ML19309C741
| ML19309C741 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 02/18/1980 |
| From: | Fleisher W WEST BRANCH CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| FRN-44FR75167, RULE-PR-50, TASK-OS, TASK-SD-906-1 NUDOCS 8004090213 | |
| Download: ML19309C741 (2) | |
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, 00' Por page 75168 PR/ Vol. 44, No. 245, December 19, 1979, we enclose copy of a paper relevant to Indian Point and testimony given by Coned at Ossining, New York on December 20.
We would have liked to mail this to you before the 19th but found all our print shops closed due to official Washington's Birthday.
We ask your indulgence to include it as if you had received it on February 19.
We notice that further on the page it roads that single documents are available, etc.
We have written for copies of NUREG 0396 and 0610 albeit we left our name for same at the Ossining meeting.
We would also like to see the Coned proposals to beef up r
Indian Point, a list of 25 which were submitted about i
February 5th to the NRC.
Very truly yours,
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.,3 WEST ORANCH CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION 443 DUENA VISTA ROAD NEW CITY N Y 10956 February 19, 1980 DEEFING UP INDIAN POINT - IS IT' GOOD MONEY AFTER DAD?
On February 4, 1980, the Multi Sorvices subcommittee of the Rockland County Legislature heard from Con Ed vico-presidents that economic disaster would befall Rockland County and the entiro area woro Indian Point plants to closo.
No estimate uns given for the cost to the ta:: payors for supporting now modifications to the plants, supposodly making them safe.
If it is incumbent on the citizens of Rockland to have a sophisticated siron system installed so that overy citi-een will hoar it - if wo need now radio stations for our omorgency service personnel - if wo need school busses to; i
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if wo need shelters stocked - if we need cloctronic monitors to detect leaking radiation - if wo need education of all Rockland's residents - who will pay for all this?
At the Ossining'" workshop" Rockland's emergency scr-vices chief asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission if it would find the funds. The answer was that it is up to Coned.
Coned's reply was that the Public Service Commission would have to authorize it which means the rate payers of Coned would bo taxed.
That's how cheap nuclear power is.
, Coned doesn't bring us the whole picturo. We were given a paper writton by Vico-president E.,U. Livingston loaded with overblown figures.
Coned's figure was $600 million for substituting oil generated cloctricity for nuclear, wo arrive at $430 million.
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con Ed states (Livingston papor pago 3) that the oil used to generato electricity could otherwiso be used for gasolino.
Electric plants turn RESIDUAL oil, by defini-tion it is the portion of tl.o barrol of oil left over aft.or gasolino is refined from it, as well as other light frac-tions.
Samo pago, footnoto (1) catimatos cost por kilowatt to build a coal fired plant at 31656 whereas the only coal plant currently being planned by the NYStato Power Pool is Ulagara Mohawk's on Lako Eric which, including occalation and AFDC is $1364/kUo.
Coned states (Livingston paper page 4) " based upon currently faccasted load growth in Now York State of 2.5 porcent por year..." The Now York State Department Of Energy uses 2.1% and the Public Service Commission and NYStato Consumer Protection Board use 1.8% growth.
The Sterling Siting Doard accepted the PSC/CPB forecast as the most likely, 1.8%.
At 1.8% growth the 1991 summer peak domand is about 27000 mU, not 4100 mU higher per Livingston. !!is figuros are at varianco uith the State Energy Offico forecasts.
His and the Now York Power Pool forecasts for the last six years have boon too high.
Itis horror story is without foundation.
It is a phony scare.
On pago 5 (Livingston papor)
"If, in addition to a shut-down of Indian Point, there were a shut-down of all nuclear plants in the Stato, capacity shortages would begin as early as 1982."
Uhat reasoning is that? If all nuclear plants woro shut down in the Stato uhat would be the reason?
Surely would he then expect all to be shut down but. Indian Point, the most dangerous plant in Nou York?
If some au-thority determined that all nuclear plants in Now York Stato must shutdown we cannot now soo why Indian Point should be oxcluded.
No mention was madle by the representatives of Coned i
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t Theco poor men are in for an awakening. Uo could pity them if only they would leave our pocketbooks alone.
Indian Point's continued operation uill cost us lots of dollars and we want to hear.hou many.
He want a respon-cible total made so that a realistic judgment can be mado.
If we are being asked to trade off our lives against 4
dollars, of safety for money, then lot us know if we can i
even afford to take the risk to ourselves and our environ-mont.
But we should not have to make such irresponsible decisions without knowing what the details arc.
l One thing is auro, our damages would not hurt us, uo wouldn' t be lef t to find out.
Nor would anyone be able to collect insuranco since those great cheap sources of safe electricity so inspire insurance companics that the 1
fine print leaves out nuclear anything.
The now rules being planned by the nuclcar Regulatory Commission since Three t!ile Island will now take into account a possible accident. They will require of all plants, suitable evacuation plans.
EXCEPTING that there can be no ovacuation plan for Indian Point due to the density of population, 80,000 people in Rockland County
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alone live within 10 miles of the plants, 250,000 people includedf"atenmilecirclearoundtheplants.
If we went north we'd get closer to the disaster. If we try to evacuate southward we'd acct the rest of the people trying to move outuard. Ue'd be expected to leave our children -
and any number of other ridiculous scenarios the National Guard holding back the people who livo 1015 miles from the plant !
Do you know where is the nearest shelter?
Do you have a battery radio?
How long can you stay put?
Uhero are your thyroid pilla? Trust in Coned.
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2_ d Connd's man'in chargo of Indien Point, Mr. Cahill, was anhed by Legislate. Hornhar., "How many accidents have you had? Cahill replied "I don't kr.ou."
Morahan asked, "Is it 100 or 200?" Cahill replied, "In that range."
Morahan prossed, "100 or 2007" Cahill answorod, "I don't knou."
Coned is just as evasive about its safety record as it is about the true cost of nuclear kilowatts.
To quote from a United States Congress report by its Committee On Government Operations and entitled " Nuclear Power Costs",
pago 25, "To insure that decommissioning costs do not place an unfair burden on future generations, a decom-missioning fund should be established now by utilitics out of operating expansos.
Provisions for this fund must be shoun to exist before any licenses for new plcnts are granted. Uithout this fund, the true cost of nuclear power is not re-i flected in the price the consumer pays for elec-tricity."
page 22, "Further, to decommission scr.ie presently operating plants may range from 25 to 100 percent of origi-Dal Costs."
The Special President's Committee On The Accident At Three Mile Island -(Kemony) reports, as does the Ro-1 govin group and the U. S.
Congress' oversight Committee, that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has been woofully remiss in concerning itself with safety.
All of these reporting groups suggest new structures, yet the NRC is still the agency supervising the newer rencdies, if they l
be that.
The same approach is used in making plans for i
future safety by January 1, 1981, on the assumption that all will be well with an ailing plant or two until that date.
A New York Times editorial calling for broader hearings to "let Coned's critics make their best case.
The Indian Point reactors stand in a more densely populated j.
area than any other nuclear plants in the country. Uhoever pronounces them worth the risk bears a most solemn respon-sibility".
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