ML12233A502

James a, FitzPatrick Nuclear Power Plant, ME8189 - Co-Petitioner,G20120172/EDATS: OEDO-2012-0147 - e-mail from Additional Co-Petitioners

ML12233A502
Person / Time
Site:	FitzPatrick
Issue date:	07/11/2012
From:	Arredondo C, Burt B, Gravel S, Hitzlaler S, Ramsey-Lefevre A - No Known Affiliation
To:	Borchardt W, Bhalchandra Vaidya NRC/EDO
References
2.206, EDATS: OEDO-2012-0147, G20120172, OEDO-2012-0147, TAC ME8189
Download: ML12233A502 (3)

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• The FitzPatrick plant is the only GE Mark I boiling water reactor in the US that did not install a Direct Torus Vent System as requested by the NRC in 1989 and instead, to save money, relies upon a "pre-existing" venting system that is not fully hardened against a severe accident.

° The plan in the event of a severe accident - which is to vent dangerous steam, gases and radiation into the Standby Gas Treatment System building which will blow off the double doors to release a radiological accident to the outside environment at ground level - poses severe risk to workers and the public.

" The hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima reactors show the dangers posed by the current FitzPatrick venting plan, since the plan was approved on the assumptions that venting would prevent containment failure, and that there are "no likely" ignition sources along the vent path. Neither of these assumptions was correct during the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Subsequent to the Fukushima accident, the NRC inspected FitzPatrick and identified a "vulnerability, in that current procedures do not address hydrogen considerations" during a severe accident.

Therefore, we request NRC immediately suspend the FitzPatrick operating license until Entergy Nuclear Operations publicly documents a post-Fukushima re-analysis for the reliability and capability ofthe FitzPatrick containment vent plan, and until the public is afforded hearings to address the unacceptable risks to public health and safety posed by FitzPatrick. We wish the NRC to process our request using the 2.206 process, and we understand that under this process, the contents of this message and my identity will be made public. Jessica Azulay at the Alliance for a Green Economy is our point of contact for this petition.

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Mr. James Borchardt Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attn: Bhalchandra K. Vaidya, NRC Petition Manager In the Matter of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant in Scriba, New York

Dear Mr. Borchardt:

We wish to co-petition with the Alliance for a Green Economy and Beyond Nuclear's March 9, 2012 emergency enforcement petition to suspend the operation of the JamesA. FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant.

" The FitzPatrick plant is the only GE Mark I boiling water reactor in the US that did not install a Direct Torus Vent System as requested by the NRC in 1989 and instead, to save money, relies upon a "pre-existing" venting system that is not fully hardened against a severe accident.

" The plan in the event of a severe accident - which is to vent dangerous steam, gases and radiation into the Standby Gas Treatment System building which will blow off the double doors to release a radiological accident to the outside environment at ground level - poses severe risk to workers and the public.

" The hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima reactors show the dangers posed by the current FitzPatrick venting plan, since the plan was approved on the assumptions that venting would prevent containment failure, and that there are "no likeý'" ignition sources aloNrj the vent path. Neither of these assumptions was correct during the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Subsequent to the Fukushima accident, the NRC inspected FitzPatrick and identified a "vulnerability, in that current procedures do not address hydrogen considerations" during a severe accident.

Therefore, we request NRC immediately suspend the FitzPatrick operating license until Entergy Nuclear Operations publicly documents a post-Fukushima re-analysis for the reliability and capability of the FitzPatrick containment vent plan, and until the public is afforded hnearlings to address the unacceptable risks to public health and safety posed by FitzPatrick. We wish the NRC to process our request using the 2.206 process, and we understand that under this process, the contents of this message and my identity will be made public. Jessica Azulay at the Alliance for a Green Economy is our point of contact for this petition.

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Mr. James Borchardt Executive Director for Operations U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Attn: Bhalchandra K. Vaidya, NRC Petition Manager In the Matter of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant in Scriba, New York

Dear Mr. Borchardt:

We wish to co-petition with the Alliance for a Green Economy and Beyond Nuclear's March 9, 2012 emergency enforcement petition to suspend the operation of the James A. FitzPatrick Nuclear Plant.

" The FitzPatrick plant is the only GE Mark I boiling water reactor in the US that did not install a Direct Torus Vent System as requested by the NRC in 1989 and instead, to save money, relies upon a "pre-existing" venting system that is not fully hardened against a severe accident.

" The plan in the event of a severe accident - which is to vent dangerous steam, gases and radiation into the Standby Gas Treatment System building which will blow off the double doors to release a radiological accident to the outside environment at ground level - poses severe risk to workers and the public.

The hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima reactors show the dangers posed by the current FitzPatrick venting plan, since the plan was approved on the assumptions that venting would prevent containment failure, and that there are "no likely" ignition sources aiong the vent path. Neither of these assumptions was correct during the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. Subsequent to the Fukushima accident, the NRC inspected FitzPatrick and identified a "vulnerability, in that current procedures do not address hydrogen considerations" during a severe accident.

Therefore, we request NRC immediately suspend the FitzPatrick operating license until Entergy Nuclear Operations publicly documents a post-Fukushima re-analysis for the reliability and capability of the FitzPatrick containment vent plan, and until the public is afforded hearings to address the unacceptable risks to public health and safety posed by FitzPatrick. We wish the NRC to process our request using the 2.206 process, and we understand that under this process, the contents of this message and my identity will be made public. Jessica Azulay at the Alliance for a Green Economy is our point of contact for this petition.

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