ML042230333

Y020040158 - Vote of Concern Regarding Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power

ML042230333
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Site:	Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date:	07/28/2004
From:	Banash A, Maddem P, Stevens L Town of Gill, MA, Board of Selectmen
To:	NRC/NRR/DLPM/LPD1
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TAC MC3940, Y020040158
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Original Due Date: 09/17/2004 Ticket Number: 020040158 Document Date: 07/28/2004 NRR Received Date: 08/06/2004 From: TACs:

Town of Gill MC3940 To: *** YELLOW ***

NRC For Signature of: Routing: Dyer Borchardt Carpenter NRR Mailroom

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Description:==

Vote of Concern regarding Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Assigned To:

Contact:

DLPM MARSH, LEDYARD (TAD) E Special Instructions:

TOWN OF GILL M A 8 8 A C H U 8 E T T 8 July 28, 2004 Vote of Concern regarding Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power:

The Gill Selectboard, as a community adjacent to the power plant and within its evacuation zone, considers the engineering assessment to which NRC agreed as inadequate to provide protection to its citizenry. It is therefore the order of this Board that a comprehensive Independent Safety Assessment be conducted to demonstrate the system can meet current regulatory standards for operating conditions as they now exist and in support of the proposed uprete of 120% power for the safety and security of its citizens.

It is furthermore the opinion of this Board that such review should include the emergency core cooling system, the containment system, design criteria, the design life of Vermont Yankee and a complete vertical slice of each system to be assured that the "Defense in Depth" concept is retained.

Additionally, the Gill Select board wishes to voice extreme dissatisfaction regarding the unacceptable fiasco where plant operators failed to securely monitor highly dangerous fuel rods.

The above concerns are to be conveyed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the office of the Govemnor of Vermont and Massachusetts, State Senator Stanley Rosenberg, State Representative Christopher Donelan, and US Senators Kennedy and Kerry, in addition to

• editorials in the Greenfield Recorder, Montague Reporter and Hampshire Gazette.

• US Congressman John Olver Gill Selectboard Dated: July 28, 2004 6 4; ZZ1~

Leland E. Stevens, Chair Ann H. Banash, Philip W. Maddem 325 Main Road, Gill MA 01 376 Telephone 413-863-9347

• Fax 413-863-M5 www.gillmass.org