ML20134D312

Final Response to FOIA Request for Documents Re Leak Rate Tests Performed at Facilities

ML20134D312
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Site:	Byron, Cook, LaSalle, 05000000
Issue date:	08/02/1985
From:	Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
To:	Gogol E GOGOL, E.M.
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AUG o 2 ?!B5 Mr. Edward M. Gogol 154 Linden IN RESPONSE REFER Glencoe, IL 60022 TO F01A-84-51

Dear Mr. Gogol:

This is the final response to your letter dated January 6,1984, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, documents regarding leak rate tests perfonned at the LaSalle, Byron, and Cook nuclear power plants.

Copies of the documents listed below are enclosed.

1. 8/30/83 PC 2.58.11 Integrated Leak Rate Test - includes results of the Byron 1 test (241 pages)

2. 12/5/83 Memorandum from Maura to Arndt - Review of Reytblatt's revision of ANSI /ANS 56.8 - 1981 (3 pages)

This completes action on your request.

Sincerely, Ob h J. M. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration

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Docket Nes.: STS 5C-454/455 and 50-373/374 9

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! an in receipt cf your letter dated Dec. 16,19e3, regarding your denial of j sy Fe:i::cn fcr Energency Relier regarding the hanardous and illegal situation which now prevails concerning Integrated Leak Rate Testing at U.S. nuclear

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pcwer plants in general, and in particular at the LaSalle County, Eyren, and D.C. Cock reacters.

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centainten: leac rate testing has extensive first-hand kr:wledge :f -he flaar anc defe::s in tc h the the:ry and Irae::ce cf these crit:cally in;cr: ant tes:s. ;r. Eey: blat har proved that flaws interperated in and/cr allcwed by tr.e current nethedclccy allcw centainmente to be persed at having a leak rate in acecrdance w :r. the techni:al specificatiens when in fact the leak rate it any t;:ec h:gher.

i You further centinue te ignere the fact that such curscry caterials at I have teen at'e

. tc cttsin regarding the spring 1952 ILET at LaSalle 1, are censistent w:th LaSalle l's actual leak rate being higher than reported. You offer no evidence to rebut this fact, and you have ignored =y request to have all LaSalle !LET documentation released to the public.

You state in your letter that the NEC has in its pcsseesien three inspection re;Crts whicn allcw ycu to " fir.i *ha' :ne 'icensee't Ce r.* E inne n t Inte gre ted Leak Este Tests fcr teth the LaSalle Coun:3 Unitt 1 anc : seet the current regulatcry reqaire:ents centrary to tne allegatiens in ycur retitiens." You further state tr.at "ILET reccrds de in fact exir and are teing se retained at LaSalle Ocun ~ ar.d Iyrer.."'

The fact inat ycu clai: these tr.:rcs, however, aces not caxe the: sc. I nave repeatedly recuested - as lcng are as last July 7 - that all documentation relating to ILET tests at LaSalle and Byron te made public. I cean all documentation, right down to the individual pressure and temperature sensor measurecents, and justification of all assumptions made, including discarding of data points, tecperature stabilization times, assigr.=ent of weighting coefficients, etc. It is only with such cocplete documentation that any meaningful review of the validity of any ILET test can be dene.

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locke: Ncs.: SIN 5C-454/455 and 50-373/374 If the NEC dces have these caterials in its ;cssessien, there can te sc justification for not releasing then to the public. If the NEC does not have  ;

these aterials, it is difficult to see how it can clain that it has satisfied i j

i itself that the test " result" is valid. And if the NRC does have these j

=aterials in its possession, and continues to refuse, for :cre than six  ;

conths, to release them, the public can hardly be bla ed for concluding that the NEC really dces have setething te hide, and that ILET t+ctr are really and truly nC gced.

This cannot te an impossible, or even difficult tc fulfill, request. We are not talking abcut =any individual ILET's, ner cf an extre:ely large nutter of l

measuring instruments, nor of data ;cints, ner cf calcula:icns and written documents. Further:cre, you must have already asse: bled this decu=entation in orcer to be able to respond te :y petition.

NOW THEREFCEE, PUESUANT TO: ~~

a. TEE FREEDOM OF INF0EXATION ACT, as acended, 5 USC 552;

b. the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 USC 552A; ,

c. the Ato:ic Energy Act; and

d. the U.S. Ccnstitution I hereby re;est :y de=and that the ::EC release te the ;utlic ce;1es of any and all coctrents in its pcssession regarding all leak rate teste dene a: LaSalle, .

Syren and Cock, especially any dccuren: which can help justify any cenclusion that the leak rate tests dene at LaSalle 1 and 2 and at Eysen are valid. In order tc enable full public access to this =aterial, copies should te sent -

both to the two local PLE's as well as the regional FLR in Glen Ellyn. And a  !

copy should te sent to me, so that I may obtain the scientific evaluatic: of '

these ILET's by Ir. Eey:tlatt and other indepencent scientists.

This request includes all documentation, right down to the individual pressure and te:perature sensor =easure:ents, and justification of all assu=ptions

=ade, including discarding of data points, temperature stabilization tizes, assign =ent of weighting coefficients, etc.

• If the NEO dces not have any of such decu ents in its pcssessict, then I renew cy request ina; the NEC recuire Co:cenwealth Edison to tretide the NEC vith !g g

copies of such material, and that the NEC likewise make this :ateria; public.

I :cerely.

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cc. Chair:an Nunzio Palladino i Region 3 Director Ja:es Keppler .

Congressman Sidney Yates .

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