ML20129D725
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| Issue date: | 05/24/1996 |
| From: | Bradley Jones NRC |
| To: | Dicus G, Danni Smith NRC |
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From: Bradley Jones To: DLS1,GJD (Dme L %4 ; G.A. I A ,) .
Date: 5/24/9611:11am
Subject:
Courtesy Visit -Northeast Utilities Donna, Northeast Utilties CEO Bemie Fox was scheduled for a meeting with the Chairman on June 11th at 11:00am. They wanted to schedule a courtesy visit with GJD on the same day if possible. I have penciled them onto my calendar for 1:00-1:30pm on June 11+h. I will confirm the visit is ok with the Commissioner and will confirm the planning date with you next week. The contact is former NRC regional counsel Jay Gutierrez who is now a Partner in the law firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bakius. His number is 202-467-7486. I owe him a call this week to confirm the date and time and will ask for relevant Bio's at that time (I believe the Pres. and one VP may also join the CEO for the meeting).
Brad CC: - BWJ 4
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1 NUCLEAR COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF NORTHEAST UTILITIES ,
April 23,1996 The duties and responsibilities of the Nuclear Committee (Committee) of the Board of Tmstees of Northeast Utilities (NU) shall be as provided in this Charter.
PURPOSE The purpose of the Committee is to provide the Board of Trustees of NU with an independent basis for overseeing the safety and effectiveness of the nuclear program of NU system companies, including Connecticut Yankee Atomic Energy Power Company, Nonheast Nuclear Fr.ergy Company, Nonh Atlantic Energy Service Corporation and Northeast Utilities E rvice Company. Specific attention is to be provided to (i) oversight l of overall management attention to nuclear safety, (ii) to progress in resolving open issues with the Nuclear Regulatorf Commission, the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations and other independent evaluations of nuclear operations, (iii) to progress in resolving employee, community and customer concerns, and (iv) to other areas of needed improvement in nuclear operations. While all responsibility for nuclear operations shall continue to reside with management, the Committee shall 1: ave a broad oversight function.
l MEMBERSHIP The Committee shall consist of not less than three nor more than six members of the NU Board of Trustees who are not officers or employees of any NU system company. A Chairperson shall be designated by the Board of Trustees.
MEETINGS
, The Committee shall hold meetings as it deems necessary, but shall meet at least once each I calendar year, i DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES i
i l The Committee shall receive reports from the Executive Vice President-Chief Nuclear l Officer and executive management relative to plant safety and operations. In addition, the
- Committee shall select a person, who need not be a Trustee but who shall not be an
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1 employee of any NU system company, to serve as the liaison (Liaison) between the Nuclear Committee and the Nuclear Committee Advisory Team (NCAT). The Liaison shall also be the Chairperson of the NCAT. The purpose, membership and other relevant matters regarding the NCAT are set forth in the Charter of the NCAT which is attached l hereto. The Liaison shall provide independent reports on the nuclear operations of NU system companies to the Committee. Reports by the Executive Vice President-Chief Nuclear Officer, management and the Liaison shall be in such form and shall address such i i topics as the Committee shall deem necessary or desirable.
In the conduct ofits business, the Committee shall meet privately with the Liaison or the i full NCAT, as the Committee deems appropriate, on a regular basis.
The Committee shall have open and free access to information, documents or reports regarding nuclear matters not protected by privilege or by an obligation of confidentiality (collectively "Information") and may require any officer or employee of any NU system company to furnish it with Information that it deems necessary or desirable to carry out its '
business. The Committee shall be given such staff and administrative support as it may require from appropriate NU system companies, or the Committee may obtain staff and administrative support from such other sources as it deems appropriate. :
l REPORTS The Committee shall report its business to the Board of Trustees of NU at the Board !
Meeting next following each Committee meeting, except that, when the meeting of the l
Board of Trustees is held within two days after the Committee meeting, such report shall, !
if not made at the first meeting, be made to the Board of Trustees at its second meeting following such Committee meeting. l l
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CHARTER OF THE NU NUCLEAR COMMITTEE ADVISORY TEAM (NCAT)
- 1. PURPOSE The purposes of the NCAT shall be as follows: '
s A. To perform an independent assessment for the Nuclear Committee of the f
Northeast Utilities (NU) Board of Trustees of the root and contributing causes that '
led to the decline in p.erformance of the Millstone units.
B. To perform an independent assessment for the Nuclear Committee of i management's plan for improving performance in all relevant aspects ofNU's ,
nuclear program. !
C. To monitor for the Nuclear Committee the effectiveness and results of the f l implementation of the plan referred to in Section 1.B above.
t D. To perform such other functions relating to the evaluation ofNU's nuclear program as the Nuclear Committee shall request. ,
i 1 2. MEMBERSHIP A. The NCAT shall consist of not less than 3 nor more than 5 members who possess ;
special expertise in various disciplines involved with nuclear power. These may i include engineering, plant operations, regulation and licensing, human relations, ;
i legal, orgamzational development and other relevant fields. l l B. The members of the NCAT shall be selected by the Nuclear Committee. No employee of any NU system company may serve on the NCAT, ,
C. One member of the NCAT shall be the liaison (Liaison) between the Nuclear Committee and the NCAT. The Liaison shall serve as the Chairperson of the NCAT. i
- 3. MEETINGS i The NCAT shall meet at least biweekly until the independent assessment described in Section 1.A above has been completed. After the completion of such independent i i assessment, the NCAT shall meet at such intervals as the Nuclear Committee, in i j consultation with the Liaison, shall determine. Meetings may be held by conference call or i i other similar method. *
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- 4. REPORTS The Liaison or the full NCAT, as determined by the Nuclear Committee, shall report to the Nuclear Committee on the activities of the NCAT at each meeting of '
- the Nuclear Committee. In addition, the NCAT shall provide reports and 4
information regarding its activities in response to any request from the Nuclear Committee, i
- 5. STAFF AND ADMINISTRATIVE SUPPORT The NCAT, in consultation with the Nuclear Committee, shall obtain necessary staff and administrative support from NU system companies or from such other sources as they deem appropriate.
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! Cotton Mather Cleveland i l President of Mather Associates, New London, NH (a 6rm specializing in human resources and organizational development). Ms. Cleveland is also Executive Director of Leadership New Hampshire. She is a Director of Bank ofIreland First Holdings, First NH Banks,
- Inc. and the National Grange Mutual Insurance Company. She was formerly Co-Chair of i the Governor's Commission on New Hampshire in the 21st Century. Ms. Cleveland has i served on the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees as Chair, Vice l
Chair and member. She was an Incorporator for the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation and is currently an Incorporator for The Montshire Museum and for the Upper l Valley Community Foundation. !
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E. Gail de Planaue I
From 1991 to 1995, Dr. de Planque was a Commissioner with the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 1967, Dr. de Planque joined the health and Safety Laboratory j i of the United States Atomic Energy Commission. She served at the Laboratory, now known as the Environmental Measuremer,ts Laboratory, until December 1991, as Deputy Director beginning in 1982 and as Director in 1987. She is a Fellow and past President of the American Nucler Society, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and a Director of British Nuclear Fuels, Inc.
William J. Pane H Publisher, Waterbury Republican-American, Waterbury, CT (newspaper). Mr. Pape is
- esident and Treasurer of American-Republican, Inc. He is the Director of Platt Bros. &
Co. and Paper Delivery, Inc. He is a Trustee of Teikyo Post University, the Connecticut Policy and Economic Council, Inc. and the Waterbury Y.M.C.A.
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! Robert E. Patricelli l
- Founder, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Value Health, Inc., Avon, j CT (provides manged health care services). Previously Executive Vice President of I CIONA Corporation and President of CIGNA's Affiliated Businesses Group. Mr.
- - Patricelli has held various positions in the federal government, including White House i
Fellow in 1965, counsel to a United States Senate Subcommittee, Deputy Undersecretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and Administrator of the United i
States Urban Mass Transportation Administration. He is a Director of the American
- Association of Health Plans, the Connecticut Business & Industry Association, Hartford
{ Hospital, The Bushnell, and Wesleyan University.
I Norman C. Rasmussen l Professor of Nuclear EngineerinF, Emeritus, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, i
! Cambridge, MA. Previously Professor of Nuclear Engineering of Massachusetts Institute
] of Technology. Dr. Rasmussen is Ci' airman of the M.I.T. Reactor Safeguards Committee.
j From 1972 through 1975 he directed the Reactor Safety Study for the Atomic Energy j Commission. He served on President Ford's Advisory Committee on Technology and i
Economic Strength and was appointed by President Reagan to the National Science Board, on which he served from 1982 through 1988. He served on the Scientific j Advisory Board for the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Clean-Up Fund, and served as Chairman
- of the Cabot Corporation LNG Safety Committee for 20 years. He is a Fellow of the
- American Nuclear Society and Health Physics Society and a member of the National
- Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Science. In 1989, Dr. Rasmussen was appointed to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents. He is a i licensed Professional Engineer in Massachusetts.
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JOHN S. CARROLL Ph.D. Harvard University (Suit.i Psychology) 1973 B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Physics) 1970 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management Professor of Behavioral and Policy Sciences 1989-present Associate Professor of Behavioral & Policy Sciences 1983-1989 School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Visiting Instructor 1995/ Summer Institute for Personality and Social Research, University of California -Berkeley Visiting Scholar 1992/ Spring Loyola University of Chicago Associate Professor of Psychology 1978 1983
- University of Chicago Graduate School of Business i Visiting Associate Professor of Behavioral Sciences 1981 1982 i
Carnegie-Mellon University Assistant Professor of Psychology 1973 1978 National Science Foundation,1995-6 (with C. Perin)
" Workshop on Incident Reviews in High Hazard Industries" MIT Energy Laboratory (funded by a consortium ofindustry sponsors),1989-1996
" Organization and Management of Nuclear Power Plants" National Science Foundation, 1987-1990 "A Process-Tracing Study of Taxpayer Decisions in Response to 1986 Tax Reform" National Science Foundation, 1985-1987 (with M. Bazerman)
" Negotiator Cognition: Ignoring the Cognitions of Competitive Others" Carroll, J. S., and Payne, J. W. (eds.), Cornition and Social Behavior. Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum, 1976.
Frieze, I., Bar-Tal, D. and Carroll, J. S. (eds.), New Acoroaches to Social Problems:
Aeolications of Attribution Theory. San Francisco: Jossey Bass,1979.
Carroll, J. S. (ed.), Aeolied Social Psychology and Organizational Settings. Hillsdale, NJ:
! Erlbaum,1990.
Carroll, J. S. and Johnson, E. J. Decision Research: A Field Guide. Newbury Park: CA: Sage, 1990.
Carroll, J. S. Out of the Lab and into the Field: Decision Making in Organizations. In K.Murnighan (ed.) Social Psycholorv in Organizations. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall,1993.
Carroll, J. S. and Perin, C. How Expectations About Microcomputers influence Their Organi7=tional Consequences. In T. J. Allen & M. S. Scott Morton (eds.). Information Technolory and the Corporation of the 1990s. New York: Oxford,1994, i Carroll, J. S., Sterman, J. & Marcus, A. A. losing the Maintenance Game: How Mental Models
- Drive Organi7ational Decisions. In R. N. Stern & J. J. Halpern (eds.) p_e.bining Rationality Nonrational Asoects of Organizational Decision Making. Ithaca, NY
Cornell Univeristy ILR Press, in press.
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l Lurigio, A. J., Carroll, J. S., & Stalans, L. J. Understanding Judges' Sentencing Decisions:
l Attributions of Responsibility and Story Constmetion. In L. Heath et al. (eds.)
l Apolications oflieuristics and Biases to Social Issues. New York: Plenum,1994.
Carroll, J. S. Incident resiem in high-hazard industries: Sensemnbng and learmng under ambiguity and accountability. Industrial and Emironmental Crisis Ouarterly.1995,9, 175 197.
Carroll, J. S. The organizational context for decision making in high-hazard industries.
Proceedines of the Human Factors and Erronomics Society 1994 Annual Meetine. in press.
Internal Revenue Service, meeting on Compliance 2000 and the Ripple Effect, April,1991.
Chadbourne & Parke, Attorneys, on Risk Perception and Risk Communication, 1991 1992.
Public Service Electric & Gas Co., member of the Management Oversight committee for the Comprehensive Performance Assessment resiew,1993-4.
Consumers Power Co., member of the Management and Safety Resiew Committee,1994 .
Doctoral Senunar in Behasioral Research Methods Managerial Decision Making Managerial Psychology Management and Organization of Complex Organizations (in Nuclear Engineering Department)
Individuals, Groups, and Organizations Leadership and Organizational Change Integration of Management and Technology for Improved Power Plant Performance (MIT Summer bession) 1 I
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DOMINIC J. MONETTA l President -(1993 - Present) l Resource Alternatives, Inc., Washington, D.C.
l Strategie analysis for senior management, helping to break the barriers of bureaucracy by focusing on l
the right questions and the intrinsic paradigm shifts. Chief Executive Officer of a corporate
) development firm concentrating in energy utilization and emironmental remediation.
Special Assistant to the President and Academic Vice President -(1992 - 1993)
George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
Created a resource investment strategy for the sponsored applied research programs of all seven schools and 43 institutes.
Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering for Research and Advanced Technology - (1991 -
1992)
. Department of Defense, Washington, D.C.
Managed the science and technology programs of the Department of Defense and actively monitored the 70 DOD labor- ries. Conducted the first comprehensive site evaluation of the entire research and development field structure, including all federally funded research and development centers.
Director, Office of New Production Reactors - (1989 - 1091)
Department of Energy, Washington, D.C.
Total responsibility for the design and construction of the new tritium production reactor to meet national security requirements. Planned, developed, and executed a program to ensure a safe, efficient, and emironmentally sound nuclear reactor. Total estimated cost of $12B.
Member of Departmental Internal Control Audit Review Council (DICARC), and Affirmative Action Task Force.
Director, Industrial Ordnance Operations - (1989)
Department of Defense, Weapons and Combat Systems Directorate, Washington, D.C.
Six week emergency assignment for the Deputy Commander, Naval Sea Systems, Command (NAVSEA). Responsible for the entire Ordnance Navy Industrial Fund Activities with total 1989 annual revenues of $1,888 and 23,000 employees. Navy member of War Resources Working Group Winter Workshop for Global War Game National War College.
Technical Director -(1986 - 1989)
Naval Ordnance Station, Indian Head, Maryland Senior civilian with full operating authority at Navy's Center of Excellence for Gun, Missile, Rocket Propulsion, and Energetic Materials. Tri-senice responsibilities for cartridge and propellant-activated devices, weapons simulators and emulators. Responsible for 3,100 civilians, which included 825 engineers, with the largest concentration of chemical engineers in federal government, and a l ,
1986 annual budget of $325M.
Principal -(1980 - 1986)
Resource Alternatives, Inc., Washington, D.C.
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l Specialized in institutional interactions through strategies alliances. Internationally recognized consultant to senior management in alternative energy utilization and improved conversion efficiency.
Maintained a complete spectrum of capabilities from conceptualization to commercialization with special strengths in corporate development and strategic planning.
Director, Planning and Analysis (1978-1980)
Gas Research Institute, Chicago Illinois Established th; nationally recognized gaseous fuels planning and analysis function. Formulated policy and directed economic analyses; specifically in improved conversion efficiency and synthetic fuels production. Established effective linkages betuten the DOE and GRI planning and budgetary cycles. Implemented a nationally recognized decision-making and budget allocation tool called Project Appraisal Methodology (PAM), designed to logically apply resources in an objectise manner. Expanded dramatically the role of the GRI senior adsisory bodies as a primary mechanism for policy advice to the program managers for the specific benefit to the gas industry and its customers.
Director of Field Coordination l Department of Energy Office of Fossil Energy Headquarters administration for all eight DOE fossil energy and mining operating centers with a
, 1997 annual budget of $250M and 1200 full-time employees. Defined and implemented program
! decentralization options for coal gasification and liquefaction technologies. Destloped and
! implemented the long-range project planning strategies for shale oil production in Wyoming, Colorado, and Utah.
Deputy Director, Conversation Research & Technology (1975-1977) l Energy Research and Destlopment Administration OfIice of Consenation Conceptualized, developed and staffed the US Improved Comersion Efficiency Program and sened as first chief operating officer. Created, developed and implemented PAM, a decision-making and budget pilocation tool. Became the first US representative on the energy conversion working party of the International Energy Agency (IEA). Directed and managed the national applied research and exploratory destlopment program for improved energy consen ation efliciency, program to develop, test, and demonstrate fuel cells. Assisted in laying programmatic and administrative architecture for the establishment of the Office of Consenation, the forerunner of the current DOE.
1 Director, Gun Systems Engineering Disision Department of Defense, Naval Ordnance Station l
Established the division in 1970. Responsible for all aspects of US Navy gun propellants and l gun-launched rocket propulsion, including research, destlopment, testing, evaluation, in-senice l engineering, malfunction investigation and production. Group consisted of 168 technical l professionals with a $15M annual budget.
University of Southern California - Doctorate in Public Administration 1981 i
George Washington University Masters in Engineering Administration 1973 Manhattan College - Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering 1963 l
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l George W. Davis George W. Davis is the former President and Chief Operating Officer of Boston Edison Company. He served at Edison from 1989 until his retirement {
l in September 1995, filling in succession the positions of Senior Vice President, Nuclear for the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station and Executive Vice President for the operations of the company's generating, transmission and distribution systems. Davis was a member of the Institute ofNuclear Power Operators (INPO). He also served as Chairman, New England Power Pool. Boston Edison is a 4000 employee electric utility with operations in Boston, Massachusetts and surrounding communities.
Prior tojoining Edison, Davis served for 34 years in the U. S. Navy, including 25 years of close association with the Navy's nuclear power program. He concluded his Navy career as the commander of the Navy's ,
surface fleet in the Pacific at the rank of Vice Admiral. )
1 Currently, Davis serves on The University of Chicago's Board of Governors I
l for the Argonne National Laboratory and on the Board's Scientific'and l Technical Advisory Committee. He is the chairman of the Secretary of the Navy's Board of Advisors for the Naval Postgraduate School and a member l of the Science Advisory Board of the University of Massachusetts, Boston.
- , He also chairs the National Nuclear Accrediting Board; an organization responsible for ensuring the training program for the nation's commercial l nuclear power industry, Davis is a member of Carolina Power and Light
- Company's Nuclear Oversight Committee and PECO Energy Company's l Nuclear Committee of the Board of Directors.
Davis is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and holds a Master
- of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate Schoolin Montery, California.
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Robert B. McGehee I Chairman of the Board of a 40-tawyer law firm in Jackson, Mississippi. Twenty-two years of nperience in providing utility clients with legal and consulting services. Pnmary expertise in
- .roblem plant issues, whistleblower and Employee Concerns Program issues, and nuclear company reorgamzations.
1 % 2 - 1966 United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland; B.S. -graduated with distmetion.
1966 - 1971 Lieutenant, U. S. Navy; graduated Nuclear Power School and l Submanne School; served on nuclear submarine in engineermg l positions; USS John Marshal (SSBN611) i 1971 - 1973 University of Texas Law School, Austin, Texas; J. D. - graduated with 1 honors l 1974 - Present Wise Carter Child & Caraway law firm, Jackson, Mississippi Primary lawyer responsible for nuclear-related issues for Entergy Corporation since 1974 and for Carolina Power a. Light Company since 1992. Entergy owns and operates the Grand Gulf Nuclear Station; Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2; River Bend Nuclear Station; and Waterford 3 Nuclear Station. Carolina Power and Light Company owns and operates Brunswick Nuclear Plant, Units I and 2; Robinson Nuclear Plant; and Harris Nuclear Plant. Specialize in nuclear utility issues, including NRC regulatory matters, enforcement issues, reorgamzations, contracts and claims, and whistleblower and other employment matters Also performed legal work or legal related consulting work in the last five years on problem
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plant issues, employee concerns issues, or NRC licensing issues for Houston Lighting & Power, l Pennsylvania Power & Light, Nebraska Public Power District, Public Service Electric and Gas and Detroit Edison.
Participated in the preparation of performance improvement plans for Arkansas Nuclear One, Brunswick Nuclear Power Plant, South Texas Project, and River Bend Nuclear Station. Provided oversight and legal advice to the utilities senior management regarding each of these improvement plans and related issues. Also, in the last several years, conducted nineteen reviens of the nuclear safety culture and the nuclear concerns programs at thirteen nuclear power plants and corporate nuclear ofBces.
In the regulatory area, I have worked on matters before the NRC, SEC, FERC, Department of
! Labor and public service commissions in four states. Besides NRC related work, I also have i experience in the areas of corporate, commercial, environmental, and securities law. I have been primarily responsible for nuclear-related issues in a large utility merger and the formation of l
nuclear operating companies.
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Thomas E. Murley B.S. Engineering Mechanics (Highest Honors)
I University ofIllinois,1%1 l Sc.D., Nuclear h-im Massachusetts Institute of Technology,1965 l
, 1994-Present Nuclear Safety and Management Consultant i
1975 1994 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation,1987 1994 Responsible as the licensing official for issuing licenses to nuclear plants and for implementing NRC's policies of safety oversight of all
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l commercial nuclear power plants in the United States. !
J Regional Adnunistrator, Region 1,1983-1987 Responsible for directing the implementation of NRC programs for inspection and oversight of safe operations of 31 nuclear power plants in the northeastern United States.
i DirectorcRegional Operations and Generic Requirements Staff, Office of
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Executive Director for Operations, 1981-1983 1 Director, Division of Safety Technology, 1980 1981 Responsible for directing and administering NRC's programs on generic safety issues, evaluation of the adequacy of regulatory requirements and evaluation of risk assessments of nuclear plants.
Deputy Director and Director, Division of Reactor Safety Research,1975-1980 4
Responsible for plan .ing and directing NRC's research program on j the safety of nuclear reactors.
1968 1975 United States Atomic Energy Commission I Assistant Project Manager, Clinch River Breeder Project,19741975 Responsible for project control activities and developing the safety and licensing approach for the Clinch river Breeder Reactor Project.
Technical Assistant to Comnussioner W. O. Doub,1972 1974 Senior Reactor Engineer, Core Design Branch, 1968 1972
- Responsible for technical management of several tasks in the fast breeder reactor development program.
1966-1 % 8 Westinghouse Electric Corporation - Senior Scientist, Fast reactor design.
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1 % 5-1966 Karlsgrube Nuclear Research Center, Germany - Post-doctoral research on fast reactor physics.
1969-1975 Adjunct Associate Professor of Nuclear Engineering, Catholic University, Taught graduate courses in Nuclear Engineering and Safety.
Supenised a Ph.D. thesis on void production in metals irradiated by fast neutrons.
Member and Past Chairman, Board of Directors, OECD Halden Reactor Project, 1979-1983 Member and Vice Chairman, Committee on Nuclear Regulatory Actisities, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency,1987-1994 Board ofDirectors, American Nuclear Society,1995-present Several Scientific Publications and imited Papers at National and International Conferences Honor Societies: Phi Eta Sigma, Tau Beta Pi, Phi Kappa Phi, PiMu Epsilon 1979 Senior Executive Senice Charter Member 1981 NRC Distinguished Senice Award 1986 Presidential Rank Award of Distinguished Executive from President Reagan 1987 Fellow of American Nuclear Society 1990 Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Executive from President Bush 1992 American Nuclear Society's Tommy Thompson Award for Nuclear Safety i
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i Mr. William B. Ellis, Chaiman Northeast Utilities i Northeast Nuclear Energy Company
. P. O. Box 270 Hartford, Connecticut 06141-0279 CT: NRC MEETING WITH NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANY BOARD OF TRUSTEES l
Dear Mr. Ellis:
! On March 17, 1995, the NRC's Executive Director for Operations, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation and Regional Administrator, Region I, met j
! with Northeast Nuclear Energy Company's Board of Trustees to discuss NRC
, concerns with lingering performance problems at the Millstone Nuclear Power
- Station.
! The purpose of thu meeting was to assure the Board was cognizant of the seriousness of the concerns and recognized the need for timely improvement in equipment and personnel perfomance at the Millstone facility, particularly i
Unit 2. The NRC participants outlined the basis for NRC's concerns, including i the handling of employee concerns, procedural adherence, corrective action i process effectiveness, competition and communication between units, and
, historic emphasis on cost savings, as previously documented in the latest i Systematic Assessment of Licensee Performance report dated August 26, 1994.
The Board of Trustees acknowledged the need for improved performance, assured j adequate financial support for needed improvements, and expressed appreciation
- for the meeting.
We appreciate your usistance in arranging this meeting of your Board of j Trustees.
Sincerely, Thomas T. Martin Regional Administrator Docket No.: 50-336 cc: See Next Page G
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J. F. Opeka, Executive Vice President - Nuclear I M. H. Brothers, Nuclear Unit Director G. H. Bouchard, Nuclear Unit Director L. M. Cuoco, Esquire F. R. Dacimo, Vice President, Haddam Neck Station R. M. Kacich, Director, Nuclear Planning, Licensing and Budgeting .
J. J. LaPlatney, Haddam Neck Unit Director !
D. 5. Miller, Senior Vice President, Millstone Station Nicholas Reynolds, Esquire l
S. E. Scace, Vice President, Nuclear Operations Services J. Solymossy, Director, Nuclear Quality and Assessment Services State of Connecticut SLO Kevin McCarthy l
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Northeast Uttlity Energy Co. cc:
J. F. Opeka, Executive Vice President - Nuclear M. H. Brothers, Nuclear Unit Director G. H. Bouchard, Nuclear Unit Director L. M. Cuoco, Esquire F. R. Dacimo, Vice President, Haddam Neck Station R. M. Kacich, Director, Nuclear Planning, Licensing and Budgeting J. J. LaPlatney, Haddam Neck Unit Director D. B. Miller, Senior Vice President, Millstone Station Nicholas Reynolds, Esquire S. E. Scace, Vice President, Nuclear Operations Services ,
J. Solymossy, Director, Nuclear Quality and Assessment Services State of Connecticut SLO Kevin McCarthy Distribution:
Region I Docket Room (w/ Concurrences)
J. Taylor, EDO J. Milhoan, DEDR W. Russell, NRR R. Cooper, DRP W. Lanning, DRP J. Durr, DRP L. Nicholson, DRP P. Swetland, Millstone PUBLIC i Nuclear Safety Information Center (NSIC)
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