ML19327A224
| ML19327A224 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/30/1980 |
| From: | Swartz L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE LEGAL DIRECTOR (OELD) |
| To: | PEOPLE AGAINST NUCLEAR ENERGY |
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| Download: ML19327A224 (12) | |
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Docket No. 50-289 (Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, Unit 1)
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NRC STAFF PARTIAL RESPONSE TO PANE INTERR0GATORIES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS Pursuant to 10 C.F.R. 5 2.720 and 10 C.F.R. 5 2.744, the Staff has responded to six interrogatories submitted by People Against Nuclear Energy (PANE).
As noted in an April 15, 1980 letter to counsel for PANE, the Staff was unable to answer the remainder of PANE's interrogatories at this time due to the uncertainty of the issue.
Each interrogatory is restated and a response provided. Where appropriate, the NRC Staff has relied upon that portion of the Commission's Order of August 9,1979 (Slip Op. at 11) which allows as an adequate response to a discovery request a statement that information is availa'le in.the Local Public u
Document Rooms and guidance as to where the information can be found. An affidavit identifying the individual who prepared the responses and verifying them is attached.
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Although copies of certain documents are being sont to PANE and to the Licensing Board, they are too voluminous to be sent to all the parties.
These documents will be placed in the local public document rooms in Harrisburg and York, Pennsylvania and in the Public Document Room in Washington, D.C.
Respectfully submitted, Lucinda Low Swartz Counsel for NRC Staff Dated at Bethesda, Maryland this 30th day of July,1980
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD In the Matter of METROPOLITAN EDIS0N COMPANY, et.al.
Docket No. 50-289 (Three Mile Island, Unit 1)
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AFFIDAVIT OF DONALD P. CLEARY I, Donald P. Cleary, being duly sworn, do depose and state:
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I am employed by the Siting Analysis Branch, Division of Engineering, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Comission.
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The answers to PANE Interrogatories 5, 7, ll, 12, 13, and 14 were prepared by me.
I certify that they are true and correct to the best of my knowledge, h
44bi Donald P. Cleary Subscribed and sworn to before me this 25thday of
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RESPONSE TO INTERROGATORIES Interrogatory No. 5 Please identi.fy all persons with whom the Staff has consulted or expects to consult concerning each of PANE's Contentions 1 and 2 and who has knowledge of facts relating to either of those contentions.
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For each person who has been consulted, state when he or she was consulted and summarize the substance of any facts or opinions communicated by such person to the Staff concerning the subject matter of PANE Contentions 1 and 2.
b.
Please identify all documents or studies referred to by persons identified in response to this, interrogatory.
Response
The staff's efforts relative to psychological distress in the vicinity of TMI have been focused on the effects of the accident at TMI-2 and the aftermath, including decoatamination of TMI-2. The issue of TMI-l restart has not been specifically addressed. Contractors engaged by NRC who are dealing with issues covered by PANE's Contentions 1 and 2, and the areas of their concern, are:
Dr. James A. Chalmers, Vice President Mountain West Research, Inc.
1414 West Broadway, Suite 228 Tempi, Arizona 85282 Studying the broad range of socioeconomic effects of the accident at TMI-2 and the aftermath. Mountain West Research Inc. responses to PANE's interrogatories are included as Attachment 1.
Dr. Hays B. Gamble. Associate Director Institute for Research on Land and Water Resources The. Pennsylvania State University University Park, Pennsylvania 16802 Studying changes in property values in the vicinity of TMI.
Dr. Andrew Baum Human Design Group.
18308 Dutchess Drive Onley, Maryland 20832 Providing an interpretive review of the literature on psychological stress and studies of the psychological effects of.the accident at TMI (NUREG/CR-1586) as input to the environmental assessment on atmospheric decontamination (NUREG-0662) and the programmatic environmental impact statement on decontamination of TMI-2. NUREG/CR-1586 will be supplied after it has been printed. NUREG-0662 was supplied to PANE previously.
Dr, Andrew Baum, Assistant Professor Department of Medical Psychology The Unifonned Service University of the Health Sciences U. S. Department of Defense 4301 Jones Bridge Road Bethesda, Maryland 20014 Monitoring changes in stress levels during venting of krypton-85 in the imediate vicinity of TMI.
Interrogatory No. 7 Does the Staff deny that the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 caused any psychological or mental distress among people living near the reactor, and in particular among those living within five miles of the reactor? What is the basis for this answer?
Response
The Staff does not deny that the accident at Three Mile Island Unit 2 caused psychological ormentaldistressamongpeoplelihingnearthereactor,and
- in particular among those living within five miles of the reactor. The Staf#
isawareofseheralstudieswhichhahedocumentedtheexistenceofsuchdis-tress. These are reported on in the following documents:
Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island, 19/9.
Behahioral Effects, Task Force Report to the President's Comission on the Accident at Three Mile Island,1979.
_ThreeMileIslandTelephoneSurhey: P_reliminary Report on Procedures and Findings, NUREG/CR-1093, 1979. Attachment 2.
The Social and Economic Effects of the Accident at Three Mile
-Island, NUREG/CR-1215, 1979, Attachment 3.
Three Mile Island Socio-Economic Impact Study, Comonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1979.
Report of the Governor's Comission on Three Mile Island,1980.
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Health-Related Behavioral Impact of the Three Mile Islan'd Nuclear Incident Part I, Report Submitted to the TMI Advisory Panel on Health Research Studies of the Pennsylvania Department of Health, 1980. Attachment 1. Appendix B.
Preliminary Report on the Ment'al Health of Three Mile Island Residents, Evelyn Bromet, Ph.D., Principal Investigator,Triiversity of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, May 1980. Available from the Principal Investigator.
Interrogatory No. 11 Please identify all physicians, social workers, therapists, nurses, and other health professionals, both in the vicinity of TMI and elsewhere, whom the Staff has contacted concerning the issue of possible psychological or mental stress caused by the accident at TMI Unit 2 or that might be caused by reopening TMI Unit 1.
Please state when these contacts were made and summarize the substance a.
of any facts or opinions communicated by these persons to the Staff.
b.. Please identify and provide copies of all documents referred to by these persons or provided to the Staff by these persons.
Response
Regarding the accident at TMI Unit 2 and its aftermath health professionals contacted by the Staff were:
Drs. Joyce Kales and Enos D. Martin, Assistant and Associate Professors of Psychiatry, respectively, at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The Staff had discussions with Drs. Kales and Martin upon two occasions. The first conversation is summarized in Attachment 4.
The second conversation was held in early October 1979 at the Hershey Medical Center and covered much the same material reported in Attachment 4 but at somewhat greater depth. The Staff was provided with no documents by Drs. Kales and Martin.
4 Dr. Peter S. Houts, Division of Behavioral Sciences.
Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The Staff had had several telephone conversations and two in-person meetings with Dr. Houts. These conversations were to coordinate NRC's telephone survey re>earch (NUREG/CR-1093) with his survey research ana to follow the progress of his research.
Drs. Andrew Baum, Robert Gatchel, and Seigfried Steufert associated with the Human Design Group. Drs. Baum and Gatchel are on the faculty of the Department of Medical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and Dr. Steufert is on the faculty of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The Human Design Group has been under contract with NRC since April 4, 1980 to assist in assessing the psychological stress aspects of decontamination of Unit 2.
Findings on krypton-85 removal are summarized in NUREG-0662, Final Environmental Assess-ment for Decontamination of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Reactor Buildina Atmosphere and reported more fully in NUREG/CR-1586 which will be supplied as soon as it is available.
Additionally, Dr. Baum is the Principal Investigdtor in a study monitoring psychological stress levels in the vicinity of TMI during venting of krypton-SS. Monitoring is being conducted under an Interagency Agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.
Dr. Bruce P. Dohrenwend, Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University. The Staff has had several telephone conversations with Dr. Dohrenwend concerning the Behavioral Effects Task Force Report and his assessment of possible psychological effects from atmospheric decontamination of TMI Unit 2 (Attachment 5).
Dr. George J. Warheit, Department of Psychiatry, University of Florida. The Staff has had several. telephone conversations with Dr. Warheit concerning the Behavioral Effects, Task Force Report and his assessment of possible psychological effects from atmospheric decontamination of TMI Unit 2 (Attachment 6).
Dr. Victor X. Fongcnic, Associate Concissioner of Plannin0 and Evaluation and Janet Kellcy, Director of Evaluation, Office of Mental Health, Department of Public Welfare, and, Marilyn King Goldhaber, Public Health Behavioral Research Associate, Bureau of Health Research, Department of Health. The Staff has communicated with those three Pennsylvania State Officials upon several occasions regarding TMI Mental Health related research of which they were cognizant.
Interrogatory No. 12 Please identify and provide copies of all documents know to the Staff and sent to, received from, or otherwise relating to the following persons:
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Response
This response is with regard to documents directly related to TMI only.
Dr.. James Titchener University of Cincinnati None Dr. B. L. Quarante111 Ohio State University Dr. Cal Fredericks National Institute of Mental Health None Dr. Robert Jay Lifton Yale University None Dr. Kai Ericson Yale University None Dr..Elelyn Bromet University of Pittsburg Received report, see response to Interrogatory No. 7 Dr. Martin Smith Long Island University None Dr. Bruce P..Dohrenwend Columbia University ; See, also response to Interrogatory No. 11 Dr. Barbara Snell Dohrenwend Columbia University No direct Staff contact. See Dr. Bruce P. Dohrenwend Dr. Stanislav V. Kasl Yale University None Dr.. George J. Warheit University of Florida ; See, also response to Interrogatory No. 11 Raymond L. Goldstein Columbia University No direct Staff contact. See Dr. Bruce P. Dohrenwend
m Interrogatory No. 13 Please identify and provide copies of all documents, prepared by or known to the Staff which evaluate, contain Staff's reaction to, or otherwise reltze to or reflect the conclusion of the President's Comission on the Accide".t at Three Mile Island (the Kemeny Comission) that severe mental stress was the most serious health effect of the accident.
Response
The Staff is unaware of any Staff documents which evaluate, contain Staff's reaction to, or otherwise relate to or reflect the conclusion of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island that severe mental stress was the most serious health effect of the accident. Mitchell Rogovin as Director of the NRC/THI Special Inquiry Group did, however, on November 15, 1979, write a memorandum to the Commission in which he acknowledged to the President's Commission finding and expressed the need for actions to alleviate continuing mentalstress(Attachment 8).
Interrogatory No. 14 Please identify all real estate agents, brokers, and others knowledgeable about real estate transactions and prices in the vicinity of TMI, and all members of the business community, local government leaders, local government employees (including anyone employed by or connected with the school systems), and comunity leaders whome the Staff has contacted or consulted concerning the issues raised by PANE's Contention 2.
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Please identify and provide copies of all documents recording, reflecting, or otherwise related to the contacts with persons identified in response to this interrogatory.
Respon_se The Staff has had contact with Dr. Hays B. Gamble and with individuals in the Governor's Office of Policy and Planning on matters related to issues raised by PANE's Contention 2.
Dr. Gamble is an expert conducting research for the Staff on the real estate impacts of TMI (See response to Interrogatory No. 5);
and, the Office of Policy and Planning coordinated development of the report Three Mile Island Socio-Economi_c Impact Study which treats istues raised by PANE's Contention 2.
The Staff has had no direct contact with local business, government and community leaders specifically with regard to these issues.
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BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD s
In the Matter of METROPOLITAN EDISON COMPANY, Docket No. 50-289 ET AL.
(Three Mile Island, Unit 1)
CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of "NRC STAFF PARTIAL RESPONSE TO PANE INTERROGATORIES ON PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS," dated July 30, 1980, in the above-captioned proceeding, have been served on the following, by deposit in the United States mail, first class, or, as indicated by an asterisk through deposit in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's internal mail system, this 30tn day of July, 1980:
- Ivan W. Smith, Esq.
Mr. Steven C. Sholly Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Panel 304 South Market Street U.S. Muclear Regulatory Commission Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 17055 Washington, D.
C.
20555 Mr. Thomas Gerusky Dr. Walter H. Jordan Bureau of Radiation Protection 881 W. Outer Drive Dept. of Environmental Resources Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37830 P.O. Box 2063 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Dr. Linda W. Little 5000 Hermitage Drive Mr. Marvin I. Lewis Raleigh, North Carolina 27612 6504 Bradford Terrace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19149 George F. Trowbridge, Esq.
Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Metropolitan Edison Company 1800 M Street, N.W.
Attn: J.G. Herbein, Vice President Washington, D. C.
20006 P.O. Box 542 Reading, Pennsylvania 19603 Karin W. Carter, Esq.
505 Executive House Ms. Jane Lee P.O. Box 2357 R.D. 3; Box 3521 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Etters, Pennsylvania 17319 Honorable Mark Cohen Walter W. Cohen, Consumer Advocate 4
512 D-3 Main Capital Building Department of Justice i
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Strawberry Square,14th Floor Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17127 l
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. Allen R. Carter, Chairman John Levin. Esq.
Joint Legislative Committee on Energy Pennsylvania Public Utilities Comm.
Post Office Box 142 Box 3265 Suite 513 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Senate Gressette Building Columbia, South Carolina 29202 Jordan D. Cunningham, Esq.
Fox, Farr and Cunningham Robert Q. Pollard 2320 Ncrth 2nd Street 609 Montpelier Street Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17110 Baltimore, Maryland 21218 Theodore A. Adler, Esq.
Chauncey Kepford WID0FF REAGER SELK0WITZ & ADLER Judith H. Johnsrud Post Office Box 1547 Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17105 433 Orlando Avenue State College, Pennsylvania 16801 Ms. Ellyn R. Weiss Harmon & Weiss Ms. Frieda Berryhill, Chairman 1725 I Street, N.W.
Coalition for Nuclear Power Plant Suite 506 Postponement Washington, D.C.
20006 2610 Grendon Drive Wilmington, Delaware 19808 Ms. Marjorie M. Aamodt R.D. #5 Holly S. Keck Coatesville, Pennsylvania 19320 Anti-Nuclear Group Representing York 245 W. Philadelphia Street York, Pennsylvania 17404
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board
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U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 64J? sd Washington, D.C.
20555 Counsel for NRC Staff
- Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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- Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ATTN: Chief, Docketing & Service Br.
Washingicn, D.C.
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