ML20151U967

PNO-77-098:environ Group Wrote Senator a Stevenson Requesting Investigation Into NRC Insp & Monitoring Program, as Result of of NRC Failure to Detect Promptly Releases of Radioactive Tritium by Plant

ML20151U967
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Site:	Zion  File:ZionSolutions icon.png
Issue date:	06/06/1977
From:	Bidinger G, Higginbotham L, Roy G NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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References
PNO-77-098, PNO-77-98, NUDOCS 9809140009
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v June 6, 1977 PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION. EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-77-96 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of

_POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that {s known by IE staf f on this date.

Facility: Comonwealth Edison Company, Zion Unit Ntrs.1 and 2 ~

(Docket Nos. 50-295 and_50-304), Lake Co. Illinois

Subject:

REQUEST FOR CONGRESSIONAL INVESTIGATION OF NRC INSPECTION PROGRAM l

A Palatine, Illinois, environmental group has written Senator Adlai Stevenson III (Dem.,' Illinois) asking for an investigation into the NRC inspection and monitoring program as a result of the NRC's failure to detect promptly releases of radioactive tritium by the Zion Nuclear l Power Station. .As reported in PNO-77-92, May 25, 1977, low levels of '

tritium in water from the plant secondary system were released through I

an unmonitored pathway via the fire sump to the plant discharge. The unmonitored discharge was identified during a routine health physics l inspection by the Region III (Chicago) staff. i i

' Mrs." Catherine Quigg' , President of Pollution and Environmental Problems,  !

asked Senator Stevenson to hold hearings on the matter.

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The request for an investigation was reported by the Chicago Tribune

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Contact:

GHB1dinger IE x27353 LHigginbotham, IE x27347 GRoy, IE x27261

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R. G. Ryan, OSP . E.'Volgenau, 'IE T. J. McTiernan, OIA Region '

H. K. Shapar, ELD

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