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EF,=,,"=.,.,,., EM*,=' . U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES* E""m".'. Efd , "a m "u"a"m"me.nman SU9 COMMITTEE ON ENERGY CONSERVATION Cys: Dircksee .
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MinogueApril 18,1985 Davis
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A DO R/FThe Bonorable Nunzio J. PalladinoChairmanU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission1717 E Street, NWNashington, D. C. 20555
~ Dear Mr. Chairman:
As we discussed at the subcommittee's April 17, 1985 hearing,I am very interested in the Commission's and NRC staff's '
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relationship to the Department of Energy (DOE) and in particular,to the DOE Nuclear Task Force.
At the hearing, we discussed the need to investigate thecircumstances and ramifications of the Commission's and DOE'scontracts with International Energy Associates Limited (IEAL). Toreiterrte, my basic concern is that NRC may be compromising its-
statutorily mandated independence by contracting for studies onstructural reorganisation and nuclear policy with a company whichis also advising DOE regarding issues on which it should pressureNRC. I am transmitting to you two versions of an IEAL report toDOE, as enclosures to this letter, which illustrate my concern.
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I would also like to take this opportunity to inform you ofthree other related issues that I expect will be encompassed byyour investigation.
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First, in response to question 9 of my prehearing questions,NRC provided the subcommittee with a copy of an *0L Review .
Management Report." The Subcommittee staff was informed that thisdocument was not publicly available and contained confident'.a1 *
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information about pending allegations and Office of Investigations(OI) investithisreportgations. The Commission's formal response states that
... identifies open OI investigations or inquiries.Public disclosure of this information could compromise ongoing 0I
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investigations or inquiries." Bowever, the subcommittee hadpreviously obtained a version of this report from the files of theDOE Nuclear Task Force. Your investigation should examine howthis information was transmitted to DOE, if its contents werecommunicated to licensees, and whether NRC should have provided|
this document to DOE in the first place or should provide DOE with !
any information about contested adjudications and internal. investigations that are not otherwise public. A copy of the! document obtained from DOE is enclosed.
second, the subcomattee has obtained notes for a talk thatthe Disector of the DOE Nuclear Task Force apparently gave toNRC's Region 1 Resident Inspectors. These notes are enclosed.'-
Among the talking points is the following statement: armertantto do what we can consistent with Administration policy to getplants built!' Your investigation should examine whether thistalk was appropriate, whether the Resident Inspectors have beenprovided with balanced view points, and what has been the extentof contact between DOE and NRC Regional offices and employees. Acopy of the notes from this meeting are enclosed.
Finally, I would like to call your attention to the enclosed.
article 'Is the NRC Licensing Unsafe Nuclear Power Plants'-
!'published in Ganhit. This article raises a number of questions
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about the NRC's relationship to DOE including, but not limited to,-
the issue of whether NRC staff have been pressured, or felt,
pressured, by close DOE observation and participation in theiractivities. I would hope your inquiry will cover the points,
; raised in this article.
Additionally, your investigation should include consideration....
of whether an internal policy abould be developed to advise the ~ -
Commission and NRC Staff on hts communication and relationshipwith Executive Branch and Cabinet level agencies.
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I request that a copy of the Office of Inspector andAuditor's investigation be provided to the subcommittee when it is
i forwarded to the Commission. Please contact Ric.hard A. Doell of! my staff if additional information is desired.
! Sincerely,
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Chairman' .. .
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Woperaung hcense to Loumanahen the U S Nuclear Regulatory in the eseni of an earthquake one of the respond during ar ranhauake Isi ne.Commisuon issued a full .ower NRC's fundamental ufe, requirements anal sis would ha.e to be orr r eedt
Both men muued that the dmctwer of the Cruu hr,end sa4 Mwe w 'ers.w; eua
Powe and light for its foundarson<ra. ned cras ks sharged all she pressouth u ed be alks.cc to rewaa ' . !io- my .. c1
, %aterford !!! nuclear power plam on deugn auumpinsns abou how the founda fuelir:3 purage a gre tid c rire a e: ++,
41 arc h i S there were no puNes outburus teori would react unde'suJ c1rsumuases about le momhs a*s. u%N.
en on the NRf wa ',yt u .ro. Fat |
|of surpose and onb a fem wear) but deie'- Ma and Chen both mswed that the siam n
ihai the riamsould he a niil n r v. Immed cries of proieu Eversone =ho =as noi use to operaie a si n
paymg any attention seemed to knom that But 41a and Chen were ose' ruled 5 nom as u n. ( rut.hticiJ inta erw y 3 |c maa somer:g There mas a sea thange at their NRC superson W Nie the sause of sionen he sonsedeJ anJce pr- ene i
I' the NRC on the hcenung of nuclear power the sra ks mas unit no' k nown anJ nc queuionmg from Commewoone- a c.plants in the early part of 19f14 During the acseptable eng.ncerms anaf>us of hom the Assebteric that the semeal .ca. e Nlast year. accordmg to micrvenors around cracked foundauen wuid respond m th. Quesison around s hoc h all 'he J ...n- i
the count r). congressional tourtts m % ash- esent of ar. earihauake had been doe | mithin the NRC saa'f resolsed ea me |ang'on and severa! anu-nucliar iobbyius Denrus Cruichfield tok* the commns.or queusor. of safew Jorir. Ma an: i ar
there ha.e been few if ans rechmca! of e s. he and other high lesel NRC decmor | Chen the NRCi wa" aprets or inr aac.safet) Quesuotu the NRC has found suffi- makers bebesed the piam sould safelt ts - teon of w terford = foundation se ha
' cientl> senous to delay the licensms of an) issued a full power operatmg hcense that the cracht m lhe base mai rer 1r* siplans for long No one mvolved in the ques- Cnarchfield as the director of a spenal N Rt unsafe to operale before the ansees avu-tioning of Waterford had any renon lo the cracks are known The diffe em ? atassume that at. too. would not be swepi up operuon between Ma and Chen ori tar one ('in that same tide hand and ther own poution supenws of
the two engmee's evemualls con coedGary Groesch. a spokesman for the )oint revotwed around scheduhng' LP&. and
intervenor the NBC =amed to ge Ware ford ure: ful'nere W8S a ueoo- e,s..,sh s. S, ave Our Wetlands and theb J Mk.s
Al ance. b.e.v th.re . mo,e p tion.s.co ,_,..r -
in.e for the compactior of she nem engareto the lacensms of Enterford than meets m
erate aPPr0ach t0 ana-.-~crms- -,.-e,e-~ C-C -(Lindy > Boggs that the) would not act reqwred anywa, wnund detas tha norf.
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anwarigarwwis f ar Whterfordi aere coenpie- "Scheduhng." getting the mants.
gn p ted They Ised to her (NRC Chairman) bcensed, say miervenors a: Waterkr: andNunno Palladmo saad they wounda's act other nuclear po et plams all o c the588 '
pr0blems which b , before the Appeal Board ruled He, bed c,ountry. has ta.keri precedence cae =ha-3 Tm md_, is bmh on a fo.r,.auon i t ,c, bel.cw is RCs - a.s a-4
s 'and Waterford a the cherry on sop" To date protecting the pubiu hest'? ancj
i tO |M}@ h Groesch and others hke htm. there a b! tic safry Wha; happened at the comr .ssnr ,
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ouesuon about what,has tren happerung merms on the hcensms of %aierto-: 'nes i
eW Were ver - 1he .u-uon . -h, i sa, han n ha cru d , s th. or. . .
Paam,o and ihe NRC siarr mar the ai,ons ror ihe ucen,mg of e., . p ar'.
serious C0uld be.
^ n<-cr>c - - ~- - ~* red - - om", mi- -Turmos c.,berare w -foreom Ioio. - ,
I eSSenti .V COVE sand Boggs told ham and others as a later an attorne) who represente Wate-i.~d i ?
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. U) 0D a Schedule t0 .meetmg bermeen the congresswoman.and o rnost es- e.mps- ~ ~ se c s 3im_ m Nr. ooe.ns A spperson for Boggs. however. saad that NRC | spent up m bcensms Their polic. a w i1
hM fhHh officaals had assured her that "aD of the bcerne plants no matter ehat basec ar an 'i
. . s, techrucal tests and the enmanal invesuga- amiscsal scheduke that a des 4gned te secame '
COHURISS100... t- -s*u - = * - d - * =*=> =de e*n '*s* *"r' !the los poner bcense and that they have clearty unresobed safet problems ateur i
been re<eviewed and reevaluated smcr then the base mat. quahty assurance aan: tne !{{Q{ggyand, according to the techmucal staff at chr.racter and meegetty of the corapam j.j ,
least. have been addressed and renobed managmg a Thrs see up the task icer in }en n gg lnas pg,or to the assuance of the full power the spnns of last year in order to hcertse ;bcunse" At least a dozen crtrrunal angsu- Waterford as quxkly as possible There ,
gauoras how been opened cMr the lasr year was a debberate apgronch to opeder rhe )
| duahng wah anetarw=ts of wrongdoing by task forte that was estabinhed on March heensms so that the prob 6 cms ohn:t t*s'
f vanous lewis of snanagers at Waterford 12.1934 The whserford task force wtuch that ume the NRC knem mere wr> umous
( dunns the plant's constructaan numbered more than 60 peop6e at ses peak, could be essennelh ctnered up on a sched i
Dunng the NRC meetmg pnor so the was assigned ro snvesussie the cracks e the une to please the commissaon and taa s ec,
assuance of whaerford's fuD pone bcense, plant's foundaunn and hundreds of othr? what they did . to pinase the etwnrnissonhomewr. two NRC engineers. Drs. John aArgauons of fundamental breakdowns m and the utnisty That's ehes they set ene toMa and John Chen chsputed the conten- Werford's safety program The enmanal do and that's what they'w done"taon that the safety quanwwis ansms from utvestigatsons, which are tiems handled by Bernabn. who works for the Genernthe cracks us %hterford's foundauon had a separase NRC offsce, atone from mfor- ment Accountabihty Profeet, a sweinindeed been naabed. Ma and Chen had mation developed by the task force interest lam Twm. tubrees thes wha tiar'beca the NRC's lead intermal operti A condanon has been wntten into %ater. pened at herford a sampt> a marv ofassigned to study the question of how the ford's full penner bcense. Crutchfield to6d NRC potr 3, whsch has steadaly tirer sV'cracks that run through the center of the comrrussion, requarms LP&L to com- ang m favor of the industr> sance RmaadWaterford's giant "flosung" fouMarion perte a new enganeenna ana!)ws desagrad Reagae became pressdent Sence cor- 93
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Garde. one of the moss prostunent andeffectsw organum and mvestigators m th, pess has sornetirnes ssen to last ciaimed pre <mpied iiaie sutis a, mes the
"'""''*""**"'"'"''*'d'h*''"campaign b imawnm to face vulnes no mmUte allegatioris. GAP. with its tion so ress it was only the bes nmeshw up to the NRCi quahty, safety andaftES to nUciear construction site One da, ia.er. Januari i: a ma.
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alle%ance to m.rs.their collatdghistle bloweEssenburt for an morpndern mnspection Commnison mas insesnganns theof Commanche Ptak Enenhutt. who was
tenenors. acass defauhed s: :s biihen Ha,hms er ~sthe director of the NRC's Disision of""*"5""'''5"'""**"""" '"trensms from May 1980 untd ha m
to attofTle.ss t.he courts and """'gatws manted to knom mhea ir mteon cm February 3. has the authorny toorder the mmpecten Garde was demand %ashington s ceriters of accutises of % PP55 and the broarag-
- Finm that so4d as bonds had fuhs am--arl 1' luelear w.er. is ,a nee and disc,o,ed ,,c , iem s fa,.am.amg. but a wasn't a suggesuon he was eage'
bellewd by the@mdustryto accommodatemad =a = ihe k'adr 6-a 'e "Independent reimgections haw becom, Secmary of Energy Donald Hodet anorga buarmord for plant cancellanon in ggd gggg hg|j $(ppp{ othen. as posmNy cornekti. aHega e
ohSenvrsio be riuciear =g;im: ;=t them Za n Oheoand Midlands m Mehigan. ended up in tng pgpp'S ggggj mere issued that the nom <ancelled nrstrouble as a resuk Both mere effectnet'cmM b Janua7 m Cincinnata Gas MdaW re ao' 6'e'> 'a be coar'e'ed
On Januan 13. the follemira ds- ' 'seand Elecinc. the lead utihty on Zimmer. OPnerll. NRC struck The Atoms % air a-dannounced plans on January 21.1944 to
Wensms Board i ASLB6 for the nea-sonve'1 lamines to a coatfired generator
h[ complete $3 M dilhon Bsron Nu:. a-,.
work on Consumer s Pomer Company's Power 5:ation in R ot h ford lli vtue reacion m Midlands. Mrtugan. had ,g ,, gtwen ualled for a year tn ihas time, a direct an operanns hceme, saying a had rr eresult of an NRC-ordered endependent / f 7 W piam en We WWBremspection Comumer i ens not findmg decmon. shich ef fecinels becske: Hthe mones to keep Midlands alive and the piaru frorn poms mto commee.ta' w e
"" u ear construenon snes. have prown to en this game that a'e besond my control teon. was the firu of its kmd ir W. Mtha M.Jiands a 6d br c aba W and ihm s'e a namW of thmss t can't do hiu or s The deouen siencJ +r -
doned soon if the mone was not forth. Mush of the nudea power mduuri s There mil neer be anothe mdependem mduu rscerams - Somet hm6 fe* obse rs e'' cnisctsrn of the NRC user the las' few wa" remspection of a nAlear pome' plan en Waterford 111 and i ouw. art. 6*e .N
at m indastrv ialh this countrf I sght m New O lean mert nesi s cag and r ne se regulaten and the tredence the NRC ")ou mean er leasr en this admmestra week's nenpam Gete rel*.
dueesered dunns the mnsproson of the process has some*imes snen to last m.nute isonP Garde said the asked second artric m fise meeti oc lan a - aD'*a,- alleganom GAP. mith us a.cew to nudcar ")ou got it ." she said E nenheit cumrg h'35 6e e' sa'et s em -J ''* -
Garde morbs for she Gosernment comf ructiori site m htule Nomen. rheir col responded "And the muruc em could noe an the ptan~ *ho alleged '%a: 'or mawb oum abili:s Protect (G A PL a latera' allessance to mtenenon. access to be comms f rom ans h sher m ihn counter ment haJ irr elemented .enJ . ..r . . .%&,rtmgeon bawd non profa puma mret ariorne>1. the courts and Washmston * Ersenhuir demes she consenation ner trom she NRt a swemrs ter.orr o
eulam firm mhech has somed local mier centers of antenudear power. is behofd t% Cwcurred sof s stit 6a' saien records %stml.c W.senoe. en queusonmg the quaht) of the mdustry and mam w in streci obsers rem m oh ing w'es s prog'.er's % a. J s-a.msirvenen ar roughly a Jozen nuocar tes to be nuclea' pome 4 mou formidaNe led to che B*ron A51 B s ref uw' m i. *
pome plant,s aros.nd the c.oamn. mclud:nmdepe,de,,, r_, _ _ and 2. Black Januaryopporent Last mmute alleganons tha* plan'a% .e ,o,d m P. w h. ma, - , man,
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~dasst_.Je-Io -edo* ganged to represens gowrnmem whiule- the weapons GAP and the mdustr3 5 orher we Compans of Indiana ann +m.e: -biomen mas enurumental in fortmg the enemies are usmg for its destruction :a:k Januar) sent a shudde' througn abandonmem or the Mper.en e -mmocetsom of both Midlands and Zim Eisenhutt, as the PsRCi Director of ne corndon of Wall 5a rm 12 s bellon Mvble Hill n A ea: tw -l
rne Weh of GAPi clout m Midlands. trensms. has been the man on the fenns % hen she Washmgton Pubin sen. saving that rhe sompe, ma u cw |Zimme' and the other plants tho are hne since 1980. tahms shots frorn both Power Suppe, Snrem 4%'PP5Ss. derrsnet> so otwain the is behion in sapita ine ~
.ents.ec in comes troer the a hnele blo*en sides in that conreu. he and Bilhe Garde referred to as % HOOPS by some- ma:ed mould be neeJed so .orrtie - - |t hes represent The shrule-blowers hase how come to knom each other mell Garde defaulted on 12 2s bdhor. m rnumcipal piam j
been usuali> former conuructen worken has worked on Commanche Peak smce bonds dedicated to two of the systemi few On Januar) l' The %em M fw -a-and safety mspecton in the sanous plants GAP entered the case at the request of the reacton on Juf> 22, 1963. some fmanicia! a story on the sollecine imraa o- *e I
'msobed As at Waierford. the) bnns with local innersenors a citareni group enhed analysts predicted the collapw of the enure Atomic Safety and thenung Boa J s 1
them corr.pelhng esiderut of shoddy work- CASE Caturns Associanon for Sound mutucipal bond market - an * wens ehKh refusal so hceme Byron and Pubb6 Se .armanship and record keepmg and plant con Energy Independent remspections, accor- failed to dewlop Close obserwrs of the of Indianai dectuon to abandon Mamestruction managen who marmedaie safett ding to Garde, were not something nuclear utihty mdustry and compames Hill, saying ut the dec190ns uunnec memspecion into lookmg the other was Emenhutt 3med to talk about durms their eith reacion under construction. hoener industry la i w same issue The Tame -a-
%' hat the endastry calls last trunute alle- med February conwrsanon, but she con- knew then that the % PPSS bond collapse anosher stor) nameng Median &. Isnregatiom most often envolve the reappear- tmued tr' press the assue anyway Fmally. was menty the hartnnger of the bad news Seabrook ant Shoreham as trouNed nance of shai ehaute-blomers. intervernors Garde told Gember in a telephone enter- that would begin to amse in earness dunns son that were hreasemns to bankrut' "uand, frequently. NRC mspectors hase vice. Eisenhutt laid it on the hne the eineer. if nor sooner unhues buildmg them Anal >us frte erscalled defectiw or substandard workman "There are some stungs even I can't do" But Black January - as that month m eral of Wall $areeti mosi po*ettu an.:
ship tnd or the secords requwed to back up Garde said Eisenhutt told her "There are 1984 has become knomn withm the mdus influential stock brokerage and imeumrm
sc:id merk The constructson and bcenung some thmgs that are beyond even my con- try - delivered body-blos after body-blom bankms houses men quoted blamms * =rydelays that resuh invanably rewohe around trol and I'm tettma you 1 cannot. I cannot to the proponents of nuclear power. a pum islatory delayr as the culpnt for she sw,ork that should ha=e been made nght at - lessen to sne. Belhe - I cannot order an melms for whsch ewn the most pesuments try's moesthe time the problems with it were first mdependent remspection of another plant analysas were not prepared Another Tbnes story ran the fahr =nspomted out, but were not Akhough the in thas countrf Haymaker nurnber one was debwnd by day. January 18. quotmg NRC ofTrsa:5
specifics have vaned the eaues at plants "What do you mean you can't do se" the U.S. Supreme Coun on January 11 descntnna cracks in the foundauon of ruclike Midlands. Zimmer. Maierford and Garde sand she asked 1964, when it refused to set aside a 110 mil- buildings en the Midlands plaru as bergCorntnanche Peak . accordmg to Garde and "I can't" Eisenhutt reportedly tion dollar judgment against the Kerr too numerous to documem" Midiania e j
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Corwurner's Pbeer criuM nos soon come predorrunant Nc= bk commemal banks that sense, accordme to fmannal commu = hose mterests mould be served >= prewsup with coditional fmanorng. a prospect - f ouches it all nety sources. nucles, power has been a mg msutunonal collapec - bans upc= -=fuch looked urressmgh dim %31; Street firms are generally broken gress boon to hll Sarret m ust at leasi cons.de' the pivuut unpv
Cmcinnau Gas and EJenrx announcud down mio two mafor functions with brw Nuclear svetis =oracious com. how tance of rmancial msututions re gewes
theu p6ans to convert the S t M bdbon Zam keengr and marker anaJysis on one s de and eses, combmed with a steady drumbeat of the cap ial that is ' embarked' se w prmmer rencor cruc a coal rund genernung sta mwestment bankmg on the ather Certgan constructson driar haw made the capetal saon of pun c utihty sen merupri on Januars 21. a pian the compan, firrru semahie m one area or anoiher, but market place mcreasmsh unfnerdly to the Copetand goes on te argue tha rega dadtrutted. that was adoped m an effort to the dorrunant houses are mwobed an bosh. =cakest comparues Those reahtees have less of =hai happens to the uralses theisalvtge some of their mvestment in the firfru hke Dean % seter. Salomon Brochm. pushed many utihtaes ime seekms a higher serve. Wall Sarec "dealen" ran+, run the
plaru Merrdi Lytch Pierer Fenner & Sennh. and and higher share of their capital needs in nsk of bss because of fluctuauma in ihrThier days latre. January 24. the Phda Kidder Pes %ody which are all hee,ily the form of revoisms bank loans to finance value of the sicuts and bonds the* handar
delphan Eicctrs Company announad an md ed m scene area of utdny rmanang bossed down nuclear construction pro "One fact noi generalis app mated hela rnonth suspensson of work on one of AdditionaDy. the 3 est New York based sects That M.e.-.a.; may be a critral conimues. "is that rmanc al mitenamns areawo tractors in its $6 bilhon Lamench commema! bankm - Chaw Manhattan, tank m undmtandmg the pressures that rarely se nsk eith rssgat to the marke'rw ar= r power stauon project F~inancsng Manufacturm Hancoer Thast. Casbank. have led to the Reagan adtrunastranon's revaluanons of the capital they pmdr amas the problem comgounded by an order Morgan Guaranty frust, among othm - quart but mtense camps.gn to grease the utshif Investment banks "meret, 'peddarfrom the Pennsyhania Pubhc Service are deepi> mvolwd as durct imancim to skids on reactor hcenmns the paper' i e , underwrite a secuntiesCommassion that the cornpany raat the many of the uttbues wd nucles, construc %'a s hin gt on-ba sed economist Basil issuarte with the expenanon the they mil:cagsta! tucessary for compecuon internaDy tson profects tha: are or were m senous Copeland recently finished a not-yet- be able to sell a quickh to md'vsL.als are
% ithan that two seek penod c f mad. trouber m the dark days of Black January pubhshed study drahng wuh the retauon- insutunons" The mvesion enc nu, the
Black January. d-r seemed to be ank. Utabtses for their part, are demndent on ship of the banking community to the paper ris dealen peddle are the pmer =heing the nuclear power industry frors all %311 Stree to prt**ide therr =1th adar on nucicar utdities Corriand s grudy a sched take the nak. Copeland condades C orrasdes Whle January's deamm mounted. how to structure their capst a! needs u)ed for publKauon soon by the %ch2gan mercia! banki are similaris poccted
the ewnsng news had beam alrwe wah foot- between short term debt (bank loans and State Uruveruffs insatute of Pubbe Utib "Commercia' bank s, which f ecuenm
age of buraireda of anoMee, grotestors hnes of credst L long term dets fborwist and ties Thas shift. Copeland beheves. is a prtmde funds for construct >or tn en.g*wino gathered daily throughout the moc:.h eq uit y (common and preferred stock growing trend surnulated by the enormous redvmg credit arrangements. a'e haretseto invm$e the Diat@ Canyon reactor sac m issuest Thesr rmancial ad uors. in turn, costi of nuclear constryction prosects. Ensulated from marka rev&a:inra o therr
an effort to dramatize their oppassuon to retam a fee for ther guidance in addiuon. =tuch have m turn been compouMed by an=estrnent susce the mestrnent a carriccas 6 - ing The edustry's f=avv,ng was thest invesunent banker often faabtates the breakdowns m reactor construction pr> as a habdny at ;ost on the utabry i tin;anceunder attack from the SEC. lu proiermo trwwis. connecttng Wall Stree's short grams and the consequeni delays m com- sheet and is never traded *'aga2nst damage suits had been stnpped term lenders or major bond mwessors with pietma the projects Usms the meston m Consumers Pt=erswas by the Supreme Court The NRC. urdity borro=en Again there is a fee Eugene Mewr. a nce pesadent of L. Met Company and their ill-f ated %1an3sbng airused of dest.ructrwe regulatory dak Addluonally. the Wall Street firms may Itabody, has become one of the fmaua! rea: ton as an examp6e. Ccgriarn: pomabancz, conunued to mrnrnund the mdua- then refer the company to other analysts on comrnurutis mos .ccal pubbc proponents out that when the plan:'s probec- tietarnet ry 's problems at Byron. Midlands. ther staff and thaz sarne firm wdl cwner of some sort of admirust.-atson mtervernon pubhc m 1983 Consumen'stoca was setZurtmer. Seabrook and Shoreharn - to or underwrite the issuance of either or bot h to ball out nuclear poner Kadder Peabod) mg for about 120 a share As the grneecruname a fee The cxxnpoundmg effats of stocks and bonds for the particular com- one of wall Street's targest investment of Midlands began to emerge. ht-e cr. thethe NRC-msgared deisys. the comparues pany Once agaan, there is a fee Goms one banking farms. is heavily miolgd *1th a stock began to plummet, comme to teuconierM. wert mountaina of dets tha: ster bevond, utshties f aced with ever number of nuclear utdines. mcludms bang within a matter of moriths in the Sa 5threatened to crush the utAhnes building expanding construction schedules have one of the prunary mwstrnent banken for range "The effet 1 of a large poruar of thethose plants and others, too Byroc. been umasingly turtung to commernal Middle South Utihtees The growing %dtand mwestment has alreMy oca.rreeWhna. Zammet Seabrook. Shoreham, banke 1 for hnes of cndit as the as1adabiLt y demand of nixicar utibtics for capna' from Copeland concludes. " mitt :ne resul:Diabte Cariyon. Lamenci 2 eM Waterford of money m the stoch and bond markets commerna) banks. exordmg io Mew. is a tha: ihe =alue of Iheir m*es*rner ha3enhwsy represented note t.han 126 bd has gmen mc'ensmsh diffkuli to attract ma'ter of gnia 'concerr especuP> m hgh: alread. dechned by abou: 'S pc-e-v A
hor if wou trKlec Grand GuH the figu e "Oweral; utahues tswe ough!v half the of the Simme-mg th ea' o' bankruptcy for sim.la' analysa would meu!: sr= thetors 130 bdbor. In the earty par. of 19ha commor sioch Wal! Stre issues annual!/' many utthnes same thms sin lesser degreei im t=rmin'*Jewn unbues analyst on WaB Street hM fus Scott Ridaes to&d Gambe m a recent iriter As Mewer teus u. the commernal bank > en'ce her own hst of p4 ants that, for one ren- nem Ridies has just fifushed a new boot of the naaon have a; stake the potubihty of So e here do t he big t'anu .arne .r 'nor. or another, they were betung wound nor deshng in part * it b ihe reishonshir hanns eo loar, ur eo 120 bilhon to the utih % i:h batik rupcs wordmg ic. G1ticturemake u to full power ooe-aboru The new be= =eeri War Stree* and the untr!> iMustn ties wi:hir the rat:sr few wan The amoun' Baakrupu he behevet *oue: s , haeutdaue= m=oMd m Shoreham. Seabrook. The book. /bw Smasts. is uhedaied for currer::h actualb 6oaned accord.rg io addaiona: ha rr to the uod av tion:Mardee Hd'.. %d. ands and Z4mme me e pubbcauoc by Harper and Ro* earh next Meyer, a k bhr and sm mg "In ie ms holders Tne3 ha e aireads :atr : hecgenumes, threatened eith bankruptcy year Redbry spent seve a' months ow the of nauona' trrpaf he told Gambe' m a lowes "Bankrup'c) would ho=~ pvMore some than others, but a crural mn- Las: year miemewing utdines analysis and recent mien ecs. si means tha' wou *e sea sutm antial add ticina' rnti for "ir ele e
uct tw ans of thern could haw had fa:al msestmen: banken for iha profed "U t ili a potentia; bad baan utuaaon for the com firrr s cwhev insestors ie in ~; e
resulu bes gene-a:e more capit a! t hat thes de es. - mer:ia' bar%ng commas if the unha - the harksCoh c eN e bea:ms nucica; powe- tracitg Ridley said ' Tne investmen: companies are una5e io atiract capaa' Copetand who wor' hn W *r
iook m January 44 =3s to haw f ar reach- bankms part of all (ne main Wal! Street frorr the uoth marke. and bond marke . economics anahus as a kr* pa . ac r.ng effects. effecu tha: uluma:ety threaten houses se half their mcome from unhties then the balance gets baned and the banks Arkarnas' remporank successf 's" 'to send shock eaves through commuruts Haf f of the m*estment banams mcorne tra are m p 11 %hy are the banks m perir escape frorr: Grand Gulf m 199 ge oraf te' commuru:) sugnied =11.b ciectricity dationaD) comes from unhues' Because that capital .hich would nor to use Grand Gulf as one esampe .* ba aes utdc.es =1tb reactors unde construc- About a th2rd of uuht) imanons is usu- mally corne from the sake of eithe suoths supphed capea! to fmance n#aca co-t one Bui the sher k mzves from Ikack Jan- alb m the form of common and preferred or bonds. n not asailable from those st r uction alben the most es t-r c"'e
Iuary rui Wal; Streci firs: stock. accordmg to Ridie). quonna a gero sources Becaec the mones is noi asadabee %ddie South E nerg., the Md s Seeralh acrepied figu e Thai share a sphe the e and betause the necesuty of borrom- Unht es subsidia'> formed it '. car.ejust about everdy bet =een common and ing si from the banks mdscates an already Gram Gulf, arranged $2 0 his f bar a i
preferred - and two thirds a m bonds weak utdJr). then the only pare for the whl- loans to underwnte Grand Gulfs .wu s
38 11 stuch n a much higher proportmon of long ity to obtair. the captaJ to pay bacb she tson. al; but $111 milbon of * he s* beer
term debt than is gene all) found m othe- bank loans a from ther own cash fb - used by late 19ka The lenden a e =e corlarge mdustnal mierprues The idaos>1rra which rneans masssve rate maeasesAnd sortiums of banks. one foreigr rit'F mecaes of the monopoly uttitty busmess that. tan Meyer. "as =har thn is all about lion) and one domesiK til 'i: hibonitequarts them to spread out their costs and anyway. the publx's reustance to penns The domesuc bank consortiurr. n headed
Wand the utdat) andustry is enor-rJ1 Street's stake m tw&ar pcmer amortsze them over a number of years. those masuve rare matases" by Manauf acturer's Harw=c T us;. Cni
forang them to rou as much of their capita! Baul Copeland's stud). whach czammes bank. Chase Manhattan. Contenrntal llicenous The utdasy mot.stry's mvesi- needs as poambic mto long term financans m part the ranufsations of potenttal unbt) nois. Banken Trust. Chemica! Bass aM
ment en nuclear poect. according to %'all Street's major f nancial institu- bankrupte), adds a new wnnkle, although Morgan Guaranty Bank. whict a e sewr=for6es. the magazme of the Fortune 500. m tsoru. m other words, are mvolwd m eser> he ultimatel> takes the same poutson as of the country's largest commema' bank *airced) 512.5 bdlaon wah $140 taEson rnore phase of utthty financmg. runnmg the Eugene Meyer Usms = hat he calls a and which also hold the seser larges-staD scheduled to be spent by the crus of the gamut from advising the companies to "rather crude analog >T Copeland com- shares of the MSE actionder =de The elecmc utdsty mdustry's com- faMaanns the transactions, arrangma the pares the relanonstup between utibnes and Contmental llhnots mas the some of aauttneni to nwear pomer. Forbes empha. loans and, for the commeretal banken. thest bankers to the retauornhrp between tense, desperare federal baAwr action inmzed an its extraordanary February cowr mabne the loans Smce their fees are a per- drug addacts and their dealen "Mucn like 1964 m which the Federa! Itese-ve Banksce) on a.drar pomer. *=v=d=d the fed- <===afe of the value of the transactions on the drug trader he wrues. "res! control came up esih $4 bilhon to pre ent theeral powrtunent's utvestment a esther the whach they advue, underente or facshtate. rests not with the gromes. nor with the user. bank's collapse ContmentalIlbnnec pre +space program (31(X) laEson) os the Vass. the lugher the douar volume anvolved m but with the denier in prend.ng capital for lems mere to part a rewrberance o' the cuisam wcr (3til bdlaank 1.s one way or aa) spenfr trarnamn the more profrt- a gromma utdat). the 'desaen' are the finan- lapse of another bank m 1982 the 1Xfanccher. Wall Suent - the huge brokerage ab6e a has been for the mvestment banbn3 csal msntuuons that med2 ate between the trulhon Penn Central Bank m Os a.Mmafirms the investmmt banhng houars, the or brokerage firm that has handled it. In envestors and unhties Any analyus of Both banks' problems were larga. caused
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Acroeding ic Copetand the grensema nsk Gambai. thar is repeated om and ove' TO ye5fefdJy? |fasad by bank captal m=oind m fmancmg throughtw the utdsry moustry "The enerutabtses and their nh construction pro eats that are hkeh being seewd m the effort it p6Cked Up my Children
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although than u nor a nsk thes e.an tgnore finaJh argues "are thus thoer of the fman I fDeant IO fefDeMD"f ibus that n =1D become unpuductw dunna canJ ansutuuons thas centrol utih . access to his Smne. her IOUCh
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the 9endancy of a bankrupo As long as capaal and noe spearicaD, the mieresu of ;
banaruptcy a e=oided noi only do such the =de* mwston per se and cenamh Old i See the b3Dy fDOre s i
loans remam productrw they de so with not the angereau of the consumen" gggn org p y y !
ous exposure to mierest rate nsk or capstal %1ses a aD means. m a nutshell is thar !
laas' the entscal questions of nuclear powerMiddle South Esmergy. Copriand potnu coaw down to mones W ho pays' w ho }
out pays 110 percent of the surn of the loses' %1so decides' Basal Cogwtand and !' #prime rase and 13 percern for as domestic Scott RaSt=y. among othen, bebew that m 'p9
bank credat hrw "Over il bdbon of the the fmal analysis those who control the 1
total (14 3) bdbon apret to date for the stonry are makmg those decisaons LdderGud Gulf geopect represenu capitahred Ptabody's E ugene Mem helim that heirueresa capctase. masa of this tung pasd on knows whai their dectstor =d! be the rate j'
fiosung raic bant finanang Banb stand pawn "In the kmg run' Mee told Gemic 401.c he condudes onb tr the e vn' of tar. "the raterewn will pas There a ne > 8bankruptn inbke int mminon and pre ather b600d ic se out of ihr iurrup- RESIDE NT SPONSOR .
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f ham. Scabroca ftMartne HJ Zarnmer andcatens the bond-hoksen as weih banas doWnot see the value of ihe.: m *co rne nt i Madlands at talk ms bankrunn - and
'.:lechne Th e do not suffer e capita; km 'I with as tems a dozer. ot her utdaue* appa, g, |utdeu the loan cannot be repaad And rhar ently tertenng on rbe bnnk - the answr
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land haw m many cases corne to haw a i Sometamr sca a'te the ewnu of Black g g" cont oUing mieress' m uuhues with trou January thougt proba bt > tri february. y ybeec nudear pome constnactor prorects President Reasar authorued the forma O Obect,use they can conuos n- to funds uor of a W W hne House effort to bailthat are cructal to avoidmg insobenn' out n=+as power ptants it was called the
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At issue =m cornretmg interests the securvises fornu Thousands of sma!!insu beaame 5ermary of Defense %emberge, aff airs Drputy Secmari of I ne'r' Dan"top. decision-makm3 circuuves of the tuisons of vanous kirmis as mell as some of was a *ue presidevit and a diressor of Ek,ggsfinannal comtmuruly. the utdsnes. and the the countn's largesi msurarse comgerues Betheet s comrolhng Brtheel Group and On Ma. 3. %etretars of f ners Dnnaanuclear power industry vs the rare pawn and pretsson f urwis are aho heavily trivested their top lega' adusct SchultJ. dunng the P Hodel maJe sewraJ manos etrv offor each utaht) araf the pibhc bvmg m the m the sicKks and tw. ids of threatened same penod. est the president of the the admmrstration s nua 6ca' ent'g :esa stinrut, of enth plant nudear utshnes If several larse utehte Beshtel Group and wise chairmar of sin puW in a stwech gmm m Wash g v m
On the put4a,'s end of the scair - ei ruk should capsite simuharmssh ce ewn m board of directors a confererne of nutlear moustr> gwt=t'oth through rate shah from the skyrock- the sarne general prnod of tame. an ewnt These and other Bechtcharis .e e enher the Nuclear Power A s sem bi. H odesimg costs of altnosi ewry plant and. on that looked wry pons Nr m February IW, adml, anvolwd in the mirrurustra: ion in announced what The Arm tor s Ter.the other sade of jeopardy from the poten the cortsequentes for some of thoec com Ihe weeki followmg Blask January and caned a "senes of sirps so es gedne "w :oataal threar to the publa health and safet) if pane and the r top level enecutives neve sirne. or thrs were actmly invol=ed as situcnon of new plants' Alt ho.g ' . oca sersous radsaison leak accident should puentialb gnm major architects of Reagan i Tirv e+rstum Temes covered Hodel's addres- theoccw anywhere - ens no one with acteu Sewral top lewi Reagan adrrurustranon campaige Amorig the la:ter was Walter s'oup. e and the reas of the preu pr r am.o the %tute House appomtees are arnons the esetutms enh a %ruton. *ho was iher, Citacorp chagn.an piawd Hodel s rema'ki as sus as ec-
%'}ule exposure to an acodent is a nsk ma o* stake in the outcome Hodel and and late * betame a member of Bethief s speech No big deal it mai in 'a *erun by e=eryone bvmg m a demch popul former $ccretan of the Treasun Donaad twiard Uniti reten:1. Beshtei aise omnce adrnan.stration's rubiu dedara'io : nr-
ased aren oitturi range of the muks pa:ie-ru R egaa Nwh have deer penonal roots in thhen. keed and Comgeriy a large Wall blueprint for samens the nuclea := . eof a nearby reactor. It rema.ns an urne*ta.n nuc6 ear pmner Setretan of 51aie George Street banbrg firm ired.ssi r3and, according to the mdustry. highly 5thults and Secre an of Defense Ca3 par At its mosa basu 6rwt the questions neve Hodel s plan. close esansra . s.:improbable threat Weiriberger aim have strong hes to the the sarne twrywheet W ho w@ pos' % ha: gests. mas not a.med as esped s the
Raie shock ori the oshet hand. Is an ele mduur). as do a number of sub<abinet are ihe nskn' % ho will take them' The construction of ne. pianu" at al I .m-,
I mene of the new reabry factd by ewrv rate Irwi admsrustration appomters put4.c' Or the corporatinas - the banks. miended. rathrt to esgwdve the harm ngpayer those utdaty has a nuclear power Regan is the former ctuef emutm offe the uuhines the manufadurers and thest of the plants ohnt were aeread .ue-plant about to corne cm har The bitier cet of Merrill L gnch Pierte Fenner A sha ehc4 den and bormiholdef One thms construction and prepanns to am. W . .
one of w !! Street's largest stoth was for sure Sc*metxidy was goms to oss t heir operenns fuenses T he 3regarstruggle between Loutstana. Mississippi Scrith n
and Arkartsas cmr the la 3 bilbon com brekerage and m*estment bank.ng Nme. Th coud not be avoced The quesnon admirustration did ru ihmk the .a. i
btned cost of Grand Gulf un ts I and ; is Mernil L)Twh is aiso one of the Wall Secei ewry*here .3s who' There was aruhee sohe ihr prob 6 cms of nuclear ge=e % scionJy one marufestation of the raiepaw+ firms tha: has traditional 4 been most sure thirs dunns ihr days fobome , Ra k addinonall, to6d has audaceae. .ar *aartmart y curTently gnpping geople in dozero heanh mwolved m arrar gma the fariancm3 Januaa nudear pn=er's proprw nis. the federal fmancial baJhout of Ihe im.?areof cases Ewn with phase-e schemes sittu for utahties and their nudent construaron swople = hr> would all be on the No m one utihoes "L et me evnphasae. N %,-
tar in most ways to those proposed by projecu Mernli L yvu t., for ciamgee. has was or another if the trerwis of the gems )det Tunes quoted Hoded as tJ. s ihrL P&L and NOPSI to soften the blo. f rom been heavih invoewd m unde =nime seoch cont nued had plent, of accen io ahe federation of nuclear prv e, mir-sii siGrand Gulf, bius for cusaome-s a!! owe the and bond issues for Middle Soush L.'tthtnes. Whale House thest Washmgton confr ente. "tha me &country will hke= tar mcTease dramatwalb especiaf4 for Grand Gulf R obert not support Fudrral finannal baskus assauowr the next erwra| yeart some threasen Hindreth. an circutm with that firm. was ance Fedreal guarantees are vna ime mu uung to doub6r or inple by the earh Va one of the key funasonaries involved m tar.* The adrrunnstrataw had sourweungNOPSfs awrage coar per blowatt hrwi pullms together the admirustration bat ked * etse in nund A.long thoar hnes the Secemill shocu from about 6 2 cents pe kh ptar. to bad out scabrook tha was rmath f tary of Encers caDed om the ste- ofwent hout to foughh 16 cents phs pe' kh adopted m June w New Wrk so http the Reagan teme twms -
mort hour by 1993, axordma to meernal Hodeiis the formre chief execuuw of the Sheweham os. hnecompany estarnases recenth maar puth Bonnevitne Power adm mstranoa the unne the erw'nths of Marth. Apni. On that sarne das. Ma, 8. he samor heMetropohtan areas all over the country - agerry shal was ultimalets resportsiber for Mas armi Jt a 1%s. and perhaps at agTeal offena! Hode4 seni a nette' ic SereLong Island. Cinctanaa. Aansas Cns, the creanon of the Washington Pubhc otne times shar are nor yet krwn York Governor Marm Cuomo egmsHouston. Dabas Phorn.s Phdadelphaa. Pt==e* Sure, Sm em t% PPSSi % PPS5 try Reagan adtrurustratur. officali fetwe Cuomo to par sopate in an erreg-s s
rNeo Orteans. Jackson and LJttir Rock. to comt'urted to buddma m nucerar reacto s the Derartmense of Treasury. Energ3 Aan evamarion Nan for Shoreharr Tme umanwnanic a few - are faced =1th some sana m the Pacife Northei =Mee projected culture and ihr FederaJ EJricrgern Man assues contmued to dreas tre p6aru i scemtson on the theme - induthng Die p4Ma costs had ba3roned to 120 hulson as crm agemen- Agenc). the Offne of ar g On.r had to do wah ihr paars e gun-outers structson desavs etwnpaunded their (man Management and Budge *. the W hite emergency darsei genreasors. en =hu? Tu.
On the public health and safete side. cia! d frecutoes eseniva!!, forcing the House Ofrace of 5arnce and Ted.nokn cal design fla.s had beer disctwec' me servont who would be affected b* a rad.4 cansellatice of f =o teartors and the plus of he-1. rne m a senes of meeurg' with August 19P1 The enhr had so de .e a'tion leak ts potentia!h a: vish - ehwh mot % bales of in more w hen W PP55 the grourn of utthter= thai own hub Sea emergency evacuat oc piar for % "e ameshe indude a toe of progde who aren i and 88 m unr .ral u r eht , com pa nies brook and 5txweham. other meveans, wuh Counto. the s.arioundma comrnune su'among the reactor's futwe ra:egewn New defauhed on 12 25 bilhon murucipal bords membr s of the fmannaj commutury and folk C4minsy resadents quakms in tae farOrleans is one caample The city won't terms used to fmance the two cancelled erW othe' meetmas wnh tunnsfives of the of massm rate fukes orre %.we%st- wasrecen prs =er frorn Waterford bf NOP51 plant, tri Juh 1981. the largest bond nuclear pewt1 mdustry - the archatect - bcensed and the convictuun that thr=, ma3
and L P&L are not mergedt bui could defaur m (|$ history Hoded n cwrenth engmeen reactor manufaturm etc no we, to escape if the plaru stuiusc mawrecerw shal a caLed the plurne, the t--J cf one of the defendants ir a masseve lawsun Treasun 5ccettan Regan, who has since an arradent. refused to parta, pair e r%e.
radioactrwe gases tha: are retrased in the revohms around that de f auh kruw as been named as Ronakd ReagarJs chief of preparaison of ac emergencs emawrcase of an accident NRC resutenons the -BPA IBonnesille Primer adtrurustra staff was aho entobed in a senes of meri gna.. for the reartrw Thre took she summa erequire ther each p6ans dense an emergenes toon) seduction tun" ihr suit allegen that ings eith the same g'ougu li a not clear if that a simph san's puebic to se imustevacuation plan. but there is doubt ihat the Bonneutic Power adem nist ranon - Regar's mer mss were m the coment of the people away from Long liland a.<6 hcertam areas could be encuated m urne if whxh HocW ihee headed caceted iSc Ag % hise Houie Csbmc Council on Eccw evnish in the evem of a ernous anu-r a:an acrident shouh3 occur % hic that tasur partecipaurg utihties into tacking i%e nomsc Aff a n mik m3 group or nuctrar Shorehamhas rara been euremfuD) punued in Nem def auhed Nmds accordu.g to %sil Stree- primer or if he engaged m separate ackt Hodet, as part of she Whne House sahOrles ns the city's routes of egress are sources in another cutensism of the L oussi tuonal enretmss Whae Hover spokesman nri Council on frontana Aff aan ===amaclearly hmited OfTsctals sa Suffolk ana connectinn. Rosh 5 Ledduk. Louisi Marvsn Frtresser referved Gassifier to the group's effort to se , %wehain. ha terce-County. Nc= Wrt. the ares surroundmg ana Power and L is hi's senice = >c e Orpartment of Treasury for commeru on coswdmaung wah thr Fateral E;nr grnoLILCO Shoreham plans, ho=ever, have presadent, nuclear. the mesi hared in Jub at quesenwu regardmg the Cahina Councal
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essed the bulk of their battle agamst 1963 to get Weterford 3 compLeed and ocwkins group Treasury spokemman Br un trws for the isAry L Itny, so try se IW aShoreham on those g-ounds. maastmg that bcensed held a mmdar pnsitson er one of Brnare sendf auty refused to charsus the wey around Suffolk Couruy's refmal see a phyncally unpoemble to evenasse tems the ruim mothbaued W PP55 plants before cruncrus of those darusanna Benson crm- heep draft an esarrgrney evenassaw paantaland a a tamrty manne shoubt these be a conung to %trerford fnrmed that thr/neetags cerurved, tua send When the proper of Suffolk Causes theserious rusharann leak there - an event the Wembe per and Schult mere bnth sc, the adminstranson coenadered thest com cumred that, e es-f a pnbsmal fuumarmeashrase and the NRC meme a so unhkety emruarws a Bechtet, the San Franasc > samts, the tune and peser thry occurred, the to New hwh thee the admannstressonthat a e ah off the charts of probabit based muernauonal engmreems and con- ceciansaantas under whsch they ocessved, sysscMy trand to asummuae The = *-araby eructaos frin Bethref a evceval as esher wino was sa ersendance and whos adrnsus- tson's assenges to cacemswsu otner, and
La the and, though, acus of the pubiw the arthsacs/engmeer or the construcser or trarien pulaws evo4wd frosa or mere mane offusmh at Sn vehern home ma suanampr==taan rests upon the r==== so ruse both a 19 of the 37 statsors as 23 bruanons affersed by these "a prhuse med audy our pheme of the Rangen/Hostus sema,shark. The costs serv jun grang so be eco in which the admmistration eventuaHy Whos a casar to thus ois of three chans- Hodet outhnad erwn mere Dot waslugh As in New Orteens. Latir Rock and evohed macer in tryms set brenard and sanns as admmmerssinn plan eWws! The " prepared" in team Omr mes so *urpr * theJackson, so a is en cases and boardrooms uno the ruse base Roi.shty SM bdhon has Depanmera of Emergy eustre the muscti ul L15 Histrar Raguissory Comnussme aof
as cner the counu) No one wuns to pas marcady teen spers on the .daras a wtmah eye of Fac s* Secrevery Doaand Hodet, employ acanething talled "reesh meufor t.home rencsors Or, so gns a ==calwe sex Bactuel a sowohed, wah as truss anothe was stwee the task of semp6eimensms she reviews" son seactors andri camisarettse
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make sure shas besn elemenes ihr re cresa the test of Hodel a spmh. but wentlargely unreponed '
done right Changing NRC regv.s er hashad an impad but the problems num arili
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'---"-'-"a'~revers" program. accordmg to Hodel'sma unNemented the mou ban cerwnusceuh. is that u v mid aDom the NRC to g,{ gNg g s h{ g *0 of the the NRC safe, program sne na.eclose the allegations plagums to mans been in effect frorn the wn begims o'plants once and for all - anJ to do so (Ul} IwYc OpemtH)hS as it iS, CnJte 4d the" c====a p~sr==s. be ihebriore the etewnth hour of licenung *lt
makes no wruc* Hodel tasd. "for the en,s. kne WIIE'W' nM. L* Wnctmu days more than a decaJe ago ehr- W nh Ms st non called the Nuclear Regutato . (orrvonmenial, safay. and quahty assues thm gDdef mine oss part of the Atomac !nc+gs. rnnu. pp[${S{PQ{ gyps {jpg[Qg(y[ghave been considered and satisfactority - Commasson ( Af Clssioner arnes ie thatresolwd in the courw of construction 10 be uo,, of ih, d, epee erobiere. eraaned agaan and rehtigated' even as the the n>ntral uestion. the aumti<in **'"'a'* *ad or=ad G= '' 'a'' ' * * -eiewnth hour when a safe plant as trady 7
for opetation- amund w uch all the dissentcategors Although the reaso% *** ndware. fed s creams founda,.m a.Whetter a plant was endeed safe for
within the NRC staff nsuhul. **=r'a'<==* ' * ' " ' ' "oprare was precuety the pomt of debere beterwed to have ervitributed to the prveas a!! of the Mants that erre m trouNe was the question of safett e des .ith beakdo-o, .n vu ,-rMans propie disageer wah Hadeli baw ,|(3g Qu afld .Iokn fb'n. hei
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Nockmg the staDed pianin had been " sata question Of Waterfonii, * ** * *" h' " C '""a' 'a~ber of other depanments tha' et-e ==vwwfacionly resoled" m the courw of con- foundation. heliew s.Ne fo, p mno,mg nucica, pi - i-nc-
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try and the inserwnors m erh case charse. hase rnat n'nder it*P'"d'""P'"""T*""'"*""'" c=w n-iear =hnoiogies Cong, *tal "safey and quabt) anves raned at many unsafe to o wrate "P'h'"'"'"'"*''""*"'""
a passed the E netg3 Reorgantia ..r Cof the plants en queuson - Shoreham, hef0n' t e senderis the regulasory elemen- "eDssNo Can,on. Waterford. Grand Gulf.Commanch'e Peak. Midlands. Byron. E.N.O g dA become the NRC Elemenes of ne afr
shat were operanns hnbs m the p.xa-Cata ba. for matance ~ have acn been the cracks an> aam m othe ne msoiwd - aa-.desh enh m many mstances cuceps socover up the breakdoens in the system 0 0- nuclear power prtrams mere spur cf ;nu
a succession of agerkies and ewr .albsome of those betskJo=ns, accordms tothe meerwnors and the former workers (t
,/ wound up m the Drpanmen of E v g a-f offi6es headed b= assatant e av' o'eho made there: public, haw potennally
profound implicat>ons for the pubig at energ, Congreu wanted so prew- hrconft=7, of miemts that enes pa** aw
_ large both m terms of ruk to the pubin f 'h bet etert the ait C T sphi persoc.a ahealth and ufett and the threat to their both aJsocate and esersect i t~ w:paket turksAEC raus of nuclea adsmaa 6 -v% hat Hodel was casing etrwnth hour in*essiganon sh7ws.' esentualti came_
"rehtigatson." es. to the propee fighting teaD= crmcal safe, tssun ora, if the allega course of conuruction" L PA L has muued Nay a mator role in the Bcagar sarw ri.
'-reactors all over the country on a variet y of tions hai already been we ir d smce the first revelanon that the creda to save nuclea' power Hodet v irme
publes health and safety grounds, some. Despeic the mduurt's crs of " post Three ciust that they have no safey sign;ficance enect. sea aside throug% emutne sa "i.-
thing very d4fferent They tichrw that e is a Mac litand" rule changes. most troubled and, besides, the questions about thern a til of Congms espreued a des at -ameprmes: C ong*sa induded e the Las creat plants are far brNnd scheduie. iheir ernus have alreads been reudved durms the early Then e6cmenn of the plan oirm reng the NRC - and the Atomic Energs argue, pnmanly because of a long list of construction process Hodel s May gth penh were mvat.Commission before n - as the price each plant's fa41ures to meet many of the Nearly eigtneen enonths lair' ioo NRC related so the ewnts in the realm o' e. oraentracted for agreems to einbark on the more basx safety arm; construction stand eng;neen filed affidasits with the NRC's regula son and hcemms that ha r . % eenormously esprnsive pubig spending ards esta%shed long ago by the NRC la Atornac Safet) and Luensing Appea' unfa4Jed evenn that m6tude the im a6__ campaign that was required to desetop many cases, according to memters of the Board for %aterford on februaq IS.198 *. of boih Grand Gulf and wa em u sNcommema) nudrar pomer The rules. pui anti-nuclear lobt > and many oihers. those one of the NRC safe y ad tsory bodies that se*eral other reactors under pre.ememply. alkym an) members of the pubhc to fadures came to hght only becauw inner- must okay Walerford s operat ng license settmg some sat irregular and high eanterwne - thus the t em "snier enor" - wnors were ab6e to reopen a plani's fueris- The NRC erigineers said tha' nem tesis tionahte. csrtumw ances- at any stage en the luenses to rant legits. eng process and, by domg that, forcing the raued senous questions about %aterford's Hodel mas cuabbshms ha cor != if|' enate safety. qualny and environmental esistence of 643miscent safety questions safety, shommg tha: the crEks are much waff "meshamsm" to monitor prry=. mneues reparthng the constructinn or opera into the open more numerous that more of thern are the heensms of reactors cuevew- .ste-taan of a nuclear pomer plant er thrt cari At Waierford. m a local esample. the "th*ough" cracks shar prenousl* thos.3 : sorntructeon on a plant t i pla- a-5shom that a threatens the pubix healta and sTads in the plant's foundation that the and thal the crads aae sou.e as la'gr as pre Addritonall). Hodel said he suryedsafen s The threshho6d of evidence becomes NRC has been mvestigating since June nously thought - tarace than the mmi NRC Chairman Nunrio J Pal.a: 'progressiveh more burdensorne on the 1983. came to hght. m part becauw loca! mum safety standardi ahom The crack. March 20 memorandum Thow(Wc.1c'
._interwnor the closer a plant comes to full intervenor Gary Groewh brought some run from eor so bottorn in some portions larat.ons combined etih hn antean* * apowev opersiste records regarding the breakdomn of or the l2 fooi thu k foundation along s bne DOE =ould encouragr and prem sar =wrIts purpose, entervenors around she Louisana Power and Light's safety prt> that runs direcsty through as cemer Undre pori no the NRC" to use reaJmeu *== =+..
country and some Congresuonal sources grarn at %'averford to the attention of a certain earthquake conditions the two carrwd enn them ihr emplacn utkat=1 castsay. was to eBoo the pubhc to resist the Gember reporter Gember's followwp on engmeers said, the foundatson could sheer ang that DOE =as soms to tmome eupowerful economic and pohtscal forces show records eventuaD, led to the revela- or hieraDy break in half LPAL's pnmary more msotied in the NRCi da ic Jas,
[ =ho. tbe same sources say, noe have a taonof thecrackgin Waterford's"flo4ms" lane of centrar) ergument that the pressure operat sonsi stake a etw speedies. leam scruteruzed con. foundation and LP&L's tardy notiracasion appbed by the soil snied along the plant's Ptvotal to Hodet's plan was the as ets; struction and bcensma processes posubir of the NRC regardma the cracks. Largelycurenched outer walls, the "back- of what was m effect ha own nudra r et;- That goat, the speedy. least scrutmired Groesch and the ceher miervenors in rdt. a distrussed as unsutvuantiaied hgence operation Memooned dea' as m[ process gensable seemed to be al the heart %aterford then filed a motson with the Had Hodel's proposed new scandard has May 3 speech and ignored bs a! tss theR of Hoders ptan NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing been sn effect in 19st a could have been trade press was Hodet t *mechanne* forEstending his theme of thminatin. Appeat Board. ashms the board to reopen used to block the Groesch mosson to pur. herrms tabs on the troubled plane. MM\ *eteventh hour rehtigation" of resolve the tscertung heanns record on Waterford sue Llw safety smphcations of %Interford's saad that he had asked his *statt ic egabt assues. Hodel proposed to opedue il to sawstigase the cracks and thru potenual basemat cracks insaced, an .he course of hah a mechanssm watun the Drpe eirm$_ husgewig procres by eBoeing the NRC impact on pants safety Such rnossons are esamining the question. NRC engmeers (of Energy) to ensure that probora- *ahet hkrk the raasing of eBesatsons deshns on a one of the pnmary avenues members of the haw non concheded that %eserford could specific nuclear plants are brougN or ms-
beenkdowns m the construction and qual- pubiac. vuervenors. curvetuly have to raue be unsafe astention" The purpme of the meessuser'r'
my an.urance programs osua they had barn quantoons concervung what Hodet caned lawstigations haw shown that an snaat Hodet saad. m effect. ens to alk= sur" toi *sunobed* durvis consrnsciaon The ne. *enuronmersal. safety and quaha y issues" vistances the long chain of delays in each coordmate att the etements of g<=e''e9rtrules would arson the seepenstig of potert that have already been " resolved m the plant's construction program were the both state and incal. with all the a*te'ed
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j 'hs ps+*rm pam s ' to uw udina'e ihe n d de.oison se esswdeteng hs er.ung On Maet h ' ' .'. M e QJ $e
real enierem ' and "he aNe so awar the the 9 as s tord ng to the memo % illia p thet h s ./,'
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i p a r m ial %i at e kw ai and posaic imevevs she Sh( 's eses ut'=e direoor of oge'aoornihar mighi s ome togethe' to find solu reemed to Phltade sha Shoreham erwi - h ~
/s ens Ihe Reagan plan to sofwe lhe utelos t imen b i were soms so be sollestitel. 4 %s
debeinse mas clear the tairpaven mound "det a ved ' for an add +tionaf la monihspas t he oheu *** to get the plann on 1.ne i ameris b I n a "near irrm" reastor oe the
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and ge ' hem ime the ra'e bairs The ques ouish an of Philadelphia and the toer sesuen = as hoe ' Hode's nus lea' in' ell'gence the plan' put on an 15 month hold in she
appa r a' us hn mesharusrn eas deugned ic mening dass of Blas h _lanaurs kno.n i
animetsha qacuson throughout the NR( as "the E [WF [hfs b s [Srep >rts direcil, so Palladino T here n some Op i
debate alvut ohn h of the too PallaJino I
kUUU er $6aof Din k s. es the most po.erf ul of the
a NR( s ,or offu sak but ne det ate tha'' " ~ ~ - -' be'*een the too of shem thes ha*e firm i
N o tno Jr Palleine, ihr thaarmars of operationalLomrol of the agens s
|he NRC . mued a memorandurn on A seek later. Marsb 16 Palladino sMa'ch 20 callms on the NRC to memo repsris Niedins alone me' =u b |*aJop a spesifh pdo. aaordmg to Hoce' kes memren of the NR( u a!f it s Of f.s e i
'to ha nd*e lau minute al6egai.ons of of (sencrall nurn al the head of the NilC su f ei s en..tonmental and quah's prob adminiuraf tse lam Judges and the c hief S
nevru aws 6ated enh plann neanng com adminiu rat he judgr of Shoreham i T <
pecuen' (D he-s homeset see PahaJine s Atomw Safets anJ t heeung Board B |y
rnemo as much more ihan that Thes u in Paul " Ton s" ( os tet Dunns tha meet'ng. 4 eas Panadine n declaraison of an Mvaass Niedine *por1ed four den laies he also e
pouion m suppwt of the utihises with irtu, learned that se leau eighi osher plants ,
t4cd piants Bs the time Hodri arineurned including Warerford and Grand Gulf Ghn suppor' of PallaJ Ws Marth 20 mem m,gh' be f aims sutnianna' gaps tetween y
a ihr f erm " .aff as aiw M ,*
orandurn to ho fetnom NRC commm on ther unhts's targes daic for twensies and t . *ces it had ignited an uproar within the ihr aaual date when the NRC *sM.ld be g wpw p, [ ,. tri Faris e immi piive:nf
gpf ,,,p s. ; pg.,,, u g / 9ano nm 6ca' and the nalcar neutral com SNe to nega!h puuif s lhe hcens.ng under ' " . .f , * '
mumvees. particularis among the group of NRC regulatnins Tha' gap the di fe ense .
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%ashms,on based srr.maints that erklmied bet weer. the utilers's ta*ges date for fuel'' - '' yd-Q As k' yshe maiorm of cong cwonat usff opem loadmg and luenung and the NRC waff's -
PallaJ no s memo called ori the oehet estimate of mhen the saual inenurg dare g gg g gg<.mmmenwwsers so wwn mich hren sprofmalb would br. was the measu'e that Pallene. ey )gg i g
'dte "take ueps to bosh tal redme the delavs Halef and the Reagan admiruvranor were r" ~
ai Shorehavn a nd t imenc h and eM alt rx'. uung hen ihes tricered io *inensredme the powbihn tha; dc446 ai (4he* ing detan" NRC uaf fers mie ventws and
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ce hee ptann - and Palladmo permoded a nes emmates of when thes wouM te tra:!s |< < o < , p ,
hu of sever. tihe plann wkluding two ir the pau hase been notorious % ope,mn|
" " '' 0Grand 'eult and 'Aale' ford w here sud twd'Man oeve antecipaied - the cha:rmar Also contained er the Ma'th 20 memo
recommendec a number of sterif Inens was a hu of wggesnens Pa!!aJino pro presentsmg weo,u io be undcoasce bs ihe sRC f~e . .ar in u,eamhne th, w,mm,
uaff to maturmee there pmteu for cash of the sen named reann'
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Onde' t he prtw nuons of the AtornK The goni af hn suggesixwn on ewn plan' .
A' ' 'E nergs A;t and shc E nergs Reoegangatsoe Pallad ro u4d mas to es pe6te- thcNRCAm t of 19'a ibe commnuone's of the Inenung process an e m r h a sis whuh
Nuclear Regulators (ommnuon ut as ar seemed 10 penuppmc tha: the problems ai ;*adiodwaiors and poihs setting board each plant sound be resolsed b % mph }
rauce - a propy.on'
Thrs are char ged to rrsiew ihe apolhaaoru shuf ning the paretQ7 Ctor f ull tree' operateors of the utiht.cs hoth conteued tw see of she NRC's fne
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teon and operanon The commnuon s Mennoned m lhe Palladino hv eas a | |
h* _ifundarnenia' oteganon urider the La* a to twief ocwnpnon of the .peua: NBCtad j
gwoneo the health and safei, ofthe puble6 forte ihar would desend on wave ford ori *'
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u hen an arri 6ani such as t PAL for April 2. sust i=c meets laier th*c t s0%aierford ce Masnge Twer and Ligh: orde ed the task forte created on Mars 42 f~ | -
scw Grand Gulf. crancs before t%e panci lor toinveshgate a Murry of aheganorn of sers f' k d-I
res arm and apprtwal of a hterne app 6 a ous break devern m the uf er, and conurus i %,r- Q', q
- #-Ntoon. ihe commnuonen are required to tion programs at Wase-ford and arxvhet ,g-'' !"[*
'hear the pouuo'ts of the unhts the NRC one treated to probe umilar tha'ges a' I .-
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'**be hen.d TheoreucaD) the commauone's Peah. near Dallas Tesas Dirt k s. Pa!!a I i | -
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such the Law requires them to favor ahe has plaad one senior eserunw m charge of i
posawww of ruwse of the par'ses over the identifying the problems and laying outcatres, nne ewn that of thew own uaff solunons and schedules for gernns to a
Palladino s memo. theerfore raned IKensans decuum at each plam**
alarm bets to everynnr eho had quemorm Panad.no s March 20 memo created anabour the pearns named e a specifically, uproar among those sn %hhmston and ,
and aimme whos somr seu an a formal shaft etwohere who were eithet outnghi antosegy from the easir.gsson's required new musclear or highly shegemal of the mdustry'strabry na general E.apurie=r=d obserwes of safaey prograrets Marty found the rewta-the NRC posui eut that 7bcena- bon that Panskno met prevaiety wuh thesig es6e - a ptirner har enesas difeervus charman of Shoreham's Atomu Safetythungs to different psoper - had beam a and L.acensms hoard to chacuss the topic of
prunnry of Ossrunam PalWano sance km expedains Shcunham's brennans especiate PLANNING CENTERSmamar-ar= bis e earty March 19fb4 the sustacuyus, a same thry ese as an anemgs ,
Nb NNRC's effecta no espachse hcenseg begna by the chastman to emgwogerty snfluerneto demo.airaie a pemo.aiy .amno.a ihe 6ce mns board s deht rm = (504) 46 A5358 (318) 237-1617 (504)3819641cm,.cim. and maen , on Ma,o 2: Congmaman u.a,e s
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Massachusetts. then chaired the Nsi.eInsenoe Commitiee)(hersight and imtigations Subcommerier. one of ihr H<%w,
( ' . . I subtommniees authorised to overwe 'neI f y I |} / NRC's creranom Market sa,d he frame
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, . g q Victor Cnhnsk y. sasd that ihn thoug'i PL*
I, j *r, Ladmo aded impropetly for his Ma :t i*
9'% merung with the NRC uaff and the hrug '. -gof ihr NRC's adtrurustrauwe tse juds- *g- I
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s- NRC Mmmstratt.e la. Judges mus itmaiety dende the validies of ufe's .
i] '| ronmental and quahrs issues rawe: *.I meerwnort the same suues undes aa
f,om Hodei ihe unhue .ndihe ad -
There's ne. eacitement in th, F rench Quarter - a livel, bit '7s!"i,'*" g $N"s [n",$*e
of Paris in a new, casual elegance that makes any occasion Gilmshs both charged tha Panades -C
a harfy time. The new atmosphere and esem menu offeeines 'b*"**'d"h""**'''***'''"'"'I'"'"'""O'$"'"'"*'"'"''"'''rafford gou a delightful taste of contemp9 tart Parn.
Come. sasor the fine ne cu. sin, of on, of s,. o, leans' $"a*6$"d'",',' *, i ,1, * a$,'' ' *,'
,favorite Iour star restaurants $ ave your airfare to Paris - come vuuanse of a kva power de tww' m'- i
to L'Escale. unreasonabis shon prend on time'e g ( ongremonal cniks herw up the nr.
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710 Rwe Ibesmile-en she % La . Hase# and July concerrung ihr eas Palladi r ava
R**erver=wwi 420 h'J! two other commissioners. Thorre %Rohcess and f rederuk M latentrut a. -
Reagan appomtees - seemed to br - *- Ang a numhet of piants tomards Ike-sas
despite the essnence of eenous safe's v( - tions The NRC staft dirvoed bs Pau," ,$ p dmo and backad tn the Roberts. %,nrsa
and Palladmo masont, on the commm w- Ossr Stier martf. had rushed se densions on Diav
'Ihr ' Easter # Canyon. Shoreham Grand Gulf are s'irg gfte restart of Three Ma,e Island Urut t ee* a_m .,p.rutW sg.ed ar,d a, par. , det,-e e,,_
of the pas decade of federal Lee seid seg.hsMaiN tatory geactice that Congreumen Ma-sesOfMe e,*
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s. v Din ks is 61 earls the man she sta" fruosarmgs flesill is famous a WasPungton for*his t rades agamsa the NRC espenalb dur- ttskon with
h [A v h N One of the " reforms" of the Ermr gshmg 8.prropriations heanngs in 1964 thev v vAA Reorganiranon Act of 1986 cera ec anNRC 's appropnations heanngs een held
on March 22, just two days after Ph!!a- [1 thesue. e bonus lysicm it was stueridri* io*
.h | pro *ede an mcemewe svsiem so enrcmragedmo's controvermal memo was penned in | D. ( i
esellence among the NRCs Nghew achethose heanngs Bevdl threatened to match3hDh R{ $Q(@|%V Wj{h ( P W rnaryn. rnembres of =k a @dthe NRCs appropnanons to number of
- the Semur Esecutive 5crs:(e f5E5a au theIKense* the comrtussaon maued - a threatchairman of hvion> ham s Atomic SES bonus sys,e,n. acco, ding so , cop.,mesi practmed NRC obserwes a hNn,
Safel.V RDd lice,nsiD" 80ani,to dis was cnaied,'"ackfeed its structure plaw' h "''' b' "*''hms it m act or sse ii' " '"d ''"' h'" '*!'" d"* N'"d
6 bIntervenors at other plants all caer the
Shon> ham. tonic of expeditmcuss the asht == * haa* of a chair ==a -country. meanehile, were ransms mda,I say, eho wants to enforce staff a&wnrursomplaints that the NRC - =Nch they
s beensing especi y io out - appar-v p+iw ane ,sa d h.o new, bretoems, cmful abou.
suspicious, a move thes. saw. nonuc res,olunons of techrucal safe . queshonoring their administranve and due *
t,on, T ,,SES s,,t,,n .as d,,,,,,. ,oprocess rights - were suddenly smnsggggg{{pgg{h.yh,p replace the top tiers of the old GS seemthem the bum a rush m a fasluon that was
G516 through G5 is There are ce==striunprecedented. as they put s. "even for the r
NRC" Most mte venors bebeve that the chairman to 70 - 5Ew ihe N R c - Din i" -NRC has always been vigorously pro- - g - rg and sc are the next U or flO dom n thr k,rut sht) but m the earts part of 1964, they UDPPersv miiuence Oni, the SES ofrece,s. th, ,o, i.ne
gp gpgghg *g managen" are eligible for the bon.ew= -agree. there was a demonstrable sea6 of whach about 2D are awarded car wearchange
deliberations. N W s'* = f= S W * S N...There are usually only a few as the 11000
Ahhough no one outs.de the NRC kne* ' f rarise. the norm bems m the la at toit sa the earne. Panad.no's March 20 memo $9.000 range Everyone else m the %RCirutsared a nem. haghly focused NRC cam mcludmg all the SE5s who don't reew apaagn to expedne the bcensms of aD ptants j bonus. are simply uuch Thrs mate aswhat thru unbry o=1wes were schedehrig / ks much as they make and thafs all there afor licensing mitNn the next 18 months it The bonuses are hotiv sought afie t* theoss a plan m =Nch %3terford and Grand corngetmg SE5s. accordmg to one tra rceGulf were to play prommem voies and the decuson is uhimately up tc Dur:ts
%'hrn % dham Dirch.s. the EDO. usued turnse issuance daies" for all NTOLs dur- was ordered to report to Darrell Enenhurt. Dircks dendes =ho gets them and =hehas March 12.196a memorandum outhn- tag the corrung 12 months He mas also who ess then the director of the Dmsson doesn t Sources on Capitol Hdi aru e :hemg the creation of spec 2a! NRC task forces to6d to deterrrune the " currently known of Licensms Eisenhutt would in turn commission thmk that that plays a mar-to meesugate hundreds of allegations and potentaal tssues" that rrught come up at report to Denton. who would report to rone m keepmg the staff in hne on aes knechargang the breakdoma of the safety and each plani and slom doen its hcensmg. Dircks who reports to Palladmo Dircks estaNishes - or Pa!!admc esadenstruction programs at Waterford and includ ng a!I the vanous types of NRC hshes***Commanche Peak. the NRCs new era of inspecuans and mwsugatioru that nught Accordmg to one sourte. thai maams aenpedited hcertsms apparently began A arue "and the poremial for a large numtwr Chairman Palladmo's power to work h s big differerne The staff "comes do ? anddesignated 5.vor esecutive. one of the of allegaaons" eill withm the NRC is genera!h seen as bnefs Palladmo - and no one ctic - or aapprentmately 'O tor NRC execunwes. Denton responded to Dircks on May 9. a vast, although thal is a relativeh recent utners of issues regularif How o'te- :nesmembers of the $" -- * matrw Seruca, das late, prendmg a hst of 16 near-term development, according to assessments come dc=n mas unknoen. but thes sene ,
would be put m c' gh task force plarus and addmg three more plarus and a made by commission and congressional dome frequemty Once the SEis Drcts,
The %3terford ta muld be created genene asue - the remari of 5an Onofre m sources who asked not to be named it and Palladmo pei so that office, e s pus,
and began its mse a firs The desig Cahforrua and Thr e MJe Island Urut 1 stems from the Energy Reorganizanon Act PaEadmo and shoewr he wants tc aring !
Inated sefuor enscuuve. Denrus Crutchracid Midland and the Transamerica Delaval of 1990. whati changed the retanonship and Dircks and hocser he aims ic tresen the case of %eierford. was to be in (TDI) Diesel rene. - to the hst in no between the staff and the chairman Under % har thes sat shar thes do, onb they
charge of coordmatmg the totaf NRC taon to %aserford. Cc'nmanche Ftak and the terms of the act. the staff began to know "h n qune a mecharusm fcv coeieffon The goal was to expedite the plant's DiaNo Canyon. whxh also had an NRC report diredtly to the cha rman. throisgh trol" the source obwrved. *and is kus tofrensmg E veryone e the NRC with a ban special management term already assigned the EDO The commession was so set pol me hke it works damn mell-to be checked before warerford muld be to s. Denton suggested its sarrular efforts scy, the staff was to do the work of Impte-beemed mou6d be coordmated bs Crutch be ass.gned to five other slams - Wolf mennns pobc) The chaaman mouldf.c!d Creek in Kansas. Riverbend near Baton mterpret what the polo ess and direct the ( (*Tha. task force struoure. =sth a desag- Rouge. Palo Vrede m Aruona. San Onofre staff on how toimpicment nnated senior executive, would be setzed and TMI restart Meanwhale. Denton said. %'hether Pa!Ladmo as chairman or % d- gupon a few weekilater as the goodel for a special reports on the overan imensmg sta- liam Dircks as the executive director ofmaior thrust of the NRCs program to tus of each near term plant mere bemp pre- operations has more power is a matter ofespedite the luensms of all near term pared open on. between the too of them they are ithough Seemars of E neers thwaA.1pianu Too weeks later. May 23. Dircki issued clearly the mosi powerful two propic at the Hodet's Mas 5 speeth suggese: F
'e ent s. the admmistraaon s lxa- 9Or ApN e. l%4. % di arr Ducks. the another order to Demon this one requmrig NR C Palladino. b) bearig aNe to direct the i
EDO. risued an order to Haroid Denton, the dNky. w..; of an *mtegrated sched staff m the day-to-day management of the saving the nuclear power iridustri the J.the NRCs director of nucicar reactor regu- ute of all NRC acusroes to ensure lhe NRCs operanotts can. sn effect comple ties and their unfmished reactys mad
1suor . directing Pum to develop a seven- speedy hcenang of eight plants Comman- tefy circumvent the rest of the commisuon already been in action for near '*o
see; *ptant specifs enanagement piar" for che Peak. Fermi 2. Wolf Creek. Diablo on most tssues and in most caws Smce the months ehen Hodel announcre theevery -NTOL'' (near term operatmg Canyon 2. TMI restart. Byron f. 5an Ono- NRCs commissioners ret) for neart) aD of adtruntstranon plan m eurly Masbeenw). NRC 3 argon snearung reactors fre I restart and Limenck I All NRC mhat they know atout an) given plani on Somenme m March - admmwea:eri i
shat wds be corrung up for bcensarts soon offices that nughi drvetop ensues that could information supphed by the siaff, the spokespenons have so far refused se gww |
Refemns to the task force recently creared slow down the plants - luensmg. mspec- chastman's control cf the staffi dav-tcwlas nde a speofs date - Hodel eua%eedto expedrie the bcensms of %'aterford and taon. heanns and swsngauons - mere to operations gives him broad powers to something ca9ed the Departmee ofComrnanche Ftan *pronde for an ate- be poGed Four dayslater Mas 29. Denton share the vision of events prewnt-d to the Eners) Task Fme on Nuclear ibwe Ptantgrated approach to the comgdeuon of NRC assigried a " designated nemor executive" other commissioners, accordmg to these Constructen its staff was draer frorriregulator) acuvntes associaied wuh the froen the NRCs scruor executrve service sources those elemenis of the Departmen ofpending bcenses usuance" se Ducks * =ords roster to each plant on the bst Each was If any of the other commisuoners want Energy that had once been part o' the- the EDO ordered Denten to prepare for assigned fuB tune to the task of dewtopmg to duect the staff so undertake a particular Atomic Enetg) Commisuon. pnma,1ya samdar approach to as the other ment- schedules etc.. for the purpow of expedat- course of acuon. the cmher commnsionen * hose norkms under then Assistaru secreserm plants s.nd to report back to han by uig the NRCs boensing of each plant. must win a majorvey voie among the% f %ry for Nuclear Energy Shelb> hrewer
Brewer's pnneiple ansatant desiur, eh4sy 3 - the same day Secretary of Emergy includmg Cnachrerid sa %hierford and netves The chairman, homewr. can eithes *
Donald Hodel was scheduled to address Cari Berbnger, who was assagned full tune go for the vote - or simply direct the staff eary. Dr Thornas Ddlon. was namnd tothe stuclear power industry with what to resolving the TDI dienet probtem that to pursue the counc of action he dictates head the task force DiDon, whoer ma" sev
mould turn our to be the aihnuustranon's plagued Grand Gulf. Shoreham and 1I and then. If he choows to. manage the =sy up shop m an offste "right down the hasplan 10 bad out the nuclear power andustry other plants, the het of neruar NRC execu- a a reported to the other commasssoners by frorn Hodel's ofTre in the Forvenal DentoDenton eas snstructed to determine the trves assigned to expedne the hcenstng of a the staff eng. reported to Hodel through Deans"reibstic constructson comp 6etion and particular plans totalled 30 Each of them Dirths homewv. is not without his own Boggs. the man =ho had been Reagan
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peirkipse % ture House M*nor on enevgv Hodel s Task Forte on asuclea Power and three doien Di >l staffm have been cial f ull nme awsnments At tra. . wvmolless until he was named the number Plant Construmon. lonikm3 for its own prtmding eports and asaMes or have och DOI set hnis a' siaff mer % me'r aMtwo man in DOE she previous October ansom apparenth began to uir ento oper cruise been regula'Is contribuims to the tKsnalls asognest to ' maneo. a.II( p.*
Ekw repta.ed Inn hiellosahu % Arnneth arson too to three weeh lates Although its ta3h force effort at ans gwen torne at nee' eramns on cena n perie's. prebe s. *Da.n in iha guinor and Dam returned sproin begmmmg date remaim urklear. through late Januars |W, although t heir as the IransarhfrKa fhasa) doet p=w"aso Bethici Jerry (.staffith, the director of one of n u m ber s hase nom dropped 10 some sor resiew anJ pwen spn.a: aucu ': O
Hden task forte *ha: he referred to m DOE s offices from which staffm foe the esient discusuons and irips to plant w e- %his Mas B speah a DOE 's "mecharusm" task force were dra n. said his calendar Dillon's 306. as he dcwnbed et. mas to ehach she pubbs would nor ma *ic
to keep ham mformed on the prog ess of showed that the fast DOE meetmg to des ownee the collection of a wast arrai of ra. escludednucleet powen on a plant in plant basas, cuss Tom Dillon's new assignment oss dare revolvms a ound the economK. terb As the details of the economx an eesobed directis out of the % hite Houw called for the mornm3 of Aprd 3.1%4 - nx.a! oe pohtxa! inues that might corke's nxal problems confronting end c a-Cabinet C ounal on Economic Affairs three dan before NRC E=ecuine Direcor aN> ski the Ixenung process of ans one began io riher m. Dilion s aan twga rowork ng group on nuclear power. some of Oprations %dham Dircks ordered the of the 20 plus plants the task force wasadmmastration spokespmom and othm NRC saaff to take steps to dupbcaic the keepm3 tabs on. tuues that could thresien
81oho =cre mwolved m the process have told Waterford Iask force effort for several the surma! of the unhties buddmg themg|3gi
g| gGcmer. the same group shar had been cther near4erm reacton %orkms under To that end. the tuk forte mas orgaruzed
g||meetmg with members of the financal the direction of DWon, the DOE task force into what Dillon desenbed as a " cross .I .] Ilcommunity, she nuclear power moustry quickly began to estabbsh a cham of con marru approach" One pmon spmahang |and the utahtees in their search for a safe tacts withm the NRC and the utabtses The in lxensms suues and another spectahang | g i
cius from the nudear mornas Hodel. wuh task force was specifically directed to foi- m * nome of the economic parameters" |e ,
hn extenswe pmona! contacts m the utibt, lom what Dillon descnbed to GemNr m a mere angned to each plant One of thow Ig ,.,
art:$ustr). the finarena! commutury and the receni miennes as "the reahties of the fee was assigned as the "pnman point of I . g
nuclear power mdustf) from the days when lxensmg process" contact" for each plant, although there ' i | t ; .|, 9
he headed the BonnenDe Power Adtrufus Although Dillon was not destined to might be different people somembere mtrauon, had been chosen to take the adrrun- remain with the task forte long. he owena. DOE fc4k'otng as many as a dozen difiertstraton's led on expedstmg the Lcensmg its irutistion and the first "three or four ent tuues on each plant. anyone of thxh analyte and weigh the mlormawr Av'of nuclear pcmer months" ofits early opera: sons before lear might hang up als hcense. all of them techruca! proNerns tha' m sht dela a s
Precuety when the aimarustranon began mg DOE to take a posnion m the nuclear reportma mio the task forte regulart> tot s hcemma they checked orth DOE ;rras ccacerted carrpa.gn of direct contact 3 ptwer mdustry Folloeitig ha departure m Task force staffm spent their dan gath sultants, apparently scehing sugscs .ar:.math the NRC as not clear Alt hough late June. Gordon Chipman became the ermg information from two principal for argaments or solutions that couM seHodel s DOE task force was orgaruzed m nem task forte director Chipman had pre- sc,urtes. acturdmg to Ddnon the NRC ar J each plant arourd the snags Othe y'yport eith thr role specifically in mmd. vnoush been DOE's depui> amstant secre. the lead utihty for each reactor Colb matum was cornpared enh wha' Dwe-Whare House monnorms of the NRC and tary for breeder reacior programs, a termily. the were ordered to estaNah a ha charactertred as "othe da:a bees' Dotheir decissoremaking process apparently postson that had brought him mio frequent son with a smgle pmon for the u! tin) a .3 lon's own DOE fmancial and ecomw ~began somewhat carber contact with nuc6 car pe*er mdustrs execu another for the NRC ori eEh reactor at.J " Opens' etarruned and meshed thew ;a'
Saffers associated with the % h44 tives Ddion dasenbed Chipman as "sen to deal only with tha' person in sorm ego ft problems facmg rwri plant ures
House Cabinet Counct! on Economa kno*ledgable" and "a very appropnaie mstances. according to Dilion. thes aise mg possibie solutioni on those f ror : atAffaars morkmg grter on nuclear powe- guy to play the role" Chipman. responding contacted inend!> state utdnt regulators. well A!! the mformanon that came ir ea*were inumately aware of the detads of the through a DOE spokespmon. refused to although that was an area he desenbed as =cghed and measu ed. accordmg ic DUNRC's %31erford task fortr plan "withm speak to GemNr about the task forte " sensitive" Documents and internews lon. m the scarth for wha: *as usabee andhours" of its formulanon - something Ddlori s staff began to gather informa obtamed bs GamNr. howewr. suggest tha: ohat mss not'
veteran obsc ve s of NRC operations char- tion regard:ng all the remaanmg nuclear Ddkm's staff enywed a conside aNs e, der Once Ddion's grour felt Ihes inadwierus as wry unusua: %hrte House ofre po=c plants thai oce under active con- range of contacts for most of the plants enough detail on each of the 20 plan se scsals may haw actua!h hetged formulare uructaon and or expected to be soir3 mio they were tracking they onginally set out to momtor tnesthe Waterford task forte plan themsche the "fmal hcensma phases dunns the next. The preene naturt of the retarumshrr began to prepare =ht he called *cor.p-accordmg to a Wat: Stree source who from that time year to eighteer: months" between the task forte and the NRC hensive data books" danaments tha xnaskec nor to be named Mark ke ngar; a The err.phasis at a!: levels of has staffs remams unclea Accordmg to Di%n. his letted together bner resumes o' eadbudget audstor asmgned to energy issues work, accordma to Ddkm. was particslarty task forte staff aidn't have any more access plant i techrucal and financial s:aru< wwithin the Offge or Management and anned an dssctmenna the assues tha: m2ght to the N RC than anyone che "Th% dadn't uw to hcensms .3th the emphasu aw
Budget, saw the GamNr sourte and othm delas a plant's bcensms The adrrurustra have any rnore spena! ac=ess to ue NRC targeted on expedams the issuance cv as j
a detaded account of the pian less thari 24 toon, actmg through Hodel. =anied than vou would. but thes exeressed a regv hcense The data buons were and e rrr e|
hou s after a was densed m carh March nuclear power plant hcensms expedited lartf Ddlon said "The popie a: the NRC to be updated as developmems dem.tAccord 2ng to GemDir's sourte, kerngan and Dt!!on's task force oss the ad ance =ce wrs coog-stive in prtmdans ur to al=svs lookms toward beensms fes arewas thoroughb knce.nedgable and enthuiu- unit to that end. Hoders nuclea mielb date informaaon and a was alonys at our comrnema! opers' ion and inclusn=r r neaster about the %31erford task force plan. gence operauon fmge tips aftet we got staned" He charac rate base secordCD micrh no that the source saad he thought DtDon trutmIh gathered a group of "un terued the N RC peopic fus siaff spoke to as GemNr has obtamed cotwes of wewrutha the plan had actuaD) come from the or newn" peopic from other areas of DOE of the first three comprehea.ne bonks :v >Whste House, not the NRC for has core staff They came from two pn- du:ed h she task force T hey cc- a e
Contacted tn Gemhr. kerngar derued mary areas of DOE planrung wh,ch pm detaaed fmancia' prefdes on cas nr-hanns kncien anyth;ng about the %3ier- uded people eith capertise in utihty pany. mcluding charts shomms the h:snford plan Last sprms. sanns that he ha$ nor economics and financial analysis, and k 'If/ of the utdatis dmdend. ucck ard twW" ployed an active role" in the Cabmet nuclear engineers. people "who could j f performances. thes* cash fkw need: meCouncd nuclea workms g oup He mound undentand techrucalissues associated with ,
amouni mwessed in ther reactor consr.mi taon programs. estunares of ho me nbe glad to talk atout the Cabmet Councars bcensms the reactorr The task force core
efforts. kerngas saad. but before he dad he staff. who worked "Just down the hall" sad to be mwested etc They abc ccwrtrwanted to make sure that he was *cowe ed" from Hoders offge. =ere in turn sup bnef summanes of all upcommg tw u:Before saying anythmg more kernga' ported by DOE *1th eng: nee's attorneyt *k and regulatory esents tha: =ili arr masked Gamba's reporter to check with spectahsts and upper echeton managers k either their bcensms or the planis suuOMB s Offar of Pubbc A.ffwn before he drawn pnmardy from the offsces of the |!\ \ sec,n or czclusen from the rare base
sould dacuss the matter further Con- assistant secretary for nuclear energs Precuch hom Dillon's staff trea.ec "wtacted by Gamba. Edom L Dale. the (Shelby Brewerk the asstaans secretary for enformatsort they recetwed is nos csca Hunasistent director for pubhc affaan for planrung and polwy development (Jar: own accounts of that. as told to GeeOMB. responded that "Kerngan doesn t Mares). and the assistant secretary for " key people" people =ho would either agwar to be contradsctors On one ma.,dknow about any NRC muff and won't talk meernauona! aff ain and energ) emergency k nom the mformation DOE manied or who he msists thai hu mission was samtv. toabout w" (Helmut Merkleini, Ddion saad All three would be able to get et at a moment's premde an accuraie assessment of =ha me
Told of Kerngan's demals, however portfohos carey some responsabibly for notice htensma and fmancial assues on any g=ce
Geseht's source mmrM that he remem- auclear power operations or advocacy Other sources. however. suggest that plant mere He mafts tash , as DtDor iets nbered the conwesauce very clearty He aus waham DOE's normal orgaruzauonal stuc- task force staff had access to mformaaon at one po nt. was simph to ensu e tha'qune sure en his rwnnmw that a was Ker- ture Bremet. Mares and Merklein hswe aD that the pubbc could not norma!!) espect there was " good. accunsie, dispassenarer@n he spoke to. Kernsan, he said. mcned on to other pouuons unce then to ottaan in addstion to thest regular con- data and mformatson" about the sea ofasemed to hew had a thorough knowledge f)DE's pubhc posauon has been to autu- tacts with each plant's NRC project man- the 20 reactors neanna bcensms "Thr esraof the NRC plan for Waterford and had eaJs the sur of the task force. Spokesper- ager. DiDon conceded that tus staff *may was" he said. "that we needed to heve |deacnbad a a some desail mehnme a as a son Barbara Hemmma msisted m recent haw" been m regular touch wah the seruor good, accurate, comprehenuve da a to I
plan to *empedste the process and make suerviews wah Gembs that the task forte executsves the NRC deugnated to sheperd support any pobc) denswni" the adnuressure the (NRC) resources eue appbed so a composed of *caly two rs**eed" DOE those rune most troub6cd plants through trabon nushe be mak msthat ansvers could be found* staff people A small samphns of DOE the process Fe= peopte ==h the NRC Whde insisung that the informarrw ten j
task force docsaments recentyy obtaaned by and the DOE task force even knew that smup conected and the any a wtuch e ==s '
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m sh: af fect anythms oihet than a norma! of the Offwe et Pon,c Deselopmeni and f em of the ta's for.c ewe' *c * hring pprogress" tomanis f ull poor operanons smia' amsrant to the preudem f$ eggs quu his pawed '9rougSv me sme r mem j"%e meer pasung oc mformanon iha: =e was gene'a!h unde unod around Washms sia the me.hamsfr of the W h'ir Housethought had been rut m she rig =it con ton a.cordmg to att the wu ces meet Cahne' Council on E conemi. A 'r a .r* |9teiii There was a wry real seiempi io de s ic.e d bs Gamfor enclud.e3 DOE werkm3 g our oc nudea n=ci moth mg 'p.; -M p- 0
| some prophemng of the technica' and eco spokesyrwe Barbara Flemmmg. as "the under the das IMias dmrson of Asusiam - * * ' ' r. .; nomw informanon m terms of who' its energs gus m ihe w hite Houw" Se. reta** of the Treasurs for Domeug . 'e*' y[Sabdity was" But on Sepembet 9.19t0 two months F mante Thoma3 Hraies Sta' fen cogned M
Dilloe demured when asked af the pur- after the % PPSS bond delsuit and us to Healey i protec' we e in dash teierhone .r - ,cspose of that mformaaon =es lo criaNe the monihn before the DOE Task Force on centact with Dillon s talk force siaff, i @)adnurustraison to help facihtate bcensms Nuclear Pc' err Plant Construction was accordmg to Dillon. collectmg 'speufic q ,/ -
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that thes were tracking The admuustraimn dent to be une depun secretary of energi HealcCs un f a.* addmnalb reepai 'r
| =as looking not so much at facihtatmg He was confirmed t v the Senate on Octo mg and submittais for the task forte staffs (,
.g wbcensirks. he saad. but rather to see if *there ber 23 Ed Roihsc uid. mith Oturns Later ce s iew and writien cornment "various I t r As
were stages im the bcensma prtmiss t w hen Eneras Coahnon. a washingion based dra fti" of paren Ditkw ref ased to charat| ky |the federal scwrnmem, etther directh or ene gs mreres' group has dealt with Beggs sert 2e $avirig that she Cabinet Couna! i g , i I
mdirectly. was ati mappettnaie bamer" regulath smcc the Rez, gar Mrru'ustranon wor king greur's efforts are ~penileged{
gk[N, . [. iThere was a " strong sensamt,' that the came to pomer Rothsshad orwnhes Boggs m format en he wid only say tha: t he i J
adrrurustrauon chd not become *a facshta as "a Chstago 5chool. Harssrd ta=yer = he papen deal muh acto tha. ment bevondtoe to the extent that thes would become an would teU you that he inte prets econorrut mformation tha: " mould impact Imanoa factne party to a bceasing proceedmg or is behanor m a sery comensuw. tretional decisions" % ha: the purpose of those i
any ens appear to be cont averuns the manner He tehews that pnrnanly market papers was or ho. ihey we e used rema ns|NRC- force * should determine economic out- unclear *
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ibv Genitur smce shom cleafly tha: the such that ri doesn't make it too difficuh for gos er nment was represen'ed" at those r'. *jmhcde poms of the task forte oss to cohect peorie who really want to get nucles' meet m g s. accordmg to Ddlon. m hc l
mformanor that could te med to mfluence pe=c' off the g*ound to do the Jot that has attended mans of the*r Asked about the |NRC decisions on spctric plants and spe to be done m their terms 50 he ts bau. subsecis discussed Ddlon reiterated his 'f)E N UMU i
. cific issues calls from the non federal and non- poution that the rnee mg1 mere prmieged. .5/4 * 7J 70 .n ! )| When there was a confbct br*meen the gesernmental enterseritioniti school of but said that rhow mwob:rg his task force y- V-, || =ss the unht) and the NRC saw a paniew thougm" revalsed around issues concernmg the em - ~ ~)
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lar tahruca: quest on taa: trug5t be detas- Prectsch whai Ebsgs Hooc! and oshen nucicar power piants pushmt o' hcensmsf
i mg a plant's prngw twsrc5 full pn=e- m the admmistrancar did with the miorma- Spokespeewm fo the % hne Hauw. theoperanoe. for ms;ance the tast forre noch tson be ng parhered b Dihon's - and later Deparrment of E ne gi and tne Derart
j an appena# rhat appa er'h d "e-ed frem Chr nar's 'ask fo ce n not clear men: cf T' ease 5at e al''e'eed te d vuear objectne assenmem of a pa ticula' Responding t hrm,pa a Dera tmen' of the mee mrtuur s subdin "If the uthn and the Nk C Energs sponesmwr the forme % hae % h.ie Door msisted rhr 4s tan forteappea ed to be seems thmss oppoutef>" House che' energs aduwe refused to efforn were stncth a:med a conte tmgDdkm told Gomtsc. his sta'! **oukt in te sMak about he acimne= io oped2te lhe informanor he conceded tea Heales'sg et ot her mformaaen that could be hcensms of probsc r eucica' rewee plams morsmg smar va'f took the mfmmaoorbrought to tea We didr t eve trs te bnrig Bogp home mas appa e9ta DOE s prta oet 5 Dihcr s uaf' d4 r .c p'an to the rem' o'saurg %c a r*gM and pnme mese and shake ac*:ng ori his t am cump o' C t%c "circu.ated if to ali the |
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|pomt he r s tha: ucupom and he * s this noed 5 the tad for;e an * f ne prende- * corw erned FM w rte a g en . ee- ac ' i {or he' mformanor" Precneb mha "thi* manca e if the AJ-a e eralen s sarrpa g , j mg unJe Hea es . .oc d < r e v r. m o g1d 6 i
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might be usec mas semeNg D. Mar Boeg' *etted sen M*e s ' o p the sun spean aa E a* Isense 46A . )i *
| declined to druu tau f ar;c ua" = 5J *ere; dmb :c ; tha Heam e' .sec .c aw I. !
| Asked if DOE s tan cor:e was a nu.iea- he a.;c dmg tc dor He ir u'n d4 a Ar the w*e mne e9ese va-t aa s aie c' . 6 l') !I h} mielligence gathe mg operanort Dillon "gf-ar oca'" of brie 6P6 o' othe people m the Cab re Counca or. E conor % A'fa." I I
agam demur'ed but did nor cens the sus ard ou o' the admta.! straw regard >ng 'he *or h er g s'our or n Alea po*er oe e f|
j gestion Ca!bng the te-m " supe'<%arged" staus o' the peog a- re especte h.ews pomg on the C a5re Cound perare j j| Dibon sand he "icnded' lo th4na of the and the admmatrava a ef fe-ts to that - H wie: Trea5 s s Secre'aw Denawj group "as dewsopmg a factua' and otico end Armed with the enfo rnanori a*J Reaga . and h.g* rath ms o%ab ef the t Il tive da:a base" rathe than as ari inte!! - aria'ne* ofthe tad force Ek gp mas av a Ofrece a' Manage,em and B dge the
f'|gence gatheneg ope-aaon The tan forte pnrran force ir irnpememmg the admm- FM Err e seno Mar.agemem Ase o I
was tr.anaged he said as a "fac fmding tstranor s pelo to espedite the hcemmg the Depa'iment of Agncutter and ceactmts as opposed to a *pote actmtf praen and to bet the unbuea in other we r meeteg with ewcuttws f rorr the utab !
wan E sactly * ha: actions he took . to ties buildtr's Seabrook and Shoreham, the*** whom he spoke. etc . remains unclear financial comrnunity and the nuc; earAhhough task force staffen did not ahhough there are wme hmts to those powe indan The quen on unde dxus-
make them, pobey deciasons were nrve the- questions contained m the DOE tad force sion was how to baJ out Scabrook. Shoreless the frun of their sort Dibon reponed dncuments Gamber has otgamed ham and at the other probermane reactorsto Secretary of Energy Hodel through While the admimstration was asso Hodel. Boss and one other DOE ofre
, {DOE's nutaber too man. Danny Boggs duously working to conymcv the pubhc csal. Earl Grelde. occasionath accompa.| )Both Hodel and Boggs recrewed detaded that all manen relauwe to n*r power nsed by Dillon. meanohile, began to *
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bneffngs at lens once and sometimes t *1ce and electncity rases were rnartees best left to conwne their own ernes of meemss with |a week froen Task Force memben The the NRC. state and local authorities, the fmancsal commuruts foDowing Hadel s ,'bncrme ere-nns wah Hodel. acrordma to Danny Bossi. Donald Hodel and other May 8 speech to the Nuclear Ptmer AssemDtDon, usuaDy correntrated on plants thas adrrurustranon representartim mere Juss as bty According to Ddlow at least "four or |:,were hot topscs of the news day Thoar with assiduously workms behmd the scenes m five" of these mee-mss took place be=eenSoggs, homewr, eere massi eider rangmg. the interests of their fnends m the fmancial Hodet, et al . and groups of utahtari ana
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sacre desaded and grneraDy more frequent communsty, the nuclear power mdustry lysts from newral of the countr)'s largest )Danny Does was no stranger to ques and the utthey edustry investrnent and commemal bankms firms
alous of nuclear energy and asuonal poM All through the spnns while the task and some other *narural s'ouptngs" from, . , .Dunes the firm three years of the Rangan forte was conectmg mformaison from the the fmanesal communny The character of
admirusrrasson Boggs serwd a the W)ute NRC. ihe utihties. press chrpings and the meetmas accordmg to Diuon. was toHouse as the prua. dent's number one "other data bases? the Reagan adnurustra- help the rmancial commuruty "senrate
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t) reacton that hM instabed the massiw rugued a mmdai ca!! froen Harold Drn nuchrar ergneer and then ger14smr pness the (eernment AuovmaNiii. hwgeacrators The diesci problem oss on ton the NRC's director of the Offmx of wrote to the task fcwa revvimg on mec shav the daisaoru rum tens maar =v vwhen the NRC calb the "cmrat path'' for Nuclear Remor Regulation (NR R L the eng3 of thier anonated smups wtwkms ce the highest echetiwu of the NRt =e* J.
hcensing on two oeher planti si well as NRC offre ultimatet, ressortsab6r for all the TDI assue the NRC TDI task grour taied t*, ' pt==er fvt fort ei issu+g vw ' ,
Shareham and Grand Gulf Dukr Ptwer s rencor licensmg prog +ams the man one the TDI owns group. and NRC comnus tions tha' "could run tv comms f rt- 4-
Catawbe an South C archna sus acmas the ster remcrwed froen the NRC's esecutive saonen They sussesi thai DOE mterwn highe in (fus coumr$*
stase ime from Charbatic. Nonh C arobna. direcios. % ilharr5 Dirc h s Denton told taon m the TDI quesuon was tens mar =eb % hen presned or the eucuror c' w
and Teams Utibtaes Commanche Peak on Berbnge tha he would soon receive a cal) pursued when some of the mon controe DOE Task forte on Nsutras Powee fWthe outskirts of Dejlas. Texas Untd the from someone in the Department of sia! NRC turvisms clenssoru inwohms the Construoion. Entserthutt denied hem t's
TDI dieset tasue was resobed ror r of the Ener st oho would ask to ut in as an emergency generaroe issue .cre made anythms atout a IK)f can forte "W J
four mound be issued an operstmg lacertie observer on all the TDI protect group Among those mai tha sidely cringized stail) =e hear ther's a big task forte os- |
NRC regula:moru require that each oprv del.ber azions if Trwheti had any ques order the NRC issued on Ma, 22. lW. up m thr hagh newb and then there i a d ' i
atmg reactor haw mandtw genersion on tions Denton told Bethnger. "try to allowing Mtssas.pp. Power and Light to ferert task forte." Eisenhurt said ' T he )sit e if an off sne power f ailure should ansee rhern* li ens dear ic hsm. Berbnge' continue operat ng Grand Gulf si los staff doen here reajl> dwsn't hea ar.
ocnar er the same time the piant est emprn told Gamtat. thai sornebody hanf coords ptwer whde one of their too TDI engmes thans about a l'.e had casesarmat. se-
entsna a losu>f<cotarit acudent - *tuch naied =nh Denton about Ttutet: Denice was torn doen for mspetuori,the firu urne contact with the Secretary of f ne g. .
could lead to a senous radaanon rescase or in turn asked Bertmger to be accomodanns a U S nudear regulaiory tusiory that has ofixe or an, of ha workmg groups ta..
ewn a rnetidown - the eme geno geners w her' Thckret called been done fortes, es:"
tcrs are designed to come on hne automau Berhnger insists thai Trxken was an One Truketi memo. daied May 25. Preswd agaA Erscrihurt aga;ri oem
cad). energinns the reactor's emersetry observer onh. artma m on the TDI techru 1981, bnefly repons a Ma3 24 comrruanaor any kno=6cdge of ant DOE tass foces or
shutdowei systems. =hrb rety on pumpris ca! discussanns. going on the site mspec rneetmg called to discuu the prardem that he has prmmalh had an> con a- :-
enortomus volumn of waac' through the t sorts and attending the room meetmas settmg NRC order usued two days carber commuruauon wha:torver ouh aweruarzer cort %:thout rehaNe aardc% pen bet weer: the owner's group are the NRC The second satson of the memo reveals frorn the Department of Energt a a."
ermors. eccordmg to long estabbshed SRC maff afni regorians bach to has supenon m Trxkett's own ana>yss of the pubiern and "l'en mot aware persona!b of an :asa
reguizemons known as GDC 17 (general the DOE task force Berlmger Truket and tus undersandma of ho= the eformar-m larces that are outma cwet there ngs to
denga cruensk nudear pn=e pianu are Houmon a!! agree that Bertinger's rarp he is prtmdmg to the task force wdl be a aII* he renamed He also derued heons
aos aDrwed to ope uie As prob 6etas as taan of Truteti was cool er bes "The first used Condudmg that there are udend eer- any knowteder of kertneth A Trxar or
Eucleas power plants so, the TD1 diesel time l eans tum! Trukett samt of Eatmeer ceas techrucal prob 6erra wah the dusets he of any efforts by DOE to monito ire
fisws nears bag league troub4e for ewry a a telephone enerwre wth Garebar. *he then turns to an anaryms of the NRC's how NRC"a TDI dienet project grour anc si
piens thas had them toed me to drog dems" That was the way dhng of a specific technxar quesuoe or prog *ess "Thckett?" Etscahurr asare
%==ry of the TDI groNem as Shcre Bertmeer remembered n also wbch the usur was finaD) hrned. =turt Neve heard of lern that I cari retar* If
ham promgaad the NRC to organur a spe- -He didn't come in here throwing ha a foDowed 49 an authne of actaans bang Thcteet had trdend bece alkimed te oc to
caal "crerners group" composed of wagts arosaru!" Bertmger saad of Thcteet taken t'y the Department of Energy's pt> project group este vastes. Essenhur' sasi
sep==smannes of cact of the 13 affected "There's nothms that I would hew toner grarc to mow the NRC to a posruce the that would have been unproper. tv he
planes It ses designed to help the ami'vid ased w hen lie first contacted age and w@ engudite lxrnama of the TDI detried hmmself ens ecs aware of an, sat vists
mal sashtars wveurle the prob 6ern towards asked if he couM be on distribuuan hats rdare nany sah penon or any such DOE tass
remaintion On Lbc NRC staff s>de, the and tir norarsed of mersings and be ater to One of the enous vexmg potdems wun force
e-aussion estabbsbed its own spec al attend mettangs. I asked hun why and he the TDI d-=rk, aside f rorn the problemaus Merrwrarca wrwten by thckru ce tuned
TDI project group, ohxh was hkewise explamed and I said 'fyr. you can come rtreign of some models, was than the quaF on mformataan supphed by Trrken 6cr tne
cedeed to search for an axeptab6e tectut ibu can parcopate as an observer Eks the my assurarm:r cf TDi's parts was poor and task force a Mas June and July o 19pr
cal =*== m sencra; as well as for each first time you interfere witt = ha t I'm has aos men NRC quabry assurancz mand- howrwr. mdudmg the one quoted art =- ,
specafit plant At its peak, the owner's doms. l'en somg to ask you to leave' " ards. Cracked and troken paru. such as suggest d2fferently An unsigned mem e*
group had roughly 120 people workarig on Despie hn remerument of Tnchett's pro die cranksha*t as Shoreham and cytmder dated June I. IW. for instarre, du.wsn
the probbern fua ume at an o6d randi house enct . however. Berbnget apparently heads er Grand Gulf, how been an area of the "TDI Diesel Saatus a Grand C# ,
nes: the sue of the Shoreharr paaru. mzor anztwnrnodated Tnchett as long as Thcken special concern in the extraordinanly seems to quare from a direct corw ure
dans to the NRC TDI prmee smur leMet .arued tum to crunpeen worki of nuctra regulamr.. cra; witt' Eucchurt m =hich the dveny 9 6
Trz kes t . according ic Carl Berbnget. Trxhen reponed back f asthfully and cal safety asues often turP on the defmr bcensms en#aans the reawwung beuw me
NRCs TDI project group leade:. *as ofter; to the Tasa Fortr on Sudear Ptame taoru used to eri gerformancr uminds acceptance of a new eme'genn d.ew
assignrd to keeps tabs cm the NRC* to PLaru Constructm Bawd or the mforma Thas has been the case ort the TDI usue standed a: Grand Gulf The *nie' o' Wr
find can whether or not the "TDI issue *an tion rp avadab6e to Gemte.. the questnor. One of the major struggles beweer the sarne memo is careful to dist ngu $* a'
a real grobierr" and *hethe- or noi "the tha' remams to be answerd a not whethe owner's g our and the NRC proyect grour cnhe prwnts m the enemc tha: the me /
NRC was proceeding as expeditious!> as Trxkr: micefered wuh the process. tnr. was suse tha: ho= to derme ari mxrptab6e certairt cornments are frore %snt erpnssiber to resobe the issue if p was a res' etche the mformaaoe he suppbed to the performarwe standard for TDI pans The N=e aid Light inArsmer. for mmeissue" hertmge' was the NRC scruor cucv- DOE task force was used to miemne or NRC standard at the tmw was 'ruk frer* a in anothe ghx MP&L n said is eim semce offke Haro+d Dmtort ausned rnarupulaie the process ai a hisher more turnchmark thes were appareruly edlary te Harold Demon. the director of nerato scee thn 1s.taMarty troublesome issue pohtxa: and gerhaga sophaticated newt erwxhfy to " defect free ~ reset or regalanon Eiwnhurr's em oout of t he w a s of IKert Eg plants hke % her kenne@ inc ken spoke to Gamk According to Tnchet s analysis. tha' suct datmetinti is mada m the 'Ww 4
Grand Gulf and Shorerxr. du he unde abou hu roer eith the task foece. hr derued standuc was abo toc high for the utdaturs E rsefthu'? , sia:ements ,
stood Trgkeit s marching orders" tha he or anyone etse ass 4sned to etw tash "The major prob 6cm' Traken reponed. A hand enneri meme penned t% N '
Ber'.:nger to6d CnemM. thr DOE nudear fortr was invohed m trymg to circu rien: "as the NRC treement frore 'ruk free' eri on July 3. lW refen to comrte %
engincee was evolved to anure ha man- NRC safets. quabt, or enuroninental res (what is m itself unnecessanly restrsted an Enenhutt assatant. Marn % A a- ,
asement Iat DOEi tha' m fact the NRC ulations He corweded, however. tha: he so 'defa1 f ree' cornporrms and tyvems er " Don't be cgtimn C ihe note w a v jNf I
was one dragg:ng ris fees and causms an) was assagned to look fcw =sys for * DOE to the TDI diesci case This eill cresie ar utmg the comments to withams
unnezrsaary detsys m the bcensma prtx- inte-vene" tr the SRC bcensms process ursacceptabbe and unnecessary anaMa. noi tsrd domri' i
ess * "Peop6e thought" Tr u ket t said "you inspr.ctm and NRC revere burden upteThchett. eccordirig to Berhage' and kno. is this a good poievitial item for the mvolved uulaties~
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Dens Hausman. who was the NRC project DOE to unr to muerwnr" imrnedsatet, fouo=tna thar nummew Jerry GnfTah was the deputs direc7 #.
sannager for Grand Gulf as the time. Ultiresie4 inckett told GemNr. he a Tnchett's outhnr of DOE's response DOE s Office of Con =ener R ea 10'
rpar*sy began to artend at of the mertmas came to the condusmwi ther NRC"s cxm "The DOE acuoc tems taken a Desdovmeru e im Unde norma m1tsorn itermeth incheti retswied to G "s nheressa the TDI owner's group and the cerns about the TDI desagn and quaht) * To driermme what connautes a reason When Trockett was assigned to the task
NBC s TDI seoseca group He aho accorn- pro 66 ems w=re well taken and he recon' able technmal W to the TDI diesef force on Nudear Power Plant Com"*pm==d the NRC TDI project group on seu enended so the task force than DOE les" prob 6ern through drecs, malcamal corvan tson, ho=m. he began to nTwwt WS t0eral este taspectsons at specifx plants. the NRC task group alone "I re otn- wth the isivohed enduary and regulatas the task force and anothet of Gnf9h,smehme=is their trgis to both Grand Gulf amrewiset than DOE not amerveer* Thcheti " subordmaies. Dr Peter Langand Shoredham -{bg (wo [ampf t where the gggd "g) [hg hggt g( my kBownedg2 thEr danums to DOE ==aar==nem' for DOE OnfTah's ofrace was one of DOE s reroneumate runolutsoe of the TDI tasue ens fouowed But.. oben staff as the aan a as approgrsate, such as tush M smones of mudear erigancenna esprrtswW hasty cryucated pubisc comumer mare r wraa- newd make those bads of meetnags with the Commsssion and os FM of GnfTah's M fuB tune staff MdMpW 8E"N ' P""'C'0''' " " E "'"'''" " "'" aD professsonais, eure "hesvdy insed"
Bartager thd not take so Thchart's pruk a5 kmds of hands and a group of peoper bigs on bcenang prn W with varu>vs task force assignmesta l
ance hmey, brak men tak! Gansbe As far down er the Forrestal(DOE's mam office '
"There mere a bunch of taski scue on"***as he uma concurand Berhager seed,lhthett bushkng e %saungton)thsak atxam thern,ans e=dwy who was there to look over I heuen't the fossseur ernaon of whas hap Darreu Essenhutt, who was then the Gnfrah recahrd, sonne of whsch are asum
abramar of the NRC's Drvismos of I ===- uma la addnion to their assignmm toh abrushasr mi gsphr es arm he thd Bol he- pened other than an migiremmon thus ther*I abahn't mand anybcufy esAurig me how to mes arver tatum up as a sabsect for the Ser- sea. Iced Gasbef he had arver heard of the *heep tabs on a3 the troubend pearts to
do syy pb* the NRC *=ree imur smet rusury c( Eaurgy to meerwar on" DOE Task Force ce Nudear Pbeer Plear try to ====a if three was somettuas the
tus - a DOE had cr==are- as Pathset sqppartedy Lare more them he a f'r==trww= a en smurvire om Mards 18 depaneness could do to helor GnUnah
the amp of the NRC. A few skuee before wuhos to adast. howeves Gember has Essenhear den-rf chame the amene oosver- seed, the 1hsk Force has also turn kwams
1)wasurr cuand bmm the fks thee. Burtees obtaaned a senes of ameneas the DOE ema= the he had m tohl beame Garde of as *ongame nous-u=y nair-makire ee are ,
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do Thes s'e kob mg atemergena p' epa' an orde' reuuvring MP&l to .omplete the against the meas u'c and i rit h ised t' keer Neat"i= s 30 rp H '6h aw* '-
edncu soorte it rr - thes *e bren imo T DI rea' 40* n me tion l nderu anding harshh ee'e rios even amare a' she nrne sha eholders mould N ' use c ** e
tuv ahouteve v hing Trwhet as ree tell ihat thai ordre 6arried =ich c ehe sella'e'al tha' a De if Tas6 Forte on %.udea Ne' * ^n s he AJmma"8"*" eM * *
erig Go*Nr t ha' "t he e were umptern s'emi requiremeni tha; the rea.1or be shu' dow n ( enu ruction emed ma,n less that m the irr ponawn M . hear t anala
on the itass forten hsi and ihe T Di dicsch the tornpan, ref used screet,me during reprewmames .ere dire ,1ogg+g the gnitre rs=e' mio t he Nc= I r p aN d'ce ' ' - '.
ee*e tuu orie of thev thar geriod Dean Houuon memh told range of deocon mak ing progenes s he, to fruuraic the mose te Jar Nea a
Sov te trem re ers to the sprend of radia Gember Jim Maschs. MPal s sect reem led io the Grand Guit T DI orde, auordmg The De pa r e rne n t of I ne's a's:r r *
ison that eouid ocru' afiet an a6odem m dem in charge of Grs'id Gulfs orershom to Gil niss and a spokesman for Asseh Depaq rnent of Dr f ense =%8J ea * a . **hoch a rea6 tor s fuci *as damaged - gen "mer'tioned" to Houuon that he *ouM see line Nor did thes k rk== tha' the informa asmany the C anad:ar psur- r r. .
eralh conudetd io br ihe seweev form ot if rhe tM)E task forte couU dc ansihms to tion collected by henneth Trgkeit and ses wo't s'eunds Hside. au ur ed " .atrajent at a nuclear gr=e' piani short of a http get MpAL c=er ihr TDI humr onhers was being funneled so people m in'essors in seabnd ed 'n as- aemehdomn A pomt mdustry.NRC studs "MP&l maar refereme a time or too to DOE who were apparently in comac1 with uitbises Otemp foregn hwdre gn=v- wgroup has receritty annourErd new nudies this gmup tihe DOE task kws,er Houston the "hagh brve4" NRC offKnals who made oculd sag. - and mm have said - n mas'
whsch ctaam that the sprend and lethairy of told Gembes. "thes had knowledge thai that deciseon durms the time when the tha decade s equnakens of chear hes-rad.ation following such an accident is this group was there and they e=sdently dension was in faa made oil
% hen the NRC s Of'he M umuch less than prevsously thought That .ent to them to ice =ha: the g+our could in an imerestmg " Dear Don" lnier thatCounct suggemed that a *f so ree"*grour, acroedmg to GnfTith. =as ongmalb do for them m am way. shape, or form to may be related. Harri O Remsch. the
broughs tognher by DOE staffers agsw get thern over some of thew technwal president of Bechtet Pt=e' Corpretion NRC reguisoons required shar t he vr -enth workm3 ori task forte assignment humpa I remembr, the gus on the dscw4 the arttutett eng neee' and pnme contra, vewrs m the rest ar' of ( abforcea WThe carh meetings of the mdunes NRC generators he =as asking me = hat DOE tor for Grand Gulf. witwe to Sectriary of Oriefre remao' =ere emined to a 'im sgetrur a:suaD) me as DOE offkes e the could de. hom DOE couU gn mio a poso Enregv Dcmand Hodc4 on Augur L 191La or the issues thes *ere ra +ng ( an -
wasNngton area GnfTith sand tion to shed sorne bgh' on tNs panicular it oss three days ahn the NRC voted Ic Chipm a n the new task f o's J *e -NRC's nem assessment of the dangers of subject" tssue Grand Gulf as fwd pcmee operstmg issued a truce sig'ied t's H4e! of 8e'rg
source term ehgh is being used m the Houston. =ho attended most of the hcense on July 31 Ransct' wwwe to Hode4 how DOE : attornevs issue a 6csa: m euruggle owe emergeno ptaruung for the NRC TDI prtorci grour menings because t o , m pa rt . thafik hirn foe his help in saving that the eterwnors =ree rms ever ceLong Island Lghtmg's Shoreharn nuclear of Na roer in Grand Gulf had become a obtasrung a full po er ogwranns lx,rnse for to a heanng The NRC subscuuem% nNpt=er plant between ofreciah m New Dbrk. favonte of kenneth Trukett Tnctatt had Grand Gulf *1 ocuw aise bke to espmi 61, denvtng the heanna
e | In June ihr %hste House CaNne ( vand the ut&ty. the NRC and the mirrurus- deve6oped a habn smce bems asugned to ms pervraaJ appreciarior for your e fort.tration. is currently unde attack from a cover the eme gency generator issue of on Grand Gulf' Reinsch told Hodel | cil on Ememma Affairs wor k m3 ervenets of anti nuclea and othe' mie ests spendmg long sespons eith Houston "wNch I believe were m5truments' m the *1th Me"sli L ssh and other mae '*t
Dorisments how recenth berri uncanhco pumping hirr for in form a tion about recesps of a f ul! pome' liceme or Tursias o' | Serve' firms satreded er produc ra a-emergene t'adour rros'am ic sa aseon the task force involvement eith the Grand Gulf in grne a' and the TDI ques tNi.eek- t
sourtv term issue, acttiedmg to sources art tions there an part:6ular. according so PuNx he of New Hampshire as "WesNngton. that shom for levei DOE pe' Houuon - ar assertior Trx kett si firsi mestmem in %eadenok l nde' s he oa asonnet dricuums how thes can marupulate attempted to dent when questioned about new corporare evitits was crea:ed si~ a -the NRC prtxrsses to produce Ihe dension et b a Gemtwr remner. tvui late * cornvded mans =no eo Meddle %outb E ne g v
*soughs by the adminis:ranon l'nde' Precisch a ha' if aavthms MPAL's stra corporaison created tw Madow 's .Uthnes to operare Grand Gutt Neaw ssourte irrm, actor &ng to 6e source the p6cas far heir from the DOE task forte had gmemo calh it a "rethra.al-emotional to do eith the plan tha? tuued forth a few
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pohtical problete' going on to discuss .eeks la:c. allowing the corppans to conusing DOE researth nahorarones to suu:f s imue to operaie Grand Gulf a' km pe=er i did not take long before unhiics in Gulf. demsned to tw a resma g*ea a=ha: the admmeurarme es:ts to .hile one of iheir TDI diesets as torn trouNe because of their nuclea con ua son c=ned tw a compam *.'r rv e v
Feepte on Ns sta" who acre g"ver task do.n for msrectior is not clear Dunng the structinr prog *ams tiegar to ture to the assets * hu t eilt scl! . hae sale * *torte au gnments trElodmg souru seert miener Trnmen and othe DL Nse wrs DOE task foru The tatt forst unue the pomet tc ihe isistmes tha W *irwGnfri:h said follemed the same wors rei of the NRC *ere seMmg the . . sortt a *suhf ul ew of Danns Ek sc and in f urt hommwearson e'foni octaned - +-terr as Trakeet aneMmg SliC ua" and siends strearr of enemos outhning the the 4 have House Cabmes Counct! or E ce L ll C O and %horea.a .on'mued -w.ommisseor meetmgs deahns with ars geoNe ns, the dnpum and sha: a@ca: to nomu Aff am =orking gmur or nalca* mhibe to preuure befo4 (ounoas wspersa.' irslaurs or utdes groups that had be suggestiom or *1m te s.a!nf v the di' fee- power toget hce secte to haw shdifuth fun iork state of ficia% t( rias t at i
beer formed se addren whatese NR C ences ir M P& L's fasor includmg one neted t%eir appea' to the angornate lese * L IL CO-con enec and aJer nm alacemmg inues thes had beef' ass gned to merno tha! serent to ckneh re'lec the pov of powrntnen? ver) qux kh As aNiui the t 6ewed emcepena rsa.ua m pmy a -soser felicamp g=en accouftts of theo non t ha' mas uliima eh taken Carl s.ame time the task forte esa tetna orga % W na- Ta's kn e e"o*" * **Ass gned issue anaazing e all witP art ese Ber be ger the NRC TDI proicci group nised accordmg io DOE s le n GniDr 'r s s' ta c a Ma'J # M c" e
ionard DOf mienennor and utomaten leader adaman:h Jenie that DOf had escr ume f rom Publ% 5e,xi c' ir.Jiana i ha e me F ed* a ( *e g". - \Iras~repornng bat h tc the task force and avutNng ic dc m tr 'he fma Jeus or. staWJ Si * hiber va'twe Hi : riar' \ pena PrJ /c e*"F" r el15 oug* therr to Hadei and Danrs Ibgp inpuing inurad ma' 'Se Jeos ea to k' the arrraarer Dr$E and t>c iau 'c re | J@ V w ~" a- a*"rv*. -
plan connr ae ec rue e hde the cegme =as scar;hing for a mas to rv w i%e sorr.avse em r e; * * V o 6 L .w a a,,,
| g a r no' . ' New L"sd'strarmed *as a prxtua of n s preira reaao# Abr ough thes have teenunaMe te .
Dear Houstor =as the NRC prosect grour een no mrut f rom the DOE Imd a mas so resi e the piani se Iar Gnf In ened f u!' t %e o= ne s v '%e arpa-
manage * for Grand Gul' twtweer March Congeemonar tesnmoas sace tu Dar fath told Gemher officials f roer P%I DOI | doi rned %d:a w' i a m ~a - ' O-and "Oslober Nosernber" of 1984 As een Enennutt. the NRC s dreno of the and other elements of the gcserrimem and et s Pe = e ' ( c'e r a n s o' M'H-pet 9ect manage Hounon was responsiNr Office of L Kens <rg Hareid Dentori penate scoor cooed naurg throug* the anreurk ed trw i%es mere manir6 8 " #
foe draeing toge her all the required task forte spre' a good dra of ntne and t heir t hres' t e s an.e 'he p,a'"- v~
ehreads of safers esslaarKm at NRC head ene p imns rieg manora ret *rer (es#e "t
quaners a marw componrnt en the firs B, late sgwing each suminer Hodet and j Mathisan Pubtm %c'we ( om rro*~ a'-
sacos of the Lxenung process As a remit ! II top members of the Drpartment of E ness ; a numt c' of ma eor corpars* a r*re e.Hounor was drepts evohed in the dispute ; J
were actisets circulaties throughout the had poened the fish' as Lns %d. arse Mbetweer Missisuppi Pb=e' and 1 ish' and [ unhts indussrs the nurtesi power mdastes the organ.zatama; banne cahed AB 4"I
and fmancial communit, aggresuvels cretmund foe sewref meets aftet f r a rathe NRC staff ener Grand Gulfs Transa '
merra Delavel emergency duencia mtwmg to resuscitate nuttrai gener s saa desperate. Las 4 rich effort to ema cw r '
Throughour the earty gutt of 1984 the sms prostects agreement to salvage Midsand am*Jrre I
NRC staff had born maastmg ther MP&L * k At Seabrook and Shoreham Hodel to DOE documenti obtained t*, Gee i
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issued letters to affected sockhotorrs. ur3 and sourtas e ihr Machigan Publ= Wecrunparte a tear 4own mspartre of theirTDi dienets a demand wah whach MP&L / \ \ ing them to mand by the industry He sent Commissioc % hen shose negona asmandfastly refused to comgdy Grand Gulf Irtters to the NRC urgmg them to adopt aggvarid headed for disauce the MP%'shad been Imrensed to opersas at los poner certam posanoen 'swwsng quart hornsms staff darmlos. Rose' Fissher artvaar: tesance June 86,19g2 Besarged with one on particular plaats. promsning to have thr ta h forte for http. Inschet con'rvetproterm after another ance that tame, the Easenhutt's boss and the director of the DOE attornrys saur tres d===nns sup- en a tenrphone inservir= *ith Ge=rs av 1
Mammarge plans was finaDy runnmg al lo. Office of Nuctrar Rsusior Regularum. and portmg certain actinns on certain p4 ants meet Hodet and his task force resensmard !
poner so the laae wirigereearty spring of NRC Chairman Nunno Palladino. to One stockbroker, who asked nos to be to Fascher's plea. moung qukh' to '
'3934 Wah thes reacsor at last runnmg and whom both Easenhutt and Denian rinaDy named. so6d Gembra thes car of he firm's arvange new negotiaisons beteern thr ruethe entire Middle South system under answer homever, mdmate that the Grand beggest chrus. charactartand es an unessor ties, but those ef forts sai6ed wher ene )samense fuiancial pressure because of the Gulf TDI darunnn was uhamaiety made at weh large holdmss in sans of the north andustry gmup. ABATI . ref used so pu*a i
constructum proberms as both Grand Oulf then Irvel Easenhust and Denton issued eastern nuclear estainws. osa personally spaae. Iochrt sand He has been in termal j
sourtas to maan crweact wuh DOE's hsh forte on Namesand Waterford, MP&L ofTrade mere kiath the order and then, after the f act, the com- targed try ^ -
so shut down for the required TDI ansper. misanon, led by PallaAno. weied 12 to taan those utvestmerna h=r== the pres. Pomee Plant Construction smce tar Mrstaans. somethang ther was e condmaan of uphoid a dans's psoper sure sageemerums a pean to f actice saad. having agotee to them enirther los prmer brense Commasa.oners Vector Gilmsky and get the =ne==* power bunnses bac h on as the las month
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Harry O Reinsch. the preudent of penuade the Masessippi commmeonm toBechire Fbmer Corporanon the country's let Grand Gulf 2 go forward. =hile
Olargeu nudea' construction l'irm. asked mmimirms the pohtual damage to bothboth Reagari and Hodel to miervene on %ddie %uth and the adm.n.straaen Onelheir behalf in ihe den folio mg the merno eartu HMet nos to addreu the ao i
Midland decision in Remsch i " Dear nomics of Grand Gulf is ptwt'le shee'sa '
DDn* teeser of August ). lW. he offm to tsves twause thes are whirnarettunknown ,
"make" i=o Bechtel enervirves. ken Devu and the costs of the remetor are espected to I
and Frank b= sky Jr . avadab6e" to conemve to merease The memo niso nhom ,
thas DOE staffm haw sought the ad Ke I
of MPal attorney Jim Cluid. who estat- *%hinhes the adusable paramesm of Hcdcrs
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gg %ssissippe Governor Bdl Alla n urgmathem to work for the compiction of GrandGulf 2 Analynns the pobucs of %ssaup-pr's PSC the sutatana of wtuch appears Bnrig )ots ter1hday party d tour or enore R)
Danny Boggs and the DOE task force to have come from Mddhr South sources. Beruhanginngthernanthof April.Dans was BW predecessor as the num- DOE ofreciaJ Thomas J Grahame stres up ; and W U the honored guest a corttarnannnber too man er DOE in addnon to thank the PSC wose on Grand Gulf 2 "One of the tubachi kan and tenyalu steak daner
Sisted.chced and asEded nght bekreyour cynmg Hodef for his "mstrurnental" efforu in three PSC comtrussionm (Lynn Hawrul gobtaaruns the operstmg hanse for Grand has announced he will vote for cancel- on,, md 4rt i 30qt Ore heGulf Renasch thanks Hodet for the task lation" Grahame entes. "and a second h pachictw[en & emvana sseak enner tre
forefs unseful but corarned attempt (Nedson Cochran, brothe of the vuum a h an am t-age nusim hto "acs as a medaaror" m the %dland case bent Republican senatorI has indicsted 1 * * *" "" #
Arkansas Governor Welham Chnton that he is leanma towards cancellanon"also a.menard to Reagan for help m the war Grahame goes on to la) out the pounonshetegen the states of MLaruas. Masisuppe of newraj %ssasippe officials regardma .
and Lounanna owe the allocaaori of Grand the high and uncertam costs of nuclear MGulf m the groceedmgs with the Federal power. Concludmg "Il as clear that the ***-
Emergy Regulatorv Commasson (TERC) uncenannties about the abdary to accurately . ,
la a dartet pien for Preuden' Reagar' to predsci tk costs of nuclear power areanaert has safhsence in FERC's debbers- among the mou unponant factors drmnstions on Grand Gulf. Chaton erote to ewnts m Masusappi %'*=* "*"" ' "N *""
" ' " " * " " " " "Reagan on Augum 21.124 Saymg thaa "In the case of Grand Gulf 27 Grahameboth Grand Gulf cases before FERC conunues. wah one of three Comirussannerurude e an arts of " bass retaal rate set- ers apparently the seing vote, leaningteg" for anilma trmisuonaD) renewd for agamst completion, some uncertamtiesCates. C1mton asked Reagan "to urge ) cur erught be allenated if the PSC knew of theamotntees to the IIRC nor to erode that substanual activuses currently ongoms er(catel authority under the gune of equahr- ' OE and at the NRC that are desagned to { | {{ {
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l mg rates acrosa state imes* FERC a t4 la* prewnr cosdy delan and bnns more certa.' an -a., .'s. regulatory authorwy suru tude to the regulatory process These
har m theory at lens to the NRC "Under endude work on source term and smaber[
normal cucumstances? C1mton contmues. emergency evacuation areas. readaness; -i .ound noi k you io commun.caie .e renews. a pc.ubie techrn ndemakmg a,e Strongly Urges Your Support for
the - - of a federsJ regulatory las nunute aDeganons* Gordon Chiprnan,i
asency aboui a pendans procredms* Sucti the DOE task force durctor smce Dr Tho---~~a-is are generaDy considered mas Ddion left DOE last June, subse-impropet The Wlute Hous quently subnutted lettm to Missumppi- of C-s iener to .e dupatcheddoe iaa Governo, wam and MPsC Cha- CONNIE COMISKEY i( force and IIRC urskr a "high pnonry" W D Snyder for Hodet s signature Both
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cowr letter Hom the task force aned on were drafted skmg the lanes suggested t' Assessor, First Distfict j;
Clanson's lette a not known Grahame s memo A covenng memo toi
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Middhe Smah Utahtaes awarently found for pahey. safety and the environmeru and ANDe partacular fnerid a the task force 1bsk oho has been heevdv mwobed m task fortaiceto documers.s ottaaned by Gamber sho= efforts. urged that the lettm be sem Bruhth no,d t,w.. chairman of - boa,d a ienm. -rdmgtoihn - . MADALYN J. COCHRANEM:Mne South Utahues. mm2e si nens three were * viewed as potentially decisive inameals to the task force and Danny Boggs obtauung a pasnaw rs==s to comp 4cte Assessor. Third Districte addstaan to thest ca5 for help on Grand the plant" A move by MPSC Commts-Gulfs daced generator asue. =hrh amar- noner Lynn Havens to can an MPSC voteently bore generous frun Tiw rarse was last to carre' Grand Gulf 2 was subuquently
.h.ie . u Ptim ser sce medCornm, sors was -.s a smes a MsU Cha,, man of ~ neard no,d PLEASE VOTE ON MARCH 30sho..cause hearms cederug Mamnage Lewis went to the task forte eeC asam ePbegr amd Lagha, the MSU suh=^ary e P6 ember Thas tsme the prob 4em aus wahcharge of 8'=aAng the twis Grand Gulf the Serwuns and Eachange Commasmon,e.ctors. .. co.nnce alw MPSC thai (SEC) Accordmg to a saa fone - Paid for by the Committee of 21,Gened Gulf Ues 2 should be completed deced Fnday. November 16,1984. Lawuv a.d Mhhne smus =sah.n.a. iob- meed Depory seemary Danny noggi ch- Sherri Dazet, Treasureri,yus. Gao,gr um.. .kad E.ergy secre- de,. .kmg lum io aerw .sh ine stCtary Hodet to Isaufy on MaMar south's la order to espedme consaderstaos of threebehalf at the MPsc henrug A senes of Grand Gulf rmancmg issues then pendmgtask force mammorands an GassWs pouss> before the SEC totshag 53to milhos. W.H.e Charses Sarwsca Duncan Norma Eddmotor Loucse Ghcsman
ne N HM** JNson sho= tjer debtserauass wuhan the task money whrh was to be soiety had to Orethe Hawy Beny Hudd*ston Eta'n Kuforer on the pros and cons of Hoders taso- the compicuan of Grand Gulf RomeF Koner Han nommen Ruf nman Mary L Landoev
gaany MakSe South wanted to offer $160 anig verna Landrieu Sharon Litwm Renate Way Rum McCuasPryare and Garumner ha ther thmaghts is bon en Middle South Energy common Seny McDonnon Elisatem Rach Loua@an Reed W R
how to --- Hoders appearance to mock. $400 aulhon as frst mortgage bonds Donnse RingstaM haronce Schornate'n Hwa 9aW Boa"* ar,r
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teceived fuD po=c IKenses m 198L but m a e pregare At Catawba. there =as a es=Lar1964 the trend begna to change it did i story The meerwnori at San Onofre =creb-- the NRC began to change the rules j samply derued a hear ng as ahey ee e as i
of the game r**Nv DiaNo Canyon in prawdings for ThrwEarly m the year ihree plants tha' had Mile Island Unit I re start. ShoreP.a'r .
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sea chm * for some stireproblem plants were issued luerises b its staff attorfieys to rou over the adttt'ies i
Salle 2. Susquehanna 2. % PPS$ 2 =m au t,at..e proced.re ane d.c prae. t <a fru o,ensued fuD powf lKertnes wuhout rassmg
Slgn that t ev had fotnid new. the mierwno,o,d the le.on h. hee. ..,e
* rsan> panruiu upm. F,om ihen on. ho.. ~ % ct .
'* '"'*"' 'o'"f local enterwnors, the friendsin the admmistration and the" *"* ""c = m w hen tM NRC murd LPh seon the watchhsr power ope nimg luenw on March if the%shingmnM antam&ar leh. * NRC... "Evenbody n WallStnet) e- Sem and t cenime apoca:NRC and the DOE 1hsh Force on Nudent Board had still not ruled o
feels that the NR . wants ver.v -s -n to reopen n the er:e're - Pw= Con n. coon -segDiibio Canyon led the hat. Rising
aga.nst fierce local oppoutm. the repud.a .v o b W I E T PEbd record on the problems enh the piam ifoundai.on. a deos.on their ario new
ly way they will fail to whe a -'u w re "*d e * '~
that the.on.f the courts stop them.ta ci tha en M ape 1 =ho hnassigned to mwstigate a new round of hun-
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dreds of aDesauoru of fundarnemal quabry -They are so biaiant aheu .i t nr.and safety program breakdowns. and the - Bernabei told Geet after the NPC seduce of their staff artornen the NRC lt is no% a whole diffennt deos.on io tou, %m,fo,d a fun ,e.e.Commissioners voted .%-2 to aik= Pacific M oS E R W d d h Set on the safety sigmfgance of the p'a'~ s
'''"''"'''''h'^"#""*'#"'#''''#Gas and EJectnc's naris <routned reactor tobesm lo* pcam iestms this t off was the beens creamsf- * m me m - -
Shoreham was the nett test of fire. % sh lettmg their cen internal boards ease athe hcensing process short<srcuired by ing of iablo L,anvon and ios u these queu.om beau *> k -their TDI daeset problems. LILCO was Grand Gulf, and th,e take-off s,o the board wi,ll dende They dad e as
h.nams - sounds or bankn ,, b, ,or,ha,,, wh,n , ,e, b.,can, ,.h _,
e=a sad P=aas * Nac 'o was henomenal... Now, a fr-a * ^ ara: Ba-o = * d-'aDon them to go into los pown tesung generator issue by grantmg a low gme-
peop an'.primarily Con-anyway bringmg m an argumern umdar to hanse The Ama! Bo-d siemd ir andthe one ewntually used to allow GrandGutf to so forward dempte ther TDI prw Cefned %ith w. hat the stopped,,that. but n a pretty crary tha the,set u, t en, ad,ud. cat ,, %d.e. t-lems %%en the comm= mon teemed. msu- g,gulators will do how the quesoon was whethe ihe ,'udge same
k""=" d" 'd' "e *> d'd ' "' - *mg an order ano-mg shoreham to beg:nlos pone opermaan despur the unresobed much of the costs of be r==d w - wi ~ =probtens wuh their et-6e semal weeks . let the Appeal Board touch that issuelater. the resulurig outay forced them to these lants will they be-se u, we afm,d e .hanhe-
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poeng to do. and thefw done W as Wa:e -A los pone hcerme was usued for Cana. ro,e .her, the, a,, s, nous iechruca ac
wry a plant in Missours, on June 11. nlU ed into **'"' 4"e"' 'n befwe w Aw EuanCarawbe, another chronicall, plagued r wtuch they are takms ve y senous4 asaraplant on the DOE task force and NRC e rate for fihngs So they take a s as frora racrwatch but, was asued as fuelload and non-awarar testang hcense on July 18 The dam -
and grare them a full ptme' liceme ir thea
broke. homewr,31th the commmmon's vote. midst of ttus huge controwersf
Mean hile, the DOE Task For:e oron JLly 31 to assue Grand Gulf its full \g h; Nuc6 ear Power Plac. Construc ior ispower hcense. fo5oeuf three days later. begmrung to attra:t some atiennon n er.asAugust 2, wah a e-idar vote for Dia56o nas hke on Marti 26 IWS. Cons ewu*Canven. a vote bhscii was subsequently Edward J Markey the ne= Chai ma afitsved t y a federal court # the Subcommittee on Ene+gs Coesema
But shar dsdn't matter to Wall Street toon and Primer. Commmer on Enen andThe financialcommunny was scarttung for Commerce. has unnen John 5 Ha*some sum sign that they had found nem Wa!! Street's nud-sur'imer rad) m fact, out the NRC. a word passed and pushed try rington the nem secretary of ene p m'efnends m the adtrunranon and the NRC began eith the beensing of Grand Gulf DOE's Task Force on Nuctear Po c Plam replaced Hadei eher Reisar nor"at:The ewnts of Ikack January had shakee The NRC had telegraphed their imennon a Construction Inte wnors a plant after lum to become secre-an of micoor ea- ~wn!! 5treet to the core -f% opec mee scared meek carber wheri NRC scruor staff mem- plant - Diablo Canyon. Shoreham, this year askang him for comrte'e aam -to death tisch m Feeruary and Marth" samt hers Denton and Eisenhut' testirnd before Byron Cata=be and Waterford, to name a an of the task forces meernal demenan analyst for Pame Mbber who askad not Congressman Morns Udan's heanns on fem, found themsetves faced enh Atoms and staff Markey 's levier upbrands Ha-to be named "Martdc WB ckned Zanmer Grand Gulf on July 24 that they miended Safety and Licensmg Board and Apgra! nngton for the actmtws of the task far:ewent down. wtach no car could betseve to recommend the fuD pone hansang of Board and comnussaan decisions piled one regarding their actmtws on behaP MByrne was devued a hcense, whrh was a the plant at the comnussion meeting sched. after anothe tha. umsdy dasnussed their LILCO on Shoreham A Marhes a Jrdebecir Diatdo Carinn was stiu on hoid" eled for July 31. The market besar to admirustrauve procedure and due preseis obtamed task forct oncumems re4ar: 'eAndyst up sad dosa Wall Street, the exwe uewards the day before the scheduled nghts to raae quesnore about the safety of Shoreharn last week "These das umer isonam said mere specula' sag on hoe many Tuesday NRC vote on Grand Gulf, but the plants reveat that the task force has taker aeplants would be caw. wah some bes- when th. commisseon actually voted to At Dsabio Canyon the commissione-s actiw ro6e in runrung smerfewrice for v%rtang the number would be half of the cur- tasue the chronically crippled reacto''s met en closet * session and clume, agamsr ihr Long Island Lighnng Company ir nsentty scheduled plants hcense the next day. the market took off advice of attorneys e their Ofrece of Gen- artenpr to emperment an emersenn gaa-
"Noe" he saad. "thne is a pervasiw hkr a shot and dad not look back for more eral Couned, to deny the tr erwnors a for the Shoreham nuclear plani agamw '%ea'usood of opumarn. Everybody feels that than ihree months. heanns on ernical safm usues wishes of Nc Doch staie and su'f ain
the NRC wants very beey to hcense these Subsequent accons by the NRC. sunn- At Shoreham, when the charf Judge of CountfP sama and that the only any thry wiB fail to wtune, dad norh.ng to suggen thas the mar- the Atomac Safety and bcensme Board "This actmry on the part of the tas4 |ido thes a of the courts sep thema It e ao= het's readme of the commassaon's frame of scheduled heanngs on the suerwnors' con- force as as odds wah Presadene Reasa* sa wtuale chfiereis amosphree. %)st rueBy sund was wrong Between the Iscenang of tentions. =hech looked as though they and your own pronouncements on INS <
art this thing off was abe Iscensing of Grand Gulf and the end of the year. Casa- nught take rnanths, the heannes owe rees- 6ssue It raises a senous concern as toDiablo Canyon and Grand Godf and the way was issued sts fun pn=er hcense. the signed to another Jssept. The are Judge whether the task force a out of cone'tCtahmoff was ;' " There ums a sun- couvruamon fought off the may on Dsabio cedered heannes on an *=putaed bass" Markey goes on to demand comper'ed1rful reSy beennens at the sud of July - Canyon's move to fuE poner and sta more giving the interwnors oudy Il business days arrama to aD of the task force's documentsearty August. really - and just closed plants including Waterford and Shore- between the besmaang of the discovery and files and a "detaded report on m I
shoes two meets ago. It marted in August, hacs. une usued fuel loading an&cr low process and the bet 2nnung of the hannries. taas of the tank force smce un encepenn" '
coettamed strong into Septanaber and pone hcenssa Every one of them ses on aD of wtuch fes wahan the Easter hobde, Markey a no= convuwsd that the acinues i
October and has som potered out in the NRC. DOE and %hD Stnst wasch buts season. ancluding pairn Sundey, Goud Fn- of the task forte and their retanonshir toI Ninenbar Non, people are prusnarty com of plants thss might not make it. The dif- day. Passcher, and Emmer the NRC requires a thorough airing a| earned with wtnes the rugsdesors wiB do: faresace. ewryone now agress. le the ctuarge At Byron, the orderwnors recened arru- spokesman on Markers staff who asked
has, south of the costs of these pissas we sa the NRC's matsude lar treatment, being rushed through their not to be named sasd Thai protess hasthey eBase to be pluged use the rung bass' Fspadu* became the by-word th@ heanngs en ten deys wah only a mort to aos begun
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