ML20236D917
| ML20236D917 | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 04/17/1986 |
| From: | Roisman A TRIAL LAWYERS FOR PUBLIC JUSTICE, P.C. |
| To: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE) |
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| FOIA-87-593 EA-83-064, EA-83-132, EA-83-64, NUDOCS 8710280409 | |
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1 ADN TRIAL LAWYERS FOR Pusuc JUSTICE, P.C.
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2000 P STREET, NORTHWEST MTHONY L ROtSMAN VASHINGTON, D.C. 20036 (202)463-8600 (AECLffM DIRECTOR p
- MtTHUR SRYANT SIMT ATTORNEY siux c.oot cauCTOR.ENMRONMENTAL WHr5TUMOWEA PROttCT
'I$0bS$$am April 17, 1986 RAfttHN CUMSUL8ATCH su:arTAny James M. Taylor Office of Inspection and Enforcement U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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- ar RE:
Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Dkt. Nos. 50-445/446
-(Enforceme".t Actions 83-64, 132)
Dear Mr. Taylor 1
On April 9, 1986, Texas Utilities (TU) wrote to you concerning Enforcement Action Nos. 83-64 and 83-132.
Through this letter TU withdrew its opposition to EA No.83-132 but continued its opposition to 83-64.
The undersigned represents a number of parties, principally Charles Atchison and Citizens Association for Sound Energy, who are directly involved in the issues raised by EA 83-64.
It is the desire of those parties that we file a response to the TU position, and we intend to do so in the near future.
However, because of NRC litigation in the Comanche Peak case, our response cannot be filed before May 10, 1986, and we 4
request until that time to file our reply.
j Specifically, our clients believe that the information provided to the NRC by TU about their reform, including the
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replacement of management personnel, the systems for evaluating worker concerns, and the assertion that employees with QA 1
responsibilities "are encouraged and free to identify non-conforming conditions" is demonstrably false.
Further, TU did not ' inform the NRC of other significant Department of Labor and Atomic Safety and Licensing Board findings which directly undercut the positions taken by Applicants.
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i Our response will provide other relevant information which is material to your decision.
Please notify us it. mediately if there is any problem with our proposed May 10 filing date.
sincerely, j
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nuclear whistle-blowers Hv JACK BCOTH in a decision en.sde public Cirtuit" Judge E. Grady Jolly Tui, day, the *it h 13 S Cirmat Staff Writer Court of Appeal. m New Or.
6.ud Labor Secretary Raymond A ruhn:rby.i federal appeals leans struck down u Departnwnt Ibnovan erred m (mdmg that Atchison's finng by Brown &
murt panel upholdmg the finng of I abor fmdmg that quahty of a guahty mapector who re-suntrul antpwtor Ch.irlem Atchi-Hunt trx, the plant's resin (un.
portal defwts in the Comanche nem wan allegally fired m 1982 tractor, violat,<1 a federal law j
1 Peak nuclear plant was entatard for reportmg (nsintructioet deft v designed to protect whistle.
.a t thw. plant owewd by Texas blowert Jolly naid the law did Tucialay as an attack on the Ic.
gaJ projections for whist!'c-Uphtses Generatmg Co., a con-not mver the internal cornpany k>wers.
ii(tiurn of six uuhues reportx that Atchuon had filed. '
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Jolly, whose ruhng weni Suer 4 the diviaina m two sani. ulation would itself hnng a bur
'ar.ippwls naart casm, ac kssemi. elen of mco wd interference nicot th.et his ruhng meanai nu.
with mterrmt pnnwfurts not m-s ic.u pt. wit workers have no tendal by Cotigress." he said, legal prouvrion aguitv.t bemg Ibihc Garile. a n#mber of the f o rcit for brusgmid, defec ts to Goversuient Anvuntahihty Pro.
bght Wastungton, D C.ha. sed r t.
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puhhc mtervst group. enue:rsd mots e fin i.ind this Hught by the rulung, ralhng at an attack un wwne tw a.uunted a crut of our
.dtvisasi. tMit an extennm of reg-See COURT os Page N 1
COURT - Freus Page 83 this het is going to be that ticipates or prepares testimony for the legal pmesetions Aar wbbtle-nudeer plants in the areas of Re. a federal nuclear preoneding or blowers.
glen IV and the 5th Cheuit are engages "in any other action to "At least for the twlaar platin My going to h enore w out h purposes of the act."
in the area cf the 5th Circuit, this utan8e,"she said.
Jolly said "an ordinary writer is a loud and deer message to nu.
JeDy made no comment on the of English" would interpret the clear workers to keep their claim by Atchbon, of Azle, that he words "in any other action" to snouths shut," said Gards, who is was fired 6===
he filed three mean participation in a "strue-perticipeting in the Cornanche reperm au const wtion probleens.
taired promding" rather than a Peak licensing hearings.
lastead, the judge sold the La-lone act by an individest.
Garde ennd she is particularly bar P, : est incorrectly inter-If the Labor Department *a posi-eencerned t===
the Artingtco-proted IIse wording of the Energy tion were valid, Jolly anid, then based Regten IV of the U.S. Nu-Reorgesmaation Act, which was clear Regulatory Commismon has ammded in 1978 to protect nucle-every action by a quality contnd been accused of reveehng the ar workers who go to govertiment inspector wouki be interpreted as ocurring in a federal proceedmg.
names of several whhtle-blowers afgetals with reporte of terwtrue-since the internal reports are re-who had brought allegations to tien problems.
quired by federal law. '!hus all the NRC.
The law forbids retaliation employee interactions with t!ae "I'm afraid that the result of agdast a worker who assists, par-cornpany would be protec1edg7
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Continued m Pagel Atchison has acted pubbe at-A tention as the f t inspector at Co,,.,'
4 manche Peak to take allegations of safety violations to court. He has.
J said that his firing in April 1983 has,
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cost him four jobrat uuclear peu se ;.
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S tar Telegram plants and has led to his bedag s yu ::ag Cir. M t03.897 "plackbailed"in the industry...
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090lih-Co principal owner og the plaat, said officials were "estresnely pleased" by the court's ruling. He 3
said it was a "significant" boast to
.M morale of plant employees and pre-l dicted that it would discourage friv-fe e
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gy lawyers have tol'd me all Tuesday that he would appent the along 2 expect to go to the U.S.
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tor for a MidCities manufacturing alongthe way Atchison said, By BRUCE MIILAR uJ t
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. He said his lawyers had. De three cnember appeals nel starTesegram wetter 4
told im to expect a court fight of did not rule on the merits of tchi-g
, Afederalappealspanelhashand-seven to 10 years.
son's case. Instead, the panel M ed the pdacipal contractor for Co-l manche Peak nuclear powerplant a e
major victory by throwing out a de.
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T tor Charles Atr'hienn was, illegally ing of tideo "non<onformance re*
eofdecisionsin fired f or reporting safety problems-
"was the equivalent of report-a nuc will have some The Fifta UA Circuit. Court of plant defects to government bearing ety, the secre.
Appeals ruled Monday that the for-officials, PerBrown& Rootinspectorwasnot tary (Donova us to ad an Non<onformance reports are interpretation that would ra y
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' son,Ndecision that avo eart tchi-tors. foe.the.Niac Regulaeary maa," th,e ruung my ' -,,
and itinstructed the secretary Canaission haveaccesstonon<en-1 **lhe result of this decision is that I
of the UA Department of labor to foonancereporta and relyon thema at willlet us focus on realproblems asca==ldar the case using staIcur tomake theirdecisions about phet and(spendliesstimeonsomeclaima guidelines.
safety. About 17,000 had of harassment," Chapman said.
- nghteen months ago,IAbor Sec-been filed when the A case in August 1983,the Nuclear Regu-retary Ray Dooovan found that At.
was ap
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'chison Ct cf Azte wasfiredbecause man d.
$40.000 fine against. Texas Utilities hereported wekilngdetoctson pipe.
for the firing of Atchison. Company Dea s coun found dist the sestralats to his supervisors.ne re-officials will seek to have the fine straintsareused topreventa broken Q*g'y"gg"j'q'uan'hPo are dropped, Ramsey nald.
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g reinstatement, boek we bene-that protects plant employees who rulingfavorable toBrown 8:Rootin
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ment officials.Therefore,' Brown as weeks. An administrativelaw judge
-a Root's firing of Atchison for flEsag & Root inspector 80) Dunham was ruled last week that former Brown r Please see I eter's en Page2 /
reports of welding defects did not i
vlotste the law, the court said.
not fired illegauy.Dunham claimed i
The judges cautioned that Demo that he was fired forreporting safe-van's broad interpretation of the ty vlotations.
whistle blowerlaw could cause cha.
"This is a much more important os at a nuclear plant. Donovan's[ decision becauseit,Iguess, sets the reading of the law would stop sun record straight on whatis protected ployers from firing or discipilning and what is not.4t soswers a whole any employees for any disagree. kt of questions," Chapman said.
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i Charles Atchtson, a forster quality coetrol brspector, renals a scar frosa nw beart operations.
Unsungheroes pay dearly for honesty By Ann Z8mmerman unsafe condit% at Comanche Peak.
end heroes. Instead many wind up or ner raats Muum sre Blackballed in the industry, Atchb martyrs, shunned by fhends and co-
- son was out of work fbr almost a year, workers, demoted or find by their em.
HUCK A1MSON apologises
'N only jobs he's been able to find ployers. They almost always suffer a C for his home, a long, cluttered since pay orethird hla former salary. huge nnancial loss and spend yeen metal trauer ast.on a grassy cut the years he has had to put batuing tremendous emouonal and de see in Aale, a small town up wi - bes& des the loss of his home physical stnes.
Just west of Faet Werth. A flew miles and a job he says loved - attacks on These people are whistle blowen, away as the house he and his wife, his character and mounting legal fees federal and pnvate sector workers who Jeanne, were so pmud of - three bed. Dom a wrongful termination suit he expose waste, fraud and abuse. Most rooms, a large kitchen, a brick theede and si.x other former Comanche Peak aren't motivated by the desire to be Aner working nine years to be able to employees fued four years ago but has herosa. Many are reha-tant to come afford their nrst house, they hved ther, yet to come to trial.
torward at an. But when they do, they for just three years. Atchison was Sitting in a worn easy chair in his an ahocked to find themselves the forced to sell tt when he lost his job as living room. Atchison, a beefy man of suyect of ridicule and retallauon.
a quality.<cntrol trupector at Cornan_ 45, is asked what emodonal toU the Almost to a one, whisde blowers Tose che Pesk Nuclear Power Plant m Glen ents of the post fe yeen have taken a lot and win httle more than self.
Rose. He was nred aAer bnnging sar,.
on him. He pauses for a second, then respect. That is the conclumon of a re-ty problems at the plant to the atten. liRs his shirt to reveal an angry red cent study conducted by Donald Soe.
ton of his supenora.
scar that travels from the mkkile of his ken, a Maryland psychiatric social etwst to his throat.
worker, and his wife, Karen L. Socken, That was Ove years ago. A few months later, Atchtson found another UW comnary bypass operations last a statisticun. But despite the physica]
nuclear power plant job in toutssana, year, he says matterw>f-factly.
and emouonal pain involved, almost a
h le blowers, the study found, but was Ared again when he twsme yg,g the Ant of approximately 100 witness.
48kifL es to come forward and testify about By all rights they should be consad.
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Ibeerts for Chuck Atchison," anys,
his hie se the Colo-
. ;Juanite E111a, president of Cittaens rado Mountains,
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/2 m for Sound Enerstr. a plateaus.* He says "MMre F(em M local puhuc interest group that has
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Mhen Denend Goeben Bret re-C,4,r-N; Peak licensing heer-lead it wduld have taken to shoot the==pa==== to his survey ines. "He the ihr others me. I was trytag to hold the 1
other problems. If these ;' to take off ihr. A111
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to about w-eausetore et alment 100 whletle blowers to come eround the enuntry, he says he had not come forward. old ekods et Peak i
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danple had ettempted suksde," he egye over the phone hem Mary-operating bcense in en unsafe con ' f$cessono put a story about land, where he has a spe. dition.
elensing in cosase whistle ne public has no idea the.emption "this een happen to
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.owers -we had one esse er a the wusoe bowwe ge Eventuelty other people would' osmanissing adelde. E's through to males the world a safer.come forward, but et took a how k plase," Eule adde. *lt's a reauy sad dida
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the Semity.".
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of tried is make en er whison blewers as shots in numerous ways, Atchison has 'they You get to the where him.
nieleentants heest by amonce* been vindioeted over the years.
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tantiated, way.or the other'that you're do6ng snenon.De overage' whistle tsow* slon,for eir in the survey was a 4 mest of his charges, Eule says-the right thing, It ruined both our AAer Atchison last his jobs et i beelths. It was just the eines."
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the comendw Peak and Ieuisions n Atchloon's five year ordeel of Labor mied 16et' )came in L M.lege when he plants, the United States t wue driven -
ennaclence.
ty had tried to work within the became one et Aw whleGe teowere
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law designed to keep employers and honored wuh the Karen alk.
ignored.
- ! ensectate them with the Soeken anys. "No one alleged enflyty vWaHans A wood Award by the Chrtene Insti-hearing judge uphekl the tute and the Cm " Account-I them;they told everyone bed labor department's ruling alient abusty PrWoot, he plaque, wideh reews.hoy twheede are a spoup et people with a the 6ntual firing at Comanche heny over tem TV estin his kvirw swdm reeds. *Ftr outstanding job rnorml eists that they expect others Punk, in a sharply worded ruung.
th.ltvo e to. %ey see Inho en er-a hbor department hearing judge performance and endurance of any mereWns sorward with their secused plant edicials of M hardship in the doesnee uneenvincing, unbelievable or puhue beekh and endbey."
14eela, nsy seu needed in the so-a elety. Especialty se society irresionel' charges in ettempt to advanced.
discendit Aiehisen.
Both plants oldt renamed to give l sp,ose set these were tiny victories.
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.llut edness that the gen-
)t eyel pubhe unfortunately penetves. hism les job book, widch is what he whistk blowne es inne onore then wested meet, he ears. In the co-tattletales and troeidesnakers, menehe Peak case, the Flfth Or-
" Mast people have the selndset cult Court of Appeals deckled that that the,m _.7 swat he Haht Alshleen wm not covered by the a'nd there meset be something gesoral whisGe blower law beeasse igrong with the individual." he he was fired thir "tenemal whlede
- People tend to ldestit% with blowing" -In this case informing lorser + ^- ~ and that his supertars, esys Epis. As Air the j
Mdatama Aring. the Department st.atharky is usunity rishi."
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. ' scolon on it, asys Atchison. For that reeson, he is seeldng redress through the civil court system.
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'id" that the rotalietnon he suf-t ves for kom an teolated
, quehty control in the drug abuse quit. I was doing what was etsht.
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.ccording to Scelunt sur' tumung lab at Brooks Air Force But truth, justace and the Ameri.
Ny, all thou to the priate seder i Same in San Antonio. Between can way is enty tbr the very rich.
wported they wem dismined eher september 1983', when, he was Am I cyntent? Oh yesh. Ye+a.s."
mpesing misdeeds. Beesuse of hirai, and May 1964, his Whitson his.: "..w.t Olvil Servlee administrouve op-If hibum had doubled and he was
'to the of spechl 6ounset mais, u is snore dimcult to dismiss
' een excellent emclency re-For stx raansha he says, the omce l
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plus seems of ad-L dwsameessacy.
was ordered to tesefy in a cosrt Wittional inseesneties. After e&x One out of Sw of those la de sessniel case et two Air Force ser. I4
'f, OSC enld 't has no ju-mondaned geants who were er'eused of using l
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,,,aenegesshapense =d='iaw a-met too concerned., supmers wm.t6on. But the but two yees won a taring Etheir active phone calls and perfonnance Whitson eimises the lab was us-ggg pmalesma and finenelst drain a
evaluenons that saw prugrenstve-6ng outdated aguipment. Speel*
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!enester bear souch Bond and weat8, D.C., a welchdeg group that de-superters to be purposely vague in there is and no matter how Ed pends whisus blowers and levasti-the pre trial court martial hearing want your ideas erst smnce thee alleontions.
But the military judge thressened ony say them what they want, l
the few laws that protect prl-to fine him $100 a day unless he
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' to hear. Or, to guste emether wNS-l vete secter employees wat better answered guestions g'13. Af-ter whitson anished testifying ue bkyser. "'If you must of8 sad then om news preescains anderal-wortwes, Cnerk anye. -nere we a truthAdly, thejudge conchaded that
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' But a can be a lengthy shortly ener Whitson teauned, and empassive ardsel. Part of the he soturned to de lab and was or6 publem la that orm of the steps is dared to eleen out his desk. He appenhas te_,dse Departsneet of was being reassigned to another dtvtsion, he.was told, while a m.an-sr <.maty con oi Lab.or. Weh wee up to.tue eseme.t re yen r.ws. to e.
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whtede blowess, however, is "an For the nest six months, he sai i abenlute disaster.' he says. Creoled in a basement emee with virtually I by Jimmy Cuter. the OEke d se responssenlities. When he Special Couneet is supposed to be wouldn't quit, he asys he was rues-the place sme prvernment,,whinde sie ad egeln to another meaning-hnowers to turm for.A ~~ "It less assignment. I.mst June, he was e
doesn't do that It was pretty unre-told they were abobshing his job.,
phemia to think that a smau, wider.
During this time, one of Whitson's funded omes within the gavsen-supertars told the press that Wh64-son was incompetent and had
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blower. Sece 1961, 7,000 Whitson says of his last two years with the Air Forre. 'My wife cried have turned to this amee hr
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' U S SaY" N"desr Plants Underrated Perils of Low-Level Nudear Waste BlegallyDisnussed Aide for 300 years. " Ibis is TotheEditor:
viremment DALLAS, Nov.15 (UP worker Your Nov.1 editorial "Ma==h particularly tricky since cesium is who says he is being by i
setts and Nuclear Gestage"is bened water.aaheda g"*, g demos. a Federal on two.incor. rect assumpdon.s:
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clothing and toois and that superts escalon, water inSitration and off.elte m,,, gami,seg grosalsercury agree mat surb waste can be " man.
migration of radlorictivity. "Ihree of agedsafety."
the six cam'-tial dumps in the U.S.
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three states have been left with enor.
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not the SH0 = minn,less Fed. is not arpactart to "materiany" affect clear Regulatory Comminainn's order.
lannma tax credits, would be. the utility's earnings this year. The last week 2 stas down au construction writtee off during 19N, and the impact receives a noncash credit activtties because of unresolved on earnings would be" material." The during period of construction, and safety issues. Cincinnati Gas said that.
did rug provide an estimate wiu not receive this credit for the next the problems cited by the nnenmiaaw of the after tes wrteMdf would month and a half.
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