ML18347A888
| ML18347A888 | |
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| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 02/01/1977 |
| From: | Tanner H State of MI, Dept of Natural Resources |
| To: | Rowden M Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML18347A888 (3) | |
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STATE OF MICHIGAN
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llAL RESOURCES COMMISSION
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M. LAITALA WILLIAM G. MILLIKEN, Governor
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'ARY *H. WHITELEY IAN L. WOLFE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES STEVENS T. MASON BUILDING, LANSING, MICHIGAN 48926
~LES G. YOUNGLOVE HOWARD A. TANNER, Director DOCKET NUMBER P..ROD. & JJ1l1l. Wm.2:0-~S'~
Mr. Marcus A. Rowden, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Rowden:
February 1, 1977 Recently your agency has pub 1 i c noticed a proposed *amendment to the faci 1 i ty operating license of the Consumers Power Company's Palisades Nuclear Power Plant.
Our Department received this document on January 14, 1977, several days after the close of receipt of any requests for a publi.c hearing on this modification.
At this point, our Department has not determined that an official intervention in these proceedings is necessary, however, what does concern me is the manner in which your agency is approaching this problem of li"mited fuel rod storage capacity at operating reactors. This problem as I see it is not unique to the Palisades facility nor indeed to other facilities in the State of Michigan.
The problem is national in scope in that all operating nuclear reactors are pre~ently or shortly will be approaching storage limits for spent fuel ele-ments.
This problem has been brought about by lack of approval or development of a commercial reprocessing industry in this country.
The solution to this problem that your agency proposes, (i.e., a site by si.te increase in capacity}
may not be the best course of action.
First -0f all, there are no assurances that*reprocessing will be available commercially by the 1985 target date.
If this is the case, then the storage capacity will have to be expanded further or the fuel rods shipped to other areas. This latter probability concerns me greatly since the corrosion to the fuel rods after some 14 plus years of storage could seriously impact on safe transportation.
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Because of the uncertainties in the waste storage and reproce~s~ng,-~t is**
my reconunendation that your agency consider this problem on *a national level and prepare an EIS which will outline alternative courses of action and-the consequences thereof.
In this regard, it may be more desirable to transport these fuel rods to a federally operated storage faci 1 ity for.interim stcfrage *.-. "'
and subsequent disposal or reprocessing.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE 50-255 I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document(s) upon each person designated on the official service list compiled by the Office of the Secretary of the Cor.:::i.ission in this proceeding in accordance with the requirc:nents of Section 2.712 of 10 CTR Part 2 -
Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear. Regulatory Cor.~'1ission' s Rules and Regulations.
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UNITED STATE.S OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY (Palisades Plant)
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SERVICE LIST Samuel W. Jensch, Esq., Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Dr. David B. Hall Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
- P.O *. Box 1663 Los Alamos, New Mexico 87544 Office of the Executive Legal Director Co.unsel for NRC Staff U.S.Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 George F. Trowbridge, Esq~
Shaw*, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge 1800 "M" Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20036 Judd L. Bacon, Esq.
Legal Department Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 43921 Marvin F. Metge, Esq.
Gorham, Adams, White & DeYoung One North LaSalle Street Chicago, Illinois 60602 Honorable Jerome Maslowski Assistant Attorney General State of Michigan Lansing, Michigan 48902 Honorable Curtis G. Beck Assistan.t Attorney General State of Michigan Lansing, Michigan 48913 Docket No.s(s) 50-255 Mr. Jerry Sarno Township Supervisor Route 1, Box 10 Covert, Michigan 49043 Eric V. Brown, Sr., Esq.
Brown, Colman & DeMent 125 West Walnut Street Kalamazoo, Michigan 49007 Mr. Ron McCandlis 5619 Clato Kalamazoo, Michigan 49004 Joseph T. Sobota, M.D.
2312 Glenwood Drive Kalamazoo, Michigan 49001 Lewis D. Drain, Esq.
Miles, Mike, Meyers, Beckett and Jones Waters Building, Suite 311 Grand Rapids, Michigan 49052 Myron M. Cherry, Esq.
One IBM Plaza Suite 4501 Chicago, Illinois 60602 Harold P. Graves, Esq.
Vice President and General Counsel Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 O.K. Petersen, Esq.
Senior Attorney Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201