ML20237J174

FOIA Request for Documents Re Ruptured Stainless Steel Tube That Shut Down Plant Pending Investigation,Decisions Made, Insp Findings & Info Re Rupture Before Insp

ML20237J174
Person / Time
Site:	North Anna
Issue date:	07/18/1987
From:	Bauman L GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY PROJECT
To:	NRC
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FOIA-87-461 NUDOCS 8708260054
Download: ML20237J174 (3)

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.::uu,< ability Ptojnct (GAP) requests copies of any and all

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c. a information,. including but not lim.ited to notes, c..cennon, drafts, minuten, diaries, logs, calenders, tapes,

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n.m..u :f i c s, intervicw reports, procedures, instructions,

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c ". e r ua a compilations, interim and/or final reports, status reports, a'.1 other records relevant to and or generated in connection wit :

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Any and all p c:.y :. n : :

p. J _ e. _ L n :.:..cde in connection with shuting down one of the two reactors at the p... : ps.u.;r.g an investigation and the reasons thereof.

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any and all information regarding the above, before the inspection pn:. the reasons for the inspection.

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a raccras an dofined in 10 C.F.R. 9.3a(b)'and the NRC Manual, s_,u p r a,,

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to ir 'i.r,t.cf all records which have boon or are destroyed and(or l;./.c.. g., c'Udn:r.:ption of the action (s) taken relevant to, generated in conn-

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C A l' tequests that fees be waived,. because "fing11ng the in f orma ti on enn be considered as primarily_ benefitting the general public, "5 ll.S.C.

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GAP,is a,non-profit, non-partisan public intorest i

organization concerned with, honest and open government.

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outreach, the Project promotes.whistleblowers as agents of government cecountability.

Through.it Enviremental Whistleblower Clinic, GAP offers nssistance to local public l1ntkrest. and citizens groups and interveners in the concern for safety ah nuclear power plants

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We are requesting. ti1s,inf ormation as parb,of an. ongoing monitoring prbject of the NRC's efforts to, protect,..public. health.and safety at and near

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nuclear processing plants /and radioactive waste facilities.

j For any documenhs or portions that you deny due lo a specific FOIA exemption, please provide an index itemizing and describing the occuments

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or portions c documents withheld.

The index should provide a detailed justification af 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), 404 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973),' cert.'henied, 415 U.S: 977 (1974).

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

Sincerely,

'll?#7 Linda sauman FOIA Coordinator 4 Midwest Of.fice Response to this requesh Sho'ld bh.kialled'be the Midwest Office:

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M'NERA1, Va. (AP) - A stain vestigation.

less steel tube that ruptured at a nu-The ruptured, %-inch tube for car; clear power plant, allowing a trace of rying superheated water through ratloactivity to escape into the at steam generators was among thou-

-mcsphere, had been inspected a sands inspected during a refueling,

' month ago, utility officials said.

said Ronald H. Leasburg, utility.sen.

No one was injured and there was for v.ce president for engineering no danger to the public or to workers and construction.

fr.1e ace; dent Wednesday, the most During the inspection,' 117 tubes sermus ever at Virginia Power's showed significant deterioratlun and Ncith Anna power plant about 40 were taken out of service. Leasburg m' ts northwest of Richmond, the said. The reactor has 3,000 of. the i

i company said, tubes, all original equipment at the One of the two reactors at the plant l

was shut down pending an in. plant, which came on line in 197R i

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