ML20206D945

Annotated Ltr Expressing Appreciation for Reply to & Assurance in Response to Concerns Pertaining to Operation of Ref Plants

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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o 262 Sheffield Lane Glen Ellyn, II. 60137 August 12, 1988 i

Mr. Lando W. Zech, Jr.

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Washington, D.C. 20555

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. ,o s step But Technical Specifications for the Dresden and Quad Cities a ,

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reactors require that the drywell be inerted - oxygen /~ v !D

' concentration reduced to less than 5% with nitrogen - during k o -o power operations. Car A.md:_*-

Mr. Greenman also writes that the Nuclear Regulatory

-a/f'.uL) r Commission approves of a Com4nonwealth Edison Company Policy 1.a i that authorizes operatsts to turn off a safety system in an . . ne.  !

emergency before the system has accomplished its design <

, m e, n u. c i purpose. Turning off a safety system pumping water into a , , ,

nuclear reactor during an emergency before the system has 3' 7,7

,g finished its job can cause a nuclear fuel meltdown. [

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approves (1) a practice that violates nuclear plant operating Licenses and (2) a Policy that can cause an p en ;L>

accident like Three Mile Island. a, u.a w a A [

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, My April 18 letter to you refutes Mr. Greenman's letter. 4gpd/

W"h My second letter to you, dated April 29, 1988, reviews my I experience in the commercial nuclear power iield. I wrote \%A-P SD' this letter to show my qualifications for making judgments p , ' ~3 " ' '

about operating commercial nuclear powet plants. :a ~ a A s,e/\so ,

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on June 22, I called you to ask about my letters. ', talked to Frank Ingram. I told him that I had written two letters to you about problems at commonwealth Edison nuclear plants. He said that the letters had probably been sent to the Region for action. I replied that I had already corresponded with the Region; that I wrote to you betause action by the Region was unsatisfactory. Mr. Ingram tol'4 me he would look into the g situation. ~ ,y 'o.m on July 7, 1988, I wrote you to describe how the nuclear industry has overlooked the most important lesson from the 4'

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Three Mile Island accident. I described how a management official, a Senior Operator, stationed in the control room in ['L //

charge of operations, would have prevented the accident. I enclosed two studies to support this conclusion. I wrote this Ph./,P' 6/ r letter and sent you the studies because I know you advocate c(t j ,c) stationing a man, a Senior operator, in the control room in /, ,f charge of operations. I made the studies while working f or y .c. e4' Commonwealth Edison. F <0' s .@~

-- p I sent my July 7 letter to you, attention Mr. Ingram. In a ;Y 1etter dated July 12, 1958, Mr.Ingram acknowledges receipt of ( Q y[A '

my letter and the studies. He erroneously refers to the date ga- g, of my letter as June 8. 3

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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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