ML20211E767
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 06/13/1986 |
| From: | Janes D GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES CORP. |
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g NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Before the Administrative Law Judge In the Matter of
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(Three Mile Island Nuclear Station,)
Unit No. 1)
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TESTIMONY OF DAVID C. JANES My name is David C. Janes.
I am employed by GPU Nuclear Corporation as a Shift Supervisor, Three Mile Island Unit 1.
On April 24, 1981, I took the Senior Reactor Operator (SRO) examination administered by NRC at Three Mile Island.
The only other examinee who took this exam in the room with me was Charles Husted.
An NRC proctor was also in the room from time to time during the day.
On September 25, 1981, after the cheating episode had become common knowledge, I was interviewed by the NRC Office of Inspection and Enforcement.
The investigators were Messrs. Ward and Baci.
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k' have been a third investigator present during all or part of the interview.
When the hearing before the Special Master got underway I was scheduled to testify.
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my appearance was to take place, I learned from one of the Company's lawyers that Mr. Ward had already testified.
Mr. Ward, I was told, had testified that during the September 25, 1981 interview, I had repre-sented that Mr. Husted had asked me while we were taking the SRO examination a question about the examination but that I had declined to answer.
On December 9, 1981, when I did appear before the Special Master, I was questioned at length about Mr. Ward's allegations.
Mr. Ward's allegation is incorrect.
During the April 24, 1981 NRC examination, Mr. Husted did not ask me anything about the examination.
I am confident that I would remember any such question if it had occurred.
In fact I do not believe Mr. Husted spoke to me at all during the examination.
I know of no reason why Mr. Ward would make this allegation; I can only conclude that his testimony must have been based
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on a misunderstanding of the answers I gave during the interview.
It has been a long time since the interview, and I am not confident that I can recall every detail.
In preparing for this appearance, I have reviewed NRC's report of the interview.
It does not mention any statement by me that Mr. Husted solicited help on the examination.
I-have also reviewed materials from the hearing, including the transcript of my December 9, 1981 testi-mony before the Special Master.
I testified on that occasion that I was being questioned by Mr. Baci and that Mr. Ward broke in to state that Mr. Husted had solicited help.
Before I could deal with Mr. Ward's incorrect statement, Mr. Baci asked another question.
I then answered Mr. Baci's new question.
I did not answer Mr. Ward's statement, which was not in the form of a question.
I believe this was the substance of my earlier testimony, and I have no different recollec-tion of these events today.
In preparing for Mr. Husted's hearing, I have tried to understand how the misunderstanding about Mr. Husted might have come about.
There are some
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1 things that I recall being discussed during the September 25, 1981 interview that have some similarity to Mr. Ward's allegation.
I recall discussing during the interview how upset I had become, once the cheating had been discovered, about the fact that the NRC proctor had i
1 been absent from my room for long periods.
I became angry about this for several reasons.
First of all, when the NRC started investigating cheating, they immediately interviewed everyone on my shift but me, and I thought for a short time that I was the one under investigation.
I knew that I did not cheat, but I was at a loss as to how to prove it as thers was no proctor in the room much of the time.
Another reason I was upset was that since the proctor was absent, I suspected the exam would be invalidated.
I had put a lot of effort into passing that exam, and did not want to have to repeat it.
It upset me to think that because the NRC did not do their job, the TMI opera-tors would be penalized.
When I think today about my 1981 discussion with the NRC investigators about the proctors' absence, three questions come to mind which could have caused i
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T the misunderstanding about Mr. Husted.
First, I was i
asked what I would have done if someone had asked me a question during the April 1981 exam.
I told the investigators that I would have refused to answer the question.
It is possible that the NRC investigators thought that that had in fact occurred; it did not.
Later in the interview I was asked what I would do if I was asked a question during an exam now (September 25, 1981).
I replied that it would be just i
an attempt, or words to that effect, because I now felt fully responsible to apprehend people who cheated, and therefore I felt that I would be very conspicuously hostile towards anyone who tried to cheat from me.
Again, this was a hypothetical; it did not happen.
Third, I believe at the end of the inter-view, I may have indicated to the investigators that I had heard one or more groans or exclamations during the examinations as the people in the room read the exam.
I do not know now, and I don't think I knew on September 25, 1981, who groaned or in which exam these 4
j noises occurred.
It is conceivable that something I I
said on this subject during the interview might have i
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l' I left Mr. Ward with the impression that Mr. Husted had asked me something about the exam.
I have mentioned three possibilities for misunderstanding; I suspect that there may be others.
I repeat, however, that I cannot recall the interview in great detail after so long a time, and I cannot say for sure just what produced the misunderstanding.
I can also say, however, that Mr. Husted did not solicit the answer to an exam question from me during the April, 1981 examinations.
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