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RE: "Watchdog group questions safety of nuclear plant"



Norm and others,

I think Norm and others anti-nuclear activist will agree that the example at

Indian Point 2 shows that the loss of a single steam generator tube will not

lead to a catastrophic loss-of-coolant accident. They had a failure and the

plant staff took the necessary actions.  Obviously, their response was

better than those at the TMI accident.  



What bothers me, and Sandy, is that the NRC panel could not draw the same

conclusion.  Did they not know what the Salem meeting was about?  How come

Glen Meyers can say it is safe and the committee report cannot draw the same

conclusion?  Have no reports since the WASH-1400 of 1975 been done to

evaluate the LOCA with the failure of one or all of the steam generators?

To me, this shows a total lack of management competency.  And they wonder

why the public cannot trust them.



One of the failures of the nuclear power industry and regulators is their

inability to say "It is safe.  And we will continue to ensure that it

remains safe."



-- John 

John Jacobus, MS

Certified Health Physicist 

3050 Traymore Lane

Bowie, MD  20715-2024



E-mail:  jenday1@email.msn.com (H)      



-----Original Message-----

From: Norman Cohen [mailto:ncohen12@HOME.COM]

Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2001 10:04 PM

To: radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu

Subject: Re: "Watchdog group questions safety of nuclear plant"





Hi Sandy, and Radsafers,

Delurking for a moment:



    Perhaps it was the way the reporter expressed himself. The "panel" was

the 10 or

more NRC officials at the NRC public meeting on the safety of Salem's

(mostly Unit 2)

steam generators. NRC granted this public meeting in response to a request

from the

UNPLUG Salem Campaign, and sent their senior faciliator, Chip Cameron plus a

whole

posse of NRC officials, to the meeting.

     The admission is directly from the NRC's own ACRS (Committee on Reactor

Safeguards) report which verified the Hopenfeld DPO (Differing Professional

Opinion),

which makes it clear that the NRC "hasn't a clue" (my words) as whether or

not a single

tube rupture may or may not lead to a multiple tube rupture. Dr Hopenfeld, a

senior NRC

inspector, had spent 10 long years trying to get the NRC to listen. After

Indian Point

2 blew a steam generator tube, NRC had to listen.

. . .



Sandy Perle wrote:



> There have been many SG tube ruptures. I wonder why the NRC officials

> supposedly said the following. "A panel of Nuclear Regulatory

> Commission officials admitted that they don't know whether a single

> broken steam tube in a Salem nuclear generator could lead to multiple

> beaks and ultimately a core meltdown."   Is anyone familiar with what

> was actually said, and who were these 10 NRC officials?

> ---------------------------

>

> "Watchdog group questions safety of nuclear plant"

> Jack Kaskey

>

>  "Unplug Salem's concerns ceneter on cracking of alloy tubes

> in generators inside Salem Unit 2. The tubes are bearly identical to

> one that burst 18 months ago at a New York plant".

>

> PENNSVILLE TOWNSHIP-  A panel of Nuclear Regulartory Commission

> officials admitted tht they don;t know whether a single broken steam

> tube in a Salem nuclear generator could lead to multiple beaks and

> ultimately a core meltdown. About 10 NRC officials gathered Thursday

> night . . .

>. .  "The plant is designed to acccomodate the failure of a

> tube," said Glenn Meyer, NRC branch chief for the Salem plants.

> Thursday's meeting, however, focused on a new NRC committee report on

> steam generators that raises the question of whether a single rupture

> could cause a chain reaction of broken tubes. . . .

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