ML20235N929

Partial Response to FOIA Request for Documents Re Salem Generated Station.Forwards App F Documents.Documents Also Available in PDR

ML20235N929
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	07/16/1987
From:	Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM)
To:	Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
Shared Package
ML20235N931	List: IA-87-294, Summarizes 860417 Detailed Review of Nuclear Employee Data Sys (Neds) at Intl Energy Assoc.Ie Program Will Not Change Significantly Upon Implementation of Neds Program Because Sys Primarily Data Transmission Sys ML20235N929 ML20235N952 ML20244D867
References
FOIA-87-294 NUDOCS 8707200276
Download: ML20235N929 (2)

Text

_ - _ _ - - . _ _ _ _ _ - _ __.- - _ _ ~ y .

so e..

• pg)g- -

mes, y,n ,

3 RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF g "*l" '* Dd '**'

(e / INFORMATION ACT (FOlA) REQUEST Mu i s war DOCKET NUMBER ($l 4# app 4cM48 *" '

~

REQUg$7E s W )s '

PART 1.-RECORDS RELEAE.E0 OR NOT LOCATED (See checked bones)

No agency escords subject to the request have been located.

No cddr'onal agency records subsect to the request have been located.

Ageney enords subsect to the request that are identmed m Appendix are already available for pubic inspection and copying in the NRC Pedic Document Room, 1*:17 H Street, N.W., Washmgton, DC.

Agency records subtect to the request that are identifed in Appendix b are being made available for public inspecten and copying in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 ri Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOIA number and requester name.

The nororopnetary version of the propcsal(s) that you agreed to accept in a telaphone conversation with a member of my staff is now being rnado evalable for pubhc inspection end coying et the NRC Puble Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Washington, DC, in a folder under tne FOIA numbe and requester name.

1 Enclosed is information on how ycu may obtain access to and the cha ges for copyng records placed in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N.W., Woohington, DC.

Agency escoros subject to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copes of. the records prowd3ed and payment procedures aru noted in the comments secten.

Records subsect to the request have been referred to another Federal egencytes) for revow and direct response to you.

la vara of NeiC s response to the request no further action a being taken on appeal letter dated PART li.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PtJBLIC DISCLOSURE Certam mforneton in the requested records is being wrthhald from public disclosure pursuant to the FOtA enemptions described in and for the reasons stated in Part 11, sec-tsons 8, C, and D. Any released porter's of the documents for whrch only part of the record is bemg wrthheld are bemg made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC PutAc Document Room,1717 H Street, N W., Washington. DC, in a folder under the 80lA number and requester name.

~Comrrents I

1 I

l 8707200276 870716 '

PDR FOIA POR BAUMAN87-294 SsGh 8W. DIRECTOR D!Vi$10N ULE$ AND D$

b' / /d f9

4Z i '

w ~

> i, i $l i hd

, 5 ,

CC FOT.M 464 # Pen it  !

s ani

( I

- - _ . _ - _ _ . - _ _ _ _ _ - - _ _ _ _ _ _ . - _ _ _ . .E

a . -

+

'Re: F01A-87-294 APPENDIX F RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE PDR UNDER THE ABOVE REQUEST NUMBER

1. Undated Memo from Herbert N. Berkow to George W. McCorkle, subject:

Technical Assistance Request- Salem Generated. Station.

Units 1 and 2. (2 pages).

2. 3/25/86 NEDS Meeting List of Attendees and Meeting Notes (4 pages). I

3. 5/19/86 Memo from Partlow to Martin and Stohr, subject: Nuclear.

Employee Data Systems (2 pages).

l

)

I I

i l

l

'1

. - . - _ _ ._. -.:_.-_..-.-__.__-_e--__am

e

, *' 9 GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTADIUTY PROJECT I' SS Connechcut Avenue. N W.. Suite 202 Wo'.hrogron D.C. 20036 (202)232-855' l MIDWEST OFFICE 104 E. WISCONSIN AVENUE APPLETON, WISCONSIN 54911-4897 May 18, 1987 fEEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST 4 FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST foD* ,P7-a*/ l Director C YhSb ~ )

Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission W2chington, 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 cgancy records and information, including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, drafts, minutes, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes, ,

transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions, engineering analyses, drawings, files, graphs,.. charts, maps, photographs, agreements, handwritten notes, studies, data sheets,-notebooks, books, telephone messages, computations, voice recordings, computer runoffs, and any 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)

, 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, 1 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" investigative or other files, or at any other location, including private rocidences. , .)

1 If any records as defined in 10 C.F.n. 9.3a(b)'and the NRC Manual, supra, 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 rcmoved, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated i" ection with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).

.i 1

l Ag -}:R?f

_ - _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ _ - _ . . _ - _ .)

.r .

. . y 0A? requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information var be considered as primarily benefitting the general public, "5'U.S.C.

552-(a) (4) ( .a). GAP is a non-profit, .non-partisan public interest organization concerned with honest and open government. Through publi<:

outreach, the Project promotes whistleblowers as iagents of government accountability. Through:it Environmental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers cosistance to local public ' interest and citizens groups and ' interveners

'in the concern for safety at nuclear power plants.

N .

Wa ere requesting this information as part of an ongoing monitoring project-of the NRC's efforts to protect public health and' safety at and near:

nuclear processing plants and radioactive waste facilities. /' ,]

For any-documents or portions that you deny due to.a specific POIA oxsaption, 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 claiming each exemption, explaining why each exemption is relevant to the document or-portion 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). -

\

We look forward to your response to this request within ten (10) working days. '

Sincerely,

.' f  ! y Linda Bauman FOIA Coordinator Midwest.cffice Response to this request should be mailedsto the Midwest office: ,

104 E. Wisconsin Avenue -B Appleotn, Wisconsin' 54911-4897 ', s. r i' '.

. . .q. .. :  ;

~. .

' d

.~u n  ?.

. i. I

< . 3

+.

i

- -l

.l'

."-l

. l

+

e ** i 4

-~O ei'l help keep control. room staff informed of what other employees are doing and where they are[hc said.'

In the chain of events that followed, the reduced reactor coolant lesel caused the residual heat removal pumps to take in air (cavitate) and that prompted operators to shut dow n the pumps. Durmr M 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 IOO-degree reading. Five minutes after the pump restart thc1 '

temperature dropped to less than 200 degrees, according 'to the NRC event description.

1he PG&E spokesman said that operators didn't immediately re611 the cooling system because thc1 +

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 Aoor of the containment building.

According to the NRC staffer, NRC has two levels of concerns about whet transpired at Diablo Canyon 2.The 6rst swrounds 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 rear, tar cool-ing system and risk losing decay heat removal. Although that is now permitted under techakut specifi-i cations, the staffer said, addit onal data will be gathered on the issue. , a The PG&E spokesman said that the incident isn't likely to have a abstantial irppset os pla:s to have l the unit back on line by mid-Junedlaine Hiruc, Washington _, )

TWENTY ONE WORKERS AT TROJAN RECEIVED RADIATION EXPOSURES from a crushed, de. .=

l graded fuelpehet that had been lodged between the reactor vessel and head Bange triide the contain .

ment building. Acconhng to a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, pellets were released into i  :)

c Trojan's reactor cochas system in 1982 when the plant experienced signi6 cant fuel pin failures. He said

• that the plant had sned to retrieve as many pellets as it could following the pin failures and that this was the trst contaminauonincidenL The workers experienced contamination April 9 while installing reactor head stud plugs during a l refueling ostage. Seven of them had contamination levels of up Io 1 rad / hour on the outer layer of their protective clothing.m NRC staffer said. The.re was no evidenes of uptake among the workers because

, they were weanng resprators. In a related incident, another worker was exposed to radiation April 17 while workingin the afsehng cavaty.

Acconhng to m MRC noti 6 cation, all work in the reactor containment building has been halted and the utility is "initisdag an investigation and radiological review to establish the actual exposure and -

measures ancessary to permit resumption of work." An NRC update added that there is no indication -

that off site releases accurred.Theiutility spokesman sald that by the latest estimate, the incident might k @a - , ==taae in early June by three or four days.

I l NUCLEAR EMPLOYEE DATA SYSTEM (NEDS) BECAME FULLY OPERATIONAL April 20, according to Peter Menner, site protection manager for Public Service Electne & Gas Co. (PSE&G) and chairman of the NEDs poject. NEDS, e centralized, on-line information management system that ,

enables utigey parucspents to quickly exchange transient worker in-processing data, is owned by l PSE&G, Bekanos Om & Electric Co., GPU Nuclear Corp., Philadelphia Electric Co., and Vargsma Power.1hase stilimmheve boca testing the system by passing " dummy"infranmion 3hrough it to make d sure they udamenodspuntional procedwes dearly (INRC,16 March,4). " Web now actively '

process-ing real dses for 15 spaning anclear units located on eight sites," g4 ceder said. 9 ,

I ERC lasummandesasses and operates NEDS under the dweetion of the NED$ Owners Commit-f toe, whichdevelopes te system at a cost of $2.5-miBion.Through the system, participating utilities can [

exchange hassmet se&ar data Bach as identi6 cation, security, health physics, medical training, ,

respiratory potecties, sed work history records. "Our objective now," Moeller said, "is to immediately j j start capassag NEDg to a national system." .

, i

- 1 U.S., JAPANESE RESEARCHERS PLAN COOPERATIVE SEISMIC TESTS l Scientes at Beuthoven National laboratory (BNL) and Japan's Nuclear Power Engineering Test -l Center planearly assyser to test the ability of a PWR recirculation loop to withstand larger than '

design-basis seismica=*ia== and pressures. ~Ihe pact, the trst cooperative seismic agreement between NRC and Byen's bfsinsy for International Trade & Industry, is expected to provide a mechanian for j w

Aaring indmastion ad em ==ad=W with structural and snechanical engineering lisues, NRC and the j Electric Peser Rasset hutimme (EPRI) joindy contributed $700,000 to the Japanese, and NRC sup- j plied themwhh a'mesempaar codes lo be used in other research & development, according to Dr. Wal-o' 11 l

. 04 SIDE N.RE. -M j i