ML19326D637

Opposes Const of Facilities Until Adequate Emergency Response Plan Can Be Developed.Recommends Responsibility for Emergency Response Plan Be Placed W/Independent Consulting Svc,Not State of Ok

ML19326D637
Person / Time
Site:	Black Fox
Issue date:	05/05/1980
From:	Malone K AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8007030019
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' 1600 N.W. 16th Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73106 1 I

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Tulsa and vicinity cannot risk a 3 Mile Island" without an adequate emergency plan for the Black Fox Nuclear Power Reacter.

In the course of a little detective work, I have learned that the Deputy Cem-missioner for Environmental Health and Supervisor of the Radiological Health Service of the Oklahoma State Department of Health has informed the Federal Department of Health, Educatien and Welfare that the Emergency Respcase Plan for

, the Black Fox Nuclear Reactor vill, after 5 years work, be delayed another 7 years, that is, until 1987 After long-term study of the Radiological Health Service, I have reached scme conclusions:

1. The 12 years this governmental agency finds necessary to ecmplete 2 years of work is due to the inadequate training and poor tech-nical experience that the manpower of the agency possesses in natters of reactor radiation protection and management.

a. There is not a single s ,

1) Certified Health Physicist, or

11) Certified Radiological Physicist, or lii) Registered Radiation Safety Consultant on the staff.

b. No one en the staff has professional e.peribnce with a nuclear reactor of significant si::e.

c. Management techniques such as those used in modern industrial organi::ations are generally unkncvn and totally rejected by this agency.

2. The top management of the service are incapable, lacking training and adequate experience in directing the development of an emergency respense plan for the Black Fox Reactor.

While I am a pro-nuclear Okie, it is my professional cpinion that the Black Fox Reactor should not be built until such time (1987?) as an adequate emergency response plan can be developed.

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I recommend that the respcasibility for the emergency respense plan be taken away from the Radiolcgical Health Service and be placed with an independent, respon-sible, professional consulting firm. There are quite a few excellent radiation Protection companies that eculd do a superior job. It is imperative that the work be done by Radiation Protection Specialists, not a general engineering con-sultir g~ firm.

i Taking this action would contribute to the safety of the citizens of the Tulsa Metro area, as well as to the safe development of nuclear power in Oklahoma.

After reading this letter to the State Commissioner of Health, she told me it was

" totally inaccurate" and threatened me against making the letter public.

I can only urge you, before it is too late to:

1. Check the facts, and

2. Contact your representative.

Sincerely, KIRKE MALONE Registered Radiation Safety Consultant Former Director for Emergency Planning Plum Brook Reactor Facility National Aeronautics and Space Administration 4

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