ML062540257

Salem/Hope Creek Allegations, Summary of Allegations

ML062540257
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek
Issue date:	10/01/2003
From:	- No Known Affiliation
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
References
FOIA/PA-2005-0194
Download: ML062540257 (2)

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Salem / Hope Creek Allegations Summary of allegations:

1. SOWE -safety conscious work environment (production over safety)A. Specific SCWE incidents* Sept 24,2002 at Sale pterates .confidential report substantiates a legation, Third Step Grievance* March 17, 2003 at Hope Creek n confide that ft"W ressured or restart withou ýforced outage -bypass valve incident; Forced outage & bypass valve repair occurred.* March 17, 2003 at Hope tole d alleger he did*not have the authority to stop the evolution (reactivity e-xcursion during the bypass valve shutdown?)

even though he knew it was ill-conceived.

• June 17, 2003 at Hop~eCreek

-ED.G l~akage exceeds LCO time; pressure'to avoid shutdown O WNRdirected operato to not shutdown;shutdown later commenced.

• Fall ()2002 at Salem -Maaeiet NA a ýstartup checklist step'.*Excessive use of temporary logs to monito~r de graded 'equipment. (NEOs can. provide)Salem grassing (i.e., heroic effort 's) deviated from expected approachI lessons learned -from 1994 grassing*

10* Higher Tritium sample concentration in Spring 2003 -"a serious issue that had o bQhandled with kid gloves to keep us [PSEG) out of trouble" B. General SCWE* Discussions w t Ii pt al, including some taped* Ineraci. n W perating management

& staff Lettrto~mpO nd EUCP -March 25* Comment (mostly negative) from ECP survery -40 2002 & IQ 2003 Approach -Inomto nti ecord was deleIW in accordance with the Freedom of InformatioQ Act, exemptions r7, FDIA--[Page 10o2

• Interviews with all shift managers at Salem and Hope Creek by tech nica1/0I/con SUltant team to generally address SCWE* NRC-directed survey of operations staffs to address specific issues raised or should have been raised in an anonymous manner to NRC ?* Get April 2003 results of Gallup G-12 survey (multi-year effort to measure staff engagement, an indirect measure of SCWE)2. Technical Review of Specific Incidents* Technical review of above specific incidents (many previously reviewed)to assure technical Inuclear safety considerations were met in' light of new info;.Approach -Residents perform review and document in memo to file.3. Discrimination

• Termination following raising safety concerns triMM* Termination date of April 16 mo'ved up to March'28 a6 request* ECP report of July 1 '7 and Winston-Str

'awn review find her alleged discrimination to be unsubstantiated due to Human Resources' decisions to end position and to advance termination date.Approach -01 to open. discrimination case.4. Wrongdoing

• PSEG destroys unfavorable documents* Three specifics knows some; as asked to rewrite a notifica~tion, Winston-Strawn investigation differed from interviewees' accounts Ap~proach

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