ML20236Y615
| ML20236Y615 | |
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| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 11/05/1987 |
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| CON-#487-5034 2.206, PR-871105, NUDOCS 8712140167 | |
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year. and more ne.st year and Globe Staff ant in day rejected appeals by pub.
each year afterwards!
The Pttgrim nuclear ite u.tif tty compantes seeking A senior government safety of-ut until Plymouth will remat to recoverfrom consumers the ficial agreed. "htanagement is one midduly - six weeks longer than costs of nucIcar power plants of the key ingredients in assuring planned - to correct long term never completed or shut down safe operations..Our heartburn management problems. Boston Edison Co. ofltetals announced after completion. Page 5.
is that the number of reactor oper-alors[at Pilgrim]is very low," safd Richard W. Starosteckt, director yesterday, Company spokesmen told a terview, "If we don't get at our press briefing at the Park Plaza problems.over time there is poten. of reactor projects Hotel that the management prob-flat to get sloppy and affect safe.
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ntllity's C00.000 rentdenital users "They made a ranned presen-g jff
' Tr'.onlinued from Page 1 Whlic applauding Ediana's six-in 401soston area communities, tation. The board asked some po-M@
week program to upgrade maw company offirlats nald. Edisch lite questions." said Bruce Buck-
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h ap,ement. Starosteck! Hald, "You will have lo spend atxmt $250,000 bee 35, whn Itves within three won't.see measurable, radically a day for replacement power for miles of the plant. "What infuri-l M
- hnproved performance for atysot two years - maybe even thnx Pilgrin.. which supp!!es about 40 ates me no much is the a percent of the* utility's total out* that they wouldn't be willing to ;
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emerge'ocy shutdowns within Edison has taken to improve Ita NRC commissioners who criti i 3;
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dan reopen, Edison of ficials must performance. Another was to au-
,...,cd Pilgrim. yesterday said Edis I s
thortw. over the past four years, a o Js decision to stay shut is "a determine what caused the shut-41 percent increase to staff at Pil' goul step. At least it's recognizing
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Ihere is a problem that needs to be downs, which trigger emergency Thit only 563 of thox poultions dealt with."
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' prevent the release of radioactiv-have been filled - a biluution that Out he said the utility must I
,T L lty following an accident, Staroshrki said has led to "11' recognize that its management j
, The utility has answered most censed operators working lar4" problems can compromise safety:
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- questions about the emergency amounts of overtime., Pilgrim " Management has been weak at
"; ethutdowns and would have doesn't have a crisin in its number the plant for some time and this
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- sought NRC permlaston to reopen of reactor operatorn - but It is not han had a negative influence on {
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- on's vim president for nuclear up-a good attuallon."
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Edtwin's handling of problems Rep. Edward Markey (D '
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dents near the plant. Last night, flut Ediaon decided that stay-the utility agreed to a request by the performance of Pilgrim.and h[
-ing closed six more wrtka will al-the Plymouth Board of 6clectmen ther, plants, nald yesterday that y
low it to improve employoc trNn-lo arrange within two weeks an NRC H concerns about misman-M
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- Ordination and accountability hij informationut meeting on the agement cannot be solved over-shutdown and other issues re, ks,,, a
,'of which have been lacking. Ox-e[m efjo garding the plant.
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.pn said, The five NRC congmts-Dut some of the more than 60 (Globe Stqger Doris Sue Wong
..eloners last week said Pilgrim wan r
"'one of the nation's worst managed realdents at the meeting objected contributed to this reportJ to the two-week delay, calling Edl.
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