ML053270075

G20050801/LTR-05-0569 - Ltr. Fm Sen. John Kerry Re Concerns About Nrc'S Decision to Allow Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant to Increase Its Energy Output

ML053270075
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Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	11/15/2005
From:	Kerry J US SEN (Senate)
To:	Diaz N NRC/Chairman
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM: DUE: 12/14/05 EDO CONTROL: G20050801 DOC DT: 11/15/05 FINAL REPLY:

Senator John F. Kerry Chairman Diaz FOR SIGNATURE OF : ** GRN ** CRC NO: 05-0569 Reyes, EDO DESC: ROUTING:

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant to Increase its Reyes Energy Output (Karen Fogliatti) Virgilio Kane Silber Dean Cyr/Burns DATE: 11/22/05 Dyer, NRR Collins, RI ASSIGNED TO: CONTACT: Schmidt, OCA EDO Shoop SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMARKS:

Coordinate with NRR and Region I, as appropriate.

Respond directly to constituent and cc: Senator Kerry.

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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed:Nov 22, 2005 10:19 PAPER NUMBER: LTR-05-0569 LOGGING DATE: 11/21/2005 ACTION OFFICE: EDO AUTHOR: SEN John Kerry AFFILIATION: CONG ADDRESSEE: Nils Diaz

SUBJECT:

Concerns about NRC's decision to allow Vermont Yankee nuclear powe plant to increase its energy output ACTION: Signature of EDO DISTRIBUTION: OCA to Ack LETTER DATE: 11/15/2005 ACKNOWLEDGED No SPECIAL HANDLING:

NOTES:

FILE LOCATION: ADAMS DATE DUE: 12/14/2005 DATE SIGNED:

EDO -- G20050801

JOHN KERRY COMMITTEES:

MASSACHUSETTS COMMERCE, SCIENCE.

AND TRANSPORTATION FINANCE Un ASNTited D2tat05 1021at2 FOREIGN RELATIONS SMALL BUSINESS WASHINGTON, DC 20510-2102 One Bowdoin Square Tenth Floor Boston, MA 02114 (617) 565-8519 November 15, 2005 Dr. Nils J. Diaz, Ph.D.

Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

Dear Dr. Diaz,

I am forwarding to you a copy of a correspondence from Ms. Karen Fogliatti expressing her concerns about the NRC's decision to allow Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant to increase its energy output.

It is the desire of this office to be responsive to all inquiries and communications. I respectfully ask for your assistance in resolving the issues outlined in the attached correspondence.

In addition to sending a reply directly to Ms. Fogliatti, please convey a copy of your response to the issues raised in Ms. Fogliatti's correspondence to Tyke Crowley of my Boston office.

I thank you for your cooperation in this matter.

Sinc John F. Kerry United States Sen r

Enclosures:

Ms. Fogliatti's letter JFK/fbc

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Dear Senator Kerry,

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission, referring to the proposed 20 % increase in output of tile Vermont Yankee nuclear reactor in Vernon, Vermont, has stated in a recently released repon.

that "there is reasonable assurance that the health and safety of the public will not be endanger by operation in the proposed-manner,".-

As someone who lives in harms way of this 33 year old reactor, "reasonable assurance" is NC)0.

very comforting and is, in fact, completely UNACCEPTABLE. As a constituent of yours, I ur We you to push for a more thorough, independent assessment of the impact that such an uprate would have on a plant this old and the risk of greater levels of radiation being released into the surrounding communities. Considering the potential cost of a nuclear accident both in human and environmental terms, the benefits of a slower, more cautious evaluative process seem well worth the money and time spent.

1 urge you to also push for an unbiased, thorough assessment of the current impact that the radiation from this nuclear plant is having on the humans, animals, air, water, and land in the 5Id mile radius surrounding the reactor. It may turn out that, as with Yankee Rowe, it is time to shut this plant down rather than rim the risk of operating it any further, much less at higher, more dangerous levels.

Thank your for your assistance with this very serious issue.

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