ML19029A709
| ML19029A709 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Salem  |
| Issue date: | 04/03/1976 |
| From: | Fisher R - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| Download: ML19029A709 (6) | |
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4/J/78 BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD PANEL In the Matter of PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & Docket No. 50-272 GAS COMPANY, et al.
(Salem Nuclear Generating Station, Unit No. 1)
REQUEST FOR A FORMAL ADJUDICATORY HEARING OR PETITION FOR LEAVE TO INTERVENE Pursuant to the notice in the Federal Register Vol 43, No. 27,
- Wednesday, February 8, 1978, which refers to the request of Public Service Electric and Gas to amend the provisions in the Technical Specifications to permit increase in fuel storage capacity from 264 to 1,170 fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pool of the Salem Nuclear Generating Station Unit No. 1. -
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Subsequently the NRC held a curious meeting in Hancock Bridge a few miles from the site of Salem I & II and Hope Creek I & II. A very few copies of the application were d1stributed there. The evening was one in which much was revealed. The NRC noted that about 50 plants had made application for expansion of spent fuel storage.
That the same criteria were used by the NRC to evaluate all these plants. None were denied. The sane problems of ultinate solution must have gone evaded at all these other sites. Therefore, it is
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2 with fore-ordained hopelessness that we ammend our petition to Never"the~ess hoping intervene.
1 that some-one within the NRC will see their responsibility to make decisions based upon the ultimate realit~ not just the narrowly interpreted rules of practice. We believe our interest is clearly self-evident. If the goals and concerns of an organization with respect to a particular issue will not suffice to confer standing to participate as a party then the NRC Rules of Practice desperately need revision. Very well, leave that aside. Then the trustee signing this petition to intervene~
Ruth Fisher, in particular, will be adversely affected by the pro-ceeding. Further, while I do not live in the immediate vicinity of the plant, I have in fact been attracted and incensed by educational advertisements for the Second Sun" (a ferry boat once docked by the site of Salem I & II - a semi-slick presentation of the glories of nuclear power housed within.) Class trips were urged upon area schools by state-wide ads in a publication of School Board Notes 11 and other magazine_s. It was an easy "lesson plan. True the boat and signs may have been removed now that the plant is operating off and on, but no warnings have gone up instead.
Even if we did not travel to the site, we (and in particular, Ruth Fisher) may be affected by low-level radiation from the site.
The appl~cation of PSE & G states:
There are no potential effects on the environment outside the Fuel Handling Building that would result from the proposed modifications and construction work.
In addition, there are no adverse effects that will occur either on.site or off site that can be associated with an increase in the number of fuel assemblies stored in the pooL
3 An apparent contradiction in the same application PSE & G states:
The radioactivity of the spent fuel pool purification system demineralizes resin increases only by a small factor due to the increase in storage capacity.
Radioactive gases may be released from the spent fuel pool directly into the atmosphere of the Fuel Handling Building. This air is exhausted through particulate and charcoal filters. The major radioactive gas that may be released during spent fuel storage is Ki-85 with a half-life of 10.76 years.
How safe I may be in Cape May County or closer from this radio-activity cannot be validated;for there is no documentation to show how this low-level radiation will affect near-by populations.
Ours then is a particularized interest.
Our contentions were very simple but simply cannot be satisfied, just dismissed! The Sun People contend: ~orthwith they are numbere~)
- 1. Our health may be impaired by low-level radiation. How one~s health is so impaired can be explored at the time of hearing.
(Sternglass, et all)
- 2. South Jersey remains ill-prepared to store nuclear waste on this site or anywhere nearby. A superficial scanning of USGS maps of South Jersey indicates all the adjacent area is near sea-level.
Clearly storage of a poisonous matter no matter how cleverly encased is more of a ha~rd when it cannot be embedded with the earth.
- 3. Sabotage near a metropolitan area. Sabotage anywhere is a knov..'11 problem for nuclear power. !'No facts are set forth to explain how or why the assertion might be true or how risk of sabotage re-lates particularly to an expanded fuel pool, 11 the NRG states. We cannot explore the minds of saboteurs here, but if groups can hold
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as hostage busloads of people 1 simply imagine how easy and how high the stakes if you hold hostage the populations of Wilmington and Phil-adelphia. We will dismiss our contention that evacuation plans are confused. Of what concern would evacuation be in such circumstances?
- 4. Our contention and charge that no clear workable plans for handling, storage or reprocessing of radioactive wastes exists remains.
The application states:
Currently,. spent fuel is not being reprocessed on a commercial basis in the United States. In addition, spent fuel storage at an off-site facility is not available at the present time nor in the foreseeable future*.
The meeting March 15, 1978 in Hancock Bridge revealed by discussion that the foreseeable future may be hundreds of years or thousands.
Therefore we are talking about permanent storage on this site.
We contend that regardless of what previous appeal Boards have held and how many power companies have denied that this is the issue, it is now time for the Licensing Board and the staff to address itself to the issue of long-term storage. The people of South Jersey must know that they are being used to store waste that no one else will take.
It may be a political discussion in the end. We may have to condemn one of ou.r states to be our nuclear reposi tor"Yj but there is anothe.r choice. We do not need to continue to generate electrical power with nuclear power. The price is too high.
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- UNITED STATES Cr~ A~*lERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY co:-r-nss IO'N In the Hatter of )
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PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND ) Docket No.(s) 50-272 GAS CO:MPALTI )
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(Salem Nuclear Generating St:ation,)
Unit 1) )
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CEP'"TI?ICAlE o~* SECT5.:-ICE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing docum~nt(s) upon each person designated on the official service llst com~ile~ by the Office of the Secretary of the CorGrilission in t{-, L proceed in.; i::t accordance \Jith the requirements of Section 2.712 of 10 CtR ?arc 2 -
Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear Regulatory Com;nission's Rules a,rld.
Regulations.
Dated at.Washington, U.C. this
/(J. t/J day. of l(J{)/'--0G 197 f.
~v Secretary of the
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of )
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PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS ) Docket No,(s) 50-272 COMPANY )
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(Salem Nuclear Generating Station, )
Unit 1) )
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SERVICE LIST Gary L. Milhollin, Esq. William C. Horner, Esq.
1815 jefferson Street 67 Market Street Madison, Wisconsin 53711 Salem, New Jersey 08079 Mr. Glenn 0. Bright R. William Potter, Esq.
Atomic Stafety and Licensing Board Assistant Deputy Public Advocate U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Department of the Public Advocate Washington, D.C. 20555 P.O. Box 141 Trenton, New Jersey 08601 Dr. James*C. Lamb, III 313 Woodhaven Road Mr. Alfred C. Doleman, Jr.
Chapel Hill, North Carolina *27514 Ms. Eleanor G. Coleman 35 "K" Drive Counsel for NRC Staff Pennsville, New jersey 08070 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, . D. C. 20555 Ms. Ruth Fisher "The Sun People" Troy B *. Conner, Jr .., Esq. Alternate Energy Advocates Conner, Moore and Corber South Dennis, New Jersey 08245
- 1747 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20006 Salem Free Public Library 11,2 West Broadway Honorable Mark L. First Salem,. New Jersey 08079 Deputy Attorney General Department of Law & . Public Safety P.O. Box 141 Trenton, New Jersey 08070