A State Police Whistleblower Tip To The Chairman Ma House Ways and Means Committee

Update April 13

I am convinced my fingerprint scanner problem is under serous investigations with a assortment of Ma agencies and political entities.    

Michael Mulligan <steamshovel2002@yahoo.com>

To:Jeffrey.sanchez@mahouse.gov
‎Apr‎ ‎12 at ‎10‎:‎10‎ ‎AM

Mr.. Sanchez 

I am the guy who gave the Boston Globe the first overtime tip that kicked off the current scandal.

So at the end of March, I got another tip from a state police officer. It concerned a broken fingerprint scanner at the Russell Ma Barrack. I schemed up a way for me to get arrested by state police, to get processed though the Russell barracks. I got arrested for trespassing at the Cobble Mountain reservoir for trespassing by the state police and two days later in court effectively got the charges thrown our of court.   

1) The Russell fingerprint scanner is horribly defective. The Springfield barracks scanner has the same problem. Out of about 60 scans of my fingers, only one finger print was properly scanned into the machine. I watched multitudes of computer warning windows pop-ups right before my eyes saying "caution the scan didn't capture the proper quality print". I watched a state police new hire get trained on how to use the "override" button.    

2)  A group of troopers refused to take fingerprints as protest, trying to get attention of upper management. I have no idea how many arrestees didn't get fingerprints. I heard, the troopers who staged this whistleblowers protest scheme finally got caught by upper management. They got a severe tongue lashing and some other kind of administrative actions, but the fingerprint scanner never got fixed. I suspect somebody is covering up for senior managers with this kind of discipline. The intimidation of troopers to raise problems to upper management is more of a issue to me than the defective scanner.   

3) These are computer and digitalized systems. You could easily get the scope of this problem by getting the state police to tell you how many times state wide, the fingerprint scanner's "override" push button has been used. A graph of the "override" button used and time. You could break it down to individual barracks level.

 4) My experience tells me this a contract, purchase, and vender fraud and corruption problem. They are trade kickbacks or favors for poor quality state police equipment. I suspect this is the tip of the iceberg. It is everywhere within the state police purchasing, contracting and vendor system. God only knows if this is everywhere within government.

5) I requested the state police revert to the ink and paper fingerprint method for all defective scanners state wide. I also requested the state police preserve all camera and voice recording during my arrest processing in the Russell barracks. I would like a copy of it.  

I never have any confidentiality or anonymity needs. But I will protect the whistleblower who contacted me. Would you pass this on to all the committee members and anyone else you see fit. I have made complaints to the state police themselves, hours with the IG and Internal Affairs. I just don't trust any of these guys. I will only think the system is dealing this with integrity if I see the fingerprint scanner issues in a major newspaper.

You or your investigators can call me anytime.

Sincerely,       

Mike Mulligan 

Hinsdale, NH 

Home: 16033368320

Cell: 16032094206 

PS-I got everything documented on my blog beginning at the middle of March.It is all is a bit wordy, but it helps me think.

The Popperville Town Hall

The Popperville Town Hall How to blow the whistle.

  

I Started The Massachusetts State Police Overtime Scandal

I Started The Massachusetts State Police Overtime Scandal How to blow the whistle.

March 25, 2018

Your Honor Respectfully,

I basically I made a AIRE like police complaint to the “MSP Citizen Response Report (POV)” in early 20017. It was a mass collection of police cruisers sitting in the breakdown lane  on I 91 abutting the Holyoke Mall. I am thinking eight or more police cruisers sitting in the breakdown lane on both sides. The area was dark and curvy. It was really a bad and unsafety area to be having this kind of thing. They had their flasher blinding us and not a civilian car to be seen with the police cruisers.

I thought it was a police quota type of deal. Maybe an overtime abuse type of thing. Later, I realize the state police were staging a fleet of police cruisers on I 91 nefarious purposes. They were looking into our cars without ethical probable cause. In mass quantities. I have an assortment of other issues on this to justify my position.

One of them being science. You do these mass state police stunts, then you measure the accident suppression results. I doubt the state police has any evidence this works at all over history. You and I know, the only way you can control the accident rate on an interstate like I91, is to drastically reduce the speed limit or redesign the road. Then enforce the speed limits. Everything else is for show or it inflate the image of the state police. This AIRE type thing was to make the state police feel better, not make the public safer.

Here is my bog posting on my early thinking. It kind of a scratch or note pad to help me think…a contemporaneous log book thing. I am a whistleblower…I have seen and reported a lot of corruption over the last few decades. To tell you the truth, everyone calls me nuts and hates my guts.

Massachusetts State Police In illegal Alien or Terrorism Alert On I-91?

https://steamshovel2002.blogspot.com/2017/02/massachusetts-state-police-in-illegal.html

Recently because of the state police corruption all around, I resubmitted that early 2017 complaint. I didn’t think the POV recorded my complaint and I called it a coverup. Last week I spoke to state inspector general and the Ma state police internal affairs (for about an hour) over this 2017 complaint. I emailed my coverup complaint to this very same agency. Towards the end of the week, is when the digital electronic fingerprint reader problem came to my attention (fell in my lap). I’ll bet you my fingerprint machine issue is a good one for the Ma IG.
 

A important broken tool like this for the troopers, it can devastatingly effect the moral of a group. If my bosses don’t care about my working environment, why should I. My aim to make a better working environment for the bottom level troopers. They have a very dangerous job. I just want best quality tools money can buy for the Ma troopers. This is how they serve the peoples of Massachusetts most efficiently and effectively. 

“Donald, (Me to Donald)

Just watch this. I am going to clean up state police bureaucracy. One the largest state police contractual kickback and corruption cases in the state history. I'd stood in front of a electronic state police fingerprint reader for about an hour yesterday. Remember, I have only ten fingers. I was in the Russell Barracks. They attempted to read my fingerprints some 60 times yesterday. They got maybe one high quality readable print into their system out of this mess. The rest were poor quality and unreadable. Extremely poor quality prints were stuffed into the state system through an override button. I’d seen the multitudes of caution windows right before my eyes   The machine was only successful and recorded readable and high quality fingerprints in less than 1% of the time. That is definitely not a 1% error rate??? 

I know the Springfield Barracks has the same problem. I suspect this is going throughout the state. I know multitudes of troopers protested about this shity component by not checking in or putting fingerprints into the system. The just didn't take any fingerprints during in-processing, which is strictly against police policy and ethics. The key phrase to ask, how many times state wide has the fingerprint reader override buttons been used in the last year?

I know senior management intimidated the lower lever troopers into not complaining...to protect the high level fraudulent contracting and the state police senior leadership... Basically the two troopers right in front of my eyes were knowingly, like a machine themselves…were cramming the unreadable fingerprints into the state police system though the override button. What is the extent cause and condition with this widespread lemon device? How long has this been going on. How many unreadable fingerprints are in the system. You could let a really bad guy through the grasp of the Ma state police or any police department in the nation. What does the state police use fingerprints for?
 

I got this all recorded. It is in their system. I am sure the new digital fingerprints machine records everything. The arrest processing area is all video cam'd up and bugged. Sometimes bad criminals say the most incriminating things in this processing area.”

Sincerely,

Mike Mulligan

Hinsdale, NH

cell phone-16032094206

Relationship Between FitzPatrick's and Pilgrim's Junk SRVs

NRC INFORMATION NOTICE 2018-02: TESTING AND OPERATIONS-INDUCED DEGRADATION OF 3-STAGE TARGET ROCK SAFETY RELIEF VALVES

This is the most current description with Fitz's SRV problems. Oh hell, Fitz removed other experimental 3 stage valves. 

The licensee for Fitzpatrick removed two of its three Model 0867F 3-stage Target Rock SRVs in June and July of 2016.  One of these valves exhibited degradation similar to that seen at Pilgrim and Hatch, although the fretting wear in the main cylinder was not as severe.  The third 3-stage SRV was replaced in January 2017 and did not exhibit any degradation similar to Pilgrim and Hatch. All three 3-stage SRVs were replaced with 2-stage Target Rock SRVs. 

***The Fitzpatrick SRVs are identical to Pilgrims whether a 2 stage or 3 stage safety relief valves. Effectively the Fitzpatrick is now in the exact position as a Pilgrim was in 2011. They realize their 2 stage  valves are unreliable and prone to corrosion in delicate parts. They are planning to update the unreliable 2 stage to the 3 stage model. You get it, these plants first had 3 stage valves installed in them. The 3 stage became known as unreliable and leakage prone. The new efficient design became the 2 stage design. Post 2015 Pilgrim blizzard, Entergy decided the 3 stage was too dangerous to put back into the plant. Pilgrim has 2 stage valves in them now. I am going assume anyone reading my blog is stupid.  Yet Fitzpatrick is heading now for the experimental 3 stage that failed in Pilgrim, are too dangerous to be put back into their plant.

They are all nuts!!!

Its all a charade.

Licensee Event Report 2018-003-00, Target Rock Relief Valve Pilot Assembly Failed As-Found Lift Test, a Condition Prohibited by Plant Technical Specifications

CAUSE OF THE EVENT

The cause of the as-found initial lift pressure exceeding the TS tolerance limit for the pilot valve was determined To be corrosion bonding. The relief valve (SN· 1025) set point was below 1189.6 psig during subsequent lifts, which is within the allowable range. The performance exhibited by SN 1025 is consistent with corrosion bonding between the Stellite 21 disc and Stellite 6 seat. The corrosion bonding is a time dependent process that develops to varying levels of severity. The installed pilot valve assemblies have Stellite 68 discs with a platinum coating applied using the IBAD process. The objective of the change to the Stellite 68 platinum coated discs was to minimize corrosion bonding.

Come on, satellite 21, Stellite 6, Stellite 68 and platinum, all add on exotic materials chasing this mysterious  corrosion. One licensee says its because the materials on the disk and seat don’t have a oxidation coating them. They are installed as bright and shiny metals. These guys are all over the place. There is a agenda under it all. No manufacturer of valves will build these valves. There replacement.    

Remember in 2011 these guys installed the 3 stage SRVs. These new valves promptly began leaking within one month of first heatup. The unreliable valves dogged the plant until two valves were discovered non operable during a 2015 blizzard, scram and all lost of all offsite power. This event caused the plant to be declared the worst plant in the nation.

Fitzpatrick SRV Setpoint Testing: All But One Failed Testing Including The Experimental Valve

Reposted from 4/9

***The experimental 3 stage valve that failed testing, this exact designed valve is scheduled to replace the 2 stage valves next outage!!!!

Basically a total of ten Valves. Nine the 2 stage and one valve a experimental  3 stage valve.

Eight of the 2 stage valves failed their testing. These guys are notorious with failing their pressure setpoint testing. They are preparing to replace their 2 stage valve with the experimental 3 stage valve'

The only experimental 3 stage valve failed its setpoint testing.

They got to get rid of these dangerous valve across the industry. But nobody will supply these kinds of valves to the industry.

LER: 2017-004-01, Safety ReliefValves Out of Tolerance

Background The ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel Code requires the reactor pressure vessel be protected from overpressure during upset conditions by self-actuated safety valves. As part of the nuclear pressure relief system, the size and number of SIRVs are selected such that peak pressure in the Reactor Coolant Pressure Boundary (RCPB) will not exceed the ASME Code limits.

The James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant (JAF) used ten (10) two-stage and one (1) three-stage Target Rock Safety/Relief Valves (S/RV) [EIIS Identifier: SB] for emergency pressure relief during operating Cycle 22. These valves are located on the main steam lines between the reactor vessel, and the first isolation valve within the drywell. Each S/RV discharges steam through a discharge line to a point below the minimum water level in the suppression pool.

The pilots that are removed are sent to a vendor facility for testing, refurbishment, and certification. The test results for pilot assemblies removed in 2017, during Refueling Outage 22, identified ten (10) S/RV pilot assemblies that were out of allowable tolerance. Nine (9) of the pilots (all two-stage) lifted at greater than the allowable setpoint range, and one (three-stage) lifted at less than the allowable setpoint range.

In order to address the concerns with corrosion bonding, JAF will commence replacement of two-stage with three-stage Target Rock S/RVs in the next Refueling Outage (RO). Industry experience has shown that the three stage S/RVs are less susceptible to corrosion bonding. The design of the three-stage S/RVs produces a greater mechanical force on opening, resulting in a greater likelihood of overcoming any potential effects of corrosion bonding that might occur.

Event Description

As-Found testing was performed on all eleven main S/RV pilot assemblies removed in 2017, during R022. The testing was conducted by NWS Technologies. The TS setpoint for each S/RV is 1145 +1- 34.3. During the initial lift test, ten of the eleven pilot assemblies failed to open within the allowable range (1110.7 to 1179.3). Nine of the ten two-stage and the three-stage S/RV pilot failed high and low outside the allowable range, respectively. As-Found failed test results are tabulated below.

Palo Verde 1, 2 and 3: Why All The Shutdowns And Reduced Power Levels?

Ok, so when did this begin. This is a attack on the stock price of APS... Better yet, he is smart. He is attacking the financing of the single ideology with the utility sector. Then we have backlash from the Trump era.

Can anyone see the implications if he wins...

Billionaire Energy Speculator Tom Steyer Bankrolls Arizona Initiative That Would Close America’s Single Largest Source Of Clean Energy – OpEd

April 11, 2018 Michael Shellenberger* 0 Comments

By Michael Shellenberger*

Tom Steyer, a billionaire energy speculator, is bank-rolling an Arizona ballot initiative that would prematurely close the state’s sole nuclear plant — which is also America’s largest single source of clean energy — and replace it with fossil fuels.

If Steyer’s ballot initiative succeeds, Palo Verde will close in 2024 instead of in 2044, according to its operator, Arizona Public Service (APS).

Steyer’s ballot proposal, which will be voted on this November, would require 50 percent of Arizona’s electricity to come from renewable sources like solar and wind — an increase from 13 percent today (over half of which is from hydro-electric dams).

The initiative excludes nuclear from the clean energy mandate even though the Nobel Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change finds nuclear produces one-quarter of the emissions of solar.

If it passes, the initiative would only increase the share of the state’s electricity from clean energy sources by four percent. In 2017, Arizona generated 46 percent of its electricity from clean energy source — 79 percent of which came from Palo Verde.

In order to accommodate such a large increase in intermittent energy from solar and wind, APS would need to close Palo Verde and replace it with natural gas, APS says.

If Palo Verde is replaced entirely by natural gas, carbon emissions in Arizona would increase by the equivalent of adding 2.8 million cars to the road.

Steyer’s wealth derives heavily from his investments in fossil fuels and renewables. A colleague of Steyer’s told The New York Times in 2014 that Steyer’s firm was “like an anchor in the Indonesian coal industry… By drawing money to an overlooked sector, they helped expand the coal industry there.”

Hmm, energy mandates becoming popular and recent big decline in their stock price. Is Arizona going blue...

***Are there financial pressures affecting this gigantic nuclear plant? These guys capacity factor have been  jumping around a lot. I remember back in the early 2000s when management was stricken with a severe self inflected mental illness. Basically they believed in one of these fly by night management books...they slashed management and instituted massive budget cuts. The employees were totally disillusioned. This is the first recorded decline of a nuclear facility caused by a errant ideology.  After much delay, the NRC finally kicked some ass and brought the facility back under adult control.

Basically, faster, cheaper better...slash the so called useless levels of management to the bone...

Then the diesel generator issues today and back in the 2000s. In this facility, the DGs seemed to be the weak link with broad-based resource problems.

 Wiki:

Safety concerns

In an Arizona Republic article dated February 22, 2007, it was announced that the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) had decided to place Palo Verde into Category 4, making it one of the most closely monitored nuclear power plants in the United States. The decision was made after the INPO discovered that electrical relays in a diesel generator did not function during tests in July and September 2006.

The finding came as the "final straw" for INPO, after Palo Verde had several citations over safety concerns and violations over the preceding years, starting with the finding of a 'dry pipe' in the plant's emergency core-cooling system in 2004.[14]

During a March 24, 2009, public meeting, the NRC announced that it cleared the Confirmatory Action Letter (CAL) and has returned Palo Verde to Column 1 on the NRC Action Matrix. The commission's letter stated that "The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has determined that the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station has made sufficient performance improvement that it can reduce its level of inspection oversight." "Performance at Palo Verde has improved substantially and we are adjusting our oversight accordingly. 

These gigantic facilities decline unseen by outsiders until component degradations and poor judgement begin to be seen by outsiders. So then the NRC and management gets their panties in a bunch... It maybe take mouths or even years before they get the facility under control. Even as the facility is flooded  with new resources, equipment problems and judgment show a terrible decline.

Junk Plant Vogtle 3&4: NRC Gives The All Clear Sign

Update:

That long line of zeros, you can thank my cat for it...

On Fully Qualified Engineers And No Counterfeit and Fraudulent Parts.

Willis, Dori	12:21 PM (26 minutes ago)
to me, Julie

Good morning Mr. Mulligan,

After evaluating the information you provided, we have determined that the NRC would need more specific information from you in order for the NRC to perform a review of your concern.  For example, please provide examples of specific safety-related items for Vogtle that you believe to be fraudulent.  If you have any additional information to provide, please email us at HQ_Allegations@nrc.gov within 10 days of the date of this email.  If no additional information is received, we will take no further action regarding this matter at this time.

Thank you,

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Give Nukes A Autopsy: Who First thought of this?

Update

My 2.206

***Yep, me. Got a answer from the NRC over my 2.206.

Generally, both the nukes and antis never give credit to me over my work. These college boys can't imagine a non college guy like me could be smarter than them.     

Give Oyster Creek an autopsy before decommissioning: Tauro

As the country’s nuclear fleet gradually retires, the next task for the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission will evolve from overseeing the operation of atomic plants to decommissioning, taking them apart piece by radioactive piece and figuring out what to do with millions of pounds of highly radioactive waste.

When the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey closes in October, an autopsy of metal components and safety structures would provide federal regulators with a wealth of scientific data on exactly what happens to steel after being blasted for half a century with high levels of radiation.

That scientific data could provide valuable information on safety margins and potential hazards for 21 similarly designed and ageing General Electric reactors that are still operating in the country. 

Oyster Creek is the world’s oldest operating Fukushima-style nuclear reactor, a GE Mark 1 boiling water reactor, where safety systems and structures failed to prevent three reactor meltdowns and released massive radioactivity in Japan following the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami. 

A series of unplanned shutdowns in recent years at Oyster Creek were routinely attributed to metal fatigue. The company announced in March that Oyster Creek would close in October, 14 months ahead of schedule. A coalition of citizens and environmental groups brought to light serious metal fatigue and corrosion at the plant during a relicensing battle a decade ago. That battle resulted in increased safety and ultrasonic monitoring at the plant.

The information on metal and safety structure wear-and-tear would be particularly useful for plants of similar-Fukushima design such as Pennsylvania’s Peach Bottom reactor, whose operators have applied for an extension to run for 80 years. 

Surprisingly few material samples have been taken from decommissioned nuclear plants nationwide. NRC personnel have cited a dearth of scientific information on aging from the limited number of decommissioned plants, and the failure to harvest material samples. Ten U.S. commercial reactors have completed decommissioning with another 19 units in the process. An NRC presentation named Oyster Creek as a candidate for harvesting material samples since it is the oldest commercial nuclear plant still operating in the country.

Clean Water Action NJ, the state’s largest environmental organization, and GRAMMES (Grandmothers, Mothers, and More for Energy Safety) have joined Beyond Nuclear, a leading anti-nuclear advocacy and environmental group based in Tacoma Park, Maryland, in calling for an autopsy of the Oyster Creek plant. The groups are demanding that the NRC publicly provide a strategic approach to obtain component-aging information from materials harvested from Oyster Creek.

State regulators and elected officials should join that call because what happens to those metal components is a life-or-death question for those living in communities near aging, brittle, corroding nukes. New Jersey has three more aging nuclear reactors being operated at Lower Alloways Creek by PSE&G and Exelon, Oyster Creek’s owner. Plant owners have been busy in Trenton lately begging the state Legislature for up to $300 million a year in ratepayer subsidies to reportedly maintain their 18 percent profit margins. An upcoming vote is expected Thursday in the Senate and Assembly.

State regulators and elected officials will have the opportunity to speak for public safety Tuesday at the NRC’s annual safety assessment hearing at the Holiday Inn on Route 72 West in Manahawkin. The public is encouraged to attend and ask questions.

Janet Tauro is New Jersey board chair of Clean Water Action.