ML20248J128
| ML20248J128 | |
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| Site: | Millstone  |
| Issue date: | 05/29/1998 |
| From: | Reardon G NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY CO. |
| To: | Diaz N, Dicus G, Shirley Ann Jackson, Mcgaffigan E, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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" TACS! MILE" May 29,1998 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Was:tington, DC 20555-0001 Attention: Chairman Shirley A. Jackson Commissioner Greta J.Dieus Commissioner Edward McGaffigan, Jr.
Commissioner Nils J. Diaz Letter to NRC Commissioners on Millstome Unit 3 Restar1t i
Dear Chainnan Jackson and Commissioners:
L RE: NRC l2tter RI-98 A 0105 A*A Mav 26; 1998 I filed an allegation with the NRC on May 5,1998. The attached referenced response letter from the NRC is grossly inadequate. I filed the allegation with the intent that the NRC, particularly Mr. Ted Eastick, l
obtain the Northeast Utilitics Employee Concerns Program (!!CP) file on concems that I and a fellow employee filed whh the ECP on October 24,1997.
My expectation, as stated to Mr. Esslick at the thne I filed my allegation whh the NRC on May 5,1998, was to meet wkh the NRC investigation and discuss shoeamlay in the ECP investigation ruport, i
. espacelly wkh the adA -A='n " potential 10CFR50.7 violation report". Instead, the NRC investigation of
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my May 5,'1998 allegation obtained input from the ECP nad Little Matbar Conauhants but not tom ma -
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Basically, my long standing concern has been that the NU Recovery Team has allowed my Nuclear Oversight youp to become dysfunctional. Since 1 initially raised my concem back in March 1997, additional infonnation came to light to Indicate that the entire Nuclear Oversight Department was similarly j
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being allowed to become /;-functiot.al.
L The attached refonnced NRC letter from Mr. Vito leads me to suspect that the Millstone NRC Special g
Projects Office (SPO) does not want to investigate my concem ftuther to cover up the fact ist the SPO l
60 knew of Nuclear Oversight's probierns with the Recovery Team early last year but took no significant g
action to insure that the NU Recovery Team took timely corrective action to remedy the situation.
L The history of my concem follows:
March 20,1997 - 1 raised my concern about Nuclear Oversight mis-management to Mr. Bruce Kenyon.
f No significant corrective action was taken.
March 27,1997 - 1 filed an allegation of the same concem with the NRC. Finally, the NRC responded I
l with letter RI-97 A-0086 on November 25,1997. This letter referred to NRC Combined inspection Report 50-245/97 203; 50-336/97-203; $0-423/7 203 dated November 21,1997. This combined I
inyection report confirmed my allegation but the NRC took no significant action to remedy the situation., }
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October 24,1997 -I and a fellow employee filed the same concern with the ECP. The ECP finally f
. completed their investigation and briefed me and my fellow employee on May 2,199R The ECP i
investigation confirmed my concern with the exception that the NU Recosery Team intentionally made my l
Nuclear Oversig,ht group dysfunctional 1loweser, because the NU Recovery Team failed to respond to the l
findings specific to my concern in the NRC Combined Inspection Report issued November 21,1997, the
_ ECP investigator wrote a " potential 10CFR50.7 report' and classified it as indetenninate.
Dr. Jackson, I ask that you and the Commissioners place this issue on the MP3 restart list for the June 2, 1998 meting with NU.. The issue is best defined today as "to what extent was the NU Nuclear over. ight s
Department made dysftmetional this past year and one half and why7" By cc. to this letter, I also ask that the NRC Office ofInspector General investigate why the NRC Millstone SPO did not insure that the concem i alleged to them on March 27,1997 was fully addressed bv the NU Recovery Team in a thuely manner, Sincer y,-
. Gerald Reardon
' Senior Engineer-
- Nuclear sufi:ty Engineering Group Nuclear Oversight Department Millstone Nuclear Power Station l
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George Mulley, Office Inspector General, US NRC John C. Hoyle Secretary, US NkC j
Citizen's Regulatory Commission, Waterford, CT.
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