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Anatomy of a flawed decision: NRC has a brain, but no spine

AuteurP.Gunter, NIRS, D.Lochbaum, Union of Concerned Scientists
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Classificatie 3.01.8.30/03 (VS - LOCATIES - MIDDEN-WEST)
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Anatomy of a Flawed Decision:
NRC Has a Brain, But No Spine

"After considerable deliberation and increased management attention, it is the 
staffs judgement that sufficient information is available to justify operation of 
the Davis-Besse facility until February 16, 2002." (1)

With these words, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) staff reported a 
compromise with FirstEnergy Nuclear Operating Company regarding the Davis-
Besse Nuclear Power Station near Toledo, Ohio. This decision reversed an earlier 
determination, reached after considerably more deliberation, by the NRC staff that 
numerous safety regulation violations at Davis-Besse created a potentially hazardous 
condition. That determination prompted the NRC to prepare an Order requiring the 
reactor to be shut down by December 31, 2001, to inspect control rod drive 
mechanism (CRDM) nozzles for cracks- cracks that had already been found at every 
other nuclear plant like Davis-Besse in the United States. FirstEnergy resisted the 
Order, claiming that it could safely operate until its scheduled refueling outage at 
the end of March 2002. The NRC shelved the Order and safety concerns built upon the 
studied judgement of its staff and allowed Davis-Besse to operate until its 
rescheduled outage date of February 16, 2002. [A more complete timeline is 
provided in the Appendix to this report.]

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