ML20215E636
| ML20215E636 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 06/17/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20215E640 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-87-294 NUDOCS 8706220053 | |
| Download: ML20215E636 (2) | |
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U.S. NUCLEAR RE3ULATORY COMMISSION NaC Foia aroutsi NUustnisi !
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a UDR PANT l.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (See checked bones!
No agency records subpset to the request have been located.
No additonal agency records subsect to the request have been located.
Agency records subject to the request that are identded in Appendix are already available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Room, 1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC .
Agency records subyset to the request that are identifed in Appendix b are being rnade available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document Koorn,1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name, The nonpropnetary version of the proposal (s) that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staff is now being made avalable for public inspection and coving at the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N W , Washington, DC, in a folder under the FOIA number and requester name.
Enclosed is information on how you may obtain access to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Ac,om,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC.
Agency records subrect to the request are enclosed. Any appficable charge for copies of the records provided and payment procedures are noted in the comments section.
R$ cords subject to the request have been referred to another Federal egencybes) for review and direct response to you.
In view of NRC's response to this request, no further action is being taken on appeal letter dated PART ll.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC DISCLOSURE Certam information in the requested records is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions described in and for the rossons stated in Part II, sec-inns B, C, and D. Any reiaased portions of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made available for public inspection and Copying in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOlA number and requester narne.
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- 1. 3-31-86 Memo from Perny -to McGuire, subject: Trip Report:. Nuclear '
Employee Data System (NEDS) Briefing, with attached listing of meeting attendees - 3 pages l4 4
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r s GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABluTY PROJECT 1 SSS Connecticut Avenue. N.W., Suite 202 ww.hn,gron D.C. 20036 (202)232 855' MIDWEST OFFICE 104 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911-4897 May 18, 1987 IREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
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FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
. Director Gwds-M -O Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission W2shington, D.C. 20210 TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN ,
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552,) the Government Accountability Project (GAP) requests copies of-any and all egency records and,information, including but not limited to notes, lotters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes, j transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, q ongineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, j agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books,. i telephone messages, computations, voice recordingr computer runoffs, and j eny other data compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, and any and all other records relevant to and/or generated in connection :
with: any and all information the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) j knows and/or has on The Nuclear Employee Data System (NEDS) which became I fully operational on April 20th, refer to page 11 of Inside NRC, April 27, 1987, (attached).
This request includes all agency records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b) !
cnd the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1.A.2 and A.3 (approved. October i 8, 1980) whether they currently exist in the NRC offical, " working" l investigative or other files, or at any other location,. including private ,
rasidences. )
If any records as defined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b)'and the NRC Manual, supra, l cnd covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed after this request, please provide all surrounding records, including but not limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or rzmoved, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated h"' l cetion with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).
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j GAP requests that fees be waived, because " finding the inf ormation can be considered as primarily benefitting =the general public, "5 U.S.C.
352 (a) (4) (a). GAP is a'non profit, non-partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government. Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability. Through it Enviromental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers assistance to local public interest and citizens groups and intervenors in the concern for safety at nuclear ~ power plants. t b
We are requesting this information as part of an ongoing monitorin) project of the NRC's efforts.to protect public health and safety at and near y nuclear processing plants and radioactive waste, facilities. /'
For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an'index itemizing and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld. The.index should provide a detailed justification of your grounds for claimincj .each exempt' ion, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document or portion of the document withheld. This index is required isnder Naughn V. Rosen (I), 484-F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415. 0 Si 977.'-(1974).- "'
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E will help keep control-room staff informed of what other employees are doing and where they are, he said, la the chain of events that folinwed, the reduced reactor coolant lesel caused the residual heat removal pumps to take in air (cavitate) and that prompted operators to shut down the pumps. During the esumated 80 minutes it took to correct the situation, the reactor cooling system's temperature eventually hit 220 degrees-far above its usual 90- to 100-degree reading. Five minutes after the pump restart the temperature dropped to less than 200 degrees, according to the NRC event description.
The PG&E spokesman said that operators didn't immediately re611 the cooling system because the darns were not in place and they wanted to avoid a spill of refueling water into one of the generator manways.That, according to the MRC staffer, could have put contaminated water under the noor of the containment building. .
. According to the NRC staffer, NRC has two levels of concerns about what transpired at Diablo .
Canyon-2. The Erst surrounds the event itself and the issue of operator performance, and communication between the engineer doing the test and the control room staff, he said. The second is a broader concern that involves the general question of whether it is appropriate to reduce the volume of the reactor cool-ing system and risk losing decay heat removal. Although that is now permitted under technical speciS-cations, the staffer said, additional data will be gathered on the issue. .
The PG&E spokesman said that the incident isn't likely to have a substantial impact on plans to have the unit back on line by mid.Junce--Elaine Hiruo, Washington -
TWENTY ONE WORKERS AT TROJAN RECEIVED RADIATION EXPOSURES from a crushed, de-graded fuel pellet that had been lodged between the reactor vessel and head Bange inside the contain~
g ment building. According to a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, pellets were released into Trojan's reactor cooling system in 1982 when the plant experienced signi6 cant fuel pin failures. He said that the plant had tried to retrieve as many pellets as it could following the pin failures and that this was the Erst contamini. tion incident.
The workers experienced contamination April 9 while installing reactor head stud plugs during a -
refueling outage. Seven of them had contamination levels of up to I rad / hour on the outer layer of their protective clothing, an NRC staffer said. There was no evidence of uptake among the workers because -
,, they were wearing respirators. In a related incident, another worker was exposed to rad!stion April 17 while working in the refueling cavity.
According to an NRC noti 6 cation, all work in the reactor containment building has been hahed and the utility is " initiating an investigation and radiological review to establish the actual exposure and :
measures necessary to permit resumption of work." An NRC update added that there is no indication that off-site releases occurred.1hei utility spokesman said that by the latest estimate, the incident might
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..=rinn. in early June by three or four days. 9 E NUCLEAR EMPLOYEE DATA SYSTEhl (NEDS) BECAME FULLY OPERATIONAL April 20, according to Peter Moeller, site protection manager for Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (PSEAG) and chairman of the NEDS project. NEDS, a centralized, on line information management system that j enables utility participants to quickly exchange transient worker in-processing data, is owned by ]
PSE&G, Baltimore Gas & Electric Co., GPU Nuclear Corp., Philadelphia Electric Co., and Virginia ]
Power. Those utilities have been testing the system by passing " dummy" information through it to make f -i sure they understood operational procedures clearly (INRC,16 March,4). "We're now actively --
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ing real data for 15 operstmg nuclear units tacawl on eight sites," Moeller said. l ERC lasernational manages and operates NEDS under the direc' tion of the NEDS Owners Commit- l l I
tee, which developed the system at a cost of $2.5-saillion. Through the system, participating utilities can l exchange transient worker data such as identi6 cation, security, health physics, medical training, . j
. respiratory protection, and work history records. "Our objective now," Moeller said, "is to immediately 7 start expandmg NEDS to a national system." ,-
U.S., JAPANESE RESEARCHERS PLAN COOPERATIVE SEISMIC TESTS -
Scienests at Brookhaven National laboratory (BNL) and Japan's Nuclear Power Engineering Test Center plan early next year to test the ability of a PWR recirculation loop to withstand larger than ;
design basis seismic vibrations and pressures. The pact, the Srst cooperative seismic agreement between O . NRC and japan's Mimstry for latemational Trade & Industry, is expected to provide a mechanism for sharing information and data associated with structural and mechanical engineering issues. NRC and the ,
f Electric Power Research lastitute (EPRI) jointly contributed $700,000 to the Japanese, and NRC sup-I plied them with nine computer codes to be used irl other research & development, according to Dr. Wal-
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