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Transcript of 790508 TMI-2 Investigation Interview W/A Tsaggaris . * . ' * UNITED STATES OF AMERICA [ NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION I i d In the Matter of: ; 2; IE TMI INVESTIGATION INTERVIEW 3 of 4 Alexis Tsaggaris * Supervisor, Station fiaintenance Sj Metropolitan Edison Company 6|! ! 7| 1 - 8 Trailer #203 9 NRC Investigation Site TMI Nuclear Power Plant 10| Middletown, Pennsylvania 11| fiay 8, 1979 12 (Date of Interview) 13 July 4, 1979 (Date Transcript Typed) 167 and 168 15 (Tape Numoer(s)) 16; 17 18 ' 19 - / Y 20 /(1, 21 NRC PERSONNEL: Thomas Essig fiark Resner 23 ' Dale Donaldson 24' 25 : , 3 . I I 856 039 L , ,I .. .-_ __ --_ _ _ _ - _ _ _ _ _ _ _ . - , ! | gj The following is an interview of Mr. Alexis Tsaggaris, Mr. Tsaggaris 2| is employed with the Metropolitian Edison Company, he is a supervisor, 3 Station Maintenance at the Titus Station in Reading Pennsylvania, the 4 present time is 11:10 a.m., Eastern Daylight time and the date is May 8, 1979. This is interview is being conducted in Traile'r 203 which is 5| 1 cated just outside of the South gate near the Three Mile Island 6 facility. Individuals present interview are Mr. Thomas Essig, Mr. 7 Essig is a Chief, Environmental Inspection Project .iection, Region III 8 g of the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Moderator for this interview y is Mark E. Resner and I am an investigator in the Office of Inspector and Auditor, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission in HQ. Joining us I sometime after the interview beg %s will be Mr. Dale E. Donaldson, Mr. 12! Donaldson is a Radiation Specialist, Region I of the U. S. Nuclear | Regulatory Commission. Prior to taking this interview Mr. Tsaggaris 14! | was given a two page document which advised him of the purpose, scope 15i , and authority for which Congress has given the Nuclear Regulatory 161 i Commission to conduct this investigation it also apprised Mr. Tsaggaris | 17 to the fact that he is entitled to a representative of his choice if : 18l , you desire one and also that he is not compelled to talk with us, he 19! is not desired to. On the second page of the document Mr. Tsaggaris 20 has answered three questions which I will state for the record. 21| . Question No. 1, you answered, excuse me, do you understand the above, 22 | Mr. Tsaggaris has checked yes indicating that he does, is that correct 23 Mr. Tsaggaris? 24| , 25h : , I | s , , i _ - i , . | | g TSAGGARIS: That's correct. i 2; RESNER: Question no. 2, we have your permission to tape the interview, Mr. Tsaggaris has checked yes, is that correct Mr. Tsaggaris? i 5- ,, TSAGGARIS: That's correct. Ql 7 RESNER: Question no. 3, do you want a copy of the tape, Mr. Tsaggaris , * has indicated that he does desire a copy of the tape, is that correct? 9| | 10| , I TSAGGARIS: That is also correct. ; 11! ' i 12| RESNER: Ok, we will provide you with a copy of the tape. At this 13' . time I'd like Mr. Tsaggaris, if you would, give us a brief synopsis of 14) : the experience with the Nuclear Industry as far as education and job 15i - experience goes, Mr. Tsaggaris? 16! i 17| | TSAGGARIS: I graduated in 1970 from Princeton University with a 18{ degree in basic engineering and was commissioned an ensign in the Navy 191 | shortly thereafter, I went through the Navys Nuclear Power Program 20 which included 6 months of academic training, 6 months of onsite 21, prototype training at the S3G power plant in West Milton, New York, 22'! after that I was assigned to the USS Thomas Jefferson and served two 23 , and a half years abroad that ship, my primary duties during those two 24 and a half years were as Reactor Control Division Officer and for 25! f : , ; 3 , . I - ! - { 3 ! y approximately 18 to 20 months Main Propulsior assistant. As Main 2| Propulsior Assistant my primary duties were all mechanical equipment 1 including reactor, fluid systems, chemistry and radiological controls, 3f 4j after the Thomas Jefferson, I served two years as Staff Instructor at the 01U prototype also in West Milton, New York. The first year of 5 that tour I was the leading engineer officer of the watch on shift in 6 charge of the watch section operating plant and training personnel. The last year of my duty there I was the Student Training Officer' 8 , responsible for production training, preparing students to go out to Si i the fleet and operate the ships. In 1976 I came to work for Metropolitian 101 l Edison Company in January of 1976 as a Supervisor of training at Three 11! ! Mile Island Nuclear Station. Primary responsibilities were operations 12| training, regulatory training as far as general employee training, ( emergency planning drills and general station staff trainings. In 14l January 1977 I was transferred to the Reading Corporate Office as Director of Training for generation for Metropolitian Edison Company. 16i t My duties in that capacity were not only overseeing the training 17| ! activities at the Three Mile Island Station but overseeing the fossil 18{ training requirements and corporate support staff technical training. 19| ; I served in that function until September of 1978 and at that time was 201 - transferred as maintenance supervisor at the Titus Station in Reading. 21 I The Titus Station is 240 M Watt cool fired plant. 22 23 RESNER: Ok, thankyou Mr. Tsaggaris, at this time I'd like to turn the 24 interview over to Mr. Essig. , 25| ! | | M 1 I m , .' , . * 4 i i ESSIG: Mr. Tsaggaris ah what we'd like to do this morning is to discuss *with you, sort of go through a chronology of your involvement with the event of 0400 on March 28 and just have you go through as best you recall at this time recognizing that it's been over a month ago now, the details may be a little fuzzy but we would appreciate the ! best you can recall the specific events that ycur were or duties that 6{ you were asked to do starting with when you received the initial call to come onsite. So if you quickly sort of run through the chronology i of your involvement, however we're interested primarily in the first 9| | three days following the event. That would be Wednesday, Thursday and 101 | Friday, 28, 29 and 30 of March. 11! ! 12. TSAGGARIS: On Thursday, March 29 I returned home from class I was 13 | attending that evening in Reading in the Graduate program and my wife 14! : informed me that I had received a call from Jim Seelinger requested 15i , that I report to the observation center Friday, March 30 at approximately 16i 11:00 to assume the duties of emergency control station coordinator up 17 i in the Unit 1 Control Room. I arrived at the 3bservation center at 18 approximately 10 a.m. on Friday March'30 and proceeded to the senior 19! ; person in charge who I believe at that time was Rick Barley in charge of the observation center watch. I received a clearance and took the 21 I bus onto the Island and reported to the Unit 1 Control Room. Bill 22 Potts was in charge of the ECS at the time and I spent the next hour, 23 hour and a half, failiarizing myself with communication setup, the 24 monitoring teams that were out and the monitoring scheme that was in 25\ , * I @b i i * . | ' | , - . i | [ 5 . y; progress. I tried to familiarize myself with the Unit 1 and Unit 2 - I 2 plant status and get a feel for the way the organization was being handled. 3t I received a turnover from Bill at approximately 12 to 12:30 in the afternoon and assumed the watch of emergency ccntrol station Coordinator. I was informed that I'd be standing 12 noon to 12 midnight wst.ch each day and' that I would be rotating with Bill an a, port and O;! f stalboard essentially rotation. 8 , ESSIG: Used sort of a Navy term... 91 10. ! TSAGGARIS: What that means is that we were on 12 hour shifts and I lit would take the 12 noon to 12 midnight and he would come in and relieve 12. and then I would come back the next day at 12 noon, Ok. 13 14I : ESSIG: At the time that ah you reported in the Mr. Potts do you know 15i how long he had been on duty as ECS coordinator? 16| ! 17' ! TSAGGARIS: I'm not sure. 181 ! 191 | ESSIG: Ok. So then Friday the 30th you served in the capacity of the 20 ECS coordinator from arriving in the Control Room. 21, 22 TSAGGARIS: Somew'eren in the area of 11:00. 23 24 25 . , g6 i . ' , i . i i ! 6 \ - 1 y ESSIG: Somewhere around 11:00 and familiarized yourself and then somewhere between... 2| 3| TSAGGARIS: 12 and 12:30 I relieved. 4 1 5! I ESSIG: At 12:30 you relieved Potts. 6| 7 TSAGGARIS: At that time as far as on and off-site monitoring, I believe we had one monitoring team on the west shore and one monitoring team on the east shore, one monitoring team onsite perhaps two, I can't exactly remember and we had monitoring teams, one monitoring ! team in a helicopter. There were several helicopters but one would go 121 up taking the team out and when he had to refuel, he'd land and then 13 | the team would transfer the other helicopter would go up.
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