ML19327A195
| ML19327A195 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Peach Bottom, Hope Creek, Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/22/1980 |
| From: | Kepford C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, KEPFORD, C., TMI-2 & PEACH BOTTOM INTERVENORS |
| To: | NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8008010253 | |
| Download: ML19327A195 (4) | |
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Before the Atomic Safety and Licensino Acceal Board Office of the Secretary 1/
Docketir:g & Service 0"*h In the Matter of
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Docket Nos. 50-277 Units 2 and 3 )
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METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, et al.
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(Three Mile Island, Unit 2) 50-320 PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANY
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(Hope Creek Nuclear Generating
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50-354 Station, Units 1 and 2)
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INTERVENORS' ANSWER OPPOSING STAFF MOTION FOR LEAVE TO INCLUDE HEALTH EFFECTS FINDINGS Three Mile Island-2 and Peach Bottom Intervenors oppose the NRC Staff's motion for leave to include health effects findings.
The February, 1980, radon hearings, about which the Appeal Board requested the parties to file proposed findings, addressed the magnitude of the radon emissions attributable to the nuclear fuel cycle. The " heal th effects" caused by these emissions (a euphemism for avoidable premature death from leukemia, cancer, and other disease produced by ionizing radiation, including genetic defects) were specifically excluded from the hearings.
The Appeal Board thus ruled, for example, that a portion of Dr. Pohl's testimony was improper because it related to health effects (Tr. 24).
Proposed findings on the health effects issue should not be presented at this time because the Appeal Board has not even reached the point of 1
scheduling hearings on the health effects issue.
1 Hearings on the health effects of radon emissions from uranium mining, milling, and mill tailings cannot be conducted until the Appeal Board hg3 proposes a number to represent the magnitude of the radon emissions.
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A The Staff's propsed health effects findings must also be rejected because they are no more than a belated and impermissible attempt by the Staff to introduce further argument on the discredited "De Minimus" theory.
In Paragraph 94 of its proposed findings, the Staff alleges that the Intervenors do not challenge the Perkins record on the health effects issue. This allegation is absurd. We have repeatedly voiced our objections to the inadequate, deceptive, rutnless, and criminal manner in which radon-related health. effects have been systematically ignored by the Perkins Licensing Board, the NRC Staff, and the utilities.
We have assailed the failure of these parties to acknowledge the signifi-cance and urgency of the health effects issue numerous times, for example,
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(1) "Intervenors' Response on the Acceptability of the Perkins' Evidentiary Record," July 27, 1978; (2)
"In Response to the De Minimus Theory and ALA5-509,"
February 19, 1979; (3) " Resp cnse to the Peach. Bottom Licensee's Response on De Minimuser," April 12, 1979; (4)
"Intervenors' Answer to the Motions for Summary Disposition," June 26, 1979; (5)
" Affidavit of Dr. Chauncey Ke; ford Setting Forth the Interver. ors' Statement of the Facts as to Which There Is a Material Dispute," June 26, 1979.
until a hearing is held en the health effects issue, the Aopeal Board must in effect ad pt the calculations which Dr. Kepferd sumcari:ed in his June 26, 1979, affidavit, and must therefore assume that the radon-induced health effects are pctentially en the crder of the magnitude of 100,000,000 premature deaths per annual fuel recuirement per reactor.
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Ecology Action of Osvego also joins in this response. The TMI-2 and Peach Bottom Intervenors also join in the response to be filed by Ecology Action of Oswego.
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served en the parties in this proceejing by deposit in the U.S. Mail.
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