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G20050609/LTR-05-0436 - Beverly Carle Ltr Re 2.206 Petition for Immediate Shutdown & Decommissioning of Oyster Creek
ML052440254
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Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 08/24/2005
From: Carle B
Township of Berkeley, NJ
To: Diaz N
NRC/Chairman
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM:

DUE: 10/07/05 EDO CONTROL: G20050609 DOC DT: 08/24/05 FINAL REPLY:

Beverly Carle Bayville, NJ Chairman Diaz FOR SIGNATURE OF :

    • GRN CRC NO: 05-0436 Dyer, NRR DESC:

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Oyster Creek Reyes Virgilio Kane Silber Dean Burns Collins, RI Cyr, OGC Skay, NRR Goldberg, OGC DATE: 08/31/05 ASSIGNED TO:

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Date Printed: A ug 31, 2005 10:53 PAPER NUMBER:

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LTR-05-0436 EDO LOGGING DATE: 08/31/2005 AUTHOR:

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ACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL HANDLING:

Mrs. Beverly Canrle NJ CHRM Nils Diaz Concerns proposed resolution calling for the immediate shutdown and decommissioning of Oyster Creek Appropriate RF 0S/24/2005 No 2.206'Petition NOTES:

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Beverly M. Carle Township Clerk 627 Pinewald/Keswick Road P.O. Box B Bayville, NJ 08721 Email: townshipclerktvtwp.berkeley.nj.us Phone: 732-244-7400 ext.205 Fax: 732-244-3428 732-505-0145 I, Beverly AlI1 Carle, Acting Township Clerk, of the Township of Berkeley, in the County of Ocean, State of New Jersey, do hereby certify that the attached is a true copy of:

RESOLUTION #05-300-R re:

Calling for the Inmnmediate Shutdowvn and Decommissioning of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station As the Safest Wf'orkable Evacuation Plan Passed by the Township Council of Township of Berkeley the 23rd day of Aucust, 2005 as now filed in the Clerk's Office and compared with the original In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of the Township of Berkeley, at Bayville, New Jersey this 24h day August, 2005.

4iwgH 24[k 661 Beverly M. Carle Acting Township Clerk Berkeley Township

  1. 05-300-R PROPOSED RESOLUTION CALLING FOR TIHE IMMEDIATE SIIUTDOWN AND DECOMMISSIONING OF THE OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION AS THE SAFEST WORKABLE EVACUATION PLAN August 23, 2005 WHEREAS, the Evacuation Plan for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is grossly unrealistic and unworkable, and WHEREAS, the failure of evacuation was demonstrated Junc 2002. During a forest fire at Double Trouble State Park, roads to and from Oyster Creek were blocked all day and Emergency Vehicles were unable to get through, and WHEREAS,,in case of a major nuclear accident, it would take one to four hours for radioactive plumes to spread within a ten mile ring of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, depending on the weather. According to the NJ State Police officials in 2003, it would take 7 hours8.101852e-5 days <br />0.00194 hours <br />1.157407e-5 weeks <br />2.6635e-6 months <br /> in the 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 the tourist season to evacuate approximately 244,000 people located within the ten mile radius; and WHEREAS, since then, the evacuation route has been increasingly hampered due to population growth and the swelling of development in surrounding areas; and WHEREAS, the warning system is primitive - there are no backup solar-powered sirens to warn residents in case the power fails: and WHEREAS, there are no radiation monitors beyond 2.7 miles for the evacuation team to warn residents of the advancing colorless and odorless radioactive plumes and evacuation workers would be overcome; and WHEREAS, any attack on the plant, or other unforeseen accident which could result from the age related degradation of the facility, could have catastrophic effects on the Jersey Shore as exposure to the radioactive material would affect those trying to evacuate and would put the continued inhabitability of entire communities at risk, and WHEREAS, closing this obsolete plant would reduce the possibility of a meltdown that would cause widespread cancers and deaths; and WHEREAS, Chernobyl was an example of a failed evacuation. A nuclear catastrophe can be far worse here. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant was only two years old years old at the time of the meltdown in 1986. There are vast areas that are still uninhabitable. Oyster Creek has 36 years of accumulated radioactive material.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED. by the Township Council of the Township of Berkeley, County of Ocean, State of New Jersey, on behalf of all Township residents, as follows:

The Berkeley Township Council rejects the current evacuation plan and calls for the Immediate Shutdown and decommissioning of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station as the Safest Workablc Evacuation Plan; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded to the following:

1. Senator Jon S. Corzine, One Newark Center, 14th Floor, Newark, New Jersey, 07102
2. Senator Frank Lautenberg, One Riverfront Plaza, 3rd Floor, Newark, New Jersey, 07102
3. Congressman Robert Menendez, 2238 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3013
4. Congressman Rush D. Holt, 1019 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3012
5. Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, 2442 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3011
6. Congressman Donald M. Payne, 2209 Rayburn HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3010
7. Congressman Steven R. Rothman, 1607 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3009
8. Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr., 1722 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3008
9. Congressman Mike Ferguson, 214 Cannon HOB, Washington DC 20515-3007
10. Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., 420 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3006
11. Congressman Scott Garrett, 1641 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3005
12. Congressman Christopher H. Smith, 2373 Raybum HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3004 13.-Congressman Jim Saxton, 339 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3003

-14. Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo, 225 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3002

15. Congressman Robert E. Andr7ws, 2439-kabyburnHOB,Washington; DC-20515-3001
16. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, P.O. Box 402, Trenton, New Jersey, 08625
17. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD, 20852
18. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20460
19. Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch, 364 Costa MesaDrivc, Toms River, New Jersey, 08753
20. Acting Governor Richard J. Codey, 125 State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625
22. Mayor and Council Members Township Attorney CERTIFICATnON I HEREBY CERTIFy THAT THE WIrHIN RESOLUTION WAS FINALLY PASSED BY THE GOVERNING BODY OF TI I TOWNSHIp OF B3ERKELEY, IN THIE COUNTY OF OCEAN, ON THE 23rd DAY OF August, 2005.INWTESHROFIAV HEENOSET My HAND AND THE1 OFFICIALI CORPORATm SEAL OF SAID TOWNSHIP THIS 2t A

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05 PETER J/4STARDO. Council President X

D Townshirof Berkeley Beverly M. Carle Township Clerk

  1. 05-300-R PROPOSED RESOLUTION CALLING FOR TIlE IUMMEDIATE SHUTDOWN AND DECOMMISSIONING OF TIlE OYSTER CREEK NUCLEAR GENERATING STATION AS TIHE SAFEST WVORKABLE EVACUATION PLAN August 23, 2005 WVHEREAS, the Evacuation Plan for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station is grossly unrealistic and unworkable, and WHEREAS, the failure of evacuation was demonstrated June 2002. During a forest fire at Double Trouble State Park, roads to and from Oyster Creek were blocked all day and Emergency Vchicles were unable to get through, and WHEREAS,*in ease of a major nuclear aceident, it would take one to four hours for radioactive plumes to spread within a tcn mile ring of the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station, depending on the weather. According to the NJ State Police officials in 2003, it would take 7 hours8.101852e-5 days <br />0.00194 hours <br />1.157407e-5 weeks <br />2.6635e-6 months <br /> in the 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 the tourist season to evacuate approximately 244,000 people located within the ten mile radius; and WHEREAS, since then, the evacuation route has been increasingly hampered due to population growth and the swelling of development in surrounding areas; and WHEREAS, the warning system is primitive - there are no backup solar-powered sirens to warn residents in ease the power fails: and WHEREAS, there are no radiation monitors beyond 2.7 miles for the evacuation team to wam residents of the advancing colorless and odorless radioactive plumes and evacuation workers would be overcome; and WHEREAS, any attack on the plant, or other unforeseen accident which could result from the age related degradation of the facility, could have catastrophic effects on the Jersey Shore as exposure to the radioactive material would affect those trying to evacuate and would put the continued inhabitability of entire communities at risk, and WHEREAS, closing this obsolete plant would reduce the possibility of a meltdown that would cause widespread cancers and deaths; and WHEREAS, Chemobyl was an example of a failed evacuation. A nuclear catastrophe can be far worse here. The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant was only two years old years old at the time of the meltdown in 1986. There are vast areas that are still uninhabitable. Oyster Creek has 36 years of accumulated radioactive material.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED. by the Township Council of the Township of Berkeley, County of Ocean, State of New Jersey, on behalf of all Township residents, as follows:

The Berkeley Township Council rejects the current evacuation plan and calls for the Immediate Shutdown and decommissioning of Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station as the Safest Workable'Evacuation Plan; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that a copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded to the following:

1. Senator Jon S. Corzine, One Newark Center, 14th Floor, Newark, New Jersey, 07102
2. Senator Frank Lautenberg, One Riverfront Plaza, 3rd Floor, Newark, New Jersey, 07102
3. Congressman Robert Menendez, 2238 Raybum HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3013
4. Congressman RushD. Holt, 1019 Longworth HOD, Washington, DC 20515-3012
5. Congressman Rodney P. Frelinghuysen, 2442 Raybum HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3011
6. Congressman Donald M. Payne, 2209 RaybumH OB, Washington, DC 20515-3010
7. Congressman StevenR. Rothnman, 1607 Longwvorth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3009
8. Congressman Bill Pascrell Jr.,

1722 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3008

9. Congressman Mike Ferguson, 214 Cannon HOB, Washington DC 20515-3007
10. Congressman Frank Pallone Jr., 420 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3006
11. Congressman Scott Garrett, 1641 Longworth HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3005
12. Congressman Christopher il. Smith, 2373 Raybum HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3004
13. Congressman Jim Saxton, 339 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3003
14. Congressman Frank A. LoBiondo, 225 Cannon HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3002
15. Congressman Robert E. Andrews, 2439 Raybum HOB, Washington, DC 20515-3001
16. New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, P.O. Box 402, Trenton, New Jersey, 08625
17. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, One White Flint North, 11 555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD, 20852
18. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC, 20460
19. Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch, 364 Costa Mesa Drive, Toms River, New Jersey, 08753
20. Acting Governor Richard J. Codey, 125 State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625
22. Mayor and Council Members Township Attorney CERTIFICATION I HEREBYCERTIFY7THAT THEWVMnN RESOLUTIoN, D0IEOE PETER I, STARDO, Council President Townshirof Berkeley hi Beverly i. Carle Township Clerk

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