ML20217A630

PNO-78-216:on 781229,misquotation Re Problems W/Wolf Creek Reactor Bldg Base Mat Concrete Preventing Issuance of License Was Reported.Nrc Consultant Denied Making Such Statement

ML20217A630
Person / Time
Site:	Wolf Creek
Issue date:	12/29/1978
From:	Reinmuth G, Thornburg H NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
To:
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PNO-78-216, NUDOCS 9804220298
Download: ML20217A630 (1)

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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION~' .

. December 29, 1978

. PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL .0CCUR8 ENC.E9P_N0-78-216 '

This reliminary notification constitutes ~iEARLY notice of event of '

POSS11LE safety or public interest significance. L.The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation and is basically all that is known by IE staff on this date.

Facility: Wolf Creek, Unit No.1 (SNUPPS)

Kansas Gas & Electric Co.

DN STN 50-482

Subject:

MISQUOTE OF NRC CONSULTANT BY NEW'S MEDIA Kansas Gas and Electric Company informed Region IV (Dallas) that a television report on WIBW Topeka, Kansas on December 28, 1978, and UPI news releases on December ~29 quoted an* NRC consultant as saying that problems with the Wolf Creek reactor building base mat concrete (PNO-7.8- l 198) could prevent NRC from issuing an operating license. The NRC i consultant, who was assisting in the IE investigation of the concrete problem, has denied making such a statement. There has been consider- '

able media interest in the misquotation. Region IV has received

. inquiries from several newspapers and from the Missouri Public Service g~

Commission. A meeting among representatives of NRR, IE and the utility t

'is planned for January 4,1979, to discuss the problem of understrength  !

, concrete in the reactor building base mat. , )

Information is current as of 3:00 p.m., December 29, 1978.

Contact:

GWReinmuth, IE x27551 HDThornburg, IE x28484 Distribution:

Chairman Hendrie Transmitted H St b'$ S. J. Chilk, SECY Commissioner Bradford Commissioner Kennedy ' Commissioner Ahearne C. C. Kamnerer, CA Commissioner Gilinsky (For ' Dis tribut' ion) i Transmi tted: MNBBh.bb P. Bldg h h D J. G. Da I L. V. Gossick, ED0 H. R. Denton, NRR Region , d .E/.42. i J. J. Fouchard, PA R. C. DeYoung, NRR l N. M. Haller, MPA R. J. Mattson, NRR R. G. Ryan, OSP V. Stello, NRR (MAIL) l H. K. Shapar, ELD R. S. Boyd NRR J. J. Cummings, 01A SS Bldg 4,s.d f R. Minogue, SD W. J. Dircks, NMSS i PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION l

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