GAO Opens DB Investigation

["Richard F. Orthen" <rorthen@EARTHSCIENCES.NET>]

>From Bill Corcoran at NSRC:

GAO opening investigation of Davis-Besse nuclear plant



Thursday, September 05, 2002



CLEVELAND -- The investigative arm of Congress is opening an investigation

into why federal regulators let a northwest Ohio nuclear plant stay open

after government engineers suspected it was leaking coolant.

The General Accounting Office's investigation of the Davis-Besse plant in

Oak Harbor is the seventh one so far. Workers found a hole in the reactor

cover in March while the plant was shut down for routine maintenance. It

remains closed.

Spokesmen for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the plant's operator,

Akron-based FirstEnergy Corporation, told The Plain Dealer they would

cooperate with this latest investigation.

Several reviews already have said plant managers and the NRC missed the

growing hole for up to eight years.

GAO spokesman Bob Robinson says the agency will begin its work within the

next three months.





Rick Orthen









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