ML20141N293
| ML20141N293 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 09/15/1982 |
| From: | CIRCUIT BREAKER NEWS |
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| ML20141N291 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-85-799 PR-820915, NUDOCS 8603060061 | |
| Download: ML20141N293 (2) | |
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COMPANY WITNESSES REFUTE INTERVENORS_
P Su Witnesses for Texas Utilities took the stand Tuesday during the E
Comanche Peak licensing hearing to refute allegations by intervenor e-h*-
witnesses, including fomer inspector Charles Atchison.
f Testimony by a panel called to give evidence rebutting Atchison and other witnesses for the Citizens Association for Sound Energy (CASE) i took most of the day, primarily because of tedious and repetitive cross-
'tr examination by CASE president Juanita Ellis.
The hearing is being conducted in Fort Worth by an Atomic Safety ASLB chaiman Marshall Miller several 9
and Licensing Board of the NRC.
times asked Mrs. Ellis to speed up her questioning, saying at one point, 5
"We're taking so much time that it seems purposeless."
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The ~U panel was'made up of C. Thomas Brandt, mechanical / civil quality assurance-quality control supervisor; Gordon Purdy, site QA
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manager for Brown & Root; Raymond Yurpillat, power group-QA manager 4
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for Brown & Root; Ron Tolson, site QA supervisor for TUGCO, and Randall D. Smith, who was Atchison's imediate supervisor.
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T After~ testifying, members of the panel'said they felt their evidence refuting claims made by Atchison and others had been persuasive.
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-- Linear" indications alleged by-Atchison to.mean,faultsm -
in welds were shown-to'be actually nothing more than
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-- Less than 20 percent of what Atchison had thoughtowere I
indications of rejectable welds were actually. rejectable.
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and~none has any safety significance.e,. '
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" Weave bead" welding, claimed by some intervenor witnesses to be prohibited, is in fact pemitted by the industry for weld beads with a width up to four times the size of the rod used to make the weld.
---Torque seal, said by allegers to have been used at Comanche Peak by persons not qualified to possess and use it, isn't used at all at many nuclear plant con-
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ment's investigator concluded Atchison should be reinstated
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fired after he testified at the Comanche Peak hearing.
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" engaging in a protected activity" for which he cannot be fired.
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claims Texas Utilities is part of a r wiracy.inainst him. CASE Monda Among other,
'" financial relief" be granted to him. requests. in the testimony, he asked the lic
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Outside the hearing room. TU officials told reporters Atchison's C*.
' latest claims were " ridiculous," pointing out that neither TU nor any of the companies involved with building Comanche Peak wsuld have any reason
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.id "Neither Texas utilities nor any member of Comanche Peak management had anything to do with Atchison being hired at the Louisiana plant, or
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with his being fired," said TUSI manager of nuclear services Homer Schmidt.
"We only know why he was fired from Comanche Peak, and that was because he
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was not competent to perform his job."
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~3 The board will rule on the admissibility of Atchison's new testimony r'7
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Both TU attorney Nick Reynolds and the NRC legal staff cbjected
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adequately in the p..st.
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Through cross-examination, Reynolds pointed out persons might see what i k,' '.
t they believed were problem., but have the NRC decline to substantiate their
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allegations because it recognized the alleged problems did not exist.
'In his direct testimony Henry Stiner acknowledged he has a criminal a 5;,..
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his record, but was stopped by ASLB chairman Itafshall Miller.Rey
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the board would take under advisement the question of whether Stiaer could
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. be questioned about his record and said a decision would be announced
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Also Tuesday, Jack Doyle is scheduled to be cross-examined further about. '
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his allegations concerning the strength of pipe supports.
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