ML20141N292
| ML20141N292 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 09/14/1982 |
| From: | CIRCUIT BREAKER NEWS |
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| References | |
| FOIA-85-799 PR-820914, NUDOCS 8603060060 | |
| Download: ML20141N292 (2) | |
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. COMANCHE PEAK HEARING RESUMES; ATCHISON CLAIMS PLOT Kir k
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The Comanche Peak licensing hearing resumed Monday in Fort Worth with
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buttal testimony by the company.
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The hearing, before an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Nuclear i','
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 -
Citizens Association for Sound Energy - Monday included:
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-- 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.
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-- 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 at the plant, about allegations they've made concerning' '
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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.
Atchison was hired bv a subecnt" actor at the Waterferd III nuclear
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plant, being built by Lou'istana Powe' & Light, at the same time the last S
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TU at"torney Nick Reynolds also touched briefly on a finding in a
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Department of Labor investigation that Atchison had been discriminated I' r jMI,$
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krong reasons the Department of Labor gave for ruling that Atchison'.d.C.,.
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should be reinstated was the fact that some Comanche Peak employees
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including Brandt - once worked at the Louisiana project and some T
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Reynolds established that Atchison himself had told the investigator.&
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that Brandt once had worked at the Louisiana plant.
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session. Brandt said he not.cnly had never discussed Atchisan with any-i.M,..,J".'y' 1
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"It is noteworthy to point out," said TUGC0 QA manager Dave Chapman ' h,D; E,
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hard-working.. credible employees who are doing good quality assurance i
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jobs every day at Comanche Peak," he said.
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Also testifying Tuesday was a fomer employee in the pipe suppnrt
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stress analysis area at the plant. Jack Doyle. Doyle admitted that, p.f.l.
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until he talked to plant experts while.giving his disposition for the hearing a month ago, he had not been aware that his group did not have
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He admitted he had not known that a series of reviews are done -
including the final stress analysis - to make su're the pipe supports are
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.e to refute the testimony of Doyle and one of his co-workers. Mark Walsh.
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The panel will continue Wednesday.
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