ML19270K257
| ML19270K257 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 12/10/1979 |
| From: | Drake G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8001310351 | |
| Download: ML19270K257 (3) | |
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'ocket !!o. ? - 155 Intervenors in the '.'uclear Regulato y Cor.nisaion proceacing en Concunera Power'c application to increase the Opent fuel stor.'ge capacity at 31; Foch, have recently raquested that the plant be closed now.
or-er.3C Chairman, Josepi' 9ndrie, received a letter dated Nov. 14, 1979, f rom.. . founghhl, hecuti. e lice Prenil?nt, Concunera Power Con;any, Jackean, ::ic'.:igan concerninL-tha
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In :'r. Yount;dahl's letter he statad that !.is.of; ner 11; dis;.lecce the equivalent of 650,000 b1rrels of oil par year. "his is but ninut e fracticn or the 20,000,000 barrelc of all
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?c.rther, i, would be much nore effective and econor.ie to niininct3 the 650,000 barrels, nn.a P.illions more, 'cy such.carurea as car ;oola, ras: tranr;;r t;ti.on and better nutcaobile.ilcage than to atten,t t.; re. lace. 1: ui.:..n r..'. a. r-,. -,"-......
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In his letter he statea that in 1970.' 3.. cu e r m ' nucicar 71u,3 3enere :ea elec trici t; c.t a cost of 0.M cents ;cr 1:ilawatthocr incl t01:% fuel, opeu.tir;,
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Thair co2l plrnts aver'd 1.9 cents ;er. ilowt' hour r'nd the oil-firea units averaged 2.1'1 cuts.
In.spril 1979 Cons =ers Fower reques'.c' en annual rnte incresce of M,733,m to c over e n c: tir.at ed c oat o f :13,1, 7', ^ t o i, _t.. >.~'. "..a.
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kilo ntthours. This figures out to 1 3? cent 3 per kile.mtthour fo-aicnantling.
i.d:3.ing thic to the 0.9E cents for Con?u.wr. nuclear cenerated electricity c;cun.c to 2.27 cents which is nore than ei; m c >'. Or oil.
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Tonsuners Fower hac '32 to..1 Oc;a ci ;
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!:olt was 16entified uith 70 of then on the "crii-tar bem ac,?nbly" which olde the fuel rods in the appro;ri2te c:nfic.;", tion.
"her-ma no record that 'hese bolts had been heat treated.
The up;2r grid bolta were replaced in 1967 In in event report on January 24, 1976 a rod s; air stuck.
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a remnant frca the 1067 cri1 telt re;.lecenent project.
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Fortunat el;., so fa r, th-control rods hav-stuck in the cituation woulf euccert a ecmedy of errorc were it not for off pocition.
ne the serioucness of the matter.
Fig Rock is classed as an expericental reactor.
Experiment: have ceen done using different types of fuel and fuel cladding, resulting in incr eased fuel failures and an increaeed release of radiation to the environment.
In 1977 Consumers signed a 015,000,000, eight year contract with the Energy Research and Developnent Administration for the continuation of experinents at Eig Eock on nuclear fuel perfor.ance.
Flutonium, in small amounts was first addad to the fual in 1969 Ir 197~ one hundred and ten pound: were loaded into the reacter.
he inhalation of a cpeck of plutoniun, the sice of an invisible grain of pollen, would razult in a good yrobability of developing lung cancer.
'.lthoush the plant has stayed well within the J inits of radiation relear-rates set by the KP.0, the health effecte fren low doses ani 2 ma doc-rates of radiation still renain basically unkncsr..
In Juna, 1979, the Interagency Tack ferce on "eslth rffects of Ionicing 'cfiation re,corte1 that ':ealth effects fron Icw 1 cels of radir.tien, tha t.r.e rc,ut i.ml<"
released from nuclear power plante, nr, b e cr e.t er th a.n s m ed. Two raticnal t.cadeny of Ociences Jonnittees, one to study fick ac;ociatad with.uclear Fower and the other on the 2io1001 21 Iffects of Ionizing tadiation III, estinated this year that between 2,000 9nd 2,500 mericenc vill die fran radiatica from nuclear power during the last quarter of thir century.
' ne often repeated statement that no menber of the public hn.- died fron nucl?:r power is sinply not valid according t o these studiec.
"ig Rock has bean down for eight nantPn this year due tc a leak and a locce diffuser plate.
It was a loose diffucer plate, or eini'.ar type plate, which caused the partial melt down at Ferni I, in :*onroe County, ichigan in 1?f 6.
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~ don-en contninment buildirc chielding on the 10 oldest nuclear plants in the U. 1.
Jis Rock is one of then.
The shielding is apparently permeable :c ganna radiation.
Cnc of the poesitili-ties under consideration for eliminatinc thin 'cac1rd is to build, hugh concrete
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