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Nuclear Prciect going up near Matagorda Bay, which is slated {

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amounts of materials and labor needed to get the job done..

j ff, ;:.;' ? J.y ' g,.q0 u p I wi m Other problems have caused expensive delays in the project, ;

e MANAGING EDITOR ;Llada Rocawich N which has fallen a year and S half behind schedule.

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• . en PRODUCTION. MANAGERS: Susan Reid, Beth Epstein. r r,

' ASSISTANT EDTTORS: Vick! Vaughaa. Sob Sinderinaea Jrl.

's hard tojudge how muc weight to assign to STAFP A5sl5TANTS:hamaetteGarret.EdwardHomes Manhewt yos,'

evidence, but one thing is sure-.-these reports arc setting

"D**"' Ns.' Anae Norman, severty rnimer. Manne o.es. Karen wans,

much less public attention than they deserve.

Th D.'sleMwe sener, seru a cont u R3:

Austinites. including the ones here at the Observer, have had.

eri aerment. sob clan. so curion, nr c. ce,y. Kann Danneedier. Afr the fullest account of STNPYttoubles, thanks to a lot of old.

Daariser. Cheadler Davideos. John Henry FaulLDaval Gunnmo, any fashioned digging by Austin American Statesman reporter

Hamns. Deus Harlas. Jack Hopper. Das Hubis. Many fees. Sunas tae.

Bruce Hight. But residents of Houston have seen little about all.

• t this in local papers, even though their electric company is the

[phT'ii nN*,*aM*U b***e.'sen *s".rs*e*,"n* ^1.h.

i project manager and the plant is being built less than 100 miles

, so.am. John speneenn Jr. Shean R. Taylor, Staater waker, t awrence wahh. Eis wrar. malph Yaraseoveh. j c:

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j Outright suppression of info:Tnation, though, has been the w,-ut new me e,, er p.,ry 6.f. ret' FOlCf3A J work not of the city's newspapers but of Francois de Menil,the new owner of Houston's Clry magazine, who killed a STNP

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story by freelancer Andrew Sansom and City editor David

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• Crossley. It was pulled after being set in type and sent to the f,asaderies of dame,'r.cy; we wie' se&a orde asse est our ewe

,.,,%,,,,a,,,,.g,,,,,,,6 4 e, eares,., se er a se engraver for the May issuet tescheduled for June,it was yanked urw ae 6wmas e/de pewrf.ler e.eer m eA, s we h at Amase again, this time for good.

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s feminist newspaper, and In Retween, a Galveston

,,nts ofthe Otreerser. "None ofthe erkerpropie who are assecteced w biweekly. (Breakthrough also carried an eacellent piece by

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media critic Gabrielle Cosgriff on the affair at City and t) e sorry W,for near r.

re. 6mr merfor reAue dry a = net mens,fwe wr***a. *d h r 6884'at 84= ne deer does a=* a reu e imp #r coverage the cover.up got locally.) Meanwhile Sansom and the I

Observer have pursued the STNP story and brought the article

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EtJ5INESS STAFF: Cliff Olofica. Joe EspineenJr. W.M7

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ADVERTISING sat.ES REPRESENTATIVE:.Rhett Beard, words, whether the gran nse to operate. Heanngs on this question will be

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held soon, and the burden of proof is, as it should be, on the,

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plant's owners.

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,.,. y c y.g' wastes came to the fore in this year's Legislature, which almost opened Teams to nuclear dumping before legislators realized

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. decide before'it'can issue an operating'.

he ' license to HL&P.' That decision 'will'

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struction of nuclear power plants /These.',' to document'the sound l

reports,though couched in technicaljar "' construction, records for the 'most part?

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.. first two reactor uruts is halfway toward VJn-plant ' safety precautions intended to' Brown & Root.' Dut the NRC is also j

' f,,P*. completion. Hl.&P has spplied for a i h,make STNP's oE' ration. unsafe. Another.. South Mas pr pinpoint construction flaws that could

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permit to begin operating in 1983-and conmetwif the

' view of STNP is now bems offered--and. ' Brown & Root,as buddins the plant. The con.

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had an unquestionable impact-by cur # / who are at the site full-tame and are supposed t

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this story from official Nuclear Regu. ' ions. The article makes unsubstantiated This is not the first time constructio 0-latory Co nmissinn inspection reports ' chars I

has been held up by belated discovert d.[

documenting the construction of the.

and re 'r of defects at STNN South Texas Nuclear Project and from I

interviews with present and former em-l t

ploye,es of Brown & Root, the company t contams ac y

building the plant, the Observer asked cnarges whicn we do not believe can be

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both Brown A. Root and Houston Light. idocumented.-HL&P and Brown & Root.

ing & Power Company-th : project as you know, have to document all their E

manager-to comment on a draft of An ' work, including deficiencies during con-S drew Sansom's repon. HL&P spokes-.struction. We would suggest that the While other sub-par work did not brir man Jim Parsons had this to say:

, charges that are made in the article about construction to a standstill, it has le

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' k STNP reac:or units I and 2 into the elec-E tion and inspection processes is to ful l*j 3 tric power g:id of South. Central. Texas.$:.T.'say.

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'- Though?Houstonfis*the home of STNP's managing partner,y twere confinedto the paper'sreporting on Austin's decision,a

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- have a direct stake in the future of the nuclear power plant being,4* two months, reporting or the plant'.s. construction problenis

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i.' Nuke's' construction and inspection slip.ups has been spotty at

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. I prompted detailed stories in Austin, San Antonio, and Corpus - Byars. Byars mairaair:s tnat he has written about interven.

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.f, entirely ignored by the C/.conicle,*an examination of these pa-c with other stories about the plant's woes. He could not, h

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- led tcr a construction halt; Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez's told him to refer the Observer's inquiries to Don Pickles,

.. :.s'. call for a federalinvestigation of STNP based on gerious allega-.

l Chronicle's managmg editor.Three calls found Pickles inact V - tions by'former employees that the project's quality control,sible, and he never ca!!cd back.

-)f l,a 3 - program is deficient; and the discovery that over a thousand of.

Byars did acknowledge that he hasn't kept up with S"I n"

r y the wrong kind of anchor bolts had been used on pipes meant to ' lately. "I have not followed it (STNP] in the past coupls

[.i p carry radioactive water. Environmental writers at both papers. months. I have not been down there beating on their door si ii t;- contend that these stories did not merit much coverage.

.to. day. I have had other things to cover." He added that tho

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.. readers who' rely on it in the dark about the Nuke's problems? l lsonnel, reporters for these papers learned something note-'

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"That's what you say. I'm not ar~all worried that that's the.c; worthy that Scarlett evidently hadn't krr,wn: that the discovery.

+. case," said Byars. Pressed for an explanation of how the A of the concrete voids had fwed a constmetion shutdown.The

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. plant, Byars said,"I don't want to get in a situation where I'm e from the NRC's regional chief of reactor construction,who said f'

havingtodefendmyselflikeadamnlawyer.".Thenhehungup. y.the voids, which had apparently rone unnoticed for months, I Any coverage of STNP by the Houston Postjwould put it

. : ahead of the Chronicle, but alongside that appeanng in other #gwere a sign of weaknesses in the S e

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half months'seems' erratic; Harold Scarlett, the Post's environ.*i! line "N-plant work resumes," but the first paragraph noted that

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a ever, since then the Post has carried only four stories ofits own'} ed.'..." Scarlett said,"We may have been retniss at times in not

. - - and one AP story about the Nuke's construction bloopers, and Udevotingmorespace"totheSTNPstory;butinthecaseofthetwobrief

, only two (under Scarlett's byline) received anything approach ~,1 stories,he said,"The newsjudgrant Isave.them,wasjust aboutwhat.

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r paper's A-section, and these bear closer examination.The first, the argument.that "this _whole ongoing story has been more p,,

on June 23, told Houstonians of"New voids found at N-plant";

accessible'and important to cities like Austin and San Antonio but the item carried hale assurances from HL&P spokesmen because local governments are involved there.What.w.e have t -;,

, that the air pockets in the containment wall were not"any great here is a private company."

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• 2 Scar!ctt said this brief story contained no comments from NRC * : Worth conditions of nuclear plant ownership have not affected

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known until about 5 p.m. on a Friday afternoon,",too late for a Comanche Peak power plant southwest of Fort Worth often get phone call to the NRC **.,

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