Starvation

The following poster is from the Fall 2009 issue of the HOOVER DIGEST. The Digest reports the folowing:

A Soviet poster from 1931 presents a busy harvest scene, watched by spiteful counterrevolutionaries and foreign invaders. "Bread is our strength," it reads. "A grave for invaders. Gather the harvest." Sheaves become weapons that wound a rich peasant, a priest,a capitalist, and a czarist. Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, like this poster, was intimately acquainted with using food as a weapon: at the time this exhortation was printed, collectivization was causing widespread famine and would kill millions of people.

Wiley Post, 55,000 feet, December 7, 1934, Yankee Ingenuity at Work. Great!

More Rod Bundle Heat Transfer at Penn State

You may scroll down to my prior entry. So, today I mailed the appeal to the NRC's Executive Director of Operations. I was not permitted to e-mail the following, however, I sent it to my Senator Mike Crapo and Congressman Mike Simpson as well as Chairman NRC by e-mail. Here it is, and I'm not holding my breath for the EDO to respond:

Robert H. Leyse
P. O. Box 2850
Sun Valley, ID 83353

November 13, 3009

Executive Director of Operations
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Washington, D. C. 20555

Fee Waiver Appeal FOIA-2010-0008

The NRC’s denial of my request is a matter of record at the NRC. It is likely tragic that the NRC has withheld timely publication of the results from Rod Bundle Test Facility and Heat Transfer Program at Penn State.

As a condition for releasing the documents to me and the public, the NRC demands that I devote substantial resources to addressing issues related to public awareness. I have nothing to add beyond what I have already disclosed to the NRC.

Please expedite the release of the following:

L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, T. F. Lin, C. Frepoli, A. Sridharan, D. R. Todd, E. R. Rosal, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility Test Plan and Design," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, October 2008 (218 pages)


L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, T. F. Lin, S. Ergun, A. Sridharan, A. Ireland, E. R. Rosal, "RBHT Reflood Heat Transfer Experiments Data and Analysis Report," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, October 2008 (338 pages)

L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, , T. F. Lin, D. J. Miller, B. R. Lowery, "RBHT Two Phase Mixture Level Swell and Uncovery Experiments Data Report" NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 2008 (198 pages)


L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, , T. F. Lin, D. M. McLaughlin, J. P. Spring, P. M. Kutzler, and S. Ergun, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility ? Steady State Steam Cooling Experiments," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 2008 (206 page)

L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, , T. F. Lin, D. J. Miller, B. R. Lowery, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Facility Steam Cooling with Droplet Injection Experiments Data Report," NUREG/CR Report, Submitted to U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, December 2008 (427 pages)


L. E. Hochreiter, F. B. Cheung, and T. F. Lin, "Rod Bundle Heat Transfer Phase II Monthly Reports," PSU/MNE Report, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, January 2006, 2006.



Robert H. Leyse

Rod Bundle Heat Transfer at Penn State

Our great NRC Commissioners flit all over the globe while they conveniently overlook where all of our dough goes.

Here is a set of documents that were generated by Penn State at our expense and the clerks of NRC staff prefer that the public remains unaware of this. I've gone after the Chairman NRC who sent my request to the PDR. The PDR went after NRR who responded that the docs were under review and they had no idea when the review would be completed.

So, I went after the docs via FOIA and have been told that for about $800 in fees payable right now, the NRC would work on getting the docs. Well, I appealed that and was turned down, but I now have 30 days to appeal that denial. So the delays continue.

Of course, I am infuriated. I told the Chairman (way back on October 8, 2009) "You must have your staff immediately release the documents that I have requested. Place these in NRC's public document system with accessibility via ADAMS and do it now." Well, I'm still waiting for him to do it now. He was at INPO a few days ago, November 5, 2009, and told that fine body as part of 1800 words, "So if there are two things I ask of you on the topic of new reactors, it is to give us high quality and complete applications, and have faith in the process we have established to review them."

Maybe I should suggest to the Chairman that he send INPO the following set of docs so they can assist their funding members in producing high quality output. However, NRR will likely never get around to using these reports and that will be OK with the lobbyists.