ML20080D245

Lists Concerns Resulting from Review of Torrey Pines Mgt Audit Recommendations

ML20080D245
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Site:	Zimmer
Issue date:	08/26/1983
From:	Gerdeman A AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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NUDOCS 8308300267
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E James Keppler Regional Administrator, Region III h U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Agency D00KET NUMGER @. E 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 PROD. & UTit FAC.. W.. .v,J.:. .4 fk y

Dear Mr. Keppler:

h After preliminary review of the Torrey Pines management audit recommendations for i

the Zinmer Nuclear Power Station, the Coalition for Affordable, Safe Energy (CASE) has several serious concerns:

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1) We challenge the report's conclusion that Zimmer can be completed. This concliusi seems premature based on the fact that Zimmer was 97% completed under poor, ~

"out of control" managem(nt. A total and completely independent hardware [ con- ,

struction audit, not by Bechtel or CG6E, must be implemented with as much detail and thoroughness as should have gone into the original construction.

2) We affirm the formation of a Zimmer Power Project Oversight Committee. However, -

having this committee consist of members of the present CG6E Board of Directors will do little to ensure that dollars will not continue to overrride safety at the plant. The CG&E Board is responsible for the current indeterminate safety conditions at the plant. We urge that the suggested board have a minority menbership of CG6E representatives and other representatives from DP&L, C&SOE, and an equal number of concerned citizens from this community as vcting members, also.

3) We wari to stress again the purpose of bur organization. As rate-payers affected p I

physically and financially by the Zimmer Station, we expect that our health and safety will be the prime concern of the NRC in its decision making process. This is especially important to us now that our assertions that our safety has not I been a major consideration of CG6E have been corroborated by the Torrey Pines report. We also reassert that we are not willing to pay for the costly mistakes made at Zimmer through poor utility management. Those responsible for the management

• breakdown at Zimmer must be made to assume in some wa'f financial liability for these mistakes and violations.

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4) In your latest letter to us you indicated that a public hearing would be held af ter CG&E : cakes its recommendations to you. We feel strongly that CG&E needs to hear our concerns in detail before they make their recommendations to the NRC. '

If there is no possibility of the public hearings influencing the recommendations, the process of public comment becomes an idle and meaningless mockery.

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5 For 97%.of Zimmer, the NRC has somehow allowed CG&E to poorly manage the project. h Good management for the last 3% of the construction cannot undo the damage done ..

in the 97% already built. To assure public safety, a thorough hardware audit is [

essential, regardless of the cost. [

The NRC should not be permitted to allow the utility to complete construction {

based on a superficial and cheap audit of hardware problems simply because g the URC did not begin to do its assigned job until after Three Mile Island 5 and numerous Zimmer whistleblowers created immense public pressure. 5 E

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E Sincerely. ,

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