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May 14, 1992 MEMORANDUM FOR:
Stewart D. Ebneter, Regional Administrator Region II FROM:
James Y. Vorse, Directorn i office of InvestigationeJM vid Office, Region II SUlkTECT:
OFFICE OF INVESTIGATIONS t?I) ASSISTANCE OF REGION II (RII) BY INTERVIEWS OF VOGTLE IEC TECHNICIANS (CASE NO. 2-92-019)
In response to your May 5, 1992,, memorandum requesting OI assistance in this matter (copy attached), OI:RII conducted sworn, transcribed interviews of Georgia Power Company employees Robert E. Neal, John D. Davis, Marcel C. Wilkins, and Roy Whitaker, at Plant Vogtle on May 7, 1992.
In addition to these interviews, pertinent documents pertaining to the interviews were also obtained by OI.
On May 8, 1992, the transcripts of the aforementioned interviews and copies of the pertinent documents were hand-delivered to Bruno Uryc, of your Enforcement and Investigation Coordination Staff.
4 In view of the fact that the assistance requested by your office has been accomplished, OI considers this matter closed unless additional investigation is required by your office.
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j EA 92-089 Mr. John D. Davis HOME ADDRESS DELETED l-UNDER 10 CFR 2.790 l
Dear Mr. Davis:
SUBJECT:
(ENFORCEMENTCONFERENCEOFMAY 13, 1992 AND NRC INSPECTION REPORT l
NOS, 50-424/92-02 AND 50-425/92-02) 4 1
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This. refers to the enforcement conference which was-conducted with you at our request on May'13, 1992, in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Consnission's (NRC)
, Region II office, Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the conference was to discuss l-your actions related to knowingly-deviating from procedure during a surveillance i
on reactor trip system instrumentation which occurred at the Vogtle' Electric r
Generating. Plant en January 28, 1992. This matter was documented in the above referenced inspection report which was dated March 20, 1992.
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During the transcribed conference you' admitted violating a calibration procedure and having knowledge of the fact that false data was created and i
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4 calibrations when, in fact, those calibrations were not perfomed on the l
system.
You provided your account of the event during the conference and l
responded to questions from the staff.
i Following the conference, the staff reviewed and evaluated all the relevant i
infonnation in this matter. After careful deliberation I have.oncluded that j
your activities in this matter were in violation of NRC requirements, as l
specified in the enclosed Notice of Violation (Notice).
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concern because of your intentional disregurd for procedural requirements.
In determining the appropriate enforcement action to be taken in this matter i
under the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR Part 2. Appendix C 1991), several factors were considered along with your deliberate failure to follow procedure j
and your knowledge and acquiescence in the falsification of surveillance data.
l Those factors included:
- 1) the low safety significance of the underlying j
activities in this case, 2) your cooperation with Georgia Power Company's management officials and disclosure to them once this matter was identified,
- 3) your statements to the staff during our subsequent review of the matter,
- 4) your sincere remorse at having engaged in such activity and your demeanor during the conference, 5) the disciplinary action already taken against you by the Georgia-Power Company, and 6) your acknowledgement of-guilt and acceptance i
of personal responsibility for your actions.
4 0ther than the issuance of the enclosed Notice, we plan to take no further enforcement action against you in this matter because it appears that you now f
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that any future intentional failures of the type involved in this ma'.ter could l
J result in more severe action in accordance with 10 CFR 50.5, irrespective of actior.s that may be taken by your employer.
' As you know, your employer holds a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission license to operate the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant and must ensure full compliance i
with regulatory requirements and license conditions. As a trusted employee, you have a responsibility to both your employer and the public to do your utmost to ensure the safe operation of the plant and the full compliance with regulatory requirements.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.790, " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room with your home address i
deleted. Although 10 CFR 2.201 requires you to submit to this office, within 20 days of your receipt of this Notice, a written statement of explanation, 5:e 4
I note that this violation has been corrected and those actions have been i
reviewed by the staff.
Therefore, no response with respect to this matter is required.
Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mr. A. Herdt,(Chief, Reactor Projects Branch 3, Division of Reactor Projects, Region II, at 404) 331-5583.
Sincerely.
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l NOTICE OF VIOLATION Mr. John D. Davis EA 92-089 HOME ADDRESS DELETED UNDER 10 CFR 2.790 l
During an NRC inspection conducted on January 26 - February 22, 1992, a violation of NRC requirements was identified.
In accordance with the " General Statement j
of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C j
(56 FR 40684, August 15,1991), the violation is listed below:
i 10 CFR 50.5(a) prohibits any employee of an NRC licensee from (1) engaging i
in deliberate misconduct that causes or, but for detection, would have t
caused, a licensee to be in. violation of any rule, regulation, w order.
l or any term, condition, or limitation of any license, issued by the i
Commission, or (2) deliberately submitting to a licensee infonnation the i
employee knows to be incomplete or inaccurate in some respect material to i
the NRC. Deliberate misconduct by a person includes an intentional act or i
omission that the person knows constitutes a violation of a requirement, i
procedure, or instruction of.a licensee.
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Technical Specification 6.7.la requires that written procedures be established, implemented, and maintained covering activities delineated in Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33. Revision 2. February 1978.
Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A. " Typical Procedures for Pressurized Water Reactors and Boiling Water Reactors," paragraph 8.b provides, in part, that the licensee establish and follow written procedures for -
i surveillance tests, inspections, and calibrations for reactor protection' system tests and calibrations.
i Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Procedure 24812-1, Delta T/T Avg Loop 3 Protection Channel III IT-431 Analog Channel Operations Test and Channel i
Calibration, and the Analog Channel Operational Test (ACOT) section of the procedure, provides instructions for analog chsnnel operational test and
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channel calibration of the Delta T/T Avg loop and is used to verify operability and settings in reactor protection system instrumentation for t
Overtemperature Delta T and Overpower Delta T, and Engineering Safety Features Actuation System instrumentation Low Reactor Coolant System T Avg Coincident With a Reactor Trip.
The procedure requires disabling the j
process sensors from the field instrument and artificially inserting a test signal into the circuitry to verify the settings in the actuation i
circuitry are correct.
Should the as-found settings be outside the allowable range, as given in a data sheet contained in the procedure, the i
procedure requires that an adjustment be accomplished by performing a calibration and completion of the calibration data sheet.
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Contrary to the above, on January 28, 1992 Mr. John D. Davis, an Instrument L
and Control Technician, Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, while perfurming the procedure, observed that the as-found tolerances in the verification i
section of the ACOT procedure were outside the allowable range as listed 1
in the data sheet contained in the procedure.
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procedure, which required going back through the calibration process in the procedure, Mr. Davis deliberately made adjustments to the reactor i
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protection system using the ACOT configuration even though he knew that this method was not procedurally correct. Mr. Davis was also aware that a i
co-worker had created calibration data on the calibration data sheet, Data Sheet 37, that would give the false appearance that the procedure had been correctly completed. This information was material to the NRC because it related to calibration of the reactor protection system.
This is a Severity Level IV Violation (Supplement I).
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NOTICE OF VIOLATION (ENFORCEMENT CONFERENCE OF MAY 13, 1992 AND NRC INSPECTION REPORT l
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This refers to the enforcement conference which was conducted with you at our i
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request on May 13, 1992, in the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission's (NRC) l Region II office Atlanta, Georgia. The purpose of the conference was to discuss your actions related to the falsification of data following a surveil-1 lance on reactor trip system instrumentation which occurred at the Vogtle i
L Electric Generating Plant on January 28, 1992.
This matter was documented in i
the above referenced inspection report which was dated March 20, 1992.
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-During the transcribed conference you admitted creating false data which you subsequently entered on a test data sheet that indicated certain calibrations i
l-were performed when, in fact, you knew those calibrations were not performed on the system. You provided your account of the event during the conference and l
responded to. questions from the staff.
j Following the conference, the staff reviewed and evaluated all the relevant information in this matter.
After careful deliberation, I have concluded..that your activities in this matter were in violation of NRC requirements, as i
specified in the enclosed Notice ~ of Violation (Notice).
The violation is of i-concern because of your intentional disregard for procedural requirements and falsification of surveillance data.
l In determining the appropriate enforcement action to be taken in this matter under the NRC Enforcement Policy (10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C,1991), several 4
factors were considered along with your deliberate failure to follow procedure i
j and your falsification of surveillance data. Those factors included:
- 1) the low-safety significance of the underlying activities in this case
- 2) your cooperation with Georgia Power Company's management officials and disclosure to them once this matter was identified, 3) your statements to the staff during our subsequent review of the matter, 4) ycur sincere remorse at having engaged in such activity and your demeanor during the conference, 5) the disci action already taken against you by the Georgia Power Company, and 6)plinary your i
acknowledgement of guilt and acceptance of personal responsibility for your actions.
l Other than the issuance of the enclosed Notice, we plan to take no further i
enforcement action against you in this matter because it appears that you now fully understand the significance of your actions and the potential innlications l
associated with those actions.
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future intentional failures of the type involved in this patter could result in i
more severe action in accordance with 10 CFR 50.5, irrespective of actions that j
may be taken by your employer, j
As you know, your employer holds a U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission license to operate the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant and must ensure full compliance
- with regulatory requirements.and license conditions.
As a trusted employee, i
you have a responsibility to both your employer and the public to do your-utmost to ensure the safe operation of the plant and the full compliance with regulatory requirements.
I In accordaace with 10 CFR 2.790, " Rules of Practice," a copy of this letter will be placed in the NRC's Public Document Room with your home address J-deleted.
Although 10 CFR 2.201 requires you to submit to this office, within 20 days of your receipt of this Notice, a written statement of explanation, we l
note that this violation has been ccerected and those action: have been reviewed by the staff.
Therefore, no response with respect to this matter is 1
required.
2 Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mr. A. Herdt, Chief, Reactor Projects Branch 3, Division of Reactor Projects, Region II, at (404) i 331-5583.
1 Sincerely.
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Stewart D. Ebneter l
Regional Administrator i
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Georgia Power Company ATTN:
W. G. Hairston, III Senior Vice President Nuclear Operations Post Office Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 W. B. Shipman General Manager, Nuclear Operations Georgia Power Company Post Office Box 1600 Waynesboro, Georgia 30830
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i, NOTICE OF VIOLATION Mr. Marcel C. Wilkins EA 92-090 HOME ADDRESS DELETED
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UNDER 10 CFR 2.790 During an NRC inspection conducted on January 26 - February 22, 1992, a violation i
of NRC requirements was identified.
In accordance with the " General Statement j
of Policy and Procedure for NRC Enforcement Actions," 10 CFR Part 2, Appendix C
'(56 FR 40684, August 15,1991), the violation is listed below:
i 10 CFR 50.5 (a) prohibits any employee of an NRC licensee from (1) engaging in deliberate misconduct that causes or, but for detection, would have caused, a licensee to be in violation of any rule, regulation, or order, i
or any term, condition, or limitation of any license, issued by the Commission, or (2) deliberately submitting to a licensee information the employee knows to be incomplete or inaccurate in some respect material to the NRC.
Deliberate misconduct by a person includes an intentional act or omission that the person knows constitutes a violation of a requirement, procedure, or instruction of a licensee.
l Technical Specification 6.7.la requires that written procedures be i
established, implemented, and maintained covering activities delineated in j
Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, P~;isien 2. February 1978.
Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, " Typical Procedures for Pressurized i
Water Reactors and Boiling Water Reactors, " paragraph 8.b provides, in i
part, that the licensee' establish and follow written procedures for surveillance tests, inspections, and calibrations for reactor protection system tests and calibrations.
5 Vogtle Electric Generating Plant Procedure 24812-1, Delta T/T Avg Loop 3
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Protection Channel III IT-431 Analog Channel Operations Test and Channel Calibration, and the Analog Channel Operational Test (ACOT) section of the procedure, provides instructions for analog channel operational test and channel calibration of the Delta T/T Avg loop and _ is used to verify operability and settings in reactor protection system instrumentation for Overtemperature Delta T and Overpower Delta T, and Engineering Safety Features Actuation System instrumentation Low Reactor Coolant System T Avg Coincident with a Reactor Trip.
The procedure requires disabling the process sensors from the field instrument and artificially inserting a test signal into the circuitry to verify the settings in the actuation circuitry are correct.
Should the as-found settings be outside the allowable range, as given in a data sheet contained in the procedure, the procedure requires that an adjustment be accomplished by perfoming a calibration and completion of the calibration data sheet.
Contrary to the above, on January 28, 1992, Mr. Marcel C. Wilkins, an Instrument and Control Technician, Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, while performing the procedure, observed that the as-found tolerances in the verification section of the ACOT procedure were outside the allowable range as listed in the data sheet contained in the procedure and was aware that a co-worker made the adjustments to the reactor protection system i
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using the ACOT configuration without performing the required calibration.
Following this, Mr. Wilkins deliberately created false data on the calibration data sheet, Data Sheet 37, that would give the false appearance that the procedure had been correctly completed. This 4
information was material to the NRC because it related to calibration of the reactor protection system.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement I).
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i REPLY TO A NOTICE OF VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT ACTION 92-041 i
l By letter dated May 28, 1992, the NRC issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) resulting from the activities of two Instrument and Control technicians while i
performing a surveillance on reactor trip system instrumentation on January 28, 1992.
In accordance with 10 CFR 2.201, our response is provided in the enclosure.
In addition, Georgia Power Company wishes to reiterate that we 4
in no way condone the actions of the technicians which are the subject of the NOV. As we stated during the May 13, 1992, enforcement conference, the integrity of our employees is fundamental to our confidence in the condition and 4
status of our plant. Georgia Power Company remains committed to this fundamental principle, and we believe that the corrective actions described in the enclosure and discussed during the enforcement conference will serve to reemphasize that commitment to the employees at the Vogtle Electric Generating Plant.
Sincerely, C. K. McCoy CKM/NJS Enclosures xc: Georaia Power Company Mr..W. B. Shipman Mr. M. Sheibani NORMS U. S. Nuclear Reaulatory Commission r^
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ENCLOSURE 1 V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT - UNIT 1 REPLY TO A NOTICE OF VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT ACTION (EA)92-041 The following is transcription of the violations as cited in the Notice of' Violation (NOV):
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A. " Technical Specification 6.7.la requires that written procedures be established, implemented, and maintained covering' activities delineated in l
Appendix A of Regulatory Guide 1.33, Revision 2, February 1978.
Regulatory Guide 1.33, Appendix A, " Typical Procedures for Pressurized Water l
Reactors and Boiling Water Reactors," paragraph 8.b provides, in part, that j
the licensee establish and follow written. procedures for surveillance tests, inspections, and calibrations for reactor protection system tests and i
calibrations.
Procedure 24812-1, Delta T/T Avg Loop 3 Protection Channel III IT-431 Analog Channel Operations Test and Channel Calibration, provides instructions for analog channel operational test and channel calibration of this Delta T/T Avg i
loop. The procedure requires that if as found readings are not within limits specified, proceed to the appropriate calibration sub section.
l Contrary to the above, on January 28, 1992, technicians' failed to follow procedure 24812-1 in that upon identifying Over Pressure Delta Temperature (OPDT) runback bistable settings outside allowable limits, they willfully did not perform the calibration section of the procedure when adjusting the i
bistable. This resulted in an incorrect setting of the OPDT runback bistable and a procedure error which would have been apparent had the procedure been-l performed correctly was not identified.
This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement 1).
B.10 CFR 20.9 requires that information provided to the Comission by an applicant for a license or by a licensee or_ information required by statue or by the Commission's regulations, orders, or license conditions to be j
maintained by the licensee shall be complete and accurate in all material respects.
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Contrary to the above, information required by the license conditions to be maintained by the licensee was not complete and accurate in all material l
respects, in that,_on January 28, 1992, data entered into Procedure 24812-1, i
Data Sheet 37, was fabricated by the technicians performing this activity.
This information was material to the NRC because it related to calibration of l
the reactor protection system.
1 This is a Severity Level IV violation (Supplement 1)."
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I lw ENCLOSURE 1 V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT - UNIT 1 REPLY TO A NOTICE OF VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT ACTION (EA)92-041 RESPONSE TO VIOLATION A Admission or Denial of the Violation
' The violation occurred as stated in the NOV and as discussed in the i
May 13, 1992, enforcement conference.
f Reason for the Violation The reason for this violation was the Instrument and Control (I&C) technicians i
failed to follow Procedure 24812-1, " Delta T/T Avg Loop 3 Protection Channel III IT-431 Analog Channel Operational Test and Channel Calibration." In addition, when Procedure 24312-1 was_ changed in January 1992, one of the data sheets was l
not completely revised to reflect the change.
I Corrective Steos Which Have Been Taken and the Results Achieved i
o A temporary change to Procedure 24812-1 was initiated to include the' correct values on the analog channel operational test (ACOT) data sheet, and the runback bistable was adjusted to the correct setpoint on January 29, 1992.
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Procedure 24812-1 was revised on February 7, 1992, to it. corporate the correct values.
i o The technicians were disciplined in accordance with the GPC Positive l
Discipline Program and were issued a Decision Making Leave - the most severe i
discipline short of dismissal. This includes placing the technicians on i
probation for an 18-month period such that an infraction of any type may j
result in employment termination.
o A memorandum was sent to all plant personnel stating plant and corporate management's expectation for integrity due to the special public trust placed in plant workers. A copy of the NRC's deliberate misconduct rule was attached to this memorandum. A copy of this memorandum is attached as 2
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o A series of management and supervisory meetings with I&C technicians were l
conducted to strongly emphasize expectations for procedure compliance and.
reliance on the integrity of the plant staff as a fundamental job requirement and a basis of employment.
o A self assessment of VEGP practices is being performed in light of
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ENCLOSURE 1 V0GTLE ELECTRIC GENERATING PLANT - UNIT 1 REPLY TO A NOTICE OF VIOLATION ENFORCEMENT ACTION (EA)92-041 t
Corrective Steos Which Will Be Taken to Avoid Further Violations 1
No further actions are warranted other than those identified above.
I Date When Full Como11ance Will Be Achieved Compliance was achieved on January 29, 1992, when the bistable was restored to
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REPLY TO A NOTICE OF VIOLATION j
ENFORCEMENT ACTION (EA)92-041 RESPONSE TO VIOLATION B l
Admission or Denial of the Violation a
i-The violation occurred as stated in the NOV and as discussed in the l
May 13, 1992, enforcement conference.
l Reason for the Violation The reason for the violation was the Instrument and Control (I&C) technicians failed to follow Procedure 24812-1. The technicians did not proceed to the 4
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appropriate subsection of the procedure for bistable calibration. Just' prior to turning in the surveillance package to their foreman for close-out review, one i
of the technicians realized that no data sheet existed for the calibration of ITB-431H. He then decided to fill out data sheet 37 with values that he believed would support the adjustments made in the field earlier. No actual "As i
Found" or "As Left" data were ever taken for this data sheet.
j Corrective Steos Which Have Been Taken and the Results Achieved i
l o Disciplinary actions are the same as mentioned in Violation A.
l o Tlie bistable was adjusted to the correct setpoint on January 29, 1992, and j
the results were appropriately documented.
s o A series of. supervisory and management meetings were conducted with all I&C l
technicians explaining management expectations for procedural compliance.
l o The involved individual as well as other members of his crew were interviewed. These interviews revealed no information which would indicate other instances of falsely documenting work.
In addition, samples of the 1-individual's previous work documents were reviewed to detect patterns of possible falsification or improper work or documentation. No improper or suspicious documentation was found.
Corrective Steos That will Be Taken to Avoid Further Violations No further actions are warranted.
Date When Full Como11ance Will be Achieved Compliance was achieved on January 29, 1992, when the surveillance was reperformed and documented appropriately.
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i As a result of several recent events in our industry. I went to share with you some of my thoughts concerning our individual responsibilities as nuclear plant workers. As nuclear i
plant employees of Georgia Power Company, we have accepted a special trust relative to our i
l work at Vogtle Electric Generating Plant. The safe operation of our plant requires that we perform our work reliably and in accordance with procedures. We also sapend on each t
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employee to honestly and completely report any known problems or errors so that tt my may i
be promptly corrected.
i The personal traits required to fulfill this trust (integrity, honesty, trustworthiness),
while desirable for everyone, are essential for nuclear plant employees, in our business, because of the possible consequences of an accident such as Three Mlle island or Chernobyl.
j-we are expected to meet high personal standards and we must constantly strive to maintain these standards and to assist our fellow workers in meeting these espectations.
As General Manager at Vogtle Electric Generating Plant, I expect each employee here to abide by the rules, regulations and procedures that govern our operation of this facility.
If you find yourself in a condition where you have made a mistake or an error either l
consciously or inadvertently. I urge you to immediately inform your supervision of this situation. Appropriate disciplinary action will be taken for negligence or conocleus violations of our rules, regulations of procedures; but mitigation of the disciplinery action is inuch more likely if you report the mistake to your supervision than if they discover it through other j
means.
As additional information, I am attaching a Nuclear Regulatory Commission j
information notice pertaining to recent industry events en this general subjet as well as a recent revision to the NRC regulations that addresses deliberate misconduct :;y unlicensed j
indNiduals. It is appe ent that the NRC, as well as Georgia Power Company is concerned about failure of nuclear workers to meet expectations of integrity and honesty. Workers who l
do not meet these standards will be held accountable by the NRC as well as the Company.
l I encourage you to read these documents as they explain potential NRC enforcement actions which the NRC may take against individuals that are in addition to those actions j
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