ML20237H342
| ML20237H342 | |
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| Issue date: | 09/01/1987 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION & RESOURCES MANAGEMENT (ARM) |
| To: | Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT |
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| FOIA-87-294 NUDOCS 8709030216 | |
| Download: ML20237H342 (1) | |
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INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST SEP 1 1987 ee.-
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AE0VESTER Cla PART l.-RECORDS RELEASED OR NOT LOCATED (Ses checke f boxest No agency records subject to the request have been located.
No additional agency records subHict to the request have been located.
Agsney records subject to the request that are identified in Appendix are already available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Occument Room, i
1717 H Street. N.W., Washington, OC Agency records subject to the request that are identified in Appendix are being made tvailable for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Document l
Room 1717 H Street, N W., Washington, OC, in a folder under this FOlA number and rea Jester name.
l The nonproprietary versson of the proposal (si that you agreed to accept in a telephone conversation with a member of my staPf is now beirg made avadable for public inepection l
and coying at the NRC Public Document Room 1717 H Street, N W., Washington, DC, in a folder under this FOtA number and requester name, I
l Enclosed is information on how you may obtair* cosa to and the charges for copying records placed in the NRC Public Document Room,1717 H Street, N W., Washington, OC.
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Agency records subsect to the request are enclosed. Any applicable charge for copies of the records provided and payrrent procedures are noted in the comments section.
j Records subsect to the request have been referred to another Federal agency (ies) for review and duect response to you.
In vaew of NRC's response to this request, no further action is beeng taken on appeal letter dated PART ll.A-INFORMATION WITHHELD FROM PUBLIC OISCLOSURE Cartain informaton in the requestad records is being withheld from public disclosure pursuant to the FOIA exemptions desenbod in and for the reasons stated in Part it, sec.
tions B. C, and O. Any released portons of the documents for which only part of the record is being withheld are being made available for public inspection and copying in the NRC Public Occument Room.1717 H Street, N W., Washington, OC. in a folder under this FOtA number and requester name.
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IREEDOW 0F INFORMATION ACT REQUEST 9P7"M FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT REQUEST
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Director Office of Administration U.S. Nuclear. Regulatory Commission Wash {ngtoh,D.C.
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1 Pursuant to the freedom of Information Act (FOIA, 5 U.S.C. 552,) the 1
Government Accountability Project (GAP) requests copies of any and all agency records and information, including but not limited to notes, letters, memoranda, dr=fts, minutes, diaries,- logs, calenders, tapes, transcripts, summaries, interview reports, procedures, instructions,
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4 engineering analyses,idrawings, files, graphs, charts, maps, photographs, j
agreements, handwritten' notes, studies, data' sheets, notebooks, books, j
telephone nessages, 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, 1987, (attached).
This request includes all agency record 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" 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, and covered by this request have been destroyed and/or removed af ter I
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 removed, a description of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated i" ection with and/or issued in order to implement the action (s).
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M' requests that fees be waived, because " finding the information nu he consi'dered as primar,ily benefitting the general public, "5 U.S.C.
352 (a) (4) (a).
GAP is a gon-profit, non-partisar, public interest organization concern,ed with honest and open govern. rent.
Through puidi<:
outreach, the:' Project promotes whistleblowers as agents of government accountability.
Through it Environmental Whistleblewer Clinic, GAP offers assistance, to local public interest and citizens groups and interveners in the concern'for safety at nuclear power plants.
I Wa are rerjuesting this information as part of an ongoing monitoring project of the HRC's efforts to protect public health and safety at and near nuclear processing plepts and radioactive waste f acilities.
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For any documents or portions that you deny due to a specific FOIA exemption, 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.l,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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We look forward to your response to this request within ten (10) working days.
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Linda Bauman FOIA Coordinator Midwest,0ffice Response to this request should be mailed to the Midwest office:
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in the chain of esents that followed, the reducid reactnr coolant lesel caused the residual heat l
removal pumps to take in air (cavitat:) and that prompted operators to shut down the pamps During the estimated 80 minutes it took to correct the situation, the reactor cooling sy stem's temperature esentually.
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hit 220 degrees-far above its usua190. to 100 degree reading. Five minutes after the pump restart the temperature dropped to less than 200 degrees. according to the NRC event description.
He PG&E spokesman said that operators didn't immediately re611 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 door of the containment building.
According to the NRC staffer, NRC has two levels of concerns about what transpired at Diablo Canyon 2.The Arst surrounds the event itself and the issue of operator performance, and communication -
betweca he engineer doing the test and the control room staff, he said. The second is a bmader concern that involves the general queinri of whether it is appropriate to reduce the volume of the reactor cool.
ing system and risk losing decay heat removal. Although that is now permiued under technical speci6 cadons, the staffer said, additional data will be gathered on the issue.
The PG&E spokesman said that the incident isn't likely to have a substantial impact on plans to have the unit back on line by mid June.--Elaine Hirso, WasMagton TWENTY ONE WORKERS AT TROJAN RECEIVED RADIATION EXPOSURES from a crushed, de-graded fuel pellet that had been lodged between the reactor vessel and head Bange inside the contain-ment building. According to a Portland General Electric Co. spokesman, pellets were released into Trojan's reactor cooling system in 1982 when the plant experienced signi6 cant fuel pia failures. He said that the plant had tried to retrieve as many pe!!ets as it could following the pin failures and that this was the 6rst contamination incident.
The workers experienced contamination April 9 while installing reactor head stud plugs during a l
refueling outage. Seven of them had contamination levels of up to I rad /hvor on the oener layer of their 4
protective clothing, en 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 while working in the refueling cavity.
According to as NRC not:5cadon, all work in the reactor containment building has been hahed and j
the utility is " initiating an investigation and radiological review to establish the actual exposure and i
measures necessary to permit resumption of work." An NRC update added that there is no indication that off site releases occurred.Theiutility spokesman said that by the latest estimate, the incident might k
a 'a '- aamdaa< in early June by three or four days.
NUCLEAR EMPLOYEE DATA SYSTEM (NEDS) BECAME FULLY OPERATIONAL April 20, according to Peter MoeDer, site protection manager for Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (PSE&G) and chairman of the NEDS project. NEDS, a centralized, on li1e information management system that enables utility perucipsets to quickly exchange transient worker in. processing data, is owned by PSEAG, Bahumore Gas & Electic Co., GPU Nuclear Corp., Philadelphia Electric Co., and Virginia Power. Those utilities have beca testing the system by passing " dummy"information through it to make I
sure they underslood operational 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 lasernanceslaanages and operates NEDS under the direc' tion of the NEDS Owners Commit-l tee, which devefoped die synes at a cost of $2.5 million.~1 trough the system, participating utilities can j
exchange transicat worker dass such as identi6 cation, security, health physics, medical training, start expanding NEDS to a aminnat system."
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respiratory protection, and work history records. "Out objective now,". Moeller said, "is to immediately hAPANESE RESEARCHERS PLAN COOPERATIVE SEISMIC TESTS U
Scienthes at Besekksves National Laboratory (BNL) and Japan's Nuclear Power Engineering Test Center pla early nest year to test the ability of a PWR recirculation loop to withstand larger than design-basis scianic vibrations and pressures. The pact, the first cooperative seismic agreement between NRC and Japan's Minstry for Imeernational Trade & Industry, is expected to provide a mechanism for w
sharing infonassion sad data associated with structural and mechanical engineering issues. NRC and the Electric Power Renasch fa**ma (EPRI) jointly contributed $700,000 to the Japanese, and NRC sup-plied these with eine esmputa codes to be used Iri other research & development, according to Dr. Wal-INSIDF, NJtE.- Apast,sWF
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