ML061180298

G20060447/LTR-06-0208 - Maureen E. Flach Ltr Re Renewal of Oyster Creek

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Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	02/28/2006
From:	Flach M State of NJ
To:	Bush G, Mckelvin S NRC/SECY, US Executive Office of the President
Hoffman, S T, NRR, 415-3245
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM:

DUE: 05/18/06 EDO CONTROL: G20060447 DOC DT: 02/28/06 FINAL REPLY:

Maureen E. Flach Bayville, New Jersey (White House Referral)

TO:

McKelvin, SECY FOR SIGNATURE OF :

• • GRN CRC NO: 06-0208 Dyer, NRR DESC:

ROUTING:

Renewal of Oyster Creek Reyes Virgilio Kane Silber Dean Cyr/Burns Collins, RI Zimmerman, NSIR DATE: 04/27/06 ASSIGNED TO:

NRR CONTACT:

Dyer SPECIAL INSr'RUCTIONS OR REMARKS:

The White House established as due date of 5/18/06.

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i OFFICE OF THIE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Dale Printed: Apr 27, 2006 13:16 PAPER NUMBER:

ACTION OFFICE:

LTR-06-0208 EDO LOGGING DATE: 04/27/2006 AUTHOR:

A FFI LIATION:

ADDRESSEE:

Miss Maureen Flach NJ PRES George Bush

SUBJECT:

Concerns the renewal of Oyster Creek ACTION:

DISTRIBUTION:

LETTER DATE:

ACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL HANDLING:

Direct Reply SECY to Ack...Encls. to EDO 02/28/2006 No White House Referral (WH 527413) - due May 18, 2006 NOTES:

WH 527413 SECY received referral on 04/27/2006 FILE LOCATION:

ADAMS DATE DUE:

05/18/2006 DATE SIGNED:

EDO -- G20060447

February 28, 2006 George W. Bush, President United States of America 16)0 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, D.C.

Dear President Bush:

I realize that you have a seat deal of concern at this time for our country.

This is a problem concerning my home area -

Ocean County, New Jersey.

We have the oldest nuclear plant in the nation and it is up for renewal.

The people are worried.

This would extend its use for twenty years past its, original projection.

Some residents have tried to appeal to the NRC but to no avail.

I would like to highlight just a few concerns.

A main concern is how the spent fuel is stored. Another concern is should there be a need to evacuate --

it would be impossible.

This is a shore area and in the summer the traffic along route 9 and the Parkway is extemely congested. When anyone discusses evacuation plans -

they laugh.

Lastly but certainly not the least of our concerns is a terr6rist.. attack.

Anyone riding along Route 9 could shoot a rocket or missle into the facility causing - well I don't want to think about it.

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realize that the cost of power would increase in this area but I prefer: that to the chance of radiation exposure.

I was hoping that you could help.

I have enclosed several articles concerning the various concerns Cf the people.

The company, of course, states that all is safe despite several incidents.

Thank you for your time and I wish you well.

Respectfully, Maureen E. Flach 74 Cedar Run Road Bayville, NJ 08721 En=.

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Oyster Creek, the oldest commercial nuclear plant in the nation, wants to ex-tend its 40-year operating license by 20 years. With-out an extension, the plant will close in 2009.

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The Oyster Creek Generating Station let out a loud bang Monday evening that drew police and plant se-curity to the nuclear power plant, fearing the noise could have been an explosion.

The bang was the soumd of hydrogen igniting after plant operators attempted to turn, on a gas filtration system about 5 p.m., said Neil A.

Sheehan, a spokesa with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

"At no time was the heal, and safety of the pubfic at risk," said Rachelle Benson, a spokeswoman for plant opera-tor AmerGen Etnergy o.

1 But the noise augh the At-tention of some Amer-en em-ployees il:in a office building

near.the reactor.: It also drew a hurried response by plant-security and t~ownhp police Two police officers re-spo d to eek af the plant's private security force had reported "a loud unr identified noise." But when the offies arrived, they were told that they were no longer "At no, needed timewas Lacey Po-lice Chief the healt William A.

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OYSTER CREEKQ) Is IT WORTH IT?

NICHOLS DCNSN or Oyster C k's containment system STAF'F WRITER More than 100 tons of uranium fuel in the core of the reactor vessel are used to superheat steam If there were a major that drives the turbines that produce electricity at the Oyster Creek Generating Station in Lacea nuclear plant. Plant officials say monitors and' backup systems reduce the risk of a deadly radiation reactor accident at the release to about I in 1.7 million per year.

Qyster Creek nuclear But if the core overheats and the fuel begins to melt, the plant's barrier to the outside world - its plant, chances are-its containment system - has a 74 percent chance of failure in an emergency, according to plant officials most critical radiation and the federal govemment. That means radiation would likely spread into the environment.

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,r1i NRC ics: I Date Sent: April 19, 2006 Date Due: May 4, 2006 Instructions for Presidential Mail Response Letters to Constituents Please fax back a signed, dated copy of this sheet verifying you have received the mailing in full. If it is incomplete, please contact Catalina Cabral at 202-456-5509.

Direct response due to constituent within 15 days Email a copy of the response to Agency Liaison at WHAGLCASE@who.eop.gov or fax to (202-456-2992)

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