ML19029A380
| ML19029A380 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Salem  |
| Issue date: | 03/09/1978 |
| From: | Horner W Lower Alloways Creek Township, NJ |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML19029A380 (10) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & ) GAS COMPANY ) DOCKET NO. 50-272
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(Salem Generating Station, ) Unit #1) ) PETITION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE BY THE TOWNSHr"P OF LOWER A:j:..LOWA.YS CREEK I. Public Service Electric and Gas Company, herein-a fte+ referred to as "Licensee", has applied for an amendment to its facility operating license #DPR-70 by application for increased capacity fuel racks dated November 18, 1977 supplemented by request for amendment facility operating license #DPR-70 dated December 13, 1977.* ¥otice of said application, dated January 13, 1978, was given by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. II. Petitioner is a Municipal Corporation in the County of Salem and of the State of New* Jersey. It shall hereinafter be referred to as "Municipality". I __J
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spe:i;it. . fuel pool. Specifically I,, the Lioensee has
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the possibilities for disposing of the spent fuel outside of the U.S.A.
- 2. The reactor site on Artificial Island was originally approved and the Licensee was granted NRC permits and licenses to build and operate a nuclear facility for the production of electric power not for the purpose of storing spent fuel. Indeed, it was on this basis that the Township of Lower Alloways Creek issued a Certificate of Occupancy to the Licensee. In its application to enlarge its spent fuel pool, the Licensee has not established that it is not its intention to build additional spent fuel capacity even at such time as other repositories have become available. The Licensee should be required to assure that it will not convert the reactor site into a permanent repository for spent fuel.
- 3. While the Licensee has requested increased spent fuel storage capacity at its Salem Unit 1 it has not limited the use of such storage facility to fuel removed from Salem Unit 1. Storage of spent fuel from other units on or off Artificial Island therefore is a
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'i possibility and such storage creates many hazards not analyzed by the Licensee in its application. Included among these hazards are those created by unloading spent fuel casks.
- 4. The Licensee* has failed to demonstrate that the spent fuel can, in fact, be stored in the spent fuel pool for the contemplated period, or what may actually turn out to be a -*longer period, without deterioration and release of fission products .
. 5. The Licensee has not established*in its appli-cation-precisely what would.. be -done---wi.t.h spent fuel assemblies. i*f i because -of corrosion or :other- reasons, one or *mo.re -assemblies- began to leak __ fiss.i.on . . 13roducts..
6 *. The Licensee has failed to address the issue of the consequences of sabotage on the spent fuel pool, consequences which could be more severe in view of the higher fuel loading of the pool. Further, in this regard, the Licensee has not considered the need for increased surveillance or other security measures which should be required in view of the larger amount of fuel in the pool.
- 7. The Licensee has £ailed to consider the impact on*the spent £tiel cooling system of the increased cooling required with the pool filled to capacity with spent fuel. Further, the Licensee.has not shown what effect the increased heat* load will have on the Delaware-River.
- 8. The Licensee has failed to demonstrate_ that increa.sed reliance-- on-- the Residual *_Heat_ Removal System
-to- provi-cl.e- coolant £or the spent* fuel. under the pr9posed modification would not lessen the ability 0£ that system to-perform its safety*£unctions while serving- as~ a -ba-ekup~ heat~*sir-ik-_ far::-the -sp~nt- fuel. 9 *- A:lthbugh .. the . , man-u.-fa_c;::tur_e-r-'of'-the--spent- £uel c_p90l-* racks
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proper Baral plates_ have----been used~in- the-...: racks, the' Licensee has failed to establish that i t plans to under-take an independent verification of the rack construction. As a consequence, the Licensee plans to load fuel into racks whose material structure-is only assumed, not known to Licensee. As .an independent check on both structure of the racks and on the neutronics calculations 0£ the multiplication £actor, the Licensee should be
required to perform a l/M multiplication experiment whenever loading new or spent fuel into the racks.
- 10. While the Licensee plans an in-pool surveilla~ce program for verifying the condition of the Boral by removal and inspection of prototypical- Boral sheets, no schedule for such surveillance is established .
.11. The Licensee_ has not addressed the increased risk- of- consequences __ from releases-of radioactivity or criticality occurring in the modified spent fuel pool due to an accident resulting from projectiles generated -
by--natural -events,c such---as -earthquakes--orc,to-rnadoes, or by_ meehan:i-cal -fail ur-e-o;:, such--a13*-cturbine: failure.*
WHEREFORE, Petitioner, Lower Alloways Creek Township, respectfully requests that it be granted leave to intervene in this proceeding. Petitioner also requests that it be permitted to amend this Petition and *to add new contentions within a reasonable time. Dated: March J__, 1978 LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TOWNSHIP BY:Jf/4@µ~~ LLIAM -C. HORNER Its - A-ttorney
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- UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION IN THE MATTER OF )
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PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC
) DOCKET NO. 50-272
& GAS COMPANY
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{Salem Generating Station,~ Unit #1) ) AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF PETITION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE BY :..:TR&::TGWNS HIP-: OE- --LOWER- ALLOWAYS CREEK - SAMU-EL_ E. D.ONELS-BN-~: _being_:_- du-ly -sworn according 7 to law, deposes and says:
- 1. I--am a-,duly elected_member of the Township-Committee--of'.: the:-::Township_:---o£~Lower_Al-loways _creek .. __
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_I -am=-a-lse---the--Mayor
- o-f-~sa-i:~d;:,_'Municipali ty and _am-authori-zed::-=on:,-o,behalf2 of_::_ the~-:Township~of ,-Lower- Alloways-creek to make this -A--ffI-davit.
- 2. To the best of my information, knowledge and belie_f_ the facts. s.et for:th __ in. the __ foreg_oing PETITION FOR LEAVE --To -INTERVENE and the contentions contained therein are true and correct.
- 3. The aspect of the proceeding as to which intervention is desired is the request by licensee
for an amendment to its Facility Operating License No. DPR-70 by application for increased capacity fuel rods dated November 18, 1977 supplemented by request for an amendment*Facility Operating License No. DPR-70 dated December 13, 1977.
- 4. The facts relied upon as to both interest and contentions are set forth in the foregoing Petition For Leave To Intervene, all of which are true and correct to the best of my information, knowledge-and belie£* and T' adopt~ them --as---my-:cown- -statements.
_2_, 197~~c~ DATED: March _ Samuel"E. Donel-son, May9r
* -ir.ownsli1'R-o£:*--=L~owe*r- Alloways Creek-sworn and:Subscribed to be£6re ..me -this 7& da:y.
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