Friday, March 27, 2015

NRC Commissioner Ostendorff: False Senate Statement And Indicating He Is A Captured Regulator (loss of neutrality)

It is like asking GM how many accidents have your cars been in the last year. They say "none". You find out a car accident according (the inside rules to report to outsiders) to GM means something from the engine coming back hitting or killing somebody in the car. Now you have to figure out what was GM's motivation with making this grossly inaccurate statement. You are puzzled by the response, as you know all of the accidents aren't the fault of GM. 
Mar 30, 2015

 I pretty happy with this response...this speaks of many NRC people are considering it. This isn't your typical repeater acknowledgement response. They are considering my blog with increased activity.  

 You notice nothing from Ostendorff office?  
March 29: 
Senator Alexander is the most prominent nuclear industry politician in the nation.
Just gets you to wonder, TVA owns Tennessee. Alexander is a Tennessee US senator. Sequoyah Nuclear Plant and Watts Barr are nuclear plants in Tennessee. Watt Barr II was abandoned decades ago and in the last few years they resurrected this plant from the dead. TVA is in the final process of getting a license and starting up this old dog plant old plant for the first time. They did the same thing Browns Ferry, when stated up they later discovered many deficiencies and they really have never recovered from this fiasco. The red finding was all about the inadequate job prestart-up. 
I think in the Senate hearing Senator Alexander was signaling TVA and TVA nuclear is big Tennessee business (Employment and associated business contributions) to the Senator, I am going hard on this issue to the NRC. Ostendorff was saying, don’t worry I will play ball with you and the NRC will follow me, you have nothing to worry about.
Ultimately I think Ostendorff and Senator Alexander were signaling to new construction Vogtle and the rest, that the NRC is automatically and hard in your corner. The game is rigged.
This all has sentiments of pre Fukushima and the nuclear village in the USA.
Does being pro nuclear and survival always mean squashing nuclear plant employees...    
March 28:


Pandora's Promise (39:15) 
Gwyneth Cravens ”There has not been a single death from the operation of a commercial nuclear power plant in the USA…not a single death. Not one deaths in the history of nuclear power in the USA” 
Senate Hearing (1:58:15) 
Senator Alexander: "How many deaths have we ever had as a result of the operation of a Navy Reactor" 
Commissioner Ostendorff: "None" 
Senator Alexander: "How many deaths have we ever had as a result of the operation of a commercial Reactor." 
Commissioner Ostendorff: "None" 
Chairman@nrc.gov

Commissioner Ostendorff: False Senate Statement and indicating He Is a Captured Regulator (loss of neutrality)

Dear Chairman Burns,

I wish to make a fraud, waste abuse complaint concerning commissioner Ostendorff during a Senate subcommittee hearing over knowingly making a false statement. This questions if he could ever be trusted to tell truth in congress or in any future public statement. Commissioner Ostendorff behavior questions if he could be a neutral and independent US government regulator in the future.

Please include this complaint in the Adams docket. I have zero faith in the independence of the Office of Inspector General. Because the OIG basically works for you and this issues revolves high officials of the NRC, I think this investigation needs to go outside the NRC to ascertain the real integrity of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

I can hear the winds whispering around Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in the background?
  
The gist of what is going on here, corrupt utility pressure though a US senator and a unethical commissioner is attempting improperly to influence the internal deliberation of the NRC…to corruptly weaken oversight of all nuclear power plants.

NRC OIG: Responsible for investigative activities relating to NRC administered or financed programs and operations. Conducts and reports on investigations involving fraud, waste, and abuse to ascertain and verify the facts with regard to NRC employee and contractor misconduct and the integrity of NRC programs and operations.

So Ostendorff phraseology is taken right out of the fanatical pronuclear playbook. He is supposed to be neutral regulator for nuclear power…he should express the full facts on the deaths in the nuclear industry or any issue. He is not allowed to shade the fact for campaign contribution or for big buck later in the private sector. He should never be untruthful in a senate hearing and in all of his dealings being a NRC commissioner. How can anyone trust a word out of his mouth now?

I am just saying from a smart guy in the control room of a nuclear power plant …this is extraordinary safety intimidation by a NRC commissioner and the agency itself…these folks are educated enough to know the fatalities in the nuclear industry doesn't add up to these words spoken in a Senate hearing. How often has he spoken these words not recorded and what does he coach the nuclear industry behind the scenes. Seeing how this is repeatedly acceptable (not contested ethical lapse) behavior for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and within high halls of our political system, how can any employee feel safe to raise a safety problem with a commissioner who shows such a lack of integrity? How can any nuclear employee raise a troublesome safety problem with the agency and congress blatantly indicating such a lack of integrity?
   
If a commissioner can use openly in a Senate hearing inaccurate nuclear industry extremist and ideological phraseology without fear, extremist pro nuclear propaganda, then all of the NRC employees and industry people should fear him. He has the power to create a nuclear ideological lie at will…a wall of intimidation through using inaccurate information to the public…that means he can destroy anyone who crosses him through wrecking a career with a lie from an extraordinary powerful position. If commissioners are openly making ideological culture lies…that is giving permission to the all executives in the nuclear industry to use their position to suppress safety problems through their powerful position with lying and giving accurate information to the NRC, congress public. Really, has the pro nuclear propaganda extremist taken over the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and congress, which will lie through their teeth for survival? And this guy was a high Navy nuclear submarine officer…this behavior and untruthfulness have diminished the Navy and the United States Government.

I request that NRC Commissioner Ostendorff immediately resign his office or the president fire him.
  
Linkedin: “In 2013, the stator at Arkansas Nuclear One dropped while being removed. Pictures are in a file posted at:

 http://allthingsnuclear.org/arkansas-nuclear-one-pictures-of-an-accident/”

David Lochbaum Director, Nuclear Safety Project at Union of Concerned Scientists

One crushed and 9 injured over not following company procedures. Basically three NRC yellow findings indicating nuclear safety systems were seriously impaired.

The below Conversion began about March 23, 2015
(protected contributor): Interesting when considering that the drop and landing of this large weight in itself caused a trip of the working nuclear reactor at full load! Yet some feel that this was simply an industial accident.
It's like saying the poisoning of the control room staff by an impromptu arrival of a birthday cake is just a catering issue !
Also as a link to nuclear safety culture the question is that exactly what jobs/projects/lifts etc are or should be included in the "nuclear safety culture" and when designing a nuclear power station should not all the design of everything and anything placed or used at a nuclear site be subject to the same nuclear safety culture to include the potential issues with maintenance, repair and replacement?
Even a broken down large vehicle passing through an emergency gate might contribute to an ineffective planned response to a nuclear accident resulting in an off-site nuclear incident that was preventable! 
(Mike Mulligan): One of the NRC commissioners at a senate hearing said no employees ever died at a USA nuclear plant?
(protected contributor): Mike,
Do you have a link to that statement? 
(Mike Mulligan): http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/webcast/energy-water-development-subcommittee-fy16-nuclear-regulatory-commission-budget-hearing Energy & Water Development Subcommittee: FY16 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Budget Hearing
It came from Ostendorff’s mouth in the Q and A.
The worst group of NRC commissioners I’ve ever seen.
With all the musical chairs going on in recent years, they set this up for the extended period of four NRC commissioners for the next two years. What chances you think they will get to nominate another commissioner in the political environment?
Oh please, please, please: don’t make me listen to this again. 
(Mike Mulligan): “How many deaths have we ever had from commercial nuclear power plant operation?” Ostendorff: “None”
Basically asked the same about navel nuclear reactor operation. Seeing how the back aft seawater system was solely controlled by Rickover… I would call the loss of the Threshers as emerging from navel nuclear plant operation.
At the 1 hour 58:15 minute point on the video
Basically asked the same about navel nuclear reactor operation. Seeing how the back aft seawater system was solely controlled by Rickover… I would call the loss of the Threshers as emerging from navel nuclear plant operation.
At the 1 hour 58:15 minute point on the video
(protected contributor): The affirmation that there have been no deaths from (U.S) naval nuclear operations may just be excessively cute, hairsplitting, and semantically deceptive.
Some fatal events arising from U.S. naval nuclear operations include:
Thresher
Scorpion
Greenville sinking of Ehime Maru
etc.
The affirmation that there have been no deaths from (U.S) commercial nuclear operations is demonstrably false.
Some fatal events arising from U.S. commercial nuclear operations include:
Surry pipe rupture
Calvert Cliffs asphyxiation
Palisades electrocution
Crystal River drowning
etc.
(protected contributor): If anyone who sees this has high level contacts at the NRC, would they be so kind as to provide a word to the wise?
Give them the link at
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/webcast/energy-water-development-subcommittee-fy16-nuclear-regulatory-commission-budget-hearing Energy & Water Development Subcommittee: FY16 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Budget Hearing
(Mike Mulligan): It came from Ostendorff’s mouth in the Q and A.
At the 1:58:15 minute point on the video… 
(Mike Mulligan): ‘False Ostendorff Senate Confirmation Testimony in 2010’
http://steamshovel2002.blogspot.com/2012/08/false-ostendorff-senate-confirmation.html Do you think this NRC cutsie talk stops at senate hearing door?
In Ostendorff’s senate nomination hearing, he said there has never been a radiation release above 20,000 picocuries per liter of water in the USA. That was flat out inaccurate as Vermont Yankee had 100,000 and 1,000,000 pico curies per liter leaked into the ground. I e-mailed his office and he corrected the transcript record.
I think he said that intentionally signaling to the industry I’ll always be available to play footsie when necessary.

(Mike Mulligan): Nuclear insiders use the “no deaths ever’ in the nuclear industry all the time. They know it is literally is a false statement, it is more special signal or code word to indicate I am a member that belongs to a select group of nuclear insiders.
Maybe it is a statement of contempt to the politicians and media…they are so stupid about anything nuclear, I can feed them any old crap?
There is no question Ostendorff knows there is a double meaning with this code phrase.
Maybe it is a statement of contempt to the politicians and media…they are so stupid about anything nuclear, I can feed them any old crap?
There is no question Ostendorff knows there is a double meaning with this code phrase. 
(Mike Mulligan): Then there was SL-1?(protected contributor): SL-1 was military, not commercial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SL-1 
(Mike Mulligan): Senator Alexander was doing the two step with Ostendorff in this Q & A exchange. I thought the SL-1 fits into the military category like the Navy nuclear powered ships. 
(protected contributor): Mike,
Thanks for the link to the hearing.
I took the time to view it all.
It gives a picture that is hard to get otherwise.
Are there any hearings that get to the real issues?
Thanks for the link to the hearing.
I took the time to view it all.
It gives a picture that is hard to get otherwise.
Are there any hearings that get to the real issues? 
(protected contributor) The hearing is at
http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/webcast/energy-water-development-subcommittee-fy16-nuclear-regulatory-commission-budget-hearing Mike gave the link above.
I would call it senatorial theater. 
(Mike Mulligan): What is really going on here is the committee blackmailing or intimidating the NRC with budget cuts if the Republicans don’t get their wish list…less regulations and oversight.
I just don’t think Senator Feinstein does a good job in the broader issues with the NRC. She comes from a big state and she just has too many other things to worry about.
The democrats just don’t have much focus with nuclear interest and they don’t get money or votes from the nuclear industry interest. The democrats are always missing from action as in these meetings. Only Feinstein showed up…the asterisk is who showed up for the meeting.
But you get an indicator of the problems with our political system when most of the subcommittee doesn’t show up.
Powerful Richard Durbin of Illinois has the largest concentration nuclear plants in the USA and he is always missing from action and this very particular.
The members must come to an agreement before the meeting on who is going to show up…

*Chairman Lamar Alexander
*Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein
Republican
Thad Cochran Mississippi
Mitch McConnell Kentucky
Richard C. Shelby Alabama
Susan Collins Maine
*Lisa Murkowski Alaska
Lindsey Graham South Carolina
John Hoeven North Dakota
James Lankford Oklahoma

Democrat
Patty Murray Washington
Jon Tester Montana
Richard J. Durbin Illinois
Tom Udall New Mexico
Jeanne Shaheen New Hampshire
Jeff Merkley Oregon
Chris Coons Delaware 
(Mike Mulligan): For the record this is copied over from another Linkedin discussion...
This is a quote from the Pandora’s Promise movie. It occurs at the 39:15 minute point. See how close this is to Ostendorff’s senate testimony. It is propaganda and clearly not true. Who even cares what the film maker says, it free speech, but it is propaganda and not accurate:
  • Gwyneth Cravens ”There has not been a single death from the operation of a commercial nuclear power plant in the USA…not a single death. Not one death in the history of nuclear power in the USA” 
(Mike Mulligan): We were discussing the recent Senate NRC budget hearing …I complained about an inaccurate commissioner Ostendorff statement. This is an interesting thread at the end talking about this and a link to the senate hearing the at time point in the video of the offending commissioner’s statement.
An almost identical statement is in Pandora’s Promise. I live about 3 miles from the community in the background and I was at the protest that day. The statement in the movie is at the 39:15 minute point.
Here is the Ostendorff’s statement that irked me in the senate hearing at the 1 hour 39:15. It is almost identical to Pandora’s Promise.
  • Senator Alexander : “How many deaths have we ever had from commercial nuclear power plant operations?” Ostendoroff: “None” (with a smirky face)”



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