ML17174A594
| ML17174A594 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Dresden, Quad Cities  |
| Issue date: | 12/11/1980 |
| From: | CITIZENS FOR SAFE ENERGY |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8012170410 | |
| Download: ML17174A594 (2) | |
Text
Citizens For Sale Ene...,.
c..
- r *:::.
..:..--V.t..
R.R. 2, ERIE, ILLINOIS81250..
Arlyn Dall,*Chalrman
~.. *....
-:: r,I~: *;
~~
.I*..)
~ :;1
"***: *";"'.1/oATE*i: December 11, 1980
. T01 Harold R. Denton
' /
- Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulations U.s. *Nuclear Regulatory Cornrnismion Washington, D.C. 20555 FROM 1. Citizens For Safe Energy, Inc.
(mailing address) Box 23 Hillsdalei. Il. 61257 (309-658~2559)
Quad City Alliance For Safe Energy & Survival 1316 2nd Ave...
Ro.ck Island, Il. 61201 (319-355-05_44)
RE 1 Transpqrtation and storage. of spent nuclear. fuel rods from
.Dr~sden Nuclear.Units to the Quad c.:..ties Nuclear Uni-t;s.
The member.s. of Citizens For Safe* Energy and of the* Quad City Alliance*
For Safe Energy& Survival request that *the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission refuse Commonweal th Edison's application to* transfer
- spent nuclear fuel rods from their Dresden Nuclear Uni ts to the Qua.d Cities Nuclear Units for storage.
The following facts*constitute the.basis for these requests:
- 1. A radioactive waste dump is being created at each reactor site by the storage of spent fuel rods.
Increasing the amount of spent fuel on site increases the potential seriousness of an accident. If an accident should occur in the po~l or in the reactor,.there could be twenty times more strontiurn-90 ih the spent fuel pool.
Hundreds of millions of curies of radioactivity will be the_.typical activity at each reactor pool as tI:ie pool fills to capacity...* * *
- 2.
Th~ 1975 Rasmussen Report concluded, the spent.fuel could over.heat and melt if the storage basin were drained.
It also
. stated that stored spent *fuel cou2 l suffer* a run-away chain reaction and. subsequent fuel melting if the fuel were pushed together by a heavy weight.
Thismifht happen if a heavy cask
- -~***
fell £ro~ an overhead crane arid crash~d. onto the fuel in the racks.
- 3.
We are also opposed to re-racking because of the obvious.
dangers of overheating, bowing of the rods, exposure of workers 1<.t;.o.~
to hi~her radiation tisks.
z:
- 4.
The* great risk of ra.dioact.: ve spills during transportation
.~
. ~.
cannot be ignored.
i 5~
Quad Cities Nuclear Units 1 anc 2 are short on fuel rod
~
storage now, expected to run.out by 1984~
. 6.
Workers* will be subjected to higher radiation ing the pool, handling and '.Tloving fuel and wastes
'-*.'°... i tsPlf will contribute to.higher radiation levels
.. o'->12.J?.oi/O G
doses, Remodel-.*
and ttie*pool.
at the plant, i I 1
I
- 7. Local communities are not prepared to handle transportation emergencies.
We feel that considering both sites, Dresden and the Quad Cities, are to be affected,that the NRC do everything within its power to hold public hearings at both locations on the transfer of nuclear.
fuel rods.
There is only one option--ceasing production of further waste and permanent burial of what remains.
Signed )£cu;f;. V:; 2M,,,/_LU.
Date /,£,IL-*~
Signed_£A,.ifa,,~
Date
/.;. //* J=-<2
..