ML20216C813
| ML20216C813 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Maine Yankee |
| Issue date: | 03/16/1998 |
| From: | Shadis R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Shirley Ann Jackson NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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OPPOSING NUCLEAR POLLUTION POST OFFICE BOX 98, EDGECOMB, MAINE 04556 FAX 207 - 563 - 6302 207 - 882 - 6000 March 16,1998 ChairmanShirley A. Jackson Members of the Commission US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mail Stop 0-16 G15 One White FlintNorth 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville,MD 20852 -2738
Dear Chairman Jackson,
Members of the Commission, On behalf of Friends of the Coast and concemed Maine residents, I respectfully call your attention to a matter in which we believe your agency is failing to act w accord with its responsibilities.
The facts are these:
At a meeting of Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company's Community Advisory Panel on Decommissioning on March 5,1998, Patrick Dostie, Maine's State Nuc Safety Inspector stated clearly and unequivocally that he had, in the late 198 witnessed nuclear waste materials being shipped to our local municipal landfill.
Mr. Dostie descrSed what appeared to be a careless and illegally institutionali practice of sorting out the less contaminated components of trash from controlled areas of the plant for local disposal. He detailed one four to six week period in which a portal monitor used to assay the trash was out of cal the period described, Mr. Dostie was a Maine Yankee Atomic employee.
Maine Yankee Atomic Power Company is reportedly engaging in an internal investigation of the matter.
According to local news media reports, the NRC resident inspector has stat NRC is watching the company's investigation and is waiting to see what t will be.
We believe NRC's lack of active, appropriate, and tirnely response strains t credulity.
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' Frien3s of the Coast / NRC Chairman Can any credence be given to Maine Yankee Atomic's apparent bout of a regarding a ' cutting edge' nuclear waste volume reduction process that take place over a periods of months or years ?
I Has NRC forgotten its own allegations with regard to Maine Yankee Atomic lack of candor and deception in the matters ofits Emergency Core Cooling System analysis and Atmospheric Steam Dump Valve capacity analysis ?
Has NRC forgotten that its project manager for Maine Yankee Atomic, Mr.
Eduard Trottier, was seduced into handing the company privileged information included a potential fsieral witness list from an ongoing investigation ?
Has NRC forgotten the lesson of Col Oliver North and his assistant, Fawn H that under duress even previously untainted individuals will be tempted to d l
records ?
We believe that NRC's proper and prudent course of action should have been a immediate sealing of the records at Maine Yankee Atomic. NRC resident insp Richard Rasmussen should have gone directly from the above mentioned l
place a phone call to appropriate officials at NRC and then to Maine files to await the arrival of NRC investigators or US Marshals.
We have little reason to trust that Maine Yankee Atomic has not solved stemming from waste vohnne reduction records by the reduction (shred same records. If this is so then NRC is complicit by its failure to secure when credible evidence, the public statement of a Maine state official, g probable cause.
Also We believe that NRC 's failure to assess a single penalty against Yankee Atomic fro.a 1995 through the first quarter of 1998 in spite of a c string of serious violations may now be encouraging the company the law.
We hope that it is not too late.We hope that NRC will undertak independent investigation in which we would employees. We urge the Commission to publicly examine its ow addressing this apparent failure in radioacti i
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tices were that NRC is questioning NRC inspectors who were re::ident at the t me t e in place. Surely, something is very wrong with NRC oversight if permitted to continue for any period of time.
Thank you for your attention, Raymond Shadis
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