ML20141N292

Press Release Discussing Resumption of Facility Licensing Hearing & Claim by C Atchison

ML20141N292
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Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	09/14/1982
From:	CIRCUIT BREAKER NEWS
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FOIA-85-799 PR-820914, NUDOCS 8603060060
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i . COMANCHE PEAK HEARING RESUMES; ATCHISON CLAIMS PLOT Kir

, k i* The Comanche Peak licensing hearing resumed Monday in Fort Worth with

'f  ; return engagements by several interver.or witnesses and the start of re -

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The hearing, before an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory Comission, began with resumption of testimony concerning the

, quality assurance program at the plant.

Testimony on quality assurance st:rted during the June hearing session and continued in July. Developments involving witnesses for the intervenor -

,7 Citizens Association for Sound Energy - Monday included: ,.

-- Disclosure by fomer welding insocctor Charles. Atchison .--

that a Department of Labor Investigation has resulted

• in an order to reinstate him in a job at a Louisiana ,

nuclear project - a job from which he was fire <i after .

the hearing session in July.

l . -- A new claim by Atchison that he is the victim of " muck-

. raking,", " discrimination.", " financial duress" and other

" devious deeds" by Texas Utilities. Brown & Root and

. companies involved with the Louisiana project.

. -- Cross-examination of a fomer employee, Henry Stiner, and his wife. Darlene, presently a quality car. trol ir.spector -

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. at the plant, about allegations they've made concerning' '

welding and the adequacy of NRC investigations.

-- Bitef appearances by two other fomer employees - Mark Walsh and Jack Doyle - who have made allegations concerning use of computer progra.us to analyze the strength of pipes and pipe supports.

-"5 Atchison was hired bv a subecnt" actor at the Waterferd III nuclear

' /. ^' .L plant, being built by Lou'istana Powe' & Light, at the same time the last hearing session in July oegan. .S e wa , . e iri af ter hc rc*ur..ed 'A L<misiana L

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S- . ' TU at"torney Nick Reynolds also touched briefly on a finding in a .." g" -

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krong reasons the Department of Labor gave for ruling that Atchison'.d.C.,.

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y. should be reinstated was the fact that some Comanche Peak employees including Brandt - once worked at the Louisiana project and some

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[ .. M. . . ; - Reynolds established that Atchison himself had told the investigator .&

that Brandt once had worked at the Louisiana plant. After ruesday's I

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.' /. ? y session. Brandt said he not.cnly had never discussed Atchisan with any- * .

1 l .,f- one at the Louisiana project, but had never even been conticted by the Labor Department investigator.

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j ' l,a M , ~. "It is noteworthy to point out," said TUGC0 QA manager Dave Chapman ' h,D; '

E, after the session. "that during these proceedings we've been hearing from - r y- ,

j  ?,p.l a few individuals.' most of whom are disgruntled and misguided fomer employees. .. Pr. w,y l - .5. ; - .

Not a single safety issue has been identified by any of them." ~

. . . . .? [ *.' r "For every one of these peoples I can identify a hundred capable, r__ye ,..

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" hard-working. . credible employees who are doing good quality assurance -

' jobs every day at Comanche Peak," he said. ',2.j; . ky

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- ' Also testifying Tuesday was a fomer employee in the pipe suppnrt '

[.4 4 l., *. stress analysis area at the plant. Jack Doyle. Doyle admitted that, p.f.l. (

until he talked to plant experts while.giving his disposition for the ' e f.; ; . 1.

• hearing a month ago, he had not been aware that his group did not have the final word concerning pipe support safety. $

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A panel of witnesses for the company began testimony late Tuesday to refute the testimony of Doyle and one of his co-workers. Mark Walsh. *.e'%,k. ;/[jjN2

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,q Mrs. Ellis said at least three people will appear when the session. . ."j'..:. . ,s...4t l

.,.,. begins Wednesday to make " limited appearance" statements opposing Comanche *tN.?j Peak.

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