Homeland Security OIG complaint on DHS OIG staff over VY Evac drill

Mulliganism Quote: This NRC and Homeland Security OIG mind bogging excessive legalese and legality...the blind massive do nothing government bureaucracy is solely about making congress...the House and Senate...unaccountable to the American public...

I think Congress wants a non functioning government....
A blind restless voter and public serves our national interest better!

From: Michael Mulligan
To: "DHSOIGHOTLINE@dhs.gov"
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 4:25 PM
Subject: OIG office being disrespectfull to a person who has a problem

Dear Sir,
About 2 pm this afternoon I was investigating issues around a defective nuclear plant evacuation drill surrounding the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant. My child is going to school in the Hinsdale NH high school and he notified me of evacuation drill deficiencies. I discussed the issues with his principle and documented his concerns. It is the closest NH school to the nuclear power plant. Basically I know these are FEMA issues.

I just have had issues with talking to somebody in FEMA about this and the contact information on the FEMA and Homeland security internet front page is poor. It seems to me that FEMA and the Homeland security people are too busy to really talk with the little people as me about their problems....the efficiency and effectiveness of government services to a regular little person. This is how my problems defaulted to the DHS OIG...

What really concerns me today was the disrespect with the intake people in the DHS OIG office to me. I explained I have been in a agency to agency shuffle for many months now and I am extremely frustrated.

Anyways, I became irritated with the intake person's language to me....the phone line seem to be disconnected and I heard a loud irritating scratchy noise on the line. The human conversation stopped and the intake person couldn't hear me any more. I hung up after a few minutes and called right back. The intake person acknowledged the drop line and scratchy noise before I could say boo. He said, I was on the speaker phone and a broken button or loose wire caused the drop line and scratchy line. He emplied he knows his phone is defective to many outside people and your office is too lazy and disrespectful to fix it. I can make a case he put me excessively on hold with the phone call.

My complaint is when your staff gets a troubled and frustrated taxpayer and member of the public who seems irrigating to the intake staff...your staff unprofessionally pushes the defective phone speaker button or loose wire in order to punish the troubled public mushrooms with a phone disconnect and a extremely loud scratchy noise. I would be sickened if you have a intentionally designed button to punish irritating members of the public in the DHS OIG...

My suspicions are with particular irritating complaint makers to the DHS OIG, the punishment bottom on the speaker phone gets pushed to many voters and tax payers. So what is the extent of conditions and cause with the phone disconnect and punishment buttons in government that disconnects public members? You got a trap door button in each of your offices for problem makers?

What my son reported to me: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brattleboro-vt/TKU0863JM3H23RQ56

My investigation and names: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brattleboro-vt/TP2JDLALC6F7B2SHD

What happened today: http://www.topix.com/forum/city/brattleboro-vt/T1H4OO09IDN570EQK

Sincerely,

Mike Mulligan
PO box 161
Hinsdale, NH
1-603-336-8320

BWR Torus Venting Scam

work in progress

BWR Torus Venting Scam
Remember complexity drives the system towards the counter intuitive direction and we are really talking about a extremely complex outcome with a meltdown and large public release. I see the vent as a risk amplification tool...i think its intention was to be that tool.

Maybe a facility use amplification tool...a tool to cloak the true understanding and knowledge of risk. A risk understanding disrupter.

Right, risk is a calculation of the relative worth of the safety systems and the design of the system, defined by the corporation.

But total risk is the design the facility, and how we maintain and operate the facility, and the human-machine interactionm and how the world interactes with with the plant.

Right, we could collectively turn off all the safety systems, meltdown the reactor and destroy or bypass all the containment.

Right, our risk calculations don't capture this possible human machine interaction...I am trying to make the case that all risk is not captured in our corporate risk calculation. Actually, it carries a very narrow sector of risk and it doesn't capture chaos theory and complexity. It doesn't understand true complexity.

I think as you go down the road of complexity you reach a point where a out come is not predictable and unknowable. A risk amplification tool is one that replaces uncertainty with illusory certainty.

Somebody really predicted large scale human responses...the torus hard vent path wasn't designed to vent the torus. It was designed to increase facility capacity factor. Its sole purpose was to increase corporate profits and it was the cheapest capacity factor increaser ever invented. They knew we would default into the primitive model or incomplete model with how system worked.

...Ok, so if you turned off the hardened vent input into the PRA and risk calculation what would happen? It would change the behavior of plant operations and the plant structure itself? Everything changes. Basically the harden vent in risk calculation says there has been a overall reduction in the risk at the top of the risk hierarchy...thus we got a chunk of global risk reduction we can play with to bring risk back up to the orginal limit. A case may now be made where you can say we can work with less redundancy, the NRC interaction with a utility is reduced, we accept larger infraction with a utility. So that chunk of harden vent path risk reduction is filled back up to its original level with global risk increases.

I don't how this is get played out, do we trade one full meltdown for 10 half meltdowns down the line, certainly we trade up to more plant upsets and more severe plant accidents?

We fill in that chunk of harden vent risk reduction with running the plant harder and at a higher capacity factor...or running the plant in more risk?

Browns Ferry red finding over RHR valve

Should we allow these gunslingers engineering firm without morals to support the nuclear industry...?

Is a engineering firm like a defense attorney where they can throw up any plausible story disconnected from the truth...or are engineers bound to tell the whole truth? Are engineers bound to tell the whole thruth, what about their engineering ethical obligation, or are they gunslingers for hire:

Southwest Research Laboratory (weld examinations)
Westinghouse Laboratory (valve component forensics)
Structural Integrity (thread strength analysis, sensitivity study)
Independent Burns & Roe metallurgist (aggregate review of forensics reports)
Idaho National Laboratory

Are you under a engineering ethics obligation to tell the truth when doing a RCA...?


Excerpts of my TVA safety complaint...

Associated Press

ATLANTA—Federal regulators on Tuesday ordered in-depth inspections at an Alabama nuclear-power plant after deciding the failure of an emergency cooling system there could have been a serious safety problem.

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a rare "red" finding against the Tennessee Valley Authority's Browns Ferry nuclear plant, near Athens, Ala., after it investigated how a valve on a residual heat-removal system became stuck shut. Safety regulators said only five red findings—the most severe ranking the agency gives to problems uncovered in its inspections—have been issued nationwide in the past decade.

In an emergency, the failure of the valve could have meant that one of the plant's emergency cooling systems wouldn't have worked as designed. The problem, which was identified as the plant was being refueled in October 2010, was fixed before the reactor was returned to service.

"The valve was repaired prior to returning the unit to service, and Browns Ferry continued to operate safely," said Victor McCree, the NRC's Region II administrator. "However, significant problems involving key safety systems warrant more extensive NRC inspection and oversight."

It wasn't clear whether TVA officials would appeal the finding. TVA officials had attributed the valve to a manufacturer's defect and said it inspected all similar valves in the facility to catch any problems.

NRC officials were critical of the utility for not identifying the problem sooner through routine inspections and testing. The valve failed sometime after March 2009 but wasn't discovered until more than a year later.

As part of the upcoming inspections, the NRC said it will review the plant's performance, its safety culture and its organization.

"The results of this inspection will aid the NRC in deciding whether additional regulatory actions are necessary to assure public health and safety," Mr. McCree said in a letter to TVA officials.

Past problems at the plant have led to increased scrutiny. The Browns Ferry Plant is known in the industry as the site where a worker using a candle to check for air leaks in 1974 started a fire that disabled safety systems. It is similar in design to the reactors that malfunctioned at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan after an earthquake and tsunami this year.

The TVA, the county's largest public utility, supplies power to about nine million people in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

Vermont Yankee Emergency drill (May 3, 2011)

Update 8 am May 10

The Deputy Director of NH Homeland Security and Emergency Management says:

1) NH Don't do "out drills" because sending kids to Keene increases the risk to the kids (bus accident). This is patently ridiculous, it is like saying kids don't go off site with buses for sports and for invaluable off site educational experience because they can get into a bus accident...

They don't want to create a oppertunity of time test of the bus companies to get a fleet of buses to Hinsdale.

Where did the Hinsdale offical come up with the phrase "out drill"...

2) She said the drill wasn't completed at 11:30 as that contradicted Hasting and the command center...


Vermont Yankee Emergency drill (May 3, 201!)

How the information came to me

Information from a angry Hinsdale official

9 AM: Hinsdale got a phone announcement a VY drill was going to happen...everyone for days had been warned.

10 AM: alert to site area.

11:05: General Emergency and sending buses @ 11:45 AM

!!! it going to be a "full out drill" meaning the kids are going to Keene coming from the emergency command post...

High school immediately when into lunch mode for all the kids and then they all went to the auditorium in anticipation of going to Keene...

Absolutely no communications cues through the command post back channel with Hinsdale school officials...going to bus your kids out shortly after noon, you might want to feed the kids beforehand...

12:45 PM: Hinsdale got itchy with no communications and no buses yet, they called the emergency command post, Cliff Hasting said he called the drill completed at 11:30am. Hinsdale was never was called to say drill has been completely and canceled.

*** absolutely no communication with the Hinsdale school superintendent.

*** we don't think the Hinsdale elementary school was ever notified of anything, maybe the command post thew them a record message... it looks like the elementary school was completely out of the loop and fried.

*** seems to be rumors if you call the emergency command post right now there is still a loop recorded message saying VY is in a general emergency...

PWR Fukushima much worst than GE Mark 1

I don't think you can yet make the case this was a GE mark 1 centric event.

In other words, this outcome is rather mild to what would have happened if large PWR were sitting on the east coast of Japan.

I think the isolated loop of the PWR's primary system...this much higher pressure of the primary system, thus much harder to cool...

I think the PWRs would be a much more painful accident....

In other words, the core would have melted down much sooner and the pins would have skyrocketed to much higher temps...

I think tons more radiation would have been released to the world inviroment...

Brown's Ferry and TVA

Update:
April 4 public meeting...they got me on the phone bridge.

"Review of MOVAT testing data, combined with stellite aging research, strongly indicates that the disc separated prior to November 2008"

If you agree with TVA on this, the valve testing program for critical safety valves is ineffective. It missed a clear indication of a valve disc seperation over this, the NRC and TVA should have done a investigation on is movat a effective safety program....it looks totally dysfunctional to me according to the TVA’s own words. It should be a NRC violation.

Why hasn't anyone talked about fixing movats?

Like I said, there is micro difference in diameter of the disc and the seat, noise of the electrical lines suppling the valve motor, that would give you movat noise seen on the recording. You can only tell by looking at a bunch of movat testing recordings, whether these bumps are the real deal or noise. Did TVA just choose the pretty data?

Was the movat equipment calibrated properly...

Though, I just don’t find much certainty evidence that the disc would have unseated...all I see is the gunslinger pro nuclear industry engineering firms doing TVA’s bidding for money...

So let me get this straight, according to the NRC pilgrim’s inspection report 2011-008 dated from February 14 through March 4,2011, the HPCI diaphragm event happened before July 2010, why still no LER? Basically there is the same kind of issues with the delay of the reliefs valves thread LER with on two Vermont Yankee petitions on Entergy.

The Brown Ferry identical LER 2009-004 says the event date is 07 24 2009, the NRC says they made the document on sept 2009...why is Entergy having so much problems with pushing out LERs? The BF inspection report 2009-005 came out between October 1, 2009 through December 31, 2009

Just to be clear, the NRC drums out their inspection report on TVA in 3 months...while Pilgrim’s inspection takes 7 mouths, and they still don’t have the LER out...

It is just hit and miss and completely erratic with NRC inspection reports and utilities LERs ...

It just fascinating, so on the VY HPCI steam line leak and gasket issues on LER 2011-001...the event occurs on around Feb 17, 2011, Entergy pumps the LER out on April 14 (good as far a timeliness))....basically a petition maker forces the NRC to do a inspection on the gasket problem and the LER. It is object insanity! Now it seems the inspection report is mon
ths away...

...April 10..."By the way, I think Browns Ferry is the most dangerous plant it the nation and they have a culture of falsification of documents to the government. Check out their LER falsification. Matter of fact, you got a wide spread culture of falsification throughout the nuclear industry as outlined narrowly in the NRC OIG investigation on LERs and part 21..."

Mike Mulligan

Hinsdale, NH

From: "Lewis, Shani"

To: "steamshovel2002@yahoo.co m"

Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 8:12 AM

Subject: Your Concerns Regarding Browns Ferry

Mr. Mulligan,

This is to acknowledge our receipt of your e-mail dated April 10, 2011. We will respond specifically to the concerns you raised regarding the Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant but first we need to verify that we can communicate with you via this e-mail address. Please reply to this email or call me at the number listed below to advise us of your preference going forward.

My name is Shani Lewis, Allegation Coordinator. You can contact me by calling 1-800-577-8510, extension 4461 or communicate with me via e-mail, Shani.Lewis@nrc.gov. Please also be advised that we cannot protect the information during transmission on the Internet and there is the possibility that someone else could read your and our responses while it is transmission.

Shani A. Lewis
Allegation Coordinator
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Region II
404-997-4461

From: Michael Mulligan
To: "Lewis, Shani"
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2011 1:14 PM
Subject: Re: Your Concerns Regarding Browns Ferry

Ms. Lewis,
Inspection Report 2009005
I see many more safety processes being in similar straits....identification, RCA and corrective action problems...

.....PG 19 In September, 2008, the inspectors presented a concern to the licensee that approximately 17 Cause Determination Evaluations (CDE) had exceeded the licensee’s Maintenance Rule (MR) program completion guidelines, and the licensee initiated PER 152007 to address this potential adverse trend. But in April 2009, the licensee identified additional late CDEs and initiated PER 169954 which required an effectiveness review in six months. In those six months, the inspectors and the licensee identified approximately 20 more CDEs that were untimely or past due. Inspectors discussed this potential adverse trend with the licensee who entered the issue into their CAP as PER 210091.

What you can say about LER 2009-004, is all the hand holding the NRC had to do to get to them to get them to submit a LER and be it accurate. One wonders all the missed LERs that wasn’t submitted that the NRC didn’t have time to catch.

This is the crazy talk of the NRC I was talking about “was not repetitive or willful”, but in this inspection report there are two issues with failure to submit a LER

“However, because this violation was of very low safety significance, was not repetitive or willful, and was entered into the licensee’s CAP as PERs 177206 and 204364, the NRC has characterized the significance of this reporting violation as a Severity Level IV NCV in accordance with Section IV.A.3 and Supplement I of the NRC Enforcement Policy.”

I read a lot of issues with the Watts Bar....with the TVA habitually not filling timely responses and documentation. I believe it is systemic within TVA...

Don’t forget in the lead up to the RCA valve injection valve failure, you had a disgraceful event with a bowed RHR rotor and its subsequent destruction within days of the RHR injection valves. You had three safety relief valves technically inop that would have caused you shutdown if you could have seen it. I am saying the equipment failures indicate the plant carries a lot more level of risk to the community that what you risk analyses shows. Can you imagine a accident with all these defects showing up instantaneously in one accident.

Inspection Report 2010-005

NPG-SPP-02.8 was adequate to meet the purpose and objectives of the ITR program. The inspectors also reviewed the two most recent Integrated Trend (IT) reports. The licensee had identified certain departments that did not submit their reports on time which contributed to the site report being issued after its required due date. The inspectors noted that SRs were written for each occurrence. The inspectors also noted that the new procedures improved the consistency of trend discussions and the report format across departments.

...PER 213116 was generated to address the licensee’s actions to address an inspector identified trend, concerning the adequacy of post maintenance testing (PMT), which has been previously documented in multiple inspection reports, but is yet to be adequately addressed by the corrective action program.

...The inspectors identified a potential adverse trend regarding inaccuracy and incomplete information contained in LERs. During the review of LERs from 2009 through 2010, inspectors identified seven examples where LERs contained inaccurate statements, incomplete descriptions and details, and other technical and editorial errors. The licensee had previously initiated the following PERs to resolve the issues identified by the inspectors: PERs 215479, 205308, 201410, and 163176. Additionally, as documented in report Section 4OA3.1 below, the inspectors identified two violations associated with inadequate and incomplete information in Unit 3 LER 2009-003. The licensee initiated SR 314177 to address this apparent adverse trend.

Over the past operating cycle, Units 2 and 3 have developed a large number of control rod Rod Position Indication System (RPIS) component problems. Unit 2 had outstanding WO’s on about 25 different control rods with RPIS related problems, and Unit 3 had about 15 control rods with WO’s. These problems involved incorrect back lighting, intermittent drift alarms, and primarily inaccurate rod position indication at one or more positions. The licensee initiated SRs 313460 and 313465 to address this adverse trend.

What can be said clearly from the LER crazy talk in 2009 “was not repetitive or willful” with two LERs, then the proliferation of LER problems in 2010-005...you might have covered it, but the agency’s ROP is not effective with changing a plant’s behavior.

I am just saying the NRC might be somewhat good on describing the pieces of the puzzle...but you suck a putting the puzzle together and seeing the big picture.

It get you to wondering, is the TVA being shown favoritism because they are they brought back on line BF 1 and working on bringing on other new nuclear plant.

I’d like to see a full scale investigation on the recent history TVA’s LERs and the current status.

As I said, a assortment of safety bureaucracy and processes are dysfunctional leading to preventable failures of safety systems...you got to know there are many defects within the plant not seen and one wonders if all these defects will conspire to come together in a big accident and create shame to our nation.

With the HPCI diaphragms, why did you ding them on not writing a LER accurately, when you should have dinged them with illegally putting in the defective quality safety repair parts.

I remember being at the HB Robinson plant public meeting...where there was serous talk about in the future how safety critical LERs are. They were talking about inaccurate information from Robinson. It is interesting, last spring the NRC came to visit Vermont Yankee about their tritium leak. I got up behind Jazcko chanting "Remember the HB Robison plant"....everyone including the anti's thought I was nuts. I was talking about the terrible Robinson plant accident in March...I didn't think it was over with. Then the plant had two more serous plant accidents and many NRC findings.

Mullanism

This testimony came way before the NRC OIG investigation...you notice how starling close my language was the NRC OIG report about LERs and part 21...

http://steamshovel2002.blogspot.com/2011/04/mulliganism-and-nrc-oig-investigation.html

2.206 transcripts on June 29, 2010 on the Vernon Tie.

(I like my language better because it is more colorful and accurate.)

MR Mulligan: "The new way they do it nowadays is, you have a set of conflicting codes and regulations. You have five or six of them all intertwining and intermingling and very few people can understand, and you have an outcome in mind, and you twist these codes and regulations around until you get the outcome you want.

Nowadays, we play games, we twist around regulations, and we make believe that the regulations, you know, are going to tell us the ultimate truth, if we obey the regulations, it's going to tell us the ultimate truth, and the perfect outcome. If we just follow the rules, there's going to be a perfect outcome."

MR. PICKETT: One more, again, Doug Pickett.

Mr. Mulligan, you were making a number of statements about the codes and regulations are twisted by regulators to get the desired results. Are you aware of any particular regulation or code that is not being met?

MR. MULLIGAN: Well, a code. Well, you see, the problem is I've got a big barrier in front of me, everybody knows that, you know? This is what this is about, is to keep me -- keep a barrier in front of me, and not be able to get the hard questions asked and stuff like that.

You know, I -- you know, one day, you know, I envision a different 2.206 process, where, you know, you are my government, I don't own the government, but I do in a way, but you work for me and stuff, and there's an issue of, you know, I have access to NRC people, we get into a group where there's an assertion like this, and people are on my side, you know.

I don't have these techno barriers, and these legalistic barriers, and these kind of evidence, super-duper evidence barriers and all that sort of stuff that people play games, like, you know, to put a barrier in front of me and stuff like that. I have a thing where a group of people, NRC people, would get together with me before 2.206, we talk about all the different issues, and you would bring up the information, we'd share it freely and stuff like that, and would go into a 2.206 process a lot different way than we do now.

You know, that's how I would make my government work for me. As of now, this process works for the utilities and the NRC. It's designed to be a barrier for me, as far as legalistic stuff, you know, Congress and stuff. So, that's my envision of a government that works for me.

Fukushima meltdown: HPCI and RCIC Rupture Disc?

Update:
By around 2:30 a.m., the pressure inside the vessel that forms a protective bulb around the reactor's core reached twice the level it was designed to withstand. Amid delays and technical difficulties, it was another 12 hours before workers finished releasing radioactive steam from this containment vessel, via reinforced pipes, to the air beyond the reactor building.

About an hour later, the reactor building itself exploded—a blast that Japanese and U.S. regulators have since said spread highly radioactive debris beyond the plant. The explosion, along with others amid overheating at reactors 2, 3 and 4, contributed to radiation levels that led to mandatory evacuations around the plant and the government's admission that the Fukushima Daiichi disaster ranks alongside Chernobyl at the top of the nuclear-disaster scale.

Tepco says pressure in the containment vessel likely hit 840 kilopascals (the metric equivalent of 121.8 pounds per square inch) around 2:30 a.m, roughly double the maximum pressure of 427 kilopascals the vessel was designed to handle.

BURSTING OF HIGH PRESSURE COOLANT INJECTION STEAM LINE RUPTURE DISCS INJURES PLANT PERSONNEL

This is how I came to talk about it...topix.
OK, so I am really talking about a rupture disc...I will corrected the title...

Questions for fukushima building explosions...

It is excessive pressure safety device on the piping between HPCI exhaust and the torus....if the HPCI exhaust piping or torus pressure gets too high, the blow out panel is designed to rupture.

It is beyond interesting with the WSJ saying the Japanese torus and primary containment got to be twice the design pressure...why didn't these blow out panels let go.

The HPCI or RCIC exhaust needs to go under water, to be condensed by the torus cool water, I think comes in from the bottom of the tous.

It would be interesting in the Fukushima plants how these blow out panels functioned.

If they are under water, did the panel rupture and did that lead to prematurely draining the torus.

If above the water line in the torus, did the lowering of the torus water uncover the blow out panel and lead to the leak of hydrogen into secondary containment that distroyed the buildings...

NRC says VY HPCI is obsolete

Message 45 and Feb 22, 2010 on topix

Yep, it was a flexitallic gasket thing...they didn't have the proper replacement gasket on site, so they had to special order if from Texas, and you how long the shipping takes from across the country.

As NRC resident Dave Spindler says, "its a obsolesce thing" with not having adequate and the appropriate safety grade spare parts on site at the plant. The HPCI is obsolete? Dave said its going on at every plant in the nation.

Entergy had to do a engineering equivalency thing, cause they had to manufacture it in Texas, meaning it is not a identical replacement.

By the way, RCIC is not a standby system from HPCI...all of these components are suppose to operational when the fault hits the plant...their design accident.

So as Dave said according to the NRC...it doesn't matter to the NRC if the repair took 13 days or the gasket was replaced immediately within a few hours with a on site spare repair part....the NRC doesn't care if we are fully prepared for a design accident or partially prepared.

Pilgrim: Unsafe repair parts in nuclear industry...

Wednesday, April 13, 2011...Transcipts on 2.206 about VY reliefs concern buna n thread material

“In Browns Ferry at Unit 1, another LER, 2009-004, I can make a comment that there's questions of the, if everything is reported in LERs, but these are just three of a bunch of LERs. Interesting Buna N material defect was without fibers. It was in the HPCI oil control. That was also due to heat.”

Well., I mean to say it was in hydraulic oil....

Wednesday, April 13, 2011...Transcripts on 2.206 about VY reliefs concerning buna n thread material

So for the VY threaded Buna n, I tried to bring in three industry example, o rings, hydraulic diaphragm and air diaphragms as the scram solenoid valves. Browns Ferry was the hydraulic diaphragm issue, and it is identical to the pilgrim...

“In Browns Ferry at Unit 1, another LER, 2009-004, I can make a comment that there's questions of the, if everything is reported in LERs, but these are just three of a bunch of LERs. Interesting Buna N material defect was without fibers. It was in the HPCI oil control. That was also due to heat.”

Well., I mean to say it was in hydraulic oil....

April 15, 2011

PILGRIM NUCLEAR POWER STATION'NRC PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION AND RESOLUTION INSPECTION REPORT O5OOO293/201 1OO8

02/14/2011 – 03/04/2011

Findings

(1) Failure to Follow Corrective Action Process for HPCI Diaphragm Degraded Condition Introduction: The NRC identified a finding of very low significance (Green) for Entergy's failure to follow their corrective action process in the identification, documentation, and evaluation of a degraded condition. Specifically, Entergy failed to recognize and capture in their condition report process that a diaphragm in the HPCI system exceeded its service life.

Description: On March 22,2Q10, GE Hitachi issued a Safety Information Communication in conjunction with the 10 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part21

Report titled, "Failure of HPCI Turbine Overspeed Reset Control Valve Diaphragm." The failure of this diaphragm would result in a loss of the HPCI turbine lube and control oil and could ultimately result in a failure of the HPCI system. Entergy identified that a 'like' diaphragm was installed in Pilgrim's HPCI system pressure control valve (PCV-2301-238) and evaluated the 10 CFR Part 21 Report on July 20, 2010 in CR-PNP-2010-2500. Entergy concluded that the manufacturing defect in the diaphragm described in the Part 21 evaluation was not directly applicable to Pilgrim because the report specified a manufacturing year of 1984 or later. Pilgrim's PCV-2301-238 diaphragm was manufactured in 1981, however it was the same design (2-ply fabric-reinforced BUNA-N material) as specified in the Part2l evaluation. Since the diaphragm was installed and could not be completely inspected to verify reinforcing-fiber continuity, Entergy appropriately scheduled the diaphragm to be replaced during the next HPCI maintenance window, as recommended by the manufacture.

Jaczko doesn't honor the dead in the nuclear industry

Added Apr 14: This accident caused a plant trip and was a very serious nuclear accident.

You know, if we had a USA nuclear plant meltdown and our own Fukushima with lots fatalities and abandoned territory...these lying Ayn Rand republic senators and willing democrat accomplices would frame the question so hyper narrowly, and the answer, they would never admit it was a nuclear accident even if the some of the innocent population was forced to be buried in lead caskets.

Even as they were picking up radioactive fuel pellets on plant property, Chairman Jaczko would say the accident began in the non nuclear and non safety related secondary system, and technically it wasn't a nuclear accident and core meltdown.

We are so captured by the power of the media and all our power brokers who control our political system.

I talked about it a little today...what is going on is we are corrupting language and communication. Matter of fact, I lectured the NRC on this point yesterday.

The senate fruit cakes yesterday, and I included the democrats...they repeatedly asked Jaczko how many people were ever killed in the nuclear industry. Some of them, and the democrats to be more honest with their lies, asked how many people were ever killed by radiation in the nuclear industry. Jazcko repeated responded none. He's got degrees in philosophy and physics, he got a doctorate in physics. This guy spent half his life in the best schools.

The correct full answer is, maybe none with radiation, but to honor the dead in the nuclear power industry, the correct answers is four bottom of the barrel pipe fitters and insulation people lost their lives around 1986 in the Surrey Nuclear Plant. The cheapsters let the feedwater pipes erode and a high pressure pipe burst. It must have been a horrific death for these low level employees. Right, the NRC is all highly educated people, and anyone without college degree is throw away garbage and they don't count. This brought broad reforms throughout the secondary and primary systems...it was a nuclear plant event no question.

So this big shot with a philosophy degree and a doctorate in high falutin physics should have been able to frame it in a few sentences. A little humility for the dead and the people at the bottom from the head regulator of the NRC. We had no deaths from direct radiation, but we had four fatalities who died from a nuclear plant accident. This accident caused a plant trip and was a very serious nuclear accident.We are sorry for this and our reforms with measuring pipe wall thickness is a attempt to make up for the deaths of these honorable workers at a nuclear plant. Their deaths constantly remind us of the sacrifices of all the employees in the nuclear industry and it is a beacon for us to always be alert at these sites.

It blatant sickening language corruption right in front of our eyes in a senate hearing. The weasely senators set up the question in a way for PR points for a lily white nuclear industry...knowing the chairman would give a partial or incomplete happy-land and triumphal falsified answer.

Yea, it took a lot of wasted intelligence and a decades of education at the best schools to be able to slickly dance around the deaths of honorable men with suffering families, at a nuclear power plant accident.

NRC Chairmen Jazcko, Adam web search timeout queries

The fixed it at about 9:30 AM this morning on April 11.

This is endemic within the NRC, the cult of self protection...they never disclose what was the problem with Adams web and are they having problems with it. They are exactly like the nuclear power plants...but worst. You know,  you never get a long open discussion with the problems of Adams web. Its the cult of secrecy!


...Dear Chairman Jazcko,

Adam Search: http://wba.nrc.gov :8080/ves/

I logged my problems with Adams queries at this site beginning in Feb 2011:

NRC Web Based Adams timeout query

Why was the search feature of Adams broken for the last three days over this weekend? To tell you the truth, the operation of this has been erratic and dysfunctional since day one...it is a poorly designed system and doesn't lend to public credibility of the agency. I'd be firing people for not doing their jobs!

So I would a search on 05000296, either do a "greater than a date" within the last six months or year, or do a range within the last 6 months or year, then you would get a queried time out. I have long terms problems with queried time out. It is rude a heck to be doing a search and twiddling your thumbs for a minute or two, then get a queried time out and get thrown out without any results. You would be bankrupt if you were Google.

Is Adams search overwhelmed by Fukushima?

By the way, I think Browns Ferry is the most dangerous plant it the nation and they have a culture of falsification of documents to the government. Check out their LER falsification. Matter of fact, you got a wide spread culture of falsification throughout the nuclear industry as outlined narrowly in the NRC OIG investigation on LERs and part 21...

Mike Mulligan
Hinsdale, NH

Electrical self generation in RCIC/ HPIC?

UCS: SOARCA and Vermont Yankee.
SOARCA:

“One concern has been that SOARCA credits certain B5b mitigating strategies (such as RCIC operation w/o DC power) that have really not been reviewed to ensure that they will work to mitigate severe accidents.

I mean, how hard would it be, what don't they have a "alternator" like device attacked to the turbine, like in our cars... where the turbine self generates electricity for the whole machine. Then a computor like device could figure if to stay on the batteries or go alternator.

Yep, then the RCIC pump would have to work with the temp of the water up to 212 degrees, then it might be able to suppy through self generated electrcity power to a motor to cool the torus.

Then you are basically talking about time to boil off the torus and need a vent.

Right, its basically a trade off of primary containment capability, with stretching the core cooling capability as long as can as you are consuming you water reservoirs capabilities.

You could have a small diesel generator stationed in a safe area, up high or distant...run the cable through the reactor building...then all you would have to do is keep the fuel tank full till exhaustion of water resouces on site...that could be the deadicated power source to RCIC or such.

What is your highest prioroity...intergrity of the fuel in the core or primary containment?What is your highest prioroity...intergrity of the fuel in the core or primary containment?

Mulliganism and the NRC OIG investigation on LERs and part 21

I believe the contradictory and incomplete, or too complex for human or public understanding with NRC's rules and policies...it is endemic in the NRC. It is a secret deregulation or reduction in federal oversight scheme with their utilities buddies who work in the NRC. It is a mofia like organization that owns the NRC.  I think the agency employees are maliciously sabotaging government oversight. Most of these guys at the top are extraordinarily educated and experienced...and I don't think these things happen as a one off or by mistake. These things are engineered...purposely taken advantaged to protect the agency employees and give secret benefits to the nuclear industry.

Like I said, we need a outside group or somebody with extraordinarily power to come into the NRC...to immediately create order in this troubled agency.

NRC Office of Inspector General investigation

Audit of NRC's Implementation of 10 CFR Part 21, Reporting of Defects and Noncompliance

"Part 21 component defect reporting issues exist because NRC regulations and guidance for implementing Section 206 are contradictory and unclear. Specifically, NRC regulations and guidance for implementing Section 206 contain stipulations that have been interpreted as not requiring a report under Part 21 if an LER was not required. This interpretation seemingly contradicts Section 206, which requires reporting of component defects that could cause substantial safety hazards. Furthermore, applicable NRC reportability guidance is not utilized by some licensees and NRC staff, and NRC’s Baseline Inspection Program does not include requirements to inspect licensee reporting of Part 21 defects." (you get it, there is inadequate NRC training to the local inspectors and the reactor oversight process doesn't carry it. It is interesting looking at the graph from 1998 to 2009. Other LER reporting are in similar straights )

2.206 transcripts on June 29, 2010 on the Vernon Tie.

(I like my language better because it is more colorful and accurate.)

MR Mulligan: "The new way they do it nowadays is, you have a set of conflicting codes and regulations. You have five or six of them all intertwining and intermingling and very few people can understand, and you have an outcome in mind, and you twist these codes and regulations around until you get the outcome you want.

Nowadays, we play games, we twist around regulations, and we make believe that the regulations, you know, are going to tell us the ultimate truth, if we obey the regulations, it's going to tell us the ultimate truth, and the perfect outcome. If we just follow the rules, there's going to be a perfect outcome."

MR. PICKETT: One more, again, Doug Pickett.

Mr. Mulligan, you were making a number of statements about the codes and regulations are twisted by regulators to get the desired results. Are you aware of any particular regulation or code that is not being met?

MR. MULLIGAN: Well, a code. Well, you see, the problem is I've got a big barrier in front of me, everybody knows that, you know? This is what this is about, is to keep me -- keep a barrier in front of me, and not be able to get the hard questions asked and stuff like that.

You know, I -- you know, one day, you know, I envision a different 2.206 process, where, you know, you are my government, I don't own the government, but I do in a way, but you work for me and stuff, and there's an issue of, you know, I have access to NRC people, we get into a group where there's an assertion like this, and people are on my side, you know.

I don't have these techno barriers, and these legalistic barriers, and these kind of evidence, super-duper evidence barriers and all that sort of stuff that people play games, like, you know, to put a barrier in front of me and stuff like that. I have a thing where a group of people, NRC people, would get together with me before 2.206, we talk about all the different issues, and you would bring up the information, we'd share it freely and stuff like that, and would go into a 2.206 process a lot different way than we do now.

You know, that's how I would make my government work for me. As of now, this process works for the utilities and the NRC. It's designed to be a barrier for me, as far as legalistic stuff, you know, Congress and stuff. So, that's my envision of a government that works for me.

Paper Mache Nuclear Power Plant Safety Systems

Paper Mache Nuclear Plant Safety systems:

I have been talking about "Paper Mache" nuclear plant safety systems recently...maybe first brought it up in my Palisades 2.206 last week. Paper Mache are non testable safety systems...systems where the engineers create mind boggling tons of paperwork and procedures, but fundamentally the system is never tested under real operating conditions. The system or component is made out of nothing but Paper Mache...and in the first huff and puff of the wolf in "The Story of the Three Little Pigs" the house blows over.

The clear example is the backup cooling water system of our Emergency Diesel Generator, the RHR/Service Water cross connects. Say we lose the intake structure or have to shutdown while not using the control room, it is a very complicated procedure and there is a lot of walking around the plant and outside by the cooling towers, it eats up huge shift resources...then the cooling of the Emergency DG's comes from the deep basin, a big swimming pool type structure, the emergency cooling towers cell and the RHR service water pumps.

The gold standard of nuclear safety is the system has been tested in real conditions and the employees have used the system over and over again so they know easily how to bring on the system. So then when the shock of a accident occurs...then you can almost automatically put on the system without any kinks because you trained over it so many times.

Really, the fire pump becomes a ECCS core cooling systems...and everthing in the fire system and the fire pumps should be Nuclear Safety Grade quality such as the ECCS systems. They never really test this system under real conditions.


NRC examines nuclear plant risks in U.S.

Virgilio addressed the NRC e-mails, obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists through the Freedom of Information Act and released Wednesday. In the e-mails, NRC risk analysts questioned an exercise that simulated a catastrophic loss of power at a nuclear plant due to an earthquake, and whether operators should rely on equipment that was not certified to survive an earthquake.

The exercise, played out on a computer model, looked at what would happen at two U.S. power plants, Surry in Virginia and Peach Bottom in Pennsylvania, with new equipment and procedures, called B.5.b, ordered since the 9/11 terror attacks to make nuclear power plants more resistant to attack. One of the hypothetical accidents that the NRC analyzed was a "station blackout" at Peach Bottom where the plant fails to recover power before backup batteries run out, as happened at Fukushima.

Under the scenario, the plant loses outside power, its diesel backup generators and battery power too, Virgilio said. The new B.5.b strategy would employ new, portable equipment to operate emergency cooling pumps off steam from the reactor core.

One NRC risk analyst questioned how NRC could rely on strategies "that have really not been reviewed to ensure that they will work to mitigate severe accidents.

Questions raised by this and other analysts "are an open item that will need to be looked at," Virgilio said. But he added that the exercise looked at an unlikely scenario — a major earthquake that knocks out power inside and outside the plant.

Cracks in the NRC concrete facade and the Vernon Tie.

My impression with what went on in my 2.206. There was a new PRB chairman from any of my past 2.206, and its my impression it didn't go well. I spoke about my mental models...the models I make about events around me, Mr. Blunt said basiclly at one point, everything about you is models, models, models today mike. A big dog in the NRC recently said the agency models about backup power supplies are inaccruate and not conservative.

Comments:
...Did you ever go in front of this new guy...Blunt.
He tried to steer my presentation and be disruptive.
I am supposed to be allowed the state my presentation...he can ask me questions...but the intent of the question are not supposed to disrupt my conversation.
I was shocked, I had so many regional representatives in there...maybe 1 through 5....
I wanted to talk about the organizational attributes that was causing this...he wanted me to talk about the reactor building cracks...
I told him it was a process fallacy...him wanting evidence from me...and then the agency making me powerless to create my own transparency and all the barriers the agency puts up in front of me.

....I called them nuclear gods and I never seen a more corrupt and damaging group of people than as engineers in general...
They are all whores to money and promotionalism....

....We spent about 30% of my time talking about how I am supposed to be allowed to give a presentation on my take of the petition...I drove these guys into looking into their management directive. It is my pitetion and not yours...

I got really irritated, he told me the issue was there are cracks in the reactor building and my concern is the reactor building would collapse in on itself.

My take, a design earthquake would occur with maybe a wall delaminating away and damaging safety equipment. I don't have the engineering skills to know if the cracks challenge the whole structure.

I think Mr Blunt was trying to make me look like a fool, this idiot thinks the whole reactor building will collapse in on itself...he was setting me up to look like a crazy. I need no help from him in that department.

All these guys have to do is quote what I wrote in my petition...not make a crazed interpretation of what I was trying say.

...Right, I was right on cue, the media was filled with stories about backup power systems today, I spent all my time until I was interrupted talking about the tie and the crazed petition process...where the agency from days back was trying to steer my conversation into the cracks.

I was trying to say, these guys in the last petition process were crazy to accept the Vernon tie...my intent was to indict the NRC and the petition.

I told them right up front, I really want to make a 2.206 petition on NRC...but you won't let me.

I called Mr. Blunt a god and arrogant for playing with me...but I kept my cool and didn't get spitting mad at him....

...Mr. Blunt said I might be in the wrong process...I should go to rule making. I said Mr Blunt, your just like the rest of the NRC employees I have had to deal with. I gone to the NRC OIG, allegation amount others, I tell them my sad story, and they in turn tell me I am talking to the wrong department. I told him I could spend a decade of time with your employees...going down that rat hole...one right after another pawning me off to the next NRC employee down the line. I said it sounds like all you want me to do is run around in your unproductive rat hole. There always has been a extraordinary hurdle with any of your employees to listen to the public and even the nuclear employees.

 ...U.S. Nuclear Regulators Privately Doubted Power Plants Despite Expressing Public Confidence, Documents Show
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/06/us-n...

...My contention is not a component or utility centric problem...it is a NRC centric problem in that they would enforce quality electrical supply safety components needed in a design accident.

Mulliganism

These are my best quotes from my earlier Petition concerning the Vernon Tie...the emergency back up power supply.

 ..."(spoken August 02, 2010) Everyone is just waiting around for the big boom and fire, before we recognize we got a industry wide culture problem."

....Mr Mulligan: (spoken June 29, 2010) The new way they do it nowadays is, you have a set of conflicting codes and regulations. You have five or six of them all intertwining and intermingling and very few people can understand, and you have an outcome in mind, and you twist these codes and regulations around until you get the outcome you want.


Nowadays, we play games, we twist around regulations, and we make believe that the regulations, you know, are going to tell us the ultimate truth, if we obey the regulations, it's going to tell us the ultimate truth, and the perfect outcome. If we just follow the rules, there's going to be a perfect outcome.

....MR. PICKETT: "One more, again, Doug Pickett."

"Mr. Mulligan, you were making a number of statements about the codes and regulations are twisted by regulators to get the desired results. Can you give us some examples?"

Right, the NRC OIG investigation report on LERs' and part 21 exactly parroted these concerns. I said it perfectly and LER issue is a symptom ...the agency is riddled with this crazy talk and regulations.

Nowadays, we play games, we twist around regulations, and we make believe that the regulations, you know, are going to tell us the ultimate truth, if we obey the regulations, it's going to tell us the ultimate truth, and the perfect outcome. If we just follow the rules, there's going to be a perfect outcome.

TUESDAY, JUNE 29, 2010....10 CFR 2.206 PETITION REVIEW BOARD (PRB) CONFERENCE CALL RE VERMONT YANKEE - VERNON HYDROELECTRIC STATION...transcripts.

Quotes:

"Believe me, the next event that shatters the nuclear industry, it will all be related back to the "nothing ever matters" mentality of the Ayn Rand republican philosophy of risk informed regulation. This is the genesis of the VY tritium issue and it political problems in Montpelier and Concord NH."

..."As the general theme, I think priorities, and budget restraints, resource limitations for human needs, or safety, I think they are immoral. I think most are institutional problems from Columbia, and Challenger, PMI, most of our institutional accidents, Deep Water Horizon, you know, you can just go on and on, and all of them revolve around budget priorities, resource limitations, and priorities."

..."So, I just -- you know, we don't know what the future holds for us, as far as budgets, and stock prices, and stuff..."

..."My opinion is, the NRC is not a safety regulator, it's a financial regulator. Everything to do with the NRC, risk perspectives, and a whole bunch of other stuff, you are trying to save pennies for the utilities, is what it comes down to. That's what the end game of this whole thing is. So, that's what I think a lot of the problems of this dam business is."

..."It was a stupid thing anyways, and everybody just, you know, wanting to create these super, super safety illusion type of thing, and you end up, you end up having to, you know, close one eye and deceive in the other eye."

Monday, August 02, 2010 9:48 AM...letter to the PRB.

I got to inform you of the truth. These nuclear industry's gaming of language, words, communications, the engineering codes or rule gaming are a severe intimidation threat to any employee in the industry. Hell, most of this stuff is voluntary anyway. Similarly, risk informed regulation, with how it is played in the industry today, is a dire intimidation threat to any employee. It translates into a "nothing ever matters" mentality, we don't have to confront our problems and fix it, because nothing is ever safety related or has any consequence relations.

Everyone is just waiting around for the big boom and fire, before we recognize we got a industry wide culture problem.

"Believe me, the next event that shatters the nuclear industry, it will all be related back to the "nothing ever matters" mentality of the Ayn Rand republican philosophy of risk informed regulation. This is the genesis of the VY tritium issue and it political problems in Montpelier and Concord NH."

Cracks in the NRC and the VY reactor building...

New Apr 6:

This is how I record history...


"Vernon Vt dam high voltage electrical substation."


So tomorrow is another 2.206 concerning...April 6...the reactor building concrete cracks and the Vernon tie again.
It is from 2-3 PM

On April 12th (tues) another 2.206 on non testible safety systems from 9-10 am...

On  April 13th (wens) I be talking in another 2.206 from 2-3pm about the Relief Valve buna n o threads...

This is how to listen in:
1-800-772-3842
PIN:2206

Palisades

So this is my second shot with Palisades.
I am going to talk about where accidents comes from...the way we look at them now is not right.
They aren't component centric...they are organizational and across many organizations centric...mono thinking...
1-800-772-3842
PIN:2206

NRC Chairman Jaczho declares in senate hearing!

Jaczho is the first one to declare a Hurricane hit Japan on March 11, 2010...?

Check out the c-span recording at about the 18 minute to 18:30 second point...he was mauling his speech...

You are invited to listen in and ask me question at the end...

Well, at least for me...

This Monday: 3/28

1-800-772-2206 code 2206

...10-11am...VY security vedio

...2:30-3:30 Palisades

This is just covering old issues...

I'm talkin' about this Thousand Year Flood

See, I think the tsunami at a metaphor. I don't think the energy of the wave took the Fukushima Plants out...it was a structure of thinking exclusively for self interest that melted down the cores. There is a required way of thinking needed within the nuclear industry...there are boundaries that you are required to think in...you are out the door if you don't think like the group think. Actually it is going on in all of our corporations and businesses, and each of us are doing it.

Recent examples is the HB Robinson and Wolf Creek, the industry's massive problems with procedures...the wolf in 'The Story of the Three Little Pigs' would huff and puff and the blow grass house down. We are building a houses of straw by not telling the truth and we are building houses of stone by talking about the hard difficult choices and the truth.

It is this cubby hole thinking, the incessant and insane categorization to fit a hidden agenda, usually profit, bonuses and promotions centric...engineers and all professional people do this to a amazing extent... the idea of putting safety into a design bases that make no sense other than I get promoted for thinking like this...you turn a belief or a guess into facts and promotions.

It is trainable and teachable, they get into this mechanical think state, we put this in the category of certainty, we put that into the uncertainty category basically without any science or engineering basis, we record this if it favors our promotion and income, we make believe we didn't see that if crosses our selfish group think, to be one of the favored insiders...we create a picture or reality that is completely inaccurate and falsified based on the incentives the world provides for us. We think the incentives and status are doing the right thing. Our planet is begging for a higher calling in each of us, more than this falsified corporatized reality. It is in each of us more than the businesses and the corporations. It is a lie to buy our adult toys(cars, houses and clothing) system it is.

I don't know what to say about the jungle of survival with the fittest liars, where if we don't think like the group we will never work again and feed our families. I honestly don't know what is better, feeding my children or telling the truth. I know how astronomical the pain is by sticking to my guns, with the outcome in not feeding my wife and children. I know how hard it is and not many people can endure watching the pain and suffering of your love ones. I have watched my family endure me over decades and have observed the lack of material world I created for them. God must know some people can take a lot of shit. They tell me god creates the perfect world of growth for each of us...I keep asking him if he screwed up with me big time over and over again, and that when I make him laugh out the loudest. Some people must be compelled to tell the truth no matter who they hurt. Pathological truth tellers are we, and everyone hates us.

The outcome of all of this, a butterfly's wing flaps, a simple component goes haywire because it was aging or poorly designed...you get into a cascade accident where a assortment of other components and systems fails because of this little energy initially. Then people and organizations fail in similar fashion because the whole system was set up to be fragile because of this cubby hole and self interested categorization thinking. I choose to count this or not count that for no other reason because I get a short term incentive...pennies in my pocket or promotions ....then the energy of a flapping butterfly's wing get amplifies up to massive levels. It is the fragility each of us adds to the system with our little distortions and lying, and it does terrible damage to the planet.

A terrible accident keeps getting amplified that crosses many national boarders...and the energy of the first insult builds up to astronomic proportion as it crosses each boarder.

We ought to be thinking about this when we all falsify reality on our little things we all do. It is when we settle for a temporarily pleasing incentive, instead of doing the difficult work of telling the truth and doing the right thing. We need to do what is in the interest of us all. Is the income from our work really pay-to-lie...

That is the issue with the Japanese earthquake, the nuclear plant meltdowns...we are all connected together by our real harsh reality. We can all touch each other a half a world away, and we do touch each other. Its the little insignificant things we do, even in the little things we do, we are all connected together on our planet. I am here to tell you that. When we create this falsified image on a grand scale, we will touch each other in negative and painful ways with the amplification of the energy in a cascade accident.

I mean, that is the real harsh mentality of real life and death...that is the real world...when  we act on the greater good we are really being selfish...cause we are really so interconnected now.

Subject 2.206: Non Testable Nuclear Plant Safety Systems at VY

March 25, 2011
William Borchardt
Executive Director for Operations
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001

Subject 2.206: Request a emergency shutdown of Vermont Yankee because the Reactor Oversight Program is ineffective and Entergy has a documented history of a culture of falsification and thumbing their noses at reoccurring violations. It should be noted in this inspection period most of the fleet of Entergy’s plants are on fire and burning in the Gulf of Mexico with numerous NRC inspection findings including Palisades, Grand Gulf, River Bend, Arkansas One and Cooper.

Dear Mr. Borchardt,

In the 1942 movie Casablanca:

Rick Blaine: How can you close me up? On what grounds?
Captain Louis Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.

Jan 18, 2011: My 2.206 Emergency Shutdown of Vermont Yankee

“The safety culture of the plant is impaired because of information inaccuracies and wide spread acceptance of falsifications.”
I request Vermont Yankee to be immediately be shut down and that Entergy be prohibited from owning nuclear power plants... because Entergy doesn’t have the integrity to tell the truth about safety and nuclear power plant issues. Money and profits comes before truth telling and full disclosures.”

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2011/03/24/24greenwire-japan-disaster-raises-questions-about-backup-p-16451.html?scp=1&sq=backup%20power&st=cse

Vermont Yankee has many pretend and illusory nuclear safety systems. These incomplete systems are designed to the give the public a illusion of safety but in reality these systems have never been tested and the employees are completely unfamiliar with their operation. There are only partially tested and most of them are only tested by a partial simulation. A computer simulation doesn't cut it.

I submit to you a nuclear safety system is only one that has been completely tested under real conditions once and the employees on a continuing bases actually puts their hands on this system to operate it. If you are afraid to test nuclear protection safety systems because it might damage equipment and the employees are too inexperience to operate them, you are afraid they will damage equipment and delay making money, then by definition it is not a nuclear safety.

Oh baby, bring out the risk perspectives now. I eat the whole industry alive!

We know the industry has gone into many pretend and illusory non testable nuclear safety systems in a big way. How many are there?

Illusory and non testable safety systems at VY. This is a incomplete list :

1) The Automatic Depressurization System(ADS)...the main steam safety relief system.
2) The Vernon tie
3) The Service Water System and RHR system tie and the emergency cooling tower cell. This is the backup cooling system for the emergency diesel generators.
4)Alternate shutdown outside the control room. Discuss why you went to the tie instead of the SW/RHR cross connect.
5) ECCS functional every outage.

I like to talk about the VY 1992 Loop and impaired diesel generator cooling, and how I predicted it. You know the routine now:

1)Request all non testable safety system be immediately tested or the plant shutdown.
2) Request a outside the NRC investigation of this NRC behavior for tolerating this atrocious regulatory behavior.
3) Request top Vermont Yankee Management staff be fired and replaced before startup.
4) Request Entergy’s corporate nuclear senior staff be fired and replaced before the restart of the plants.
...5) Request the formation of a local public oversight panel around every nuclear plant.
...6) Request a emergency NRC senior official oversight panel with the aims of
reforming the ROP.
...7) Request a national NRC oversight panel of outsiders to overseer and report on the agency’s activities. There should be a mixture of professional academic people and capable lay people.
8) There is some heavy duty and exceedingly numerous findings of problems with Entergy plants’ this inspection reporting cycle...do an analysis of why this is occurring.
9) Request a list of non testable nuclear safety systems country wide!

Sincerely,

Mike Mulligan
Hinsdale, NH
1-603-336-8320
steamshovel2002@yahoo.com

Safety Investigation of USA Nuclear Plants

It is not how it was reported in the media...

....From: Michael Mulligan
To: allegation@nrc.gov
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 9:52:21 AM
Subject: Fukushima safety task force
Dear sir,

Based on the investigation of safety nationwide on the nuclear fleet...could I talk to somebody about LERs and part 21 reporting requirements? The theme is LERs reporting and part 21 requirements have been eviscerated and are generally not enforced in the last decade...
How do you report issues you wish the new safety task force would look into?
I would suggest the NRC blog...but they have lost any credibility with me in the recent past. Instead a blog for all of the people of the USA...you turned it into a extreme pro nuclear blog of exclusive people.
I would have some suggestions and criticisms concerning the task force if NRC officials would like to talk to me.
AUDIT OF NRC'S IMPLEMENTATION OF 10 CFR PART 21, REPORTING OF DEFECTS AND NONCOMPLIANCE (OIG-11-A-08)\
Mike


.....From: "Deavers, Ron"
To: "steamshovel2002@yahoo.com"
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 3:05:24 PM
Subject: REPLY RE: Fukushima safety task force
In regard to the Part 21 issues listed in the recent Inspector General Report, the NRC staff will address each recommendation in the report.
The NRC provides instructions for reporting safety or security concerns at our web page located here:
http://www.nrc.gov/about-nrc/regulatory/allegations/safety-concern.html
You are welcome to submit posting to our blog.

....From: Michael Mulligan
To: "Deavers, Ron"
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 3:12:31 PM
Subject: Re: REPLY RE: Fukushima safety task force
Ron,
You are lost in space and you are not at all responsive to the members of the public. You can bet this correspondence will be handled in the presidential commission investigation on the activities of the NRC.
mike

....From: Michael Mulligan [mailto:steamshovel2002@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:42 PM
To: Deavers, Ron
Subject: Re: REPLY RE: Fukushima safety task force
Ron,
Could I get you to show this correspondence set to your boss and give me some assurance that he seen it?
Could he send me a e-mail?
mike

....From: "Deavers, Ron"
To: Michael Mulligan
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 3:52:23 PM
Subject: RE: REPLY RE: Fukushima safety task force
I have forwarded your email as you requested.

....From: OPA Resource
To: "steamshovel2002@yahoo.com"
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 4:58:40 PM
Subject: Response from the NRC
Mr. Mulligan:
I have received copies of the e-mails you sent and received from the NRC today. To provide additional information from what Mr. Deavers has already provided you, please note that the NRC review effort announced yesterday will focus solely on issues directly related to how the March 11 earthquake and tsunami effects on Japanese nuclear power plants could be relevant to U.S. nuclear power plant safety. The timing of the Inspector General’s most recent report related to LERS and Part 21 reporting requirements is completely coincidental and the report is entirely unrelated to the review effort.
I hope this additional information is helpful.
Holly Harrington
Office of Public Affairs
NRC

....From: Michael Mulligan
To: OPA Resource
Sent: Thu, March 24, 2011 5:19:08 PM
Subject: Re: Response from the NRC
Holly,
I get it now. Its going to be a interpretation of what the agency's meaning of Fukushima is, totally NRC centric, not a interpretation of what the nation thinks about reactor safety and what we want out of the NRC.
This is insanity and you guys are in trouble!
Mike

2 petitions: safety valves and secondary containment

Mr. Mulligan,
Your two (2) petitions dated March 17, 2011, regarding the reactor building shell concrete cracks and main steam relief valve were assigned to the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation (NRR) for review. My name is James Kim, the NRR project manager for the Division of Operating Reactor Licensing (DORL) and I have been assigned as a petition manager.


In accordance with the 10 CFR 2.206 process, the Petition Review Board (PRB) is offering you an opportunity to address the PRB to provide any additional explanation or support for both petitions before the PRB makes initial recommendations. If you want a teleconference, you will have approximately 1 ½ hours (90 minutes) to discuss both petitions at the same time. Please let me know whether you would like to address the PRB.


Thanks
James Kim
Project Manager, DOR

Notice how this comes up the same day they give me a petition....this questions if this should have all been cleared up before they gave them a new license...

The purpose of this pre-application meeting for Entergy Operations, Inc. (Entergy), and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff is to discuss Entergy's plans for a fleet-wide submittal for proposed Technical Specification changes and Quality Assurance Program Manual changes related to unit staff qualification requirements. The Entergy fleet includes Arkansas Nuclear One, Units 1 and 2, James  A. Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant, Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 2 and 3, Palisades Nuclear Plant, Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, River Bend Station, Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station, and Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3.

VY Earthquakes And Ratty Switch-Yards

March 17, 2010

William Borchardt

Executive Director for Operations

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Washington, DC 20555-0001

Subject 2.206: Request a emergency shutdown of Vermont Yankee because the Reactor Oversight Program is ineffective and Entergy has a documented history of a culture of falsification and thumbing their noses at reoccurring violations. It should be noted in this inspection period most of the fleet of Entergy’s plants are on fire and burning in the Gulf of Mexico with numerous NRC inspection findings including Palisades, Grand Gulf, River Bend, Arkansas One and Cooper.

Dear Mr. Borchardt,

In the 1942 movie Casablanca:

Rick Blaine: How can you close me up? On what grounds?

Captain Louis Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.

Jan 18, 2011: my 2.206 Emergency shutdown of Vermont Yankee

“The safety culture of the plant is impaired because of information inaccuracies and wide spread acceptance of falsifications.”

“I request Vermont Yankee to be immediately be shut down and that Entergy be prohibited from owning nuclear power plants... because Entergy doesn’t have the integrity to tell the truth about safety and nuclear power plant issues. Money and profits comes before truth telling and full disclosures.”

Could it happen here (http://www.reformer.com/localnews/ci_17622642)?

But Vermont Yankee was designed in the 1960s to withstand an earthquake of slightly above 6.0 on the Richter Scale, he said.

Vermont Yankee was designed to withstand a peak acceleration of 14 percent of gravity before entering into safe shutdown, said Becker.

The power plant also has a tie-in to the Vernon Dam, which automatically sends power to the plant if no other sources of electricity are available.

The outside of the Vermont Yankee Reactor building (especially the inside wall) shell is riddled with through wall large concrete cracks and never met it design bases earthquake requirement because of a construction defect (Chrystal River).

Say, a 6.0 earthquake could occur, a side of the reactor building could collapse inward and maybe pancake addition floors...this would destroy an assortment of vital safety equipment. The outer shell of the reactor building is not qualified for its design seismic event and you secondary containment does not meet technical specifications.

The cracks could widen and then the secondary containment function in the designed accidents would not operate as designed. The idea we could have a below design base seismic event and then Vermont Yankee could suffer significant and surprising damage. You know there is absolutely no wiggle room if we get a earthquake larger than planned.

That would put in pay, the whole design bases earthquake protection in the USA...the earthquake protection program for domestic nuclear power plants are corrupt. Then the public would lose faith in the NRC and the US government.

I request the NRC take immediate pictures of the worst cracks...there are tons of them ...and distribute them to the surrounding community on a emergency bases so the community could be informed of this risky and dangerous condition.

The last ditch emergency source to prevent a Vermont Yankee Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown depends wholly on the Vernon Switch-yard. As seen by the conditions of the yard...I had a prior 2.206 on this that the NRC blew off...this switch-yard couldn't withstand a earthquake or the I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house down " of the wolf in the 'Story of the Three Little Pigs'.

The power plant also has a tie-in to the Vernon Dam, which automatically sends power to the plant if no other sources of electricity are available.
These are the pictures I sent you before:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3456/3918211856_051071920a_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3135/3917424971_5d9088bdc0_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2571/3918210328_4b06fb39af_b.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3519/3917425563_e05b5a68bd_b.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2628/3918212464_51873025d6_b.jpg

The equipment condition are atrocious as shown by the pictures, we don't have any idea of what the actual condition of the switchyad and conditions of the equipment in the dam.

In other words, the consequences could be a 50 mile evacuation zone and you want us to depend on the condition of this switchyard.

1) Request Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant and all Entergy nuclear power plants be immediately shutdown.

2) Request top Vermont Yankee Management staff be fired and replaced before startup.

3) Request Entergy’s corporate nuclear senior staff be fired and replaced before the restart of the plants.

...4) Request the formation of a local public oversight panel around every plant.

...5) Request a emergency NRC senior official oversight panel with the aims of reforming the ROP.

...6) Request a national NRC oversight panel of outsiders to overseer and report on the agency’s activities. There should be a mixture of professional academic people and capable lay people.

7) There is some heavy duty and exceedingly numerous findings of problems with Entergy plants’ this inspection reporting cycle...do an analysis of why this is occurring.


Sincerely,


Mike Mulligan

Hinsdale, NH
1-603-336-8320
steamshovel2002@yahoo.com

Nuclear Regulatory Commission

You just can't keep asking the NRC to keep inspecting itself...you got to get independent outside people to inspect the NRC...

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Meltdown

Fukushima Nuclear Plant Meltdown


I am calling it...this Japanese nuclear plant is melting down and has core damage.

Their containment is over pressurized and is near failure.

The Future of the Nuclear Industry

Message 14 @ about 3 pm this afternoon.

I don't think anyone would make a bid on VY...cause they think the kooks of Hinsdale and Vermont would go after the fleet operation of the rest of your plants.

I think when VY gets relicensed it will just be a attention getter for Entergy and the NRC...everything is going perfectly on plan. I can't think of a better thing to do to bring attention to the situation.

Entergy has been heading into strong headwinds for a few years...their staff is getting sloppy fleet wide...god help them if they get into trouble with the spot light already up on them. It is all drawing attention towards Entergy and it a situation they never been in before.

They industry and Entergy has a very strong ideological gradient..it’s faith and political based, not facts... it been demonstrated they have some political power with the humpty and dumpty congressmen running around sending letters to the NRC...

I think a serious accident is going to take the whole lot them and their thought process out, and Obama is going to get wrapped up in it. An accident is going to occur, the media is going to get all hyped up creating unbelievable transparency pressure....and we as a nation are going to be disgusted with crap that has been going on under our feet.

Just like what is going on with Millstone, it is a perfect storm of employee errors...we are watching in real time a perfect storm developing over the nuclear industry. It isn't a storm...it is stupidity descending on them all.

Remember, god is on my side!!!

All these guys are looking to the past for answers...i see the potential future.

“The rest of the story” about VY Relicensing

“The rest of the story” about VY Relicensing

Lets not forget Paul Harvey...

What the NRC and Industry is terrified of is if the Wall Street people end up having no confidence with the NRC or the utilities in general. It is only about managing the public relations image of the nuclear industry.

So my brilliant security campaign has been spinning in the back ground, I hit a massive home run on speaking to the PRB of the NRC, the NRC is going to reject that also...then Senator Markey of Massachusetts this morning piggy backs on my security issue with a complaint about the secrecy of security issues with Pilgrim and Entergy. We think the NRC is in a object panic mode over this and they are running around like a chicken with its head cut off. We think my 2.206 and the senator Markey letter set off the panic with giving Vermont Yankee their relicense. I am really speaking to Wall Street...can you trust these guys with billions of dollars, remember all of the past lost of billions of dollars and all those cancelled nuclear projects.

...From: Michael Mulligan
To: "Kim, James"
Sent: Thu, March 10, 2011 4:11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Brattlboro Reformer Vedio: Request emergency shutdown of Vermont Yankee


Mr Kim,

Please include this article and my analysis about what it means as a addendum to my VY video security 2.206. I wish to included this into the record.

The agency doesn't realized it yet, VY security is dependant on the public oversight of plant security and the NRC. Security never come from secrecy...it comes from knowing what is out there and being 10 times better than the terrorist. I think our society and our experiences gives us magnitudes of advantage with being much better than the terrorist.

This is a example of a direct conflict between giving advantage to a terrorist by democratic ideals and making sure the agency and Entergy doesn't use national security to hide agency and Entergy sins...not to direct funds to executive bonuses and stock prices, but to direct it to the security terrorism fighting capability.

As i have outlined, I gave you direct examples where VY and the NRC has undermined national security in my past. In that, you hid sins that would create an embarrassment to you and to save the utilities pennies on plant security. I had directly intervene with the security related events at VY and as i have explained good employees came to me because they didn't trust VY and the NRC. If the pubic ever seen how stupid we were they would make us spend more monies on security was the theme.

The flip side of this on the big picture...the really big picture where you bureaucrats are afraid to reside...the easy way is to make America a dictatorship to your simpleton ideals of freedom and the foundations of our Constitution. If we really got into a severe national security event and it was uncovered that you were using national security and terrorism fighting secrecy as the excuse to hide the sins of the corporations' and business cheapskatism with the government being compromised, then this would lessen national cohesion in a time of a national security event. Trust in government is what we all depend on in times of a crisis....trust in government is the only cohesion that makes us the greatest country on the planet.

Our highest national security ideal is national cohesion in times of a severe national emergency. I think the agency's stance on nuclear plant security...the idea of putting security sins behind a impenetrable public barrier, it facilitates the spending of inappropriate funding on security related matters at our nuclear plants. It might further the new nukes in your heads (altruism abuse), but it is a deterrence to national security on the whole.

It has the direct potential to undermine our highest ideals of national security...trust in government...when it matter most. The NRC and its regulatory security related philosophy is a direct threat to national security. Are the terrorist coming, and the first instinct of the NRC bureaucrats is to hide under their desk in governmental secrecy that the terrorist are planing an attack agaisnt us?

In sum, I think the agency is playing the terrorism altruism abuse card: to your friends you will allow the release of security related information if it makes a plant look pretty for the camera; to you competitors and the community if the plant information makes the lot of you look bad, you will flip out withholding any and all information if it makes you look bad and incompetent.

To be absolutely clear, security safety and safety in general is directly related to public accountable and scrutiny...when you consider the proclivity of the human experience to break the laws when they are placed behind transparency barriers where their behaviors are not scrutinized by the greater community.

Again, I think it is atrocious that the NRC assumes the good people of the USA are the terrorist first in order to make you look good with nuclear plant security related issues.

You would rather use inappropriate security and terrorism related secrecy to give the nation the false appearance the NRC is maintaining the security of these facilities...than to use the democratic ideals of transparency that would drive the lot of you into the highest state of security and terrorism protectionism.

I agree it is a conflict, but the agency never sees secrecy as a deterrence to security safety.


Thanks,

Mike Mulligan
Hinsdale, NH

2.206: ‘Behind the Walls of Vermont Yankee’

Update Feb 10 1:30PMI covered this in my discussions in my 2.206 with the NRC tow days ago...

Markey slams nuclear agency over its handling of Pilgrim security breach

PLYMOUTH —

U.S. Rep. Edward Markey is criticizing the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for failing to disclose details about a security issue that was discovered at the Pilgrim nuclear power plant last fall.

Markey sent a letter to NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko last week that asked a series of questions about the unspecified security “deficiency.” Most notably, Markey asked why the federal agency hasn’t released details regarding the incident to the public.

The agency disclosed last week that an inspection in October and November discovered a security issue of “low to moderate significance” at the Plymouth plant, but the agency declined to specify what was found. An NRC spokesman said plant owner Entergy Corp. took immediate corrective actions to address the issue.

But Markey, in his letter, asked what kind of consequences Entergy will face for this most recent violation, and whether the NRC will impose higher penalties considering there have been 11 other security-related violations at Pilgrim since 2006. Markey also wants to know whether the agency has identified similar violations at other nuclear power plants.

Markey’s congressional district north and west of Boston isn’t near Plymouth. But Markey is one of the leaders on energy issues in Congress and has taken a keen interest in what happens at Pilgrim.

Neil Sheehan, a spokesman for the federal agency, said the agency decided several years ago that the appropriate response to such issues was to let the public know a security violation occurred without disclosing the details. This approach, Sheehan said, was based on balancing transparency with a desire not to indicate the nature of any security vulnerabilities to potential terrorists

.....“Yesterday’s arrest demonstrates the need for and the importance of vigilance and the willingness of private individuals and companies to ask questions and contact the authorities when confronted with suspicious activities,” said James T. Jacks, United States attorney for the Northern District of Texas, said Thursday.

He could often be heard talking loudly on the telephone in Arabic in the mornings, and in the afternoon he streamed Arabic television stations at a high volume.

The handwritten journal was also said to list “important steps,” including obtaining a forged United States birth certificate; applying for a passport and driver’s license; traveling to New York for a week; and renting cars in disguise, putting bombs with remote detonators in them and taking them to various places during rush hour.

The Justice Department said Thursday that Aldawsari bought explosive materials online and planned to hide them inside dolls and baby carriages to blow up dams, nuclear plants and Bush's Dallas home.

The Justice Department says his possible targets included nuclear plants, dams, and the home of George W. Bush.

"That goes back to one of the Al Qaeda cases that I worked, and that was Ramzi Yosef, the mastermind behind the first World Trade Center bombing. I was involved with capturing him," Burton said. "Ramzi Yousef had a plan to use baby dolls to blow planes up in the sky."


Feb 24, 2011

R. William Borchardt
Executive Director for Operations
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, DC 20555-0001

Subject 2.206: Request emergency shutdown of Vermont Yankee because Entergy added terrorist last weekend with their release of a public relation video detailing precious security related information of the plant to the nation and beyond.

Dear Mr. Borchardt,

The Brattleboro Reformer released last weekend Feb 25, 2011 a video from their web site detailing the Vermont Yankee make up of the control room and vital security related information throughout the plant. They gave visual cues to possible terrorist including the location all the emergency core cooling systems controls, the vital core protection system including 9-5 panel and the electric system including the location of the main controls of the emergency diesel generators. They showed us the reactor rod dive hydraulic control units and the scam discharge volume and associated piping systems. All the terrorist would have to do is gain access the buildings…it is like the terrorist already made a scouting probe throughout the plant before the event itself. Entergy gave vital visual cues and shortened the time these terrorist would take to do their dirty deeds.

I understand Vermont Yankee has many different barriers to security of Vermont Yankee. But it is no excuse to give the terrorist a freebie with ripping security defense in depth away from the plant. Just because Entergy has gotten themselves in a dire position with public credibility issues and a future state mandated shutdown in 2012, it no excuse to allow them to give invaluable security information away to terrorists in a quest for plant survival though this sparkling and splashy public relation video extravaganza of the control room and this safety equipment.

Brattleboro Reformer: ‘Behind the Walls of Vermont Yankee’

You Tube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9irnL0Y25bY

The local newspaper Brattleboro Reformer: http://www.reformer.com/

Most troubling was visual video recording of the north control room door. The video recorded the edge of the door…it gave the thickness of the door and the potential material make up of it. They unnecessarily gave potential terrorist the amount of explosive charge they would need to gain entranced into a nuclear power plant control room. The video gave cues to the security door card magnetic reader. It gives cues in how get past the reader anywhere in the building itself without blowing the doors.

We are right now in one of most vulnerable National Security threat period ever including the period just before 9/ 11. What about the requirements of FERC in giving out detailed critical national security infrastructure information to the public? I just think this video has made Vermont Yankee more vulnerable if attacked by terrorist and placed the whole area at increasing risk.


Sincerely,

Mike Mulligan

Hinsdale, NH 03451

1-603-336-8320

Steamshovel2002@yahoo.com