ML16165A373

LTR-16-0322 Tom Gurdziel, E-mail Letter to Entergy Corporation About Indian Point February Water Leakage

ML16165A373
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Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	06/11/2016
From:	Tom Gurdziel - No Known Affiliation, Public Commenter
To:	Burns S G NRC/Chairman
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Tom Gurdziel <tgurdziel@twcny.rr.com> Saturday, June 11, 2016 9:09 AM CHAIRMAN Resource [External_Sender] FW: Indian Point Feb. Water Leakage Information From: Tom Gurdziel [1] Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 8:48 AM To: Bridget Frymire (bridget.frymire@dps.ny.gov) Cc: 'Screnci, Diane'; Sheehan, Neil (Neil.Sheehan@nrc.gov); 'ESTRONSKI@aol.com'; Lyon, Jill:(NMP) (jill.lyon@exeloncorp.com)

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Indian Point Feb. Water Leakage Information Hi Bridget, I decided to write to the new Entergy Chief Nuclear Officer Chris Bakken about the lack of information being provided by Entergy to the public about the February water leak. After 4 months: NO RESULTS. But, it appears impossible to find a corporate mailing address on their website for some return-receipt-requested mail. So I tried looking in the daily documents listed in ADAMS. Guess what? The NRC appears to have made available a dozen or so leak-related documents yesterday. The most informative that I found was ML16137 A874. I also saw claims that they have held telephone meetings to keep public officials and stakeholders. {All I saw was secrecy.) Note that the reference I have given you avoids addressing how the contaminated water left its intended container and, most importantly, how it left the building. Thank you, Tom * [0 Virus-free 1 CHAIRMAN Resource From: Sent: To: Cc:

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Attachments: Good morning, Tom Gurdziel <tgurdziel@twcny.rr.com> Sunday, June 12, 2016 9:16 PM CHAIRMAN Resource JNappi@entergy.com; Bridget Frymire; ESTRONSKI@aol.com [External_Sender] Attached Entergy/Indian Point Letter Indian Point Water Leak.docx I hope to mail out this letter tomorrow. Thank you, Tom Gurdziel [0 Virus-free 1 Mr. Leo Denault Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer Entergy Corporation 639 Loyola Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70161

Dear Mr. Leo Denault:

9 Twin Orchard Drive Oswego, NY 13126 June 12, 2016 As I listened to the June 2, 2016 US NRC video of the Briefing on the Results of the (NRC) Agency Action Review Meeting, I believe that I heard Mr. Chris Bakken, Executive Vice President Nuclear Operations and Chief Nuclear Officer say that Entergy Nuclear is no longer accepting observations and suggestions ONLY from (Entergy) insiders. Since I have been particularly annoyed by Entergy/Indian Point since the February 2016 contaminated water leaks, I decided to write to him. However, I cannot find his location on your company website. I hope you can forward this letter to him. I cannot accept the leaks and I cannot accept the (so far 4 month) delay in finding the root cause of those contaminated water And I do not believe that the public has been promptly informed of any pertinent information, which I also find troubling since you are in the continuing effort to get a couple of nuclear plant licenses extended. So here is what I see. A container of contaminated water leaks into the containment building. Assuming that system engineers at the site do not live in silos, since February, 4 months ago, 30 to 40 paid employees, working as a team, have NOT found the location of the leak INTO the containment building. (Take a moment here: 4 times 40 is about 160 months of pay for nothing). Maybe there is a C-fam involved here too. How much expense is that for 4 months? Oh, and don't forget the value of the entire fleet helping out as well on a problem one site cannot handle. Recently I have found that some information existed about 2 months ago, but apparently was not made available to the public then. It was identified with the NRC accession number of ML16137A874. You will notice that there is a statement that the root cause cannot be completed until after the refueling outage is complete. However, a reason is not given. Let me tell you what I think. There would be no reason at all to allow trucks into the building if an overhead crane was not available to unload them. So, drop a hook down, rig the item in the truck bay, lift it up, move it a little, then inspect the floor and complete the root cause investigation.

You are not going to tell me that you don't have anybody available to rig something, are you? I would expect that, since the fatal ANO Easter Sunday accident, rigging competence has been of interest and acquired at each unit across the entire Entergy fleet. Wait, I haven't told you what you need to be looking for. It is the second leak pathway. The first leak pathway allowed the escape of contaminated water into the containment building. The second leak or, perhaps, allowed the escape of contaminated water from the containment building into the environment beyond where, I might add, it was caught by groundwater monitoring wells that were installed because of the long Indian Point site history of contaminated groundwater. Finally, I have one request. When you finally do determine, and CORRECT, the pathway for contaminated water to escape the "containment" building, add up what it really cost you. Then ask yourself, would a combined cycle plant need to spend that much money to solve a zero psig water leakage problem? Sincerely yours, Thomas Gurdziel