Rep. Dennis Kucinich: Why Won't FirstEnergy Tell The Truth About Davis-Besse?
When FirstEnergy discovered the cracking in the concrete wall of the aging shield building at the Davis-Besse nuclear power plant and until the public hearing held by the NRC at my request on January 5, 2012, FirstEnergy consistently told the public that the cracks were confined to "architectural elements" or "decorative elements" of the wall. I was skeptical because I had never before heard of a "decorative element" in the walls of a nuclear reactor building. Also the photograph posted on the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) website seemed to show that the cracks were located along the line of steel reinforcement bars (rebar) of the concrete wall.
On November 20, 2011, I publicly called upon FirstEnergy "to tell the truth about Davis-Besse...to release all the photos, all the test results, and all the reports." I also wrote a letter to Gregory Jaczko, the Chairman of the NRC, requesting that the NRC conduct a public hearing on the issue so that the people in the communities surrounding Davis-Besse could get accurate information about what the situation truly was.
FirstEnergy ignored my request, but Chairman Jaczko did not. He scheduled a public hearing for January 5, 2012. In the interim, I pressed the NRC to provide me with the photos, test results and "core bore" reports that FirstEnergy was concealing from the public.
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