ML20207R021

Requests Prompt Correction of Error in Insp Rept 70-1113/86-22.Final Rept Erroneously Portrayed Safety Weakness of Unevaluated Nuclear Criticality Accident Potential.Util Has Technically Sound Program

ML20207R021
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Site:	07001113
Issue date:	03/03/1987
From:	Bidinger G NRC OFFICE OF NUCLEAR MATERIAL SAFETY & SAFEGUARDS (NMSS)
To:	Cline W NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION II)
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NUDOCS 8703110060
Download: ML20207R021 (3)

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, y MAR 03 $67 MEMORANDUM FOR:- W. E. Cline, Chief Nuclear Materials Safety & Safeguards Branch, RII 7' THRU: W.1T.' Crow, Acting Chief-Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety, NMSS FROM: George H. Bidinger Uranium Process Licensing Section Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Division of Fuel Cycle and Material Safety, NMSS

SUBJECT:

INSPECTION REPORT NO. 70/1113/86-22, GENERAL' ELECTRIC CO.,

WILMINGTON, NORTH CAROLINA A serious mistake has been made in the subject report and is being called to your attention in accordance with NRC MC 4125. This error was called to Ed McAlpine's attention almost immediately when the report came out in January.1987. In a second call the following week, Mr. McAlpine promised corrective action within a week. However, several. weeks have passed without action. :Hence this memorandum.

My assigned responsibility for the team assessment in October 1986 was nuclear criticality safety. My findings, provided both orally during the assessment

' and in writing in a feeder report, were that GE had a technically sound program.

Yet, the final report has been erroneously construed to portray GE as having'a safety weakness in that the nuclear criticality accident potential in most of the plant was not evaluated (see Appendix B, Item 7, of letter, Stohr to GE, dtd 01/23/87).

Admittedly, I gave my concurrence to Mr. McAlpine when he " faxed" portions of the report for concurrence. The nature of this mistake, however, requires prompt corrective action. A simple corrective action could be to remove any reference to Section 1041n Appendix B, Item 7, and then to delete Section 10.b from the report.

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