ML19224D170

Requests Order to Prevent Plant Restart Until Emergency & Evacuation Procedures Are Initiated & Public Hearings Are Held

ML19224D170
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	04/24/1979
From:	Lodge T AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	James Keppler NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION III)
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ML19224D167	List: ML19224D170
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NUDOCS 7907110021
Download: ML19224D170 (2)

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Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy P.O. Box 4545

. Toledo, OH 43620 (419) 243-6959 April 24, 1979 Mr. James G. Keppler, Director Nuclaar Regulatory Commission, Region III Of# ice of Inspection and Enforcement 799 Roosevelt Rd.

Gler Ellyn, IL 60137

Dear Mr. Keppler:

We have followed with considerable interest the actions of the NRC and Toledo Edison, operator of the Davis-Besse nuclear plant, since the Three Mile Island disaster. After reading your comments in the April 20,1979 Toledo Blade concerning personnel perforT,ance at Davis-E, esse, we are greatly concerned about the irresponsibility of the NRC decision to allow Davis-Besse to go back on line before numerous safety cuastions have been answered.

Our concerns have been redoubled by the April 19 findings of the Ohio Public Interest Research Group (0PIRG) that documents the gross inadequacies of emergency and evacuation plans in the event of a serious accident at Davis-Besse. The NRC appears to be an accomplice in a no-win situation, allowing a less-than-public spirited utility to return to power generation while that utility continues to maintain incompetent sr.aff and substandard emergency preparations.

Therefore, the Toledo Coalition for Safe Energy demands that the following steps be takcn by your office immediately:

1/ That Toledo Edison officials be restrained from reopening Davis-Besse until such time as all possible operational problons, human and mech-cnical, have been corrected; 2/ Th% revised and updated evacuation plans be posted in visible public places within a 50 mile radius of Davis-Besse within 30 days of your receipt of this notice, and prior to D-B's reopening; 3/ That a full-scale disaster drill be conducted within a 10 mile radius of the plant prior to its return to power generation; 4/ That all consumers in the Toledo Edison and Cleveland Electric Illuminating jurisdictions receive a complete written description of Emergency procedures with their last electric bills prior to the startup of Davis-Besse; 5/ That these and other matters become the subject of full and open public hearings initiated by the NRC prior to D-8's startup.

Your earlest written re:ponse to these urgent requests will be 7 9 071 ] o oca; A 2 71979 330 206

l'r. James G. Keppler 4/24/79 Pg. 2 greatly appreciated. Thank you.

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fer .L ge Cha r. n TCSE Legal Action Comittee cc: Members, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Washington, D.C. 20555 Senator Howard Metzenbaum 234 Sumit St.

Toledo, OH 43604 l

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