ML18228A119

Letter Enclosed Correspondence Related to Leaks Discovered in Fuel Pits

ML18228A119
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Site:	Turkey Point
Issue date:	04/26/1976
From:	Cantus H US Energy Research & Development Administration
To:	Kammerer C Office of Congressional Affairs
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UNITED STATES ENERGY RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D.C.

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+I't< 2 I I976 Mr. Carlton Kanaerer, Director Office of Congressional Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Cammssion 1717 H Street, NW.

Washington, D.C.

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Dear Mr. KaIImerer:

Enclosed is correspondence from Dr. Thomas J. Ratchford regarding an inquiLxy from Congressman Nilliam'eman to Congressman Mike McCormack.

Since the nature of this inquiry relates to the activities of the Nuclear Regulatory Camnission rather -than the Energy Research and Development Administration, it is requested that proper action be taken by your office.

Ne are advising Dr. Ratchford of this referral by copy of this letter.

Sincerely,

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8. Hollister Cantus, Director Office of Congressional Relation+I

Enclosure:

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Oscar Stradinger Tom Ratchford Attached correspondence I will appreciate your as'sistance in preparing a response to the attached letter from Cong.

Lehman for Chairman McCormack at your earliest convenience.

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203l5 (202) 22~2!1 DI5TRICTO/TICCI 2020 N.E. 1630 STRTTT SOITC308 NORDI MIRIIIG~ FLORIO* 33 (305) 045 3518 March 22, l976 Honorable Mike McCormack Chairman Subcommittee on Energy Research, Development and Demonstration B374 Rayburn HOB Dear Mike=

X am enclosing an article from the Miami Herald which was recently brought to my attention.

Xt concerns leaks discovered in the fuel pits of the Florida Power and Light Company's Turkey Point power plant.

I would appreciate your directing your staff to take a look at this article and provide 'me with some in-formation which could assist me in dealing with the fears

'and concerns my constituents have expressed.

Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

With best wishes, X am Sincerely, WL/mar.

Enclosure WILLIAMLEHMAN Member of Congress

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. plant's:spent fuef. pits.heavily The pits',are inulti story, bunker-Ronald fue) has been stored in leaking pits shielded st'ructures of concrete and like.structures-~ojoinlng the main mary.

t.the Turkey point power plant stainless steel designed for the tern-reactor. 4uiidinos at the power The near ifiami for more than tw'o porary storage of "hot" used fuel'lant,.located on the shores of Bis-contro~

years 'ith the full knowledge of after it is-'removed from the plant's icavne Bay 25 miles south of Miami.

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two reactors'.,':

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portion of 'the plant's'fuel no longer useful for swift and the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

ALTHOUGH'T/IE-v:ater now is producing electricity. but still at Ie-step an s

'ome radioactivity already h0s peing:.collected and;filtered t'o re-thai radioqctive levels is unload-

'escaped'from the plant as a result move ladioactive cOntamination,'at-ed from the reactor Ford of tlie leak. FPL officials say that'empts to'plug the'leaks have been as an i the. releases of radiation have'been,uns ccesSful so far"....,,

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<<Jte'pair "efforts.has'e beenIiam,,-.;nium:and;other. radioactive materi>>

ated.wi publ c or to plant'workers.,': " pered.by".the intens radioactivity':

als enca'sed"i)iundles of'ng,

'ut the company'adn;its that ra-inSitfe'he pits,'w'h:ch makes ~t,-lm-'er."rods',"then;is placed Inside th pits.and flooded with water to help deputy control the'releas'e:of heat and:radi-S pencei

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pi'ts" A.company spokesman says that the pits are unbekevably secure jt56 LVO11CQH847stC3'X EU)161't.@>l~jph<3 and constrdicted to the same stan-

'ards as the main reactor buildings.

For a man who isn't running for anytIiing, Hubert. Humphrey is show-But leaks first were, detected in

~ino up prominently in a lot cf piac s. Page )7A..-y'.- --.;.

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In backyards, golF courses, high-rise apartments and even cocktail The compan'y didnepair the'lcunges, the itchy qilestion keeps popping up,'XVIiy mosquit~ls in <<<<h?

leak,

.th n because It considered Dade of'ficials say that for a few days at least, the bite 3s"o~ Page 10. 'hem.to be "mmor."

TODQY THE rate of leakaoe is 90 gallons'an hour approximat~

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shot a 85 for a 201 total, 15 under Par. Pae1C...,

discovemd m late 1975. The rate of active water there has breached s i dreams were not on'ly the pit's.steel liner, but.a

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.85-65, at Jacksonville. Page 1C.

. Turn to Page 14ACo).1 9'ogfish-Xasm XCesori au8.8nly Choice.

It's seafood you like? Have a nice plate of do fish. It's nutritious. It

might even taste good. Get used to it: The seafood you'e used to eating is

~ becoming increasingly scarce as. ocean resources are steadily depleted.

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s The storm blown up by the growing scandals of business payoffs

abroad could cost American industry several billions of dollars worth of INDIAi<<ITOQ~ Fla Ju~t in export sales yearly and wipe out thousands of domestic jobs. Page 1F,

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