ML19270H851
| ML19270H851 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 12/15/1979 |
| From: | Leithauser J NORTHWEST COALITION |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8001040137 | |
| Download: ML19270H851 (3) | |
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UNITFD STATFS OF AMERICA ca NUCLFAR RFCULATORY CCMMISSION BFFORF THE ATOMIC SAFFTY AND LICFNSING BOARD In the Matter of CONSUMERS POWER COMPANY Docket No. 50-155 (Big Rock Point nuclear power plant)
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Contentions of John A. Leithauser and the NORTHWFST COALITION I)That granting of' licensees request is a defacto permit to indefinitely store spent-fuel on sites and iia)That the Interagency Review Group Report on Nuclear Waste Managment(1978), states that it may take until 1995 before a final underground storage site can be opened: and iib)That licensee has in hearings before the Michigan Public Service Commission, stated that Big Rock will be taken out of service in 2000s and IIc)That licensees proposal does not include plans for the five years from 1990 to 1995: and IId)Therefore licensees proposal is clearly deficient and should not be granted.
IIIa)That on June 27, 1979 Consumers Power Co. shipped twelve drums (of what was supposed to be solidified low-level ra-dioactive waste)"in doubtful condition',' to the NECO dump in Betitty, Nevadas and b
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IIIb)That three of the drums were leaking liquid wacte; and IIIc)That at least one of these had been shipped with a cloth-like patch over what proved to be a cource of leakage; and IIId)That the Beatty site was closed due to this incident; and IIIe)That this accident is typical of Consumers Power Co.; and represents numerous flaws in li'cencees equipment, practices, and administrative policies in regardc to nuclear waste; and IIIf)That due to these inadequacies on the part of the licensee, the request should be denied.
IV)That Consumers Power Big Rock plant does not have adequate technical capabilities to possess a sub-critical spent-fuel pool of plutonium enriched uranium oxide; and V)That Consumers Power Co. Big Rock plant does not have the administrative capabilities to possess a sub-critical spent-fuel pool of plutonium enriched uranium oxide; and VI)That Consumers Power Co. does not have the economic stability to possess a s'ub-critical spent-fuel pool of plutonium en-riched uranium oxide; and VII)That because of the considerations raised in Nos. IV, V, & V I,.
licensees request should be denied.
VIIIa)That Consumers Power Big Rock plant is a G.E. boiling water reactor (the fifth built in the country), and as such could experience a loss-of-water accident due to a reactor explo-sion(because the spent-fuel pool is located above the reactor). This explosion could result from difficulties with the diffuser plate, or from other difficulties with the reactor; and VIIIb)That becauce a loss-of-water accident is credible for B.W.
reactors (i.e. in the spent-fuel pool), licensees request ought to be denied.
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I IXa)That there does not presently exist safe, workable, and effective emergency plans for the areas within ten miles of the plant and within fifty miles of the plants and IXb)That absent such plans, licensees request for a defacto ten year operating extension should not be granted, particularly in light of the increased hazards associated with the proposed fuel-compaction.
Xa)That at present there is no use for, nor means of disposing of spent uranium oxide fuels and Xb)That Consumers Power Co. Big Rock plant is a non-commercial reactor of only sixty-three megawatts (M.W.) total capacity: and Xc)That due to "grandfathering" it is exempt from numerous fund-amental safety features: and Xd)That it is known experientially, that shutdown of Consumers Power Co. Big Rock plant would in no way hinder the reliable delivery of electricity to Consumers Power Co. customers and Xe)That because of these(Xa-Xd), licensee should not be allowed to store additional spent-fuel on-site.
XI)For all of the above, the proposed amendment should be denied.
John A.
Leithauser for the Northwest Coalition 1681 269