ML18026A384
| ML18026A384 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 02/24/1982 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Nelligan J HOUSE OF REP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8203110105 | |
| Download: ML18026A384 (22) | |
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Please be assured that the health and safety of the public is the number one priority in all the actions taken by the NRC during the licensing process and such consideration was not neglected in this case.
For clarity and ease of reading, the enclosure provides answers to the questions in the order they were presented in your letter.
Sincerely, (signed) VlilliamJ. Dircks llilliam J. Dircks Executive Director for Operations Fncl osure:
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BMatosko Thank you for your letter to Chairman Palladino dated December 14, 1981 presenting several questions about the recent licensing hearings and emergency preparedness for the Susquehanna Nuclear Power Plant.
Answers to your questions are provided in the enclosure.
Your letter to Mr. Carlton Kammerer, Director, Office of Congressional Affairs, dated December 22, 1981 was responded to separately by my letter of January 26, 1982.
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SUSQUEHANNA STEAM ELECTRIC STATION CONCERNS 1.
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Were the licensing hearings conducted in a responsible
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission rules provide for meaningful public input into the hearing process primarily through the procedure of intervention as a party in the proceeding.
As a party, a member of the public is afforded the opportunity to frame contentions on matters within the Licensing Board's authority, and to address the issues raised by those contentions and the contentions of other intervenors, both through the presentation of their own witnesses and cross-examination of other parties'itnesses.
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- rules, the Atomic Safety and L'icensing Board is restricted in its operating license hearings to issues raised by the parties or any additional issues which the Board determines involve serious safety, environmental or common defense and security matters which must be resolved.
The Board conducted the Susquehanna evidentiary hearing in accordance with those rules.
In Susquehanna, the following four petitioners were granted leave to intervene:
Citizens Against Nuclear Dangers, Susquehanna En-vironmental Alliance, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear
- Power, and Ms. Colleen Marsh.
Ms. Marsh did not appear at, or 'participate in, the hearing.
The other parties will have. the opportunity to raise
their concerns regarding the Board's conduct in any appeal of the Board's decision which they may decide to take to the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board.
In addition, Commission rules provide for limited appearance sessions designed to permit citizens to register their opinions with respect to a pending application for an operating license.
In the Susquehanna proceeding, the Hoard held several such sessions and heard approximately one hundred citizens express their opinions on the application.
Although statements by citizens given at such limited appearance sessions are not afforded evidentiary weight by the Board, they are considered and accounted for by the Board in determining whether additional issues raised in limited appearance statements should be litigated in the evidentiary hearing.
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What is the standard procedure for alerting the public to the evacuation
- plans, and was this procedure properly carried out?
(One intervenor at the hearings alleged that the evacuation plans were not published or were withheld prior to the hearings).
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All correspondence received by the NRC concerning nuclear license applications is provided to local public document rooms for review by interested members of the public and this procedure was followed for the emergency plans for the Susquehanna facility.
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at a prehearing conference before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, conducted in klilkes-Barre, PA in August 1981 to discuss admitted contentions to the proceeding, revised copies of the Lucerne and Columbia County emergenCy plans were distributed to representatives of each intervenor group having emergency prepared-ness concerns.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency
( FEMA) is charged with the responsibility for reviewing and approving offsite emergency response
- plans, and provides the HRC with findings and determinations on offsite emergency preparedness.
As part of its review process, FEMA requires that a'ublic meeting be held to discuss offsite emergency response plans.
Comments arising from the public meeting are considered by FEHA in developing its findings and determinations.
Such information is also available at local public document rooms.
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To what extent will emergency crews be trained and how often will practice drills occur?
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Although the training of emergency crews is reviewed by FEHA during its review of offsite radiological emergency response plans, this matter was the subject of admitted contentions at the hearing for which considerable testi-mony was offered, and hence was part of the public record.
In summary, this testimony indicated that training for emergency crews is provided on a local and State level for a variety of funct-ional emergency services which would be utilized in the event of an emergency at a nuclear facility and such training programs are des-cribed in respective State and local emergency plans.
In addition to the local training, emergency crews may receive training through courses offered by the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency or by FEMA.
The Pennsylvania Power and Light Company also provides training to local emergency management
- agencies, and to key police, and fire and rescue services which may be expected to respond.
This training is provided on an annual basis.
The HRC staff has found that the portions of the training proposed by the applicant are acceptable.
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Why is there no written plan for the evacuation of school childen?
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Planning efforts to protect school children around the Susquehanna facility are under various stages of development.
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency is aiding the counties in school emergency plan development and has indicated that completion is targeted for February 1982.
FEMA will review these school plans and report on the adequacy of such plans when it provides its findings and determina-tions to the HRC.
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What provisions have been made regarding the handling and storage of nuclear waste at the Susquehanna facility?
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Each reactor unit at Susquehanna has a spent fuel pool containing high density fuel storage racks designed to provide storage for one-fourth of a reactor core per year for approximately ten years plus 10 various reactor internal components, e.g. control rods, control rod guide tubes, defective fuel storage containers, and "out-of-core" shipping containers.
The spent fuel pool in each unit is interconnected via a transfer canal which allows flex-ibility in storing, should the need arise.
Low level wastes that are treated by the Susquehanna facility's solid radwaste treatment system are those which are shipped offsite for disposal.
NRC regulations do not require onsite storage cap-ability for such low level waste.
However, storage areas are pro-vided for dry wastes and packaged contaminated equipment.
Filled wet waste containers will be stored in covered concrete compartments.
According to the applicant's estimates, there is sufficient storage space for more than one month's anticipated waste volume for normal operation of both reactor units.
Dry wastes, which contain very low levels of radioactivity, will be stored in 55 gallon P
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The application is currently under review by the staff.
The holding facility is designed to store up to eight reactor-years worth of plant-generated waste (dry radioactive waste and dewatered solidified waste).
The dry waste will include contaminated paper, trash, clothing, small equip-ment and filters.
The solidified waste will include wet, dewatered waste in the form of evaporator bottoms, resins, and sludges that have been immobilized in cement and contain less than 0.5 percent free standing water.
The facility may also be used to temporarily store large pieces of contaminated plant equipment.
1 Your letter also asked for an explanation of how the NRC will weigh publ'ic concerns in the licensing decision.
As previously described, the public has the opportunity to express its concerns to the Licensing Board both through participation as intervenors in the hearing and at limited appearance sessions.
As a matter of information, a hearing is not required by law unless there is an, expression of a concern by the public in the form of intervention, as occurred at Susquehanna.
In the case of intervening parties, their contentions, become the very subject of the hearings, and the Board is obligated, to resolve the issues they raise.
The Board's decision is, of course, subject to review by both the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board and by the Commission.
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