ML19329D413
| ML19329D413 | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 07/17/1973 |
| From: | US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| NUDOCS 8003060790 | |
| Download: ML19329D413 (2) | |
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SUPPLEMENTAL TESTIMONY TO FIllAL EilVIR0tlMENTAL STATEi1EllT-related to construction of DAVIS-BESSE flVCLEAR POWER STATI0fl TOLED0 EDIS0il C0t1PANY and CLEVELNID ELECTRIC ILLUMINATIflG COMPAflY Q
, Docket flo. 50-346 gs Issue 5 JUL191973* I E
"Wh'yW CUMULATIVE AND SYilERGISTIC EFFECTS f
Oil LAKE ERIE 4
co to Effluents from other nuclear reactors operating adjacent to Lakes Michigan, Superior and lluron fall into three categories: thermal, chemical and radioactive.
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Thennal and chemical snyergism has been adequately evaluated in the FES in that no significant contributions were attributable to other reactors operating adjacent to those Lakes.
The thermal contribu-tions are, at most, a few thousand megawatts per reactor. Simil arly, the chemical contributions are, at most, a few tons / year per re-actor.
Even if several hundred reactors were operating, their total contributions to temperature rises and/or chemical concentrations in Lake Erie would not be detectable by even the most sensitive of biota.
Such contributions would be very much small'r than the observed e
natural variations in Lake Erie. Since at least two of three affects are nonexistent in Lake Erie, there can be no synergism. Synergism requires the interaction of at least two factors.
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2 Radiological effect's themselves are certainly no more than additive.
Monitoring stations in the area (see section 2.8 of the FES) have t
failed to show local increments of radioactivity attributable to cur-rently operating reactors.
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