ML19340E711
| ML19340E711 | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 01/07/1981 |
| From: | Moyer H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Ahearne J, Harold Denton, Grimes B NRC COMMISSION (OCM), NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 8101150508 | |
| Download: ML19340E711 (5) | |
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Nf 51 Westside Drive Exeter, New Hampshire 03833 January 7, 1981 Prasident Carter President-elect Reagan Dr. Harold Denton, Director - Nuclear Regulatory Commission URC Cocunissioners - Mr. John Ahearne, Mr. Peter Bradford, Mr. Joseph Hendrie, Mr. Victor Gilinsky Mr. Brian Grimes, Director of Emergency Preparedness Planning, NRC Dr. Stephen N. Salomon, Federal Emergency Management Agency Senator John Durkin S:nator Gordon Humphrey Congres: man Norm D' Amours Nzw Hampshire Public Utilities Commissioners - Mr. Michael Iove, Mr. Paul McQuade, Mr. Francis Riordan
.i Eileen Foley - Director of New Hampshire Civil Defense Mr. Larry Hacer, Council for the Congressional Sub-committee on Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources S21ectmen, Seacoast area towns
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New Hampshire Governor Hugh Gallen
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8 Ladies, Gentlemen:
Would each and every one of you please do the responsible, serious job which you cre entrusted to do... and for which my tax dollars are paying you: That job is : to ensure,AS ATOUPIELY BEST YOU POSSIBLY CAN, the safety of our LIVES, our LIBERTY, and our PURSUIT of HAPPINESS!!
What kind of safety can I at:d my family secure if the Nuclear Regulatory Cocm-ission, Public Service Co. of N.H., and civilian authorities (police, fire departments, Civil Defense agencies) do not have an accurate, reliable, or demonstrably workable cmergency Evacuation Plan for us hard working, law-abiding, but very concerned United eStates citizens in the increasingly likely event of a nuclear reactor accident ??
What is the extent of our guarantee of liberty if the very environments we inhabit, (our homes, our businesses, our land), are rendered worthless, and we are neither prop-crly compensated (as the law of the Price-Anderson Act of 1957 says we will not be) nor properly warned in time to be led to safety ??
What kind of happiness have the residents of Love Canal or the peeple of Pennsylvar.ia l
hnd since the debacle at Three Mile Island? What measure of happiness do we Seacoast LOh l
residents have to look forward to ??
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I find it totally unlaughable that in the very recent past, any kind of evacuation plan was not an Atomic Energy Cocanission, (or a URC), requirement for licensing a nuclear plant. In fact, the AEC contended that a serious nuclear accident was so ittprobable as to make evacuation considerations unnecessary. I wonder if anyone could fid any humor in that totally irresponsible position; a position which I'm sure was considerably based on a $ 3 million (?) self-prophecy fulfilling, now recognizably error-laden and totally unacceptable Rasmussen Study on nuclear reactor accident probabilities.
How do you now factor the events of Brown's Ferry, Vemont Yankee, '41scasset, Three Mile Island, et al into your formula for nuclear plant proliferation and STILL present a PESPONSIBIE OFPICIAL POSITION to the 200,000 plus residents and visitors immediately surrounding the Seabrook plant or to any one of the millions of justice-dcserving Americans neighboring any of our other 70 odd nuclear reactors ?? How can you justify the position that...'Your lives, your property, and your genetic integrity are safe; They are secure and are being carefully considered' ?
YCU CAN'T '
YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN'T !!
For purposes of fully recognizing Public Service Company's accuracy, responsibility, or lack thereof on this issue, I have enclosed a "Bordertown News" article dated August 7, 1974 which outlines PSco's PRELIMINARY evacuation plan done by the Yankee e
Atomic Electric Co.. Please note with interest that:
1 This' preliminary' plan was submitted over 6 years ago; (In fact, they still call their most recent plan ' preliminary'
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o 2 The maximum stated time of 8 hours9.259259e-5 days <br />0.00222 hours <br />1.322751e-5 weeks <br />3.044e-6 months <br /> does not even come close to agreeing with the recent PSCo funded HMM Co. evacuation study time estimr.te,(h hrs. 30 min.)
l or with the Federal Emergency Management Agency evacuation estimate,(1h hrs.)
3 Only the FEMA evacuation study attempts to include institutional or special groups such as school children, the handicapped, industries, nursing homes, I
hospitals, etc.
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14 The evacuation area in the first ' preliminary' report considered a 5 mile radius.
Present evacuation studies have been forced to censider a 10 mile radius.
5 The time of public notification to evacuate was listed as 2-2 hours APITR A' RADIATION RELEASE IS DISCOVERED !!
The time estimate of 5 minutes for residents to get to their cars and begin c
evacuating once notified is, in my opinion, totally ludicrous and incredulous.
7 None of these evacuation plan studies considers abnoz-nal, panic and stress motivated behaviors which would surely abound during an actual evacuation.
This scheme of producing presently un-needed electricity by a safety-flawed, clccrly unreliable, and unforgivably expensive method WITH VIRTUALLY ONLY SECONDARY OR TERTL\\RY CON 31 ' RATION GIVEN TO THE HEALTH AND SAFETY AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE PEOPLE TO WHCM THIS CCUICRY REALLY BELONGS.. 14JST STOP!!
YCU TO NHOM THIS LETTER IS ADDRESSED 14IST EEGri To Do YCUR CONSTITUTIONALLY MANDATED JOBS !!
The swell of public concern regarding nuclear power safety in general and evacuation specifically is evident everywhere. You will have to deal with it. Act responsibly no.t to help develop in every way possible a safe, effective evacuation plan for all of us Ser. coast residents. And if,during this attempt, it is demonstrated that safe, effective cvacuation from a 10 mile' radius surrounding Seabrook is not possible given the particular geographic and topographic constraints of the site, DO NOT ALLOW THE LICENSDIG AND OPERATION OF THE SEABROOK PLANT !!
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Herbert S. Moyer United States Citizen Biology, Ecology, Botany Instructor; Winnacu". net High School Hampton, New Hampshire 038142
1 Beach evacuition could. take eight hrs.
By Bl*CK l! OWE capacities. which are available, were SEABROOK, N.H. - Public Service used to determine the amount of time it Companyof New Hampshire has told the would take for the population to Atomic Energy Commission that it evacuate any one of the given sectors.
would, take, under eight hours, Because three states are involved plus maximum, to evacuate the Hamptois many lo.al and regional agencies.
Seabrook Beach area if a radiclogicas Yankee Atomie told the AEC that any release accident were to e< cur at the evacuation plan would require a steady.
proposed Seabrook nuclear plant:
long term approach and stressed that In an amendment to the company's the results given in this amendment license, application to the AEC, Public were preliminary. A final analysis will Service outlined a preliminary be given in the Final Safety Analysis evacuation plan for 45-degree sectors Report.
within a five mile radius of the twin Also, the results given in the report reactor site.
The amendment was filed with the were based on the use of private vehicles as the only means of transportation.
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Company of Westborough, Mass. which Yankee felt that with proper coor-dination, mass transportation could be is responsible for the engineering of the used in certain instances and therefore e
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evacuation plan analysis is a preliminary one because the three, states This is the way the evacuation plan would work:, Assuming that an accident and many communities involved have which releases radioactivity into the not had the time.to make any atmosphere were to occur, such as a loss preparation planning for an evacuation.
of coolant (an accident where a cooling Yankee Atomic,in c9mpiling data for this amendment, told the AEC that 1 quid pipe bursts), the accident would certain assumptions had to be made in f rst be analyzed by the station operators order for the amendment to be com-and reported to the station management.
Within ten minutes of an accident the pleted. For the purpose of the plan, a 1980 total population estimate of the five New Hampshire State Police would be mile radius evacuation area was set at notified of it general emergency.
Within one hour of such an accident.
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' thepeak use period an emergency coordination center would of a fair.s day in late July or early August. Th,is population was be manned and off site monitorir4 divided into three different categories; teams 'would be dispatched. The permanent resident, summer resident monitoring teams would be equipped w th a means of detecting the increase of and daily transient.
radioactivity within the evacuation zone I
Special consideration would have to be In the :aeantime, N.H. State Psl ice.
given to ms'itutional population groups have notified both the Maine and such as, industries, schools and Massachusetts State Police, the N.H.
recreational facilities, according to the Radiation Control Agency and the N.H.
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evacuation area are presently being In each case, each agency would have evaluated in order to define road pre-determined evacuation locations in capacity for vehicles and pedestrians.
preparation for an evacuation order and This data will be given to both New Hampshire and Massachusetts state they would be proceeding to those locations' 6
agencies for further evaluation of how routing could be best selected.
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%ithin ten minutes of an accident tha pleted. For the purpose of the plan, a New Hampshire State Police would be 1980 tot:1 population estimate of the five notified of d general emergency.
mil 2 radius evacuation area was set at W thin one hour of such an accident, an emergencycoo&ahonceder wd a i day m la e J Yr be manned and off-site monitoring early August. This population was teams 'would be dispatched. The divided into three different categories; mor toring teams would be equipped n
permanent resident, summer residtat
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a ion would have to be In the meantime. N.H. State Police given to mstitutional population groups base notified both the Maine and such as industries, schools and MasuMts State T' lice, the N.H.
recreational facilities, according to the Itadiation Control Agen y and the N.H.
report.
Civil Defense Agency. Dese agencies k
s p' *ld be resnonsible_for_ notifying local evacuation area are presently being in each cas'e, each agexy wouM bt evaluated in order to define road pre <letermined evacuation locations in capacity for vehicles and pedestrians.
prepantion for an evacuation order and his data will be given to both New they would be proceeding to those Hampshire and. Massachusetts state locations' i
agencies for further evaluation of how routing could be best selected.
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within two hours of the accident, site would be lengthened t'o 20 minutes.
f and off site radiological conditions
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would be assessed to determine whether southeast of the nuclear plant, Yankee i further radioactive. releases into the estimates that it will take a maximum of I environment could' be expected: Ac-three ' hours and six minutes after ?
cording to the report it is within this two-notification for the evacuation to take C hour time period in which state, regional place. (population 42,722)
I and local agencies and orgpnizations
-For the'Hampton Beach area nor-a responsible for carrying out the theast of.the plant Yankee estimates evacuation order would be at their that:it(would take one hour and 28 specific locations awaiting the' order.
midutes' after notification for the )
Even before the' order is given, all evacuation plan to take place. t routes entering the area near the
. (Population 10,675) a nuclear plant would ~be closed to in-
-For the Hampton Beach area east of I coming traffic.
the plant, the evacuation would take an f.
At this point, traffic control devises estimated two hours and three minutes e l
would be shut off'and traffic control for the plan to take place (population U
i personel would be responsible for 13,096 P.
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dis ecting traffic out of the area. The Neil
-Foe the Hampton Beach State Park Underwood Bridge,qcrossing the "and Seabrook Beach areas east of the g
Hampton-Seabrookiharbor entrance
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would be closed as would the Rte. t evacuation time would be three hours bridge crossing the Merrimack River and~25 ' minutes after notification l
between Salisbury and Newburyport, (population 13,196) i Mass.
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west of the plant could be totally
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95 interchange would be readied for non-evacuated to a radius of five miles from I
I stop traffic. Evacuation notification the plant within four hours. The beach personel would be by hat time in place areas, the report concludes could take
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and ready to broadcast'the evacuation up to' eight hours to completely c
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. In the,meanthie a subcommittee of decision to evacuate would be made.
the'. Advisory Committee on Reactor According to Yankee's estimation, i.t Safeguards,will meet in Hampton, Aug.
l would takt; 15 minutes to mtaly those to 22, to-discuss technicallties in Public ts evacuated...a.
8ervice" Company's application. The
' Yankee also fstifneted tAat it would meeting is open to the public and will take five niinutes for residents of the " begist at 9 a.m. In Lamie's Tavern at the area to riet into their cars to'begin the ' Sheraton Motor Inn, x A w