ML19308A725

Recommends Closing Plants Due to Proximity to Population Centers & Lack of Evacuation Plans

ML19308A725
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Site:	Zion  File:ZionSolutions icon.png
Issue date:	11/28/1979
From:	CITIZENS AGAINST NUCLEAR POWER
To:	Eisenhut D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 7912040455
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THE CASE AGAINST ME W-SITE SERAGE OF SPET MEL AT THE ZIW NUCLEAR STATION Comonwealth Edison has asked the U.S.. Nuclear. Regulatory Comission.to more '

than double the' amount of radioactive ~ spent fuel allowed at the Zion nuclear

_X station's pool.- If their~ request is'ganted, Com Ed could increase the amount of spent fuel from'868 to 2112 spent fuel assemblies. Since two assemblies-2 weigh one metric ton, this means., Zion's pool ~ could hold.1056 metrio tons.of 4-spent fuel - more than'twice the amount of spent fdel now stored at the

-4 Morris Operation, the nation's largest operating nuclear. waste dump away from; the site 'of reactors.,

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1 there are good 4easons. 'for' citizens"to' be serlusly concerned about high.levelJ -

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1. A DE FACIO RADIdACTIVE dS'T5 EUMP iS BEING CREATED. there is.no assumn spent fuel will leave the site at s'ny time. 2he' NRC has made' no ecmitment

.m to ever remove it, and Com Ed has no.comitment to. remove it. If the increase.. '

is really only a short tem solution toa crisis situation, X it would be m-strictly limited in duration to. prevent it fracs becoming a lorg tem or n

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2. REPROCESSING BECNES EORE T.TmT. Utilities prefer to keep radioactive spent fuel at reactor sites to save the. expense of. shipping it. to a, distant : ' '. ~ 3 M. ! '

s repository - because it allows Them to keep the' reprocessing option.open.,

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.1 Reprocessing separates pure' plutonium from the fu'el. rods. The plutoniumn *..... u m could be used to:make' atom bombs'.- 4

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3. SPDIT WEL ACCIDE2iIS CAN HAPPEN. Fuel rod's can NI rupture;when: dapped. Air.s :

i planes, tornadoes or earthquakes coul'd damage. the. pool. Sabotage..could be.

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attempted..The added weight of more rods'nay damage the lining of; the pool w was not designed for added loads for'long' periods of time. A fuel assembly dropped on stored fuel can cause a criticali.gr accident.(nuclear; c&ain' a"M A ~

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4. INCREASING.1HE AMOUNT'0F SPDIT FUEL' INCREASES HE SERIOUSNESS OF.ANs i

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ACCIDET. If an accident should occur in the pool or in the reactor (affecting the pool), there could be 20 more times more strontium-90 in'ths pool than', b.M H'

in one reactor. The.magniturde ' f damage :inicasehof a. reactor or pool.1-o od d '

accident increases with'every assembly c.dded'.to:the pool..

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5. NO EVIF2 METAL IMPACT STATDiMT HAS BEM CWPLETED ON SPM FUEL ATa JJ A

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ZION. If' Zion is to' become ~a long ' tem spent fuel storage. site, ;then the; J.A? %

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NRC should fully assess +the. safety:and environmentallimplications involved.- v eN l

2f not, then the Comission should d~idition an(license amendment to, insure

'h m that interim storago. does not become perman'ent. Giving~Com Ed i4 more years to hari

_q operate Zion with an expanded spent fuel pool removes the incentive for com Ed.

• 4 and the Commission to seek pemanent. solutions for,the spent fuel waste N0h3 '.GI Once utilities have spent the moriey1o' expand lth'eiijools, they won't pay, 1

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to ship the vaste' to more' environmentally accept 4bles storage facilities in E. IC.

isolated areas, profenb27 near pemanent' geologic disposal sites.

6. AN ACCIDET IN THE ZIDN' REACTORS COULD DiDaNGER THE PCOL AND VICE VERSA. -

The micago Tribune (May 6,1979) said "Com Ed's safety record was so bad in 1977 that the NRC was seriously considering shutting down all its nuclear power plants. We won't know until the 1980's what Zion's record is for 1978 0

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and 1979 4 Workers will be unable to maintain the pool if a reactor aw}

accident seriously contaminates the surrounding area.

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7. WOREERS AT ME ZION STAT 2DN WILL BE SUBJECTED TO HIGHER PADIATION ] rP] -[-~-[

Reracking the pool, handling and nioving the fuel and their wastes, an W

pool itself will contribute to higher radiation levels at Zion.

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8. CGGACT RACKS GRFATLY INCREASE EE POSSIBILITIES OF DISASTROUS POOL ACCIISTS.

'J:;I AND especially eviticality accidents. The neutron multiplication factor (k-off) which koops the pool frca going critioal "is not a quantity which is measured it

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with a great deal of accuncyu according to the NRC. Packing spent fuel closer 4;ky together MKII nises the k-eff factor closer to criticality.

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9. SPST WEL CAN OVEERT AND MELT IN A IDSS OF WATER ACCIINT. Government

,M sponsored research (SAND.77-1371) reveals that spent fuel cladding can

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X.1 ;f could seriously contaminate 150,000 ~ square miles and cause cancer and genetio;..

Of/,'g; defects in the surrounding populations.- A' loss of water accident could be.

caused by a cask drop on. spent fuel, earthquakes, sabotage, cooling. system Jl. J S %p f

troakdown, a criticality accident and a reactor accident.

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10. ALL SPET FUEL RDSEARG IS OUTDATED. All spent fuel research to dage is 2 :,

based on low bumup fuel. Most nuclear utilities anticipate going to high

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, p [.y on spent fuel (generio stu# (NUREG-0404) is useless in producting spent fuel q,j j storage behavior at Zion in the 1980's and 90's.

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11. GMERAL ELECTRIC HIGH DDISITI BkCKS HAVE PROVE DEFECTIVE EISEWERE.

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7he GE racks are subject to swelling which could' trap the fuel rods in than f%C,L.[:i s,' b y.

pomanently. Venting the reeks at the Monticello Station did not solfe the Iroblem.

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13. INCREASED RADIDACTIVE DCSSIDNSL Krypton,ltri$ium and iodine will be e.(p DW/;f released to the atmosphere;in.inoreased. amounts. ~An additional ~ 90 curies perm ME 2,

a year of krypton-85.will be routineIyireleased when the pool is. filled, accorMW,6.g.MM 3

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14. AFTER 7HREE MILE ISIAND, we shoul'd'id trying to min 4=ise the ' risks ate. " J M.

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13. ONE FOUND OF PIDIONIUM HAS ME POTENTIAL'FOR NINE RTTTMS LUNG CANCERS.

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& 1990, the spent fuel pool at' Zion 'will contain 20,000 pounds (10 tons) of'M'"i n:;. a plutonium, which:oould conceivably separate out'in's loss of water accident,;i ~

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Rhektas&n aim smove a a saavice. c Att ar rts eauevro WAUKEGAN,1LLINOIS TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1979 15 CENTS / 26 PAGES*

Nuclear foes ruled justified in acquittal by county jury by AlsestaAht. Asat LL Cirewt Joda;e Alphonse Witt at 10 le p r i eften a jury rd ses reeve st.u s. au Where do you druer ihe linc?... Cars are and ma mcmen (ded in with the ve rdict after atme four hours of

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