ML20215L877

Advises That Due to Licensing Hearings Before Commission, Comments on Issues Raised in Recipient Ltr Re Facility Inappropriate.Served on 870506

ML20215L877
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	05/05/1987
From:	Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
To:	Clay Johnson AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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Ms.-C. Johnson.

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Dear Ms.'Johnsoni f t

l Thank you for your recent letter concerning the Seabrook Nuclear Station.  :

Since the Seabrook Station is currently the subject of licensing' hearings .J

'before the Commission, it'is inappropriate for me to comment on the merits 3

-of the issues. You may be assured, however, that protection of the public- f

^ -health and safety will be the paramount consideration in decisions I may 2 make on.the hearing record, 1 1

l I appreciate.and welcome your views on the Commission's responsibilities. .l Sincerely, o

l Kenneth M. Carr ,1 Commissioner q i

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u '\ i Post Office Box 382, Amesbury, Massachusetts 01913 l Post Office Box 301, Exeter, New Hampshire 03833 THE BOSTON GLOBE SATURDAY, APRft, 11. 1987 . 7 6w L:

hH NRC critique saidleaked to l

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,Q " WASHINGTON - Nuclear Regu- l Q bM V latory Comn11 silon documents al-leging serious safety defectsat a j

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/4)A W ASA W apparently from the office bf.an NRC commissioner who later,tried to destroy evidence of the seeunty c c (M . e ..ILA S k p \LA 4 - w breach, the agency's chief inspec-O~ tor has told Congress. ,

' Ben B. Hayes, head of the NBC  !

f - Office of Investigations, told the A^^y Senate Governmental Affalrs Committee Thursday that the dde-uments, dated June 8,1983, gave /

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He and other witnesses :said s - the leak.,to LP&L appeared,to be d' h jgQ pa'rt of a pattern'of NRC cozibess with the nuclear power industry.

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- tially embarrassing investigadons and compromising safety.

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'" # , discovered until 1985 and Was q never fully investigated. Hayes said. Ile testified that he was.or-C. e --. . s

'eI Lv dered to turn over his notes ',and all copies of the documents to NRC

' Commissioner Thomas M. Rob- I erts, who told the senators hd de-stroyed them.

The documents out!!ned infor- l mation gathered by a repo'rter about cracks in the concrete (loor of Waterford's containment facili-ty and unspecified "collusionT be-tween the NRC and utility officials to cover up the problem.

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