ML19210D178
| ML19210D178 | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 10/30/1979 |
| From: | Oneill J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| Download: ML19210D178 (6) | |
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I an John Patrick O'Neill i; and. as a permanent resident of Burdickville, Michigan, which is within 50 miles of the Big Rock Nuclear Power Plant.
I support nyself by working in the 7(codcock Rehturant as a cook and c:anager.
The resturant is owned by my family and is also in Hurdickville.
I as a former resident of New York City, but have noved all of our furniture and terminated our lease 'in that city.
- ,17 wife Linds lives with, me in Surdickville.
Cententions to the License request of Consumers Pcwer to expand Spent Fuel storaga capacity at the Big Rock Nuclear Fewer Plant 1393 351 I
Consu= era Pcwer cannot guarantee that the spect fuel pool will not ha used to stcre these naterials indefinately, that is en a sore or less permanant bas ta.
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No offsight storage facilities are open, now, end it la unl ecely that any will become.availatla in the foreseeable future.
- 1. Reprocessing plants are unprofitatre.
R. There is high citizen resistence to toxic waste storage, which wculd si gnificantly hinder nert sitas opening.
- 3. There is no proven method known for long term, permanent stcrage.
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Ccnsu=ers Power should be denied a license for this short term storage facility expansion until it can demonstrate convincingly that there will definately be safe off site stcrage by 1990, 1.
No evidence of any type shows that off site atorage will be available is presented in tha licensing request.
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The Vermont rankee and Hinnesota plant proceedings revealed that the power companies as well as the NEC 2new of no solutict to the easte dispcsal prlhles.
3 In the event that the license is granted and no solut'.on to this storage problen is found by 1990, Consumers Fower will have been granted a# license"to stcru radicactive wastes at the Charlevoix facility indefinately by serit of necesaity, not through prcper licensing hearings.
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The power company is unable to assure the public that the increased nu bar of spent
3 fuel roda will ever leave the Charlevoix area.
5 In the event of long tern storage, there is no assurance in, tLa application that th e materials used in. the racks and the integrity of the fuel tank itself will remain undamaged and functioral.
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The chance of release of radicactivity into the environment increases as the structures decay and as greater lengths of ti=e allcw probahility of accident.
6 Consuners Power has not demonstrated that it will remain solvent indefinately and thus recain able to indefinately maintain the fuel pool, and its increased load of waate.
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Release of Radioactivity A.
Routine release of radioactivity =ay cause health and environmental hazards.
Releases include exposure of 27 one time rsda to workers installing new racks, releases La evaporation, and through the walls and floor of the pool, espacially the South wall.
It sust he kept in sind that the expansinn allows the routine releases during core affloading to ecntinue, and tha saf tty of these releases is the i=portant issue.
- 1. Macy top scientists and doctors asaart with acientific studies.that there is no safa level of radiation, no threshold below which a person is safe from carcinogenic and mutagenic effects of radiation.
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The environme ntal hazards associated tith small to medium leaks of radioactiv4 water f=om the pool is not discussed.
Such leaks have occured in 31g Rock Plant on August 29,
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'78, and sept. 11,
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10, *79 and o.ther times, and water assumed to be safe was released on August 19, '78 am reported Nov. 26, 878.
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The envionmental impact of a loss of coolant accident in the pool is not discussed.
This is odd, f cr on p. 2-3 of the licensing request,a loss of poc1 na;er up to 200 gpm is considered possible hnough to p.
.cct against, the the effect of therrelease of all of this water is not considered.
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Cataclysmic breach of the containment and loss of coolant is no considered, nor is the impacton the enviornnent mentioned.
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Possible from impact of a B-52 bomber, 2.
Sabotags from a political group or deranged employee.
-Sheldon Novick interviewing David Brower, The Electric War, p 193 E.
Absolutely no consideration is given to the cencentrating of fission products in the food-chain as a recult of any type of release.
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social and Economic Impact.
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Any accident reaultin; from increased storage o f f aal rods would endanger =y life and th: lif e of my wi fe, Linda.
The possible cause of such accidents elaterated TEN 5 GEEK through out this paper.
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Any accident of significant public f aar of accident or imagined danger would endanger our resturant business, thich 1393 354
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5 depends upon the perception by tourists that the area is a safe place to vacation.
This is true for many gusinesses in the area.
VI The racks have not bean contracted out, nor have actual manufacturing specifications been presented, nor have similar designs been cited, along with their fabricators.
V Should a terrible accident occure, the power company is limited by the Price-Anderson Act in its liability.
Elsware in this paper the possible accitdents have been discussed, but it is irresponsible to operate anything without proper insurance.
VI It is not claar in the licensing report if the present pool meets all the present requiremants for spent fuel pool.
Big Rock is an old plant, and "grandf ather" exempt 19ns may have been granted its storage pool which could have affects upcbt the safety of the expansion.
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.s.'. Wastas dre generally not being accep ted from power plants by disposal sites; hence the fate ;of solid wastes, including t,he old broken rack and the sock filters, is in question and not addressed;by the licensing request.
Are these too to remain at the plant?
VIII The electricity produced at Big Rock is very small, 73 megawatta, lower tham-modern power generating facilities by over a factor of 10, and is not needed.
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The licensing proceedure.should indlude a review of general plant safety, including all aspects of power generation at Sig Rock.
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Review of general plant safety would provide an indicator of how well the plant structures have withstacd ainost 20 years of service, and would 1393 355
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B. Review would provide a 6 cod seasure of the quality of plant ad=inistrative proceedures and =anagement, which would have a direct affedt on the safe or unsafe operation of the storage facility, aad the competance with which sodifications can he expected to be made.
- c. Granting of the license,is the only way the plant can oparate past the year 1981 as things stand now, mad thus allcw an extenaica of plant activity that would otherwise he halted.
henag, it la a tacit approval of such extended operation, and should include a review of 6eneral plant safety.
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- periodic relicensing of existing atomic plants on the basis of hearings, inspections and perfor=nnce critaria."-
Eetroit Free Press, Oct. 30, 1979,
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Such review af the estire plant wculd he in har=ony with th's recocendation.
These contentions will he = ore thcrsughly supported in the hearing, and shall provide compelling reasons for the review committee to deny Consu=ars Power a licanas a=andment.
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