ML18025A062
| ML18025A062 | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 07/07/1979 |
| From: | Halligan T Susquehanna Environmental Advocates |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| Download: ML18025A062 (4) | |
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UNlTED STATES OF A!iZRICA NUCLEAR REGULATOR COIGfISSION O.
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In the iiatter of P~.P~SXLVANIA PO"/ER AND LIGHT CO.
A LLEGHEi%Y ELECTRIC COOPERATVlE, INC.
(Susq'uehanna Units 1 ancL 2)
Docket Nos.
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'v 50-387 5O-~88 CITIZENS AGAINST NUCLEAR DANG" RS'ESPONSE TO TM IKi4ORANDUM OF THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the initial communication to the NRC, dated.
September 7,
- 1978, regarding intervention, the Citizens Against Nuclear, Dangers stated in part:- "The Citizens identify the specific aspects of the sub)ect matter's the probable dangers to public health and safety from the operation of the Beruick plant concerning....Transportation of radioactive materials to and. from the Berwick plant."
On or 'about, January 8,
- 1979, the Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers submitted. to the Board and. other parties a pet1tion to be known,as Contention No.
12 "Transportation of Nuclear Fuel."
( copy'ttached)
This contention
~ras not admittecL by the Board.
The contention that uas admitted.
on thi.s general sub)ect dealing
~~1th the on-site transportation safety issue only, is, in our Judgement, unr ealistic, and does not delve into the very real problems alluded.
Co in the recently formulated. interim Final Hule of the NRC, entitlecL "Physichl Protection of Irradiated Reactor Fuel in Transit.".
Our comment to the Board. on this matter is simply that the Board should reconsider the previously re)ected contentions on Transportation argued.
oy IIarsh et al., the Advocates, and the Citizens Against Nuclear'angers, and then admit a cont,ention or contentions that relate to the intent of the aforementioned,
'KRC rule.
CERTlFXCATF 0 SZ.-A'1CF I hereby certify that copies of'iti'zens Against H'uclear Dangers'esponse To The Memorandum Of The Atomic Safety And Licensing Board have been served on the following by deposit in the. United States mail, first class, this 7th day of t'uly, 1979-
. Charles Bechhoefer, Esq.,
Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Hucl.ear Re'gulatory Commission Washington, O.C.
20555 James M. Cutchin, ZV, Esquire Office of the Executive Legal.
Director U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nashington, D. C.
20555 Mr. Glenn 0. Bright Atomic Safety and Licensing
'oard Panel U.S. Hucl'ear.Regulatory Commission Mashington, O.C.
20555 Or. Oscar H.. Pari s Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mashington, O.C.>
20555 Jay Silberg, Esq.
- Shaw, Pi ttman, Potts and Trowbri dge'800 M Street, N.M.
Mashington, O.C.
20036 Or. Judith H. Johnsrud Co-Director Environmental Coalition o Huclear Power 433 Orlando Avenue State
- College, PA 16801
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20555 Docketing and Service Section Office of the Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Ma'shington, O.C.
20555 Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Corrmiss'ion Mashington, O.C.
20555 Mr. Thomas M. Gerusky, Director Bureau of Radiation Protection Department of Environmental Resources Commonwealth of Pennsylvania P.O.
Box 2063.
Harrisburg, PA 17120 Ms. Colleen Marsh Box 538A, RO84 Mountain Top, PA 18707 Susquehanna Environmental Advocates c/o Gerald Schultz, Esq.
500 South River Street Qilkes-Barre, PA 18702 Thomas O'. Falli"an Correspondent
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Serving as a aublic terest ad hoc group to e
ciate the concerns of many citizens living in relative close proximity to Salem Township, Believing that the government has thus far failed to adeauately protect people from the risk of nuclear dangers, that might occur as a result of tbe operation of the Applicants'tomic power plant, Determined. to intervene in tbe interest of public health and. safety, The Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers hereby allege,
- contend, and. aver the following:
Whereas, the'nited. Transportation Union is hesitant to expose train workers to the dangers of industrial radiation ~bile transporting nuclear fuels to the Berwick atomic power plant, and else~here;
'dhereas, the Federal Railway Administration and. the Public Utility Commission presently have only a handful of inspectors to inspect the I
,thousands of miles of rail lines in Pennsylvania
'Thereas,,
because of,, among other things, tbe lack of Federal regulation, local communities are planning to legislatively ban or restrict the quantities of, radioactive fuel shipments sent by train or tr uck through their communities;
- Whereas,
'the Applicants plan to ship to and from Salem Township via rail an average of twenty shipments (each containing 18 'BNR fuel assemblies per cask) an average distance of one thousand miles; Therefore, because of the badly deteriorating r oadbeds and trackage of CON~AIL and the. other rail carriers, and the crushirig sixty-five ton weight of each fuel cask, the shipment of radioactive cargoes is definitely unsafe at any speed,;,
There should. be a moratorium placed on any" shipment of atomic fuel to the App11cants'alem plant until all railway road;oeds and trackage enroute are rebuilt and. inspected; Therefore, the Nuclear Reg latory Commission should. also place emphasis on ways and means of dealing with problems that will arise from derailments and collisions especially at:
grade crossings, over-.
- passes, under-passes,
- tunnels, bridges and barge crossings, as well. as
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