ML19340E765
| ML19340E765 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 12/22/1980 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA) |
| To: | |
| References | |
| PR-801222, NUDOCS 8101150612 | |
| Download: ML19340E765 (1) | |
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Covtrsk ou TRnt)st'r/cr) 0FFM Ui <Ub'.it, nr F AIRS hCWS 3UM%RY CECEMiER 22,1930 Cor.solidated Edison and four other utilities reached a compromise with the Environmental Protection Agency and environmentalists that is aimed at protecting fish in the Hucson River.
Under the settlement, con Ed and the utilitics agreed, among other things, to spend 518 nillic:
on acuatic life studies. Opponents of the plattt agreed that the utilities would not quired to install closed-cycle cooling systens at three generating plants, including,be re-Indian Point. New Ycek Times,12/30; Wall Street Journal,12/22.
In an editorial, the New Ycrk Tieer.
said "th'is settlement comes close to justifying tiie procle.mations of a ' historic acnievement.'
It ends nearly two decades of strife...and cuts short the battle over cooling towers...New Yorkers should rejoice in the resolution of issues that were threatening to hang over them fur years." 12/20.
WASHINGTON--The NRC staff has reco:: mended that Consolidated Edison be fined $5,000 for alle-cedly running Indian Point 2 while a special safety spray system intended to prevent the esrane of iodine in energencies was turned off in the reactor building. Wall Street Journal, 12/22.
GLE'l ELLYN, ILL--The NRC has proposed a $4,000 fine against Comonwealth Edison for allegedly improperly packaging a low-level radioactive waste shipment sent from the Dresden nuclear power s tetion to Richland, Washington, Wall Street ' Journal,12/22.
An article in the New York Times,12/21, says a " chemical explosion that blew plutonium dust into the air eight'~ years ago7 a government research laboratory in New York State may have "tained a 1,200-acre forest addition to the Appalachian Trail" near Nuclear Lake. The.NRC and the state Department of Environmental Conservation certified the lake area as clean and released the land for unrestricted used, out a group called the Harlem Valley Alliance objects to the opening of the sito as a park.
in a letter to the editor of the New York Times, Judith Johnsrud writes that the NRC has pro-posed changes to regulations that would " deregulate certain medical and research wastes and permit their disposal in sewage systems and sanitary landfills...(and) allow the recycling et metals contaminated with technetium-99" that would permit "just a little more cancer."
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