ML18059B187

Expresses View Re R Landsman Point Made in Note to I Selin on Palisades Site,W/Regard to Licensing of Dry Cask Storage

ML18059B187
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Site:	Palisades
Issue date:	08/12/1994
From:	Sinclair M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Landsman R NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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plams aL those si.tcs which have totally different foundatfon construction requirements.

P. QQj In addition, I know that we cannot ignore the signals from natural phenomenon that occur such as the seiches on the Greiit Lakes which are caused b.y small earthquakes.

F*or example, the: Midland n-plant construction* was located in the flood plain area of the Saginaw Valley.

Its design criteria, u spelled out throughout the documents of both the utility and the NRC, was geared to the historic memory of a 100 yeu flood for this a.rea--the same as that of the pumps and wasr.e treatment fadlilies of the Dow Chemical Co. which are located immediately across the river.

Hut in 1986, this area hiid a totally unexpected and unpredictable 500 year flood, that submerged the pumps of the Dow waste trea.tment facilities and, for the first time. *in its history. production at the Dow Chemical Co. was shut down because of a natural disaster. A news story at the tim~ mentioned the fact that the* pump area at lhc nuclc.ar sit~ was also completely submerged.

If there had been an operating reactor there at the time, no pumps would have been operable for cooling. lt could have been an overwhelming disaster for the Great Lakes.

Similarly. we cannot predict whether the small eanhquakes that are known to occur in the Great Lakes may become much larger.

l am also enclosing a letter I wrote to Mr. R. Fenech of Consumers Power Co. in which I describe.. other concerns that some of us have with some aspects of the design of the VSC.24 cask.

We need to have more verifiable information on these issues.

Your bein~ senr to review the Palisades site was a wise and responsible move on the pan of the NRC.

cc.. Dr. Ivan Selin *. Chairman, NRC.

• John Zwolinski, NRC Valdas A.darnkus1 EPA Attorney Genera) Fr~nk Kelley Senator Carl Levin Senator Don RiegJe Congressman John Dine:ell Congrcssm'ln Dctvc. Ci:t~p Mr. Robert Fen~ch, Consumers Power Co.

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& RE*G\\ON "BARBARA WAJ,TERS Confidence erodes about nuclear ~torage

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• In the n~d', l~~e Jewels or rossl~s trom iO~e ~~c~en~

• etvfl11auon,*~efre all that remain or the ho1'~c.. * *....

Bltl or bricht tile, aiphalt brolrcn to pleces and the!\\ : " i 1Mded.1mo~th; rtrftlil'\\i orroundation JlOW have no I

ldenti~ now.pe.)'ond a rock you pick up casually on a w1lk1lon2 LB*e lflcnlRan, turn from side to side in I

your hand, an~.t.oss aside.

• ~11st 11 deca~e aeo, the house sat on the ell!!' above L'I~ wchigal\\ abou~ three miles so\\lth orthe So1.11.h.

Haven PiUr, *~~eb~d)"s"dreem ho1ue.

But tl'leee ii't the d1.in11.shorci cf Like !i!lchlpn;~t

• once i.s l'ragil{and*a& poweri\\il ii *~h*!"t on e.art.h,'

.. n1 wll'ldsbrutne a!'ld tne dunes sigh ind shllt.

• and the drvams or man tl:at seemed 10 permaneM.

1hltt with them..

• One &ur.1merlne l\\ouse was wnole.

• Then~ 1uhe 1horellne gradual!;; ~qan,ged, ~e..

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kitchen otthe houH gaped opt11, batrof 1L.\\'t\\oor.

dangling doWI\\ lhe cli ft", the hon":c)' lniimec)' oh plG~e

\\l,!nere peopl~ h.ad 'tood wun i"S dishes arid cootins S\\lm!Tlel"timuw.eetcom violated..

• in excr'\\lciatlnt slow motion oyer ihe 1ears as the W311S (ell, tile place be~ame 8 doll hOUSe, the lake an~

winds theoiiU&\\ player.

Tltnllerand footings becarr.e de~ri&. Whole walls cl11ns \\0 Ulc ~lif l'or whole sum1t1cl'li 1 i.$ lf a n~w howt c:ovla ~me how grow there.

l keep thinking orthal ho\\lse evuytlme anc>ther emergeney develo~~ at the Pall&;idu Nuelea.r Plant-'

tltat \\lie are as~~d dQes ttot endanur the riubllc.

We've been.ass1ired that the cerne~t s:latform on * *. ~";

• whkh nuclear Wine!* litcnc1 at Pal 1sades Is absolutet.v &art*

• And rcr now: it probably Is.

But I can't rorgcl lhe house, or the ~eel or the sand slipp:ng rrom under my reet as rve cl~mbed up the dur.<:, grabbing aL lhe sand and lau~1ng at how somC?thing so massive c:an lit *o flu ad, $0 impermaneo.L A rcw h.undrcd feel awa)' is wasto so tcix ir. I.hat ope seientis!., a political ~QMlive and the anUthes1s or an environmentali$1..1Dld me lt would t.ake 25().000. *..

Years - give or take a rew tens or thousands - \\0 reco\\*erirthere was a leakage.

And lhere will be one, u1tJruatet)', 1mless Ule ~as!u are rnoved.

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• Thetl's up lo the federal g~mme~t, v:ihlch h2~

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been as :shilling as I.he sand In es.b'bhsh1nz a cenlr21iicd plaee where statt~ can 1lore their nuclear

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Hthe reds delay, the casks could oy~rheat. 'welds wili corrode" and "radioactive materials which rem a in hazardous for tens oru1ousands or yea.~ will evcnlually be released nom the rallJ";'~ a'ph)'sitist and nuclear wil3!.t= raearc:'her wanitd i.n a.n cffid~vlt relei3cd inMerch.

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• One colossal delay tia~ alreaey ~~n ~n11ouneed, pnhaps bumriint an)' rAileral solution into the next

• rniturY - vnless the irneral p11b1lc sta;U applying pJli!ical pressurt.

One of my ravorile places is South Haven and lt.e du:m lhat stretcn south or it.

one or my favorite CableJ b about the emperor ~ho wun: no clolhe~

His croaic.:; h;ad convinced bim he '1."1S wearing silk so lecknic:atly flawless that he t"ouldn't se~ it. Only those who were very royal and verY j nronned cou Id pr~cci\\'~ how mal""elous be locked, they said.

E\\'Cl/bod)* s311i* hr '**as n~kcd. But they were filled with sel r-<1oubl and tooke~ on silently as I.he emperor..

wal~ernr Ionic~ n:rkPd to rr,e_

And a lot of us feel exposed.

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