ML20235K766
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| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 10/01/1987 |
| From: | Stello V NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT |
| References | |
| FOIA-87-294, FOIA-87-A-65 NUDOCS 8710050222 | |
| Download: ML20235K766 (2) | |
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Dear Ms. Bauman:
This is in response to your letter dated August 31, 1987, in which you appealed Mr. Donnie H. Grimsley's response dated August 27, 1987.
Mr. Griesley's response denied une document in its entirety which was subject to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents on the Nuclear Employee Data System mentioned in an issue of Inside NRC.
Acting on your appeal, I have carefully reviewed the record in this case and have determined that the previously withheld information will continue to be withheld from public disclosure pursuant to Exemption (4) of the F0IA (5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4)) and 10 CFR 9.5(a)(4) of the Comission's regulations. Your appeal is, therefore, denied.
The ERCI Utility Data Services Corporation document listed on the enclosed appendix fonns, in part, the basis of the Nuclear Employee Data System being marketed by that company. This infonnation was submitted to the NRC in confidence, and its release could reduce ERCI Utility Data Services Corporation's competitive advantage.
This is a final agency action. As set forth in the FOIA (5 U.S.C.
55E(a)(4)(B)), judicial review of this decision is available in a district court of the United States in the district in which you reside or have your principal place of business or in the District of Columbia.
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Enclosure:
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2/13/86 Memo. from W.L. Kushner' to R.R. Keimig concerning Safeguard Review Report.
(4 pages) LPORTIONS ARE PROVIDED.
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Undated Infor1 nation on Nuclear Employee Data System (NEDS) (12 pages)..
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APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911-4897 May 18, 1987 EREEDOM 0F INFORMATION ACT REQUEST 9P7"Mh FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST Qv* 'dC-M -O Director
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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 cgency records and information, including but not limited to notes, l
lotters, memoranda, draf ts, minutes, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, cgreessents, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets, notebooks, books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runof fs, and cny 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) i knows and/or has on The Nuclear Employee Data System (NEDS) which became 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) and the NRC Manual, Appendix 0211, Parts 1. A.2 and A.3 (approved October 8,
1980) whether they currently exist in the NRC offical, " working" l
investigative or other files, or at any other location, including private residences.
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 dastroyed and/or removed after
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limited to a list of all records which have been or are destroyed and/or I
removed, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated rt c -
cction with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).
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L GA P requests ' that f ees be waived, because " finding the information can be.censidered as primarily' benefitting the general public, "5 U.S.C.
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GAP is a non profit, non-partl san public ' interest organization concerned with honest and open government.
Through public outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability.
Through it Environmental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers oasistance to local public interest and citizens groups and interveners,;
intheconcernfor.safetyatnucler.rpower.planps.
g Wa are requesting this information as part of an ongoing monitoring project oftheNRC'seffortstoprotect.publichealthah6'safetyatandnep'r. ' fh nuclearprocessingplantsandrad.ioactivepa,stejfacilities.
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3 For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemining and describing the documents or portions of documents withheld.
The.index should provide.a detailed justification of your grounds for claiming lsach. exemption, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document'bf.pbrtion of the document withheld.
This index is required'under vaughn V. Rosen (I), 484 F.2d 820.
(D.C.:Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415.U;S: 977.?(1974).
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In the chain of egents that followed, the reduced r: actor coolant level caused the residual heat removal pumps to take in air (cavitate) and that prompted operators to shut don the pumps. During the estimated 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 rninutes after the pump restart the temperature dropped to less than 200 degrees, according to the NRC event desenpuce The PG&E spokesman said that operators didn't immediately refill the cooling system because the dams were not in place and they wanted to avoid a spill of refueling water into one of the generator manways. 'that, according to the NRC staffer, could have put contaminated water under the floor of the containment building.
According to the NRC staffer, NRC has two levels of concerns about what transpired at Diablo Canyon-2. The first surrounds the event itself and the issue of operator performance, and communication between the engineer doing the test and the contml room staff, he said. The second is a broader concern that involves the general question of whether it is appropnate to reduce the volume of the reactor cool-ing system and risk losing decay heat removal. Ahhough that is now permitted seder technical specifi-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 2 substantial impact on plans to have the unit back on line by mid-June,-Elaine Hiruo, WasMagron TWENTY ONE WORKERS AT TROJAN RECEIVED FIADIATION EXPOSURES from a crushed, de-graded fuel pellet that had been lodged between the reactor vessel and head flany inside the contain-ment building. Acconhng to a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, pellets were released into Trojan's reactor cooling system in 1982 when the plant experienced significant fael 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 first contamination incident.
The workers expenenced contamination April 9 while installi"g reactor head stud plugs during a refueling outage. Seven of them had contaminatico 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 radiation April 17 w
while working in the refueling cavity.
According to an NRC notification, all work in the reactor containment building has been halted 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 abere is no indication that off. site releases occurred.Thei utility spokesman said that by the latest estimte the incident might
,k alan to-nnmthms in early June by three or four days.
E NUCLEAR EMPLOYEE DATA SYSTEld (NEDS) BECAME FULLY OPERATIONAL April 20, according to Peter MoeDer, 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 enables utility partoper as e quickly exchange transient worker in-processing data, is owned 1 y PSE&G, Ba5timore Gas & Electric Co., GPlJ Nuclear Corp., Philadelphia Electric Co., and Virginia Power. Those utilities have been testing the system by passing " dummy"information through it to make sure they tinderstood wh1 procedures clearly (INRC 16 March 4). "We're now actively process-ing real data for 15 operating nuclear units located on eight sites," Moeller said.
I ERC International manages and operates NEDS ander the direction of the NEDS Owners Commit-tee, which developed the system at a cost of $2.5-million. Through the system, participating utilitics can exchange transient worker data such as identification, security, health physics. inedical training,
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respiratory protectma, sod work history records. "Our objective now," Moeller said. "is to immediately start expanding NEDS to a asuonal system."
a U.S., J APANESE RESEARCHERS PLAN COOPERATIVE SEISMIC TESTS Scientists at Brookhaves Nabonal 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 sessaue vibrations and pressures. "Ibe pact, the first cooperative seismic agreement between NRC and Japan's Miamary for International Trade & Industry, is expected to provide a mechanism for w
sharing information sad data associated with stnctural and mechanical engineering issues. NRC and the Electric Power Resewchlasutute (EPRI) jointly contributed $700,000 to the Ja;nnese, and NRC sup-plied them with nine congster codes to be used in other research & development, according to Dr. Wal-18 INSIDE N.R C.- ArraTI,lM