ML18019B075
| ML18019B075 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Harris  |
| Issue date: | 07/08/1986 |
| From: | Julie Hughes COALITION FOR ALTERNATIVES TO SHEARON HARRIS |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8607110289 | |
| Download: ML18019B075 (6) | |
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Coaltion For Alternative to Shearon Harris REC IP. NANE RECIPIENT AFFILIATION DENTONl H.
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation>
Director (post 851125
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Expresses appreciation for opportunity to present concerns re safety health 5 environ deticiencies in plant operating plans. Opportunity to review draft OL for plant fuel loading h
lou> power testing prior to issuance requested.
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- Durham, NC 27701 Mr. Harold Denton, Director Nuclear Reactor Regulation Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 July 8, 1986.
Dear Mr. Denton,
e On behalf of the Coalition for Alternatives to Shearon Harris (CASH),
I want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to present oux concerns about safety, health and environmental deficiencies in the operating plans for the Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant.
We were touched by your openness and your commitment to investigate the contentions which we have raised in our 2.206 re-quest to your office.
As you may have heard, the Chatham County Commissioners have returned to the Emergency
Response
Plan and created a mechanism for expanding the Emergency Planning Zone and providing input into creating a more effective evacuation plan.
Our members will be working with the Chatham County Disaster Preparedness Advisory Committee to adequately answer the questions which local citizens have raised to the county commissioners.
Our counsel, Dianne Curran with Harmon
& Weiss, has.suggested that we ask you for a copy of the draft operating license for fuel loading and low power testing for the Shearon Harris Plant.
We would like to be given an opportunity to review the draft license before it is issued to Carolina Power Light Company.
We also'ope to be receiving some response from your agency re-garding both our motion fox a stay of immediate effectiveness of the final licensing decision, as well as our request to you for a 2.206 show cause order, before any actions are taken to issue permission for fuel loading.
I was very pleased last night to hear Mr. Sherwood Smith of CP
& L say that they would not be doing any fuel loading or low power testing "tillthe early Fall."
Hopefully, this will give all interested parties additional time for resolving the unanswered safety questions which still surround the operating plan for the Harris reactor. I hope to be hearing from you in the very near future.
Sincerely yours,
'oseph T. Hughes MPH
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'proposed Outer Loop, a 60-mile highway that would circle Raleigh outside the Beltline.
The area planned for develop-ment lies roughly between Falls of the Neuse Road and U.S. 64. Three major roads U.S. 64, U.S. 401 and U.S. 1 provide access to the area.
Seventeen miles of sewer line paid for by Raleigh, Wake County and a group of developers is being extended along the Neuse River to open the area for development.
The line is expected to be complet-ed in about two years.
Raleigh eventually will have jurisdiction over the area as part of the sewer line extension agree-ment.
More than 30 percent of the land is unoccupied. But planners esti-mate that by the year 2005 more than 88,000 people willbe livingin the area.
Only 3,930 acres are withinRaleigh's city limits.
The report recommends four areas where businesses would be clustered around community shopping centers and residential development would be discour-aged.
The commercial clusters would be located around the intersec-tions of U.S. 64 and the proposed Outer Loop; Buffaloe Road and the Outer Loop; U.S.
401 and Forestville Road; and U.S. 1 and Burlington MillRoad.
Commercial development also would be allowed along U.S. 1 and U.S. 64 to the Neuse River.
Protection of the Neuse River.
from development is recom-mended.
A series of community and neighborhood parks also should be developed, the report says.
4-96 Foes Gf H~zvlts p4nt seek QeIIzy OHI low-power'-test~ng hcense Opponents of the Shearon Har-ris Nucleai Plant, citing "unan-swered safety and health ques-tions," asked a federal official Wednesday to delay his decision on whether to grant Carolina Power & Light Co. a license for low-power testing.
The officialsaid he would inves-tigate the contentions.
"These are very serious allega-tions and we'e going to take them seriously," said Harold R. Den-ton, director of the Nuclear Regu-latory Commission's Office of Nu-clear Reactor Regulation. "WeTl be getting back to you ver' sho'rtly. If (CP&L) violated feder-al laws, we'l prosecute."
Representatives of the Coalition forAlternatives to Shearon Harris met with Denton to review their contentions about CP&L's safety record and inadequate evacuation plans in case of a nuclear accident at the plant.
CASH leaders said many of the contentions had been aired at hearings before the U.S. Atomic Safety'and Licensing Board, an NRC agency that has recom-mended a low-power testing li-cense be issued.
"We feel like you'e the one person who could really take a look at it to see whether we'e off the wall or not," Chip Hughes, a spokesman for the
- group, told Denton.
CP&L needs a
low-power li-cense to load fuel and begin tests at the plant.'t needs a separate license from the NRC before beginning commercial operation.
Denton met with plant oppo-nents after he briefed local elect-ed officials and about 150 others on the NRC's role in ensuring plant safety. He had been invited to Raleigh by the mayor and chairman of the Wake Coupty commissioners.
CASH told Denton that emer-gency plans in the event of a nuclear accident at the plant were inadequate, especially in light of'he Chatham County Board of.
Commissioners'ithdrawal from a state evacuation plan that feder-al agencies require for 10 miles around the plant.
The group also said when an emergency siren near the Wake-Chatham county border was set off last weekend, apparently by vandals, residents who called the plant were told it was not an emergency siren they were hear-ing.
Patty S. Miriello, who formerly worked at both Shearon Harris and CP&L's Brunswick plant, told, Denton that CP&..L had falsified hcr radiation exposure records.
She also said CP&;L's inspections of its cooling pipes were inade-.'uate.
The U.S.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board declined last month to review Ms. Miriello's allegations.
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