ML040990276
| ML040990276 | |
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| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 04/07/2004 |
| From: | Madonna M Borough of Surf City, NJ |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML040990276 (3) | |
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RESOLUTION 2004-51 CALLING FOR THE DECOMMISSION OF THE OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WITH A CALL FOR CLEAN ENERGY SOLUTIONS AND A JUST TRANSITION FOR DISPLACED OYSTER CREEK WORKERS.
WHEREAS, the Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant produces less than 1% of the energy on the PJM electric grid and can be replaced by increased energy efficiency, conservation and renewable energy such as solar and wind systems to relieve the overstretched grid; and WHEREAS, there is a lack of public confidence in the evaluation-phti,-arid 'the-conse~n-u§-65f residents at the July 22, 2003 Evacuation Hearing is that an independent agency should be commissioned to conduct a study and/or that the Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant should be shut down NOW; and WHEREAS, in case of major nuclear incident, it would take one to four hours for radioactive plumes to spread within a 10-mile ring of Oyster Creek, depending upon the weather. According to New Jersey State Police Officials, evacuation would take 7 hours8.101852e-5 days <br />0.00194 hours <br />1.157407e-5 weeks <br />2.6635e-6 months <br /> in winter and 9 hours1.041667e-4 days <br />0.0025 hours <br />1.488095e-5 weeks <br />3.4245e-6 months <br /> and 28 minutes during tourist season to evacuate 244,000 people. In all likelihood, people will be overcome either stuck in traffic jams or in their homes, businesses or schools; and WHEREAS, radioactive releases could cause cancer in people as far as 500 miles away and make homes uninhabitable according to a 1990 Sandia National Laboratories Report. Entire regions could be economically devastated: and WHEREAS, the elevated fuel pool containing highly radioactive waste does not offer adequate protection. The top of the reactor building is designed to keep off snow, sleet and rain and can be penetrated by a small airplane; and WHEREAS, the one-site modules filled with nuclear waste and the fuel pool pose an attractive
-ai et for-terrorist-and WHEREAS, the deficiencies of Oyster Creek, the oldest operating nuclear power plant in the country, are even more vulnerable because of its age. Over 30 percent of nuclear power plant equipment failures in recent years can be attributed to age-related degradation; and WHEREAS, in 1985, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said the Mark 1 Nuclear Reactor Containment System is of faulty design and there would be a 90 percent failure rate in case of an accident, therefore, making it necessary to vent the pressure buildup to avoid rupturing the containment system. This, however, defeats the containment altogether and would'expose the public to high doses of radiation: and S
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I WHEREAS, costly nuclear power poses safety and environmental risks, and is heavily dependent on taxpayer and ratepayer subsidies, generates cancer causing Strontium 90, and kills marine life; and WHEREAS, deadly, highly radioactive nuclear waste, which no community wants in their backyard, continues to accumulate daily and will take many lifetimes to decay; and WHEREAS, the NRC has not taken enforcement action against an 1 1-year old non-compliance identified in a January 24, 2003 Triennial Fire Inspection Report (#50-219/02-01) involving the ability of the reactor to safely shut down in the event of a fire, exposing the public to undue risk; and WHEREAS, the NRC has never refused nuclear plants a 20-year regimenting, extension and we cannot depend upon the NRC to shut down a nuclear plant because, in the past, local opposition and economic issues are the only factors that have led to the decommissioning of these plants; and WHEREAS, a trust fund of $350 million has been set aside to cover the costs of decommissioning Oyster Creek; and NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that we, the Borough Council of the Borough of Surf City, call for the immediate decommissioning Oyster Creek Power Plant with a just transition to insure that all affected workers are retrained and rehired. We call for the immediate use of clean, renewable, energy.
BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded toGovernor BJames Mcaiee. to all New Jersey Congressman and Legislators.
cean Coun rd C-hCsen Free o drthe New Jersey Department of Environrnental Protection, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch.
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I, MARY P. MADONNA, Municipal Clerk of the Borough of Surf City, do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and exact copy of a resolution adopted by the Governing Body of the Borough of Surf City at a meeting held arch 10,.2004.
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