ML20003H770

Opposes Full Power License for Util

ML20003H770
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	04/11/1981
From:	Frisco D COALITION FOR NUCLEAR POWER PLANT POSTPONEMENT
To:	NRC
References
NUDOCS 8105070423
Download: ML20003H770 (1)

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Now that our fun-scale evacuation drin is history and has, o& p&g i l

course, been deemed a success, plens now continue in fun swing for

• g3 granting a full-power license for Salen II by the end of April. I hope you win intervene in my behalf to prevent this fact from happening.

As you may be aware, ou March 11, the Salem I reactor managenwnt initiated an Alert status at the plant when it was discowred that abnomal amounts of radioactivity were present in the auxiliary building of the Unit. It was later revealed that the leak that caused the condition was suspected for as many as eight hours before the Alert was called. Compounded by the fact that thirty or more minutes transpind before an responsible agencies "bslieved" an accident was in progress, I believe that the utility at Salem as ven as police and civil defense agencies have a long way to go before they can handle an evacuation of any scrt, let alone the precipitating event.

These are not the only reasons I have for my opposition. Others are that the members of the general public were not involved in any way in Wednesday's test because the " potential for injury" was too high. We

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have no adequate public waming system instaned and functioning. No radioprotective drugs are s.vailable to anyone. No notices of evacuation

plans or routes are conspicuously posted in hotels, motels, phone booths, i etc. (as is suggested in Nureg 065h). The City of Wilmington, where a l large percentage of our population lives and works was not included in the drin and is not considered adjunct to the 10-mile EPZ of Salem.

And most importantly, no public hearings on the matter are now scheduled, to gauge citizen input. I feel that the results of the March n incident are more in keeping with the actual preparedness of our State and that of the utility, and should serve to ten you that no full-power license for Salem II should be issued at this time.

Please do not compound the obvious problems we have with one unit, with the many uncertainties that are sure to crop up as a second unit comes on line. While I do not endorse nuclear power in any way, I do feel that strict enforcement of the precepts of Nureg 065h and the -

scheduling of public hearings will serve to make our tenuous existence --

next to two critical reactors more safe, until the hour comen when we -

can shut them both down for good. -

Thank you, J.

Donald C. Frisco, Co-Chairman A CC: Senators Biden & Roth 07 Congressman Evans p9 p Govemor du Pont 81050'g' @ 8