Contact to DOE IG

Here is my email to DOE IG:

Subject:	Links
Date:	12/29/2015 7:03:13 P.M. Mountain Standard Time
From:	Bobleyse@aol.com
Reply To: To: ighotline@hq.doe.gov CC: BCC: Sent on:

Earlier today I sent an exposure of deficient performance of DNFSB regarding 900,000 gallons of Defense Radioactive Waste at INL. It has several links.  Here they are:

http://inlcab.energy.gov/pdf/meetings/Final_October_2015_CAB_Meeting_Minutes.pdf

http://thortt.azurewebsites.net/docs/DNFSB%20Letter.pdf

http://www.sgh.com/projects/idaho-national-laboratory-integrated-waste-treatment-unit-iwtu

http://www.dnfsb.gov/sites/default/files/Board%20Activities/Reports/Staff%20Issue%20Reports/Idaho%20National%20Laboratory/2014/sir_2014523_24466_37.pdf

http://www.dnfsb.gov/sites/default/files/Board%20Activities/Letters/2014/ltr_2014620_24626.pdf

In a nutshell, DNFSB erred by allowing the construction of the huge facility to proceed even though satisfactory performance in early tests were consistently unsuccessful.  Here is an additional link that I did not include in my submittal earlier today:

http://www.cresp.org/crespII/CRESPII_Report/E_attachment/INLreview_complete_9_11_06.pdf

Significance of this added link is that DNFSB referred to it in complimenting INL for initiating that study, and DNFSB stated that it was depending on completion of the recommendations of that study in accepting full construction of the large facility.  Nevertheless, DNFSB allowed the seismic resistant structure to be constructed along with the contained processing equipment.

Robert H. Leyse

Here is the reply from DOE IG:

Subject:	Department of Energy Office of Inspector General
Date:	12/29/2015 7:03:18 P.M. Mountain Standard Time
From:	IGHOTLINE@hq.doe.gov
Reply To: To: Bobleyse@aol.com

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