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Forwards Info Re Article That Appeared in Philadephia Inquirer Re Salem I & II Reactors in Lower Alloways Creek, New Jersey
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, BILL 1?RADLEY c*

NEW dERSEY I

tlnitcd ~rates ~mate WASHINGTON, DC 20510-3001 June 14, 1994 TO:

Mr. Richard L. Bangart Director Nuclear Regulatory Commission Off ice of Congressional Affairs 1717 H Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20555 RE:

Marie Weller COMMITTEES:

FINANCE ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES SPECIAL COMMITTEE ON AGING I forward the attached for your consideration.

I would appreciate receiving a written reply with regard to this matter as soon as possible.

Please direct your response to the attention of the member of my staff listed below.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance in this matter.

PLEASE DIRECT REPLY TO:

Senator Bill Bradley 1 Greentree Centre Suite 303 Marlton, New Jersey 08053 Attention: Gloria Robertson 1

I Sincerely,

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J Bill Bradley lJ' United States Sena~or l

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Governor Christine Whitman State of New Jersey Department of State Trenton, NJ 08060 ___ _

Dear Governo~~hitman:

R~CEIVEO MAY 3 1 1994 139 Somerset Drive Willingboro, NJ 08046 May 27, 1Q94 Enclosed for your revj_ew is an article which appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on May 2, 1994, concerning the Salem I and II re&ctora in tower Alloways Creek, New Jersey.

After reading the material you CHn understand the horror of what mfght result in the event of a nuclear disaster! It is reported the reactor is being reopened after this latest shutdown.

What is unbelievable is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission admini.sters "fines" for violations too numerous to mention and allows the reactors to continue operating.

Why haven't all the people been replRced wjth competent personnel?

Why has Public Service had no accountability for the problems and.not been forced to immediately correct any and all damage?

Is New tTersey going to be the site of another Chernoble disaster?

Can we believe the NRC who say public safety was never direGtly threatened?

Does anybody care???

I would appreciate a response as to who is accountable for operating safe nuclear reactors and what can be done in Alloways Creek.

matter.

Thank you for your anticipated attention regarding this cc:.Congressman H. James Saxton Senator Bill Bradley Senator Frank Lautenberg Yours truly,

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Marie Weller (Mrs. Edward Weller)

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  • 1'_;. _ _-Inside one of the bullet-shaped Sa-

). The inspectors said Salem I's man-*

  • ~-~em nuclear reactors *last.summer,
  • a'ger, Public Service Electric.. & Gas
crucial contrql rods that tam~ the Co.; had fa*d to fix.several long-
'atomic reaction -

or halt it iii an standing problems arid _had inade-

.:emergency -

  • misfired again and* quately trained* reactor operatots; '
  • 'again..

Sal~m has-heard it all be.fore.

_.,~Last fall,. the men in Salem's con-.. A.Ii* Inquirer.review of.~<;
d6CU'

)till.room were caught listening to. ments shows that tl).e Aprff7:-inci'.

¢.e.World Series.instead of paying, dent fits~-i~to, a pattern.* _of. break~*

':ftill attention to the reactor, *...

downs at the twin Salem reactors in:

iii. 1992, a bank of alarm lights in.* *.Lower *Alloways* Creek, N.J. * *
'that same room went dark -

and*

  • Jusf a riiontli *befon(the alert; the

_.:'.nobody noticed.-* *

  • *.,... *:-_.'NRC fined Salem SS0,000 fof'niainte:

)~\\An.d. the yea:r;- hefore, a_ 10*ng-mire::, iiap.ce*vfolations)t biamed. *c;n: "¢on-.:

~p-~ired valve set off ail. e_xplosion_that,/:: tiil_u_ed.'~_em.ori~traled weaknesses_'.':*or.

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.inHlion* ~n damage:*:**.'._:*_,'.tlie'*p1:a!!-t's. IJ}.anagement. * * ;. '*. * ~ '

~i'.;-z~U- ~~?se foul-ups, and. more;: oc:<:;--: *. F~d~ra~.;-AiiY.~sti~at~rs say*.. publ_ic.

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!:.q¥i:r~d. m *_the. l.ast* three years*.~-.:.,sa~ety \\Y?S _nev~r. 'ci1rectly threatene~ I

qefoi:e. the. April 7 shutdown of the\\. by those v10lat10ns, or by any of the.
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- For The lnqUirer I MICHAEL PLUN~En Public safety was never directly threatened by any of the incidents at Salem I or II, investigators say.

cur."

Into a hot electrical wire -

he thought the wire was dead.

The NRC: stated its 'i:oncerns _again In March, the -NRc fined PSE&G and again.

    • * "sso,ooo for "Weak supervisory meth-

_'.Jn. December 1992, **an operafor ods." It noted that similar mislabel*

typed some commands on' his com*

  • Ing had* occurred before.

puter keyboard -

and unknowingly

. Once again, the company pledged

'-disconnected the control

  • room's
  • to do* better.

panel of overhead alarm. lights that flash when any *reactor component NRC officials who have observed*

them:

One* theme runs through inter.. ~

Views with NRC officials: attitude. ; *

  • Martin, the NRC's top regional offi-

~

  • cial, said a month before the April 7 :

shutdown* that Salem's "cultural",'

problem.was ingrained. *.

Salem's.management, Martin said, :

"has done all the easy fixes, the hard* '

ware things. Now they have to take :.

fails. Nobody noticed for 90 minutes*

Salem for. years are that hundreds of lights had gone confounded.

da;k.

They have consld-

,: If they'd known of this breakdown, ered the age of the re-

. ! NRC inspectors sajd, they would actors. (Salem I is 17 have labeled it a* nuclear alert.

years old; Salem: 11 is Salem I and ii are ranked amongtlie on the.hard issue: peo-ple's hearts.

It's. a touchy.feely kind

  • of*

thing."

At tlie same time, NRC ;.

officials say, the compa-

  • ny's documented lnat-* "

tention to certain equip-.;

ment repairs.makes life :*

harder for the. opera- "

tors.

No one told. the NRC until 18 hours2.083333e-4 days <br />0.005 hours <br />2.97619e-5 weeks <br />6.849e-6 months <br /> 13.) But.other U.S. reac-later. The staff did not tell Salem's tors of the same vin-senlor management until the next. tage )\\ave better re-morning.

cords.

Five months later; at Salem II, a They have looked at

  • control-room operator noticed that a PSE&G's management.

. cluster of control rods was not be*

But the same utility op:

. worst of the nation's 109 commercial

-reactors.

For management, "it's 'i

. having.' Th~ rods phingeinto the re".

  • erates the Hope Creek reactor next actor's core when operators. need to doo~ to Salem. Hope Creek has one of halt fission.
  • the best records.ia the nation.

Th~ operator tried again and again'.

They ha".,e looked at the labor un-to gef the controJ rods to *operate in rest of Salem's early years, but that

, unison. Once, a cluster of rods *went

  • has given way to what all sides say is

. u11 when it should have gone down.

  • stability.

An NRC team blamed the problem

.*The NRC considered* some work-*

on n "wrongly positioned circuit card.

ers' *complaints that they were mis-The agency cited personnel less for treated for raising safety concerns.

causing the problem than for what But officials concluded that person-happened next:

. ality clashes *were to blame..

"They kept tryi_ng to reinsert the

.They even wondered about drugs rods rather than figure out what and alcohol. Last *year, three Salem went u/i-o!lg,". !:l:e NRC's Vlz.?:.z!ng~:-

. supe1*viisors jailed.routine drug ond

' recalled last week. PSE&G promised alcohol tests. But,NRC officials saw to.retrain its "workers.' *

. no link to the reactor's* problems..

Last October, the NRC foun.d Saleni "It may be a combination of all workers 'improvising again: Employ-

  • these. things," Wenzinger said last ees had repeatedly put the wrong *month. "I wish I could figure It out."

, labels and directions ?n equipment.

  • The problems are a co~cern
  • to Th_e lapses obliged one technician PSE&G. Steven E. Miltenberger, the to leap from a ladder to avoi_d getting
  • utility's senior nuclear officer, told smacked by a whipping steam hose.

the NRC in July that he was studying

. Another worker accidentally sliced whether "a1:i.y commonalities" linked hard to take a look In..

the mirror and realize that wliat *:

you're actually doing Is setting your :,

operators up," said Barr.

The workers aren't *blameless.

  • "There are operators who have been

. there for nearly 20 years, Barr said..

  • "They get a little vain. They know better, they can do this without that equipment."

NRC officials said the baseball Inci-dent underscored that cockiness.*

. Radios are banned from the control room. But during the playoffs and.

World Series, some control-room op- *:

erntoro.rigged a. speaker phone.,,,. ~.

listen to the games -

and a supe1 vi- ;

sor allowed it.

Management, when It learned of ~

the Incident, fired a control-room :

trainee and "counseled" others.

NRC officials* approved.

"People who are operating a nu*

clear power plant," said Wenzinger, '

. "Q.eed to pay attention to what they'_re doin~."

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  • I shows pattefn of breakdownS SALEM from A1..

eroded 'the reactor's safety.systems, and that continued problems at Sa-lem could put the public at risk.

And Salem's mediocre lifetime per-formance -

the plant has produced power at less than 'S7 percent of its capacity-is one reason that electric rates in the Philadelphia region are among the nation's highest.

NRC officials say the Salem Ge.ner*

uting Station, which is part-owned by Peco Energy Co. and serves four mil-lion* customers in and around Phila*

delphia, is the most troublesome nu-

  • clear facility in a region heavily dependent on nuclear power.

Salem I and *u-are ranked among the worst of the nation's 109 comm er*

clal reactors. The units have spent 22 percent of their lives sh tit down for unplanned repairs. Only 10 other reactors have spent more time idled for that reason.

"Stuff just keeps happening at Sa*

!cm," said Edward C. Wenzinger, an NRC branch chief. "We're all sort of.

puzzled about. it."

The NRC's theorY ls that Salem suffers from an ingrained culture of

. complacency: passive management.

and an indifferent workforce.

~'These kinds of proble.ms you can't fix overnight by putting a wire some-where," said Stephen Barr, an NRC inspector who has been Involved with investigations at Salem for four years. "They're mind-sets you 're dealing with.- *attitudes, and a cul-takes on the Delaware River. Power ture."

surged.

Temperatures

  • dropped.

-PSE&G officials say they, too, are Fau)ty equipment sent false signals.

displeased with Salem's record. The The operators, their hands full, company has shuffled its manage-overlooked the MS-10 controller. The ment and committed $300 million to. valves did not open, setting off yet "revitalize" the reactors. It is im*

another chain of*events that forced proving training, *procedures and Salem to declare a seven-hour alert, hardware.

  • the third-most-serious of four NRC "Let me state clearly, PSE&G chief emergency classifications.

executive E. James Ferland told The NRC said Salem's decade of stockholders on April 19, "that Salem

  • failing to fix the device was typical station has not met the high expecta*

of the plant's troubled. history.

lions we have for ourselves."

"Management-thought, 'Well, we Despite the *utiiity's* efforts, the know about it and our operators can government's last three comprehen*

get ara.ind it,'" the NRC's Barr said.

sive assessments of Salem "haven't' "Maybe you can get around it in most seen much change, said Thomas T.

  • cases, but not every case. In tll\\s case, Martin, the.NRC administrator. r!l*

it bit them."

sponsible for 11-Northeastern states.

Salem 'has b.een bitten before, "This is kind of surprising."

In 1983, two circuit breakers de-

. signed to shut down Salem I jammed:

Ir Is just a small device. An MS-10

  • It was a 'complete failure of the auto-contro!ler, to be.exact.

. matlc system designed to shut down Its job is to open and. close* valves the reactor in an emergency.

in the pipes that carry high-pressure The incident went unreported.

steam from a *nuclear reactor. to* t11e

.'Three !lays Inter, both breakers huge turbines that generat~ power.. failed *again. They hadn't been prop-At Salcm,-the Ms-10 had been ma!-

  • erly lubricated. The*NRc, distressed functioning for at* least 10 years.

to learn of the earlier failure, fined Management knew, and did not fix it.

the plant S850,000 -

a record for the Operators compensated by operating NRC. The agency called it the worst it*inanually.

incident since Three Mile Island.

  • . *until April 7.

PSE&G promised tp do better. The On that morning, operators strug-NRC balieved tl;le cause was partly-*

gled to regain con)rol of the.reactor growing pains-Salem 1 was only six amid a flurry of events that began years old then.* There was criticism, when sea grass clogged water in-too.

Tho Philadelphia Inquirer "We'd prefer it if they were a little more aggressive, Thomas Murley, the regional NRC administrator, said*

in 1984.

Lax maintenance endangered the plant in 1991, when Salem II ~uffered a massive failure -

a "turbine over*

speed event," In the jargon of the industry.

That Nov. 9, a valve controlling steam to the turbine locked open -

causing the turbine's giant rotors to spin out of.control. The turbin*e ex-*

ploded, blasting through its inch-thick steel casing, showering shrap-nel 300 feet and igniting a fire.

  • Salem declared an alert. Nuclear alerts are rare-eight were declared nationwide last year, PSE&G had known of the bad valve for a year and had promised to fix it six months before the fire, the NRC said. Several supervisors were found to have ignored tests showing the valves' defects.

The NRC said it was concerned about a workplace that "would per*

mil such a basic flaw in performance to pervade through multiple levels of oversight and control."

Still, the NRC decided not to fine Salem for the explosion -

prompting a rebuke from U.S. Sen. Joseph !3idcn CD., Del.), who could see the adjacent Hope Creek reactor from his apart*

mcnt across the Delaware: "I am very concerned that other disasters, also preventable~ might be *allowed to oc*

  • f. *1*

For The Inquirer I MICHAEL PLUNKETT Public safety was never directly threatened by any of the incidents at Salem I or II, investigators say.

. cur."

  • into a hot electrical wire -

he

  • thought _the wire was dead.

The NRC stat~d its 'ooncerns again In March; the 'NRC fined PSE&G and again.

'$50,000 for "weak supervisory meth-

-In. December 1992,. an operator ods." It noted that similar mislabel-typed some commands on' his com-ing had* occurred before.

puter keyboard ~ and unknowingly Once again, the company pledged

-disconnected* the control room's*
  • to do* better.

panel of oYerhead alarm. lights that

  • flash when any Teactor component

. NRC offiCials who have observed them:

One-theme runs through inter-,

views with NRC officials: attitude.

I

  • Martin, the NRC's top regional offi-cial, said a month before the April 7 :

shutdown that Salem's "cultural"

  • problem.was ingrained.
  • Salem's management, Martin said, "has done all the easy fixes, the hard-ware things. Now they have to take fails. Nobody noticed for 90 minutes Salem for years are that hundreds of lights had gone confounded.

dark.

They

  • have consid-If they'd known of this breakdown,. ered the age of the re-

~ NRC inspectors sajd,

  • ihey would actors. (Salem r is 17
  • have labeled it a* nuclear alert.

years old; Salem n is Saiem i and ii are ranked among the on the hard issue: peo-ule'~

hearts.

It's a

touchy-feely kind

  • of
  • thing."

. At the same time, NRC ;

officials say, the compa-

  • ny's documented inat- "

tention to certain equip-j ment repairs makes life '.*

harder for the opera- **

tors.

. No one told the NRC until 18 hours2.083333e-4 days <br />0.005 hours <br />2.97619e-5 weeks <br />6.849e-6 months <br /> 13.) But.other U.S. reac-later. The staff did not tell Salem's tors of the same vin-senicir management until the next. tage have better re-morning.

cords.

Five months later;.at Salem II, a They have looked at control-room operator noticed that 'l PSE&G's management.

cluster of control rods was not be-But the same utility op-

. worst of the nation's 109 commercial

  • reactors.

For management, "it's *;

having. The rods plungeinto the re:. erates the Hope Creek reactor next

  • actor's core* when operators. need to door to Salem. Hope Creek has one of halt fission.
  • the best records ia the nation.

The operator tried again and again.

They have looked at the labor un-to get the control rods to *oper~te in rest of Salem's early years, but that

, unison. Once, a cluster of rods *went has given way to what all sides say is

up when it should have gone down.

stability.

An NRC team blamed the problem

. The NRC considered some work*

on a*wrongly positioned circuit card.

ers' complaints that" they were mis-The agency cited personnel less for treated for raising safety concerns.

c.ausing the problem than for what But officials concluded that person-happened next.

. ality clashes *were to blame..

  • "They k~pt trying to reinsert the

.They even wondered about drugs rods rather than figure out what and alcohol. Last year, three Salem wPn*t wrona" +rr.> l\\!Dr 0 1P""Z;'1g.:::-

supervisors i<iiiPd routine drug and

.' re~-~lled l~*st' w;~k.

0 PSE&G *;;~~ised *. alcohol. tests. B~t,NRC officials saw

. to.retrain its'workers. *

. no link to the reactor's* problems.

  • Last October, the NRC found Saleni "It may be a combination of all workers 'improvising again: Employ-
  • these. things," Wenzinger said last ees had repeatedly put the wrong : month.... I wish I could figure it out."

labels and directions on equipment.

  • *The problems are a concern to.

The lapses obliged one technician PSE&G. Steven E. Miltenberger, the to leap from a ladder to avoid getting utility's senior nuclear officer, told smacked by a whipping ste'am hose.

the NRC in July that he was studying Another worker accidentally sliced whether "aP.y commonalities" linked hard to take a look in,,

the mirror and realize that what ::

you're actually doing is setting your.,

operators up," said Barr.

The workers aren't blameless.

'"!'here !)re operators who have been there for nearly 20 years," Barr said.

"They get a little vain. They know better, they can do this without that equipment."

NRC officials said the baseball inci-

  • dent underscored that cockiness.

Radios are banned irom the control room*. But during the playoffs and :

World Series, some control-room op- *:.

erntoi*s rigged a *Speaker phone ru :

listen to the games -

and a super vi-

~ *

.~ill~~~

Management, when it learned of ;

the incident, fired a control-room trainee and "counseled" others.

NRC officials* approved.

"People who are operating a nu- *,

clear power plant," said Wenzinger, '

"l).eed to pay attention to what they're doin~."

  • 1 x*reVietr'OfSRiem iia,iit aata*'<

I

  • Shows pattern of breakdowns

.\\

~

SALEM from A1.,

eroded the reactor's safety_;systems, arid that continued problems at Sa-lem could put the public at risk.

And Salem's mediocre lifetime per-formance ~ the plant has produced power at less than 57 percent of its capacity-is one reason that electric rates in the Phifadelphia region are among the nation's highest.

NRC officials say the Salem G~ner*

a ting Station, which is part-owned by Peco Energy Co. and serves four mil-lion customers in and around Phila-delphia, is the most troublesome nu-

  • clear facility in a region heavily dependent on.nuclear power.

Salem I and U are ranked among the worst of the nation's 109 commer-.

cial reactors. The units have spent 22 percent of their lives shut down for unplanned repairs. Only 10 other reactors have spent more time idled for that reason.

"Stuff just keeps happening at Sa-lem," said Edward C. Wenzinger, an NRC branch chief. "We're all sort of.

puzzled about it."

The NRC's theory is that Salem suffers from a~ ing~ained culture of

. complacency: passive mancigement

  • and an indifferent workforce..

~'These kinds of proble'ms you can't fix overnight by putting a wire some-where," said Stephen Barr, an NRC inspector who has been. involved with investigations at Salem for four years.. "They're mind-sets *you're d~aling with -

attitudes, and a cul-takes on the Delaware River. Power ture."

.. surged.

Temperatures '. dropped.

  • PSE&G officials say they', too, are
  • FauJty equipment sent false signals.

displeased with Salem's record. The The operators, their hands full, company has shuffled its manage-overlooked the MS-10 controller. The ment and committed $300 million to. valves did not open, setting off yet "rev'italize" the reactors. It is im-another chain of *events that forced proving training, *procedures and Salem to declare a seven-hour alert,*

hardware;

  • the third-most-serious of. four NRC *

"Let me state clearly," PSE&G chief emergency classifications.

executive E. James Ferland told The NRC said Salem's decade of stockholders on April 19, "that Salem failing to fix the device was typical station has not met the high expecta-of the plant's troubled history.

tions we have for ourselves."

"Management thought, 'Well, we Despite the *utility's efforts, the know about it and our operators can government's last three comprehen-get arO' *.md it,"' the NRC's Barr said.

sive assessments of Salem "haven't "Maybe you can get around it in most seen much change," said Thomas T.

cases, but not every case. In tli~s case, Martin, the.NRC administrator. re-it bit them."

sponsible for 11 Northeastern states.

Salem has b.een bitten before, "This.is kind of surprising."

In 1983,.two circuit breakers de-

. signed to shut down Salem I jammed:

It is just a small device. An MS-10 It was a 'compiete failure of the !!Uto-controller, to be exact.

. matic system designed to shut down Its job is to open and. close* valves the reactor in an emergency.

in the pipes that c<irry high-p,ressure The incident went unr(!ported.

st~am from a*nuciear reactor. to.the

'Three days later, both breakers huge turbines that generat~ power... failed.again. They. hadn't been prop~

At Salem, the MS-10 had been mal-

  • erly lubrkated. The*NRC, *distressed fup.ctioning for at* least *10 years.

to learn of the earlier failure, fined Management knew, and did not fix it.

the plant $850,000 -

a record for the Operators compensated by operating NRC. The agency called it the worst it:manually.

incident since Three Mile Island.

, Until April 7.

PSE&G promised to do better. The On that morning, operators strug-NRC balieved the cause was partly**

gled to regain control of the reactor growing pains - Salem I was only six amid a flurry of events that began. years old then: There was criticism, when sea grass clogged water in-too.

Tho Philadelphia Inquirer "We'd prefer it if they were a little more aggressive," Thomas Murley, the regional NRC administrator, said*

in 1984.

Lax maintenance endangered the plant in 1991, when Salem II ~uffered a massive failure -

a "turbine over-speed event," in the jargon of the industry.

That Nov. 9, a valve controlling steam to the turbine locked open -

causing the turbine's giant rotors to spin out of. control. The turbine ex-,

ploded, blasting through its inch-thick steel casing, showering shrap-nel 300 feet and igniting a fire.

  • Salem declared an alert. Nuclear alerts are rare - eight were declared nationwide last year.

PSE&G had known of the bad valve for a year and had promised to fix it six months before the fire, the NRC said. Several suoervisors were found to have ignored tests showing the valves' defects.

The NRC said it was concerned about a workplace that "would per-

  • mit such a basic flaw in performance to pervade through multiple levels of oversight and control."

Still, the NRC decided not to fine Salem for the explosion - prompting a rebuke from U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden (D., Del.), who could see the adjacent Hope Creek reactor from his apart-ment across the Delaware: "I am very concerned that other disasters, also preventable, might be allowed to oc-

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