ML18142A589

In Connection with AEC Hearing to Consider Issuance of a Construction Permit to Rochester Gas & Electric Power Corp. to Construct a Reactor to Be Located on South Shore of Lake Ontario, Wayne County, Ny

ML18142A589
Person / Time
Site:	Ginna
Issue date:	05/22/2018
From:	Ingraham H State of NY, Dept of Health
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Download: ML18142A589 (5)

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Statement For The Record By Hollis S.

Ingraham, M.D.

Commissioner New York State Department of Health In Connection With The United States Atomic Energy Commission Hearing To Consider Issuance Of A Construction Permit To Rochester Gas And Electric Power Corporation To Construct A Pressurized Water Reactor To Be Located On The South Shore Of Lake

Ontario, Town Of Ontario, Wayne County, New York The New York State Department of Health is conducting an analysis of the Brookwood Nuclear Power Reactor Site located in Wayne County on the south shore of Lake Ontario.

Representatives of the Bureaus of Radiological Health Services, Water Resource Services and Air Pollution Control Services, have reviewed the "Preliminar Facility Description And Safety Analysis Report";" and supplements thereto prepared by the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation and submitted to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as Exhibit D in support of their application for a permit to construct t

a pressurized water reactor.

Nuclear power reactors are of interest particularily to the Department of Health of the State of New York because of its public health responsibility in the field of ionizing radiation, water pollution, and air pollution control.

Staff members of the Health Department have met with representatives and consultants of the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission, and the U.S. Public Health Service to review the plant design as it relates to environmental releases.

The comprehensive Safet Anal sis Re ort prepared by the Rochester Gas and Electric Corporation has facilitated the review of the environmental I

considerations relating to plant releases.

Staff members of the Health Department, with extensive help from local health departments, have partially completed a comprehensive environmental survey within 25 miles of the site.

The survey when completed will provide information helpful in formulating the limits upon routine plant discharges to the environment and should be valuable in developi5g stand-by plans for protecting life and property in the unlikely

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event of an accident.

We will supply the results of our survey to the full-time local health departments, to the applicant>

and to the 'Atomic Energy Commission staff for this purpose.

The survey to date has provided data on population density, agriculture~

surface water supplies, and live stock for most oF Wayne and Monroe Cpunti'es and for the northern portion of Ontario. County.

The major characteristics of the surveyed area as determined by the survey arei 1.

The population within a 25 mile radius is approximately 616>000 persons with more than 5(g of the population residing within the City of Rochester.

About 6,200 persons of this total population reside within a 5 mile radius of the site.

Other than the City of Rochester, the larger populated areas are concentrated in the suburban towns about the City of Rochester

'nd in the Village of Newark, with a population of 12,800 located southeasterly of the site.

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The Ontario Water District is the nearest public water supply securing water" from Lake Ontario.

The intake is located 1.1 miles east of the site and serves a population of over 3,000 people.

The water treatment plant consists of chemical coagulation, f'ltration and chlorination.

Three other public water su(ply intakes are east of the site and located at a

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distance of'pproximately 6.5, 12.5 and 15.3 miles.

Three public water supply intakes are located to the west of the site at a

distance of 16, 17 and 24 miles, respectively.

These seven water intakes within 26 miles of the site securing water from Lake Ontario serve an estimated population of 240,000 people.

These pUblic water, supplies 'securing water from Lake Ontario provide at least filtration and chlorin'ation.

A proposed water intake 6 miles I

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west of the site may:serve the Town of Webster and the Monroe

'ounty Water Authority.

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Lake Ontario is used for recrhational purposes including bathing, boating and fishing.

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There are seven milk producing dairy farms with approximately 210 dairy cattle within 5 miles of the site.

Two of these farms are located within 3$ miles in a south and',southeasterly direction from" the site.

Thirty-two milk receiving and processing plants "ere'ithin 25 miles of'.the'site.

None"of'he'plants are within 5 miles.

The 32 milk processing and receiving plants handle 479>000 quarts of milk daily.

Ma)or agricultural production within 25 miles of the site includes the growing of apples,

pears, and cherries.

From the 1959 census>

Wayne County ranks,third ini the nation'n quantity of apples grown ahd fifth in the'ation for production of cherries.

I Approximately TO@ of the land area is devoted to agricultural or dairy activities'ome 124 food processing companies are within the study area.

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, The applicant does not estimate the amount of routine gaseous and liquid environmental discharges of radioactivity, although it is indicated that these 0

discharges will be within the limits of Title 10> Part 20, of the Code of Federal

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recognized the need for consideration of total intake t)rough air, water and food in testablishing release limits for this facility.

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of radioactivity to the environment within"appropriate le'vels and the Department is I

prepared to cooperate with the Commission. and the applicant in evaluahting and l

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We believe that a surveillance program adequate to evaluate the radiological releases can be developed.

This Department will be glad to cooperate in I

t reviewing, the program and to assist in its implementation.

The State Health Department will continue to review'he information developed and submitted by the applicant for purposes of the final Safet Anal sis

~Re ort, including the emergency procedures to be developed.

We have discussed this matter with repxesentatives of the New-York I

State Conservation Department and it is agreed that the proposed facility can be operated without harmful radiological effects to the fish and wildlife resources of the IState of New York.

'I The Brookwood Site is located in an area with relatively low f

ipopulation density and moderate to heavy agricultural usage.

The Preliminar'afet Anal sis Re ort and plant description have taken these circumstances into account and I

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provide, in our opinionq the basis of design'f a nuclear power plant at this site r

which may be operated without'ndue '.hazard'to'ife and health of the people of the State I

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