ML17206A663

Informs of Document Containing Info Potentially Relevant to Issue of Spent Nuclear Fuel Sabotage.Nrc Assessment of Info to Be Made Available

ML17206A663
Person / Time
Site:	Saint Lucie
Issue date:	02/08/1979
From:	Paton W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD)
To:	Mike Farrar, Johnson W, Salzman R NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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February 8, 1979 Itichael C. Farrar. Esq.,

Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.

20555 Richard S. Salzman, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board U.S. Huclear Regulatory Commission Hashington, D. C.

20555

,.Dr, If. Redd Johnson Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board

. U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.

20555 In the Natter of FLORIDA POWER 5 LIGHT COMPANY (St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 2)

Docket No. 50-389

Dear IIembers of the l3oard:

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission Staff has recently become aware of a document which contains information potentially relevant to the issue of sabotage of spent nuclear fuel.

The document is classified as national security information and is in draft form. It is uncertain that a final version will ever be published.

The sabotage issue was the subject of an earlier letter dated January 16, 1979 to this Board which transmitted certain Commission reports and a copy of SAND77-1927 entitled "Transport of Radionuclides in Urban Environs:

Working Draft Assessment."

A copy of the transmittal memorandum,~

unclassified, is attached for the inforotation of the Board and the parties.

A Staff assessment of the significance of this information is being conducted and will be forwarded to the Board and the parties as soon as it becomes available.

Sincerely, Hilliam D. Paton Counsel for NRC Staff Enclosure as Stated cc:

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Dr. Frank Hooper Dr. Harvin H. Mann Harold F. Reis, Esq.

Horman A. Coll, Esq.

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nets relet and zmterial znfornatim,.the attached doc~t {C/!i~I) is considered pbtentMly.re3.chant and material to the proceedin~ before the

~m~ to lzCui~ Units 1 md 2 {50-329/370) md.is fooenled wi%h"die reccaxmsdatian that it be protrided to tlat.Board..(Ms report..

still. in dr~ft fo~ It z.s uncertain that a final version r611 ever

.~J'isi.ed.)

L 2m nature of Qm inforration is as follcx~s:

l'tnalyses of sabotage a'tacln on tne spent fuel

~hortation ~~~

Description of dna~

caused by various types. of hiP

~~loszve attacI: cn~obsoleu ~t fuel ms4 and scale mxlels.

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o-.. these cas z usin,. ilitary x:earn, e] ~tion"hip be>i.+en t':.re ca i ~ testect'o"~olete design) md cue=mt desi'.

irnent Transmitted w th'ontains Z~losive te"ts on scale ~el co.".tais'.

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( m.tlating radioactive t ~te to determine lie avant of ~tcril e',ected and L',>e ~t<iclc si' distributicnx.

thrs opcumclrl when seIrarstrrd Irom endosures flfx ONAL SF RIT NF orrrcc+

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~utt ~tially.relent z;d rnterial because this is the firsi: written report mailable to the staff

'onc<~inp l6gn level mmlosive attacIc.on spent fuel shippiac casl;s.

As such, the data contained therein could inQuence or assist the board in its deliberations in re~ to the safety and cafepuards of spent fuel riile in transit n~ the facility.

'Lhe inionnticn is also con idered mitxmtially relent and mterwl to the folio'T'~ other proceed~~

Janasport i:,U.w 1 and 2 (~: ~~516/517)

Pil~~ Unit 2 {50-471)

Sterlin, (K'M5) me (SZ< RHN) half,Cred: (~>2)

In all of these proceedings, testi~ on sabcdmm of spmt fuel

~in transit was considered by the.boards.

A staff asseasrmnt of the si.'p6ficmce of the inforration contai~md in this report is Iming concocted and t611 be foram,e.I by

~ february".16, '979.

Ellclosure.

As stated

~~ocns P. Carter, Jr.

Deputy &~rector Division of Safeguards Ofhce of IDclear I'hterial Safety md Safeymrds

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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of FLORIDA POWER 6 LIGHT COMPANY

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(St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant, Unit No.

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Docket No.

50-389 APPLICANT(S OPPOSITION TO "INTERVENORS MOTION FOR LEAVE TO FILE"

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On January 30, 1979, Intervenors served a "Motion for Leave to File" and a proposed "Intervenors'esponse to 'Opposition of Florida Power 6 Light Company to 'Motion for a New Contention'nd

'Motion for Stay".

The latter document contains a 42 page attachment consisting of pleadings filed by Intervenors in the U.

S. Court of Appeals in case numbers 76-1709, 78-1149, District of Columbia Circuit,'in September 1978.1/

Apparently assuming that the instant pleadings were entitled to be filed as a matter of right, Intervenors'ounsel spends considerable time suggesting various reasons why he failed to file such pleadings in September of 1978.

However, Rule 2.730 of the Commissions'ules of Practice provides, with respect to answers to motions, that "The moving party shall have no right to reply, except as permitted by the presiding officer or the secretary

~ Those cases were decided adversely to Intervenors by a judgment entered December 26, 1978.

A Petition for Rehearing and Suggestion for Rehearing En Banc served January 10, 1979 were denied by Orders entered January 30, 1979.

or the assistant secretary."

The Motion for Leave to File does not advance any reason why Rule 2.730 should not be followed by this Board..

The claim by Intervenors'ounsel that the Appeal Board should allow the response to be filed "as

a. matter of equity" or "in defense of my personal honor" clearly demonstrates that the proposed "Intervenors'esponse" is irrelevant to any of the issues in these proceedings presently pending before the Appeal Board.

Applicant respectfully submits that the "Motion for Leave to Pile" should be denied.

Respectfully submitted, STEEL i HECTOR 6 DAVIS Co-counsel for Applicant 1400 Southeast. First National Bank Building Miami, Fj.orida 33131 Telephonk:

(305) 577-2863 By NO ZAN A. COLL CERTIFICATE OF SER ICE WE HEREBY CERTIFY that, the foregoing was mailed this day of February, 1979, to the person Service List.

listed on the attached A.

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UNITED STAT"S 0

~>=>ICA NUCLEAR REGULATORv COP~

SSION Before the Atomic Safety and Licens'ing Appeal Board In the Matter of FLORIDA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY

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Docket No. 50-389

{St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plan"

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Un' 2)

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SERVICE L ST Mr'. C.

R.

S tephens Supervisor, Docketing anc Service Section Office of the Sec etary of the Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Michael C. Farrar, Esauire Chairman Atomic Safetv

& Licensing Appeal Board Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Dr.

W.

Reed Johnson Atomic Safetv

& Licensing Appeal Boa d Nuclear Regulatory Commi -sion Washington, D.

C.

20555 Richard S.

Salzman, Esauire Atomic Safety

& Licensing Appeal Board Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. "C.

20555 Alan S. Rosenthal, Esauire Chairman Atomic Safetv,& Licensing App'eal pmel Nuclear Regulatory Commission

.Was'hington, D.

C.

20555 Edward Luton, Zsauire Chairman Atomic Safety

& Licensing Boa-d Panel Nuclear Regulatory Comm ssion Washington.,

D.

C.

20555

michael Glaser,

'sauire

~ Alternate Chairman Atomic Safetv and L'censirg Board 1150 17th St=eet, N.

W.

Washington, D.

C.

20036 Or. Marvin N.

Mann Technical Advisor Atomic Safety

~ licensing Board Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Dr. David L. Hetrick Professor 0".Nuclear Encineerina University o Arizona Tucson, Arizona 85721 Dr..Frank F.

Hooper

Chairman, Resource Ecology Program School of Natural Resources Univer si"y of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104 Kr. Angelo GiaMusso Deputy Director for Reactor Projects Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 William D. Paton, Esquire Counsel for NRC Regulatory Staff Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.

C.

20555 Hartin Harold Hodder, Esquire 1130 N. E.

86 Street Miami, Florida 33138 Harold.. Reis,.sauire Lowenstein,

Newman, Reis

& Swelrad 1025 Connecticut

Avenue, N.

W.

Wasnington, D.

C.

20036 I

Local Public Document Room Indian River Junior College Library 3209 Virginia Avenue Ft. P'erce, Florida 33450 I

William J.

Olmstead, Esquire U.

S. Nuclea Regulatorv Commission Washington, D.

C.

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