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Joins W/Licensee Request for Official Notice.President'S Radioactive Waste Mgt Program Consistent W/Intervenors Colemans & Lower Alloways Creek Positions Opposing Untried Option of High Density Spent Fuel Storage.W/News Article
ML18081B242
Person / Time
Site: Salem PSEG icon.png
Issue date: 02/20/1980
From: Onsdorff K
NEW JERSEY, STATE OF
To: Milhollin G
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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DIVISION OF PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCACY DIRECTOR.

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Gary L. Milhollin, Esquire Chainnan, Atomic Safety and Licensing Board 1815 Jefferson Street

Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Re: In the :Matter of Public Service Electric and Gas Company, et al. (Salem huclear Generating Station, Unit I)

Docket No. 50-272 Dear Chairnian Milhollin and Board Members:

Intervenors, Colemans, read with interest the "Request for Official Notice" recently submitted by the licensee in the above matter~ It is our view that the President's announced Program on Radioactive Waste Managemen_t is wholly consistent with the positions taken by both the Coleman's and Lower AllmJays Creek in opposing the heretofore untried cption of high density spent fuel storage at the Salem One reactor. Accordingly~ Intervcnors join in Public Service's Request for Notice and specifically note the follm\ing portions of the President's position paper for*. the Board's consideration:

"All levels of government share the responsibility for safe management and

. disposal of nuclear wastes.

Pending reviews required by the National~ :- *.: _>

Environmental Policy Act, an interim planning . : ,:. "' .

strategy for disposal of high level and * ..

  • transuranic waste has been adopted tha1;. __ **- .** .._- .:: .._~. .

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relies on mined geologic repositories. -

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program. \Vben four to five sites have been -**.' :;-:: .:.<-::.'.:. ; .:.. .-  ::*

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full-scale repository. The site for the fir.st * .--*:*.-*,

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. about 1985 and it should be operational by ~e * *-

mid-1990's.

The safe interim storage of corrnnercial spent fuel from nuclear power reactors will continue to be the responsibility of the utilities operating these plants until a pennanent geologic repository capability exists.

However, the Administration will continue to press for legislation to build or acquire limited spent fuel storage capacity at one or more

  • away-from-reactor (AFR) facilities for those . *
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spe~t fuel when the objectives of the U.S.

  • nonproliferation policy would be furthered.

With this combination of pennanent. disposal by the mid-1990 '5 and AFR's by the mid-1980's, the reracking of Salem One is clearly not required.

Moreover, due to its continuing unreliability, the proposal for high density spent fuel storage at the Salem One reactor fails to comport with the standards for safety also articulated by the President's program. A news article appearing in the Camden Courier Post on February 13, 1980 reported the continuing inability of Public Service to correct the leak at its Salem One, Spent Fuel Pool. We are relying solely upon news reports since licensee, while submitting material from the Office of the President, has not deemed it relevant apparently to apprise the Board and parties as to the ongoing efforts .* '. . '

to rectify the leaking spent fuel pool at this Salem facility. (Copy of Article* ..

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It now appears that consideration is being given to removing the spent. * ,.

fuel from the Salem One pool and transferring it to the empty pool at Salem. *_..:-::*

Two in order to gain better access to the leaking pool floor. Such a movement of fuel should provide the accurate occupational e:A-posure data which Intervenors .__. .-.

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posed in Intervenors' letter of January 28, 1980 as it is with supplying ***

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~~ W\\'ER ALLOWAYS CREEK ~ ?-!et:.l fSC'kS tised to ~: *.: OJ?erafi0n last sUinnief, has been ~eld" op *in th~ after- *_ _ --

b~ld spent radioactive fuel at tlie Saiem I nuclear power * -: math' of the Ma:~cb lW~ accid_ent a~~- ~l~ Isl~~ : -- - ***.* ..

pl~nl may h!lve to be removed from a leakiag s~orag~ .. nuclear generat_mg stations near Ramsburg. Pa. * :: * *

~nk to help scuba divers locate the problem's SQurce, , $a~~m I,yYas lice~ more than 2lk years ago, b~t it

~tility and government officials said yesterday. _. ** : ;:.: . has been plagued over the p~st 10 months b! te<;hn1~

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.i ne~e appea soi:ne isagreem n ° ov~ w heth~r the spent fuel i~lf would have~ .be ~k!IJ___ :-* *Movement of the racks - lifting them out - is a pos-

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~t along ~1th t~e_ r~c.ks during such fD operation.  ;

  • sibility, but \Ve haven't made~ decision on that yet," said

_-Mea?~~de, an off1c1al at the U.~. Nuclear Regulatory . PSE&G spokesman *Gene Murphy..

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~mm:.ss1on (NRC) h~dquarters in Beth~a. M~.* said * ~-: * -MurJ)hy said a such move. using a crane:tO lift the an N~C staff study wdl recommend t_hat ~e-~r at .. racks above the surface of the water-filled storage_tank,

.~ ac!Jace~t nuclear plant here. - Salem I~ ~_be le:aded

  • would not include removal ofanyof tbe-40 highly canta-w1th ur~m~m fuel an~ authon~ to test Qper~te at 5 . minated spent-fuel assemblies now held in the pool.

~rcent of 1~ g.eneratmg capacity.~~ study .1~-~o*~- , .._. :.Be sai4 ~e assemblies,,placed ther_e _last ~er

~mpleted w1th~ se_veral weeks, the_o1~~c~~! .~1~. _. -. _.:-:* _. -.. *.-after S3Jeri1 I's reactor was refueled, conld be shifted *

. *Alexander I>romenck, the NRC project.managerfor* around within the tank because only one section of the satem II, said the study - known as a Saf~ty ~alu~liori_ racks would be lifted oufat a: time, t_hen replaced _after Repon-willseUhestagefor!inalc91JSiderati~nbythe. : diveti- *ll>..sPect pQrtions*ofthe p001'~ s~ess s~
  • commission over whether to grant a fo~al,operating *,*finer. . * ! ,.. ** ~- *- ~ .
  • license for Salem II. The study is !O .be CO!PP1~ ~}~-*_:'.::, . * ~ r~rks.
  • however(eonflicted somewhat with matter of weeks, an NRC official at Bethesda saj4-: -*. :; *. . those of a local NRC official, who indicated_ t~ere was a
  • '*Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (PSE&G) b part-* *-_ ~ *.Chance that the fuel 'assemblies would have to ~~:eDi~~
  • oWner and designated operator of both plants,*'bat its*< .-.outas 'Nell.* --- . . . ~ -- . . . . . ~ .\J.--"'-1 licensing application"for Salem n, wbkh was re;;idy l<<-:~* *:; ~. - : . -* .*; **

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  • Continued from Page 1A pool's steel liner. Technicians also speNT"*,,.,._,_

"I* .suppose that possibility does Discovered Jan. 11, lt is cansing a week. rearranging the exist." said Leif Norrbolm, the nearly two gallons per hour of within the pool so that th~iifvi~~r-rn NRC'sresidentlnspectoratSalemI. slighUy radioactive water to &eep :could gain accesstoportior.s o l:IN......-~

  • But they (PSE&G) can't. do that from the pool into a bol~ing tank. -tank wall _normally_ blocked by (remove the fuel) without NRC ~water is being processed and re- them. . . .. - ...

approval." No req~est for such ~r- used at the plant, and NRC and ntil* But there is uncertainty' aver mission has been filed by the utility ity officials maintain it poses no whether this approach can give with the NRC. Removal of just the danger to public health or the technicians an adequate look at all holding racks would require no NRC environment. ' weld seams in the pool, particularly approval. _ *. . ' - Officiab stillsuspect the problem tb<>Se underneath the racks. *

  • If the fuel were* to be removed, developed along a tiny fault in a
  • Norrholm said the divers. wear-Norrbolm added, it could be sealed welded seam between two steel ing specially sealed wetsuits and in "heavy casks" unUl work on the platas thatform part of the concrete *numerous devices designed to gauge pool is completed or possibly placed *pool's internal liner. - levelS of radioactivity, started temporarily ~
  • a_ similar pool at But a variety of Inspection tecli- * . going into the pool In shilt5 last
  • Salem u. Diques, including a two-man team of __ week. . _.. _ .. : .  : ...: ....- ~ -. : .:

The consideration 'of rack. divers equipped with sophisticated .. _... Temperatures of -tbe constantly removal is the latest step in undenrater sonar devices, have . circu_lating water in the tank nuctu-

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