ML20206D945
| ML20206D945 | |
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| Site: | Dresden, Quad Cities, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 08/12/1988 |
| From: | Cale Young AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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262 Sheffield Lane Glen Ellyn, II.
60137 August 12, 1988 i
Mr. Lando W.
Zech, Jr.
Cha irman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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Dear Lando:
I appieciate your reply to my July 19 letter.
You write that the staff responded to my January 29 and l
February 24, 1988 letters on March 31, 1988.
In a letter to me dated March 31, 1988, Mr. WBward G.
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Greenman writes that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approves of men working in a drywell with the reactor at power at Commonwealth Edison's Dresden ar.d Quad Cities Stations.
He writes that the drywell is always deinerted to J' u - ed when workers are in the drywell with the reactor at power.
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purpose. Turning off a safety system pumping water into a nuclear reactor during an emergency before the system has 3' 7,7
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approves (1) a practice that violates nuclear plant r a c e w r: r,
operating Licenses and (2) a Policy that can cause an p en ;L>
accident like Three Mile Island.
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, My April 18 letter to you refutes Mr. Greenman's letter.
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experience in the commercial nuclear power iield. I wrote
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about operating commercial nuclear powet plants.
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on July 18, I called Mr. Ingram to ask if you had seen my July 7 letter. Mr. In7 ram told me you had not. After learning
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