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Re: GAO Opens DB Investigation



The disclosures, so far, from the "Davis Bessie Messie" further convince me that

the most serious threat to the nuclear industry is our inability to critically

evaluate ourselves.  This problem did not result from a single oversight, but is

the result of a weakness that seems to have been in place for years.



Somehow this weakness never got on the radar screens of the NRC or INPO, at least

not to the point where they took effective preventive actions.  I hope that the

GAO investigation and other 3rd party investigations find out why.



Our critics make us stronger.  Our "friends" are killing us.



The opinions expressed are strictly mine.

It's not about dose, it's about trust.

Curies forever.



Bill Lipton

liptonw@dteenergy.com



"Richard F. Orthen" wrote:



> >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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