ML20134N928
| ML20134N928 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 09/04/1985 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20134N931 | List: |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8509060051 | |
| Download: ML20134N928 (1) | |
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g September 4,1985 MEMORANDUM FOR:
The Commissioners l
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William J. Dircks l
Executive Director for Operations
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SUBJECT:
GENERAL PHYSICS CORPORATION INSTRUCTIONAL COURSE FOR LICENSEE 3 CONTAINING MATERIAL OBJECTIONABLE TO THE NRC
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On August 22, 1984, NRC:HQ management learned of potentially objectionable i
material being taught by General Physics Corporation (GP), a contractor to l
General Public Utilities Corporation (GPU), in a containment leak rate course given in November 1983. A RIII inspector obtained the material from a co-worker i
who had attended the GP course when employed by GPU at their Oyster Creek facility.
I NRC management reviewed the material and after discussions with 01 and ELD l
contacted General Physics (Enclosure 1).
The objectionable portion of the material covered interactions with the NRC. The material appears to suggest or condone practices that could be misleading to the j
NRC program of inspection which relies to a large extent on licensee candor. As a result of Mr. Taylor's telephone conversations on August 23 and 24,1985 with representatives of GP, the company responded with a letter dated August 26, 1985 j
(Enclosure 2) identifying 17 GPU/0yster Creek full time participants in the offering at Oyster Creek and 8 participants from 4 utilities (names deleted by 4
NRC) in a subsequent course held March 1 and 2, 1984. Some of the objectionable material was deleted from the subsequent course offering.
The NRC staff is continuing followup with GP regarding the extent of dissemi-nation of this or similar materials. Also, the staff will followup with the identified utilities which had individuals taking these courses.
l For information, GP conducts training, provides technical reference material
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and engineering services under contract to utilities. A listing of GP courses and workshops and reference material extracted from a GP newsletter (Enclosure
- 3) is provided for information. General Physics presently has 5 contracts with i
i theNRC(Enclosure 4).
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William J. Dircks i
Executive Director for Operations
Enclosures:
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