PNO-I-87-063A, on 870710,special Insp Team Dispatched to Facility to Review Licensee Efforts Re Allegations of Sleeping on Duty.Random Offshift Insp Identified No Evidence of Operators Inattention to Duties

PNO-I-87-063A:on 870710,special Insp Team Dispatched to Facility to Review Licensee Efforts Re Allegations of Sleeping on Duty.Random Offshift Insp Identified No Evidence of Operators Inattention to Duties

ML20235L571
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	07/13/1987
From:	Cogwill C, Martin T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
To:
References
PNO-I-87-063A, PNO-I-87-63A, NUDOCS 8707160744
Download: ML20235L571 (1)

DCS: 50320870713 Date: 7/13/87 j PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-I-87-63A This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of events of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance. The information is as initially received without verification or evaluation, and is basically all that is known by the Region 1 staff on this date.

Facility: GPU Nuclear Corporation Licensee Emergency Classification:  !

iMI-2 Notification of Unusual Event Middletown, Pennsylvania Alert l D/N 50-320 Site Area Emergency General Emergency l _._X_Not Applicable '

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Subject:

ALLEGATIONS OF SLEEPING ON SHIFT (UPDATE)

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1 On July 10, 1987, NRC Region I dispatched a special inspection team to TMI-2 to  !

review licensee ef forts related to allegations that a shift supervisor had been sleepir;g on watch. The following information has been determined:

The first allegation of sleeping on watch by a specific shift supervisor was received by a licensee manager in December, 1986. Subsequently, four allegations concerning the same shif t supervisor were received by licensee management in April, June, and July, 1987. The NRC received the allegotion on July 9,1987. The allegations have not been conclusively proven to date.

A rnakeshift bed was found in the Turbine Building by a licensee manager on July /, 1987. At least 15 other makeshif t beds / reading / eating areas have been found on subsequent management tours.

Threo contract employees were terminated for sleeping on-site over the paat few months. Two other centract employees were terminated for sleeping on-site since March, 1936.

Twc nor.-licensed CPUN employees have been disciplined for sleeping on duty sim o April, 1985.

GPUN hn hired Mr. Edward Stier, a New Jersey Attorney, to investigate the sleeping allegations and TMI-2 managements' handling of their own internal review of this matter.

The shift supervisor in question has been removed from shift responsibili-tie' 99nding the outcome of the Stier investigation.

Random oft shift inspection at both TMI-1 and TMI-2 over the weekend identified no evidene of operators inattentive to their duties. A closed meeting with the licensee is scheduled today at 2:00 p.m. to further review this matter.

The Cwnorwalth of Pennsylvania has been informed.

CONTACT: C. Ccwgill T. Martin 485-1P33 488-1280

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