ML20010B485

Opposes Const of Facility.Miscellaneous Newspaper Articles & Matl Encl

ML20010B485
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Issue date:	05/12/1981
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416 S. 17th Street Chesterton Indiana May 12, 1951 Nuclear Regulatory Commission -

Washington Project Manager Uranium Fuel Licensing Branch Washington, D.C. 20555 Gentlemen:

Think of that salutation. Gentle men--I hope you will all be gentle and though.tful with our lives. Those who live near Bailly 1 near Chesterton, Indiana.

It would be really dumb to allow NIPSCO to build a nuclear plant there. And I don't believe you are all dumb. NIPSCD needs to rethink their priorities--to make life safer, secure for their customers--or their customers will be leaving the area and they won't be needing all that energy anyway. Right now, people ar=

turning to other forms of energy and learning to conserve--so let's help NIPSCO save face and plan other ways to go--cogeneration with electricity and solar, etc., rather than nuclear! The total costs related to nuclear energy ere too mugh, as compared with other ener67 Enclosed are some clippings, my paper from an environmental policy clasc. Please consider the people--what they are saying--no Bailly If The one pro group's statements and ideas shen they are uninformed about many aspects of nuclear power. I was very upset when I read them.

Advanced technology often creates more adverse pollution and problems than people take the time to consider and stop. Please think well and forget profit and greed a2a consider health, safety and well

[ being of the people. There is much profit and jobs to be created with other forms of energy also. Profit is okay as long as it is obtained decently and honestly.

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Nuclear Plant near Chesterton, Indiana, ,I decidad to write my paper ,

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cn nuclear energy and the options of other foam of energy. Having

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wsted interest is, of. course, my children and grandchildren's lives, health,arifeggsc9 and those of my friends and nrfself as against the s

vested interest of Northern Tndinnn Public Service Company (NIPSCO), -

whose costs have risen from $700 millinn to $1.1 billien. 'Ibese costs, .,

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raised grave doubts in my[udnd. For examle, America's film hero,

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ting the 'Ihree Mile Ishnd disaster have received recent cerpaign " 'N N contributions frun Babcock and Wilcox Co. the unker of the n!I nuke.

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there are great risks involved with nuclear energy. It will be nnny ,

years before the health factors are knam.resulting frcm the rndintion.

Public pressure following the accidents at 'Ihrae Mile Island has forced the nuke industry to go up against Wall Street's investors, who are losing their enthusiasm for. financing nuclear nH14 ties. h Suprc=n Court denied a hearing to a formr U.S. soldier sto develooed inoper-able breast cancer after being forced to unrch within 3,000 yards of a niclone bld t in 1953. '1here are dangers at Zion Camonmalth Edison's nic1nne plant (which has one of the nations's surst safety records ac-cording to the Nuclear Regulatory Cmmission (}EC))--the reactors have scramed four tdmes in less than one month. 'Ihree were in reactor nmber one, which puts severe stress on delicate reactor machinery. Yet Coma:n-sealth Edison wanta to raise rates by 18.27., a total of $452 millim,

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leaving it with far rore plant canacity than it needs. (The same as here in NIPSCC i & the longer the- delay is, the more people are conserving & goine to solar, wood & other

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pince to send their u dioactive debris. Gove:nor 'Ihocoson blamed the C,V ~

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adopt c nationwide plan for radioactim waste disposal.

"Ihen the 2,C cited Comr.sealth FM u for having an Ungm14 Med en-playee on the job in conncacHm td.th a soill of radioactive cooling water at its Dresden nuclear pomr plant near Morris, IL.

'Ihe follcraing asstrptions are to be considered in regard to the m' claw industry and spariMcnlly to the milly Nuclear Plant near Chesterton, Indinna:

A. Since the time billy was first started, it has encountered unny poliMcn1 decisions. And the miclam- industry was first supparst d by the governannt as a quick answer to our energy's problems; however, due to ununting problans beira brought to

$t by the press, Congress is taking a second look and asking umny questions.shich have yet to be answered. 'Ibe Harris Poll

! shms that Anericans are increasingly uorried about the safety ~

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ef..'cfn.uclear reac' tors and the dangers of wastes. It seems to re'. , ;; . ;; _

there was arneed to have a gigantic Envim.uental Impact State %

nrnt (EIS) done cn the nuclear industry on all the i::plications and rnmifications of using nuclear pcxer. 'Ihe cost of building ; , , _ , , .

unintenance, training, transporting the wastes, disposal of the unstes, and rebuilding, paycent to victirs and other costs in

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1 B. Post political actors see the world in a narrcr.e scope und in .

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C. 'Ihey thought their choice of nuclear energy would cost the least, now we are dNmvering m:zny nore costs in rency, lives and health.

D. Political denic4nns are incremntal; change is therefore slow.

In August 1970, NIPSCO applied for licensing of Pailly plant and was amnded 16 t-imn in response to staff questions on the NRC. Hearings wre held, ndditional evidence sulrd.tted on 21 different crzvianzental issues,19 rnainlogical health and safety issues, and five legal issues, and in April of 1974 the

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license m s approved. In 1975 the Court of Appon1s overturned the issuance of cle license and stopped construction of the FM11y plant, but in Movmber of 1976 the U.S. Suprme Court overturned that de' cision and construction of Bailly Nuclear I ,

I was c1 cared. On the pile driving rethod, the NRC asked in - -

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late Septenber of 1977 for an alternate enthod, tnde tests,then the Athrisory Carmittee on Reactor Safeguards revies.ui and made a favorable mmt after a reeting in Portage, IN last July. J, "Iheir decision against holding full evidentiary hearings on the WP

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of billy. 'Ihey contend that the NRC is not considering w - .s g..

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all of the issues involved. A114nnea spckesmn David Can- . . . . ' ' .yr.,,f, X .

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right stated "Ihe Feiny and the resulting cost increase to-  : .b@.l~ > -. n .

-' pe .,ok>Lv m NIPSCO custuums in !brthwest Indiana rests squarely on the i

shoulders of NIPSCO engineers and executives for their choice I of a site on Lake Michigan and for their failure tn solve the foundation pboblans." 'Ibe next issue to be ermnidered is the perdt sd:ich expired in Septsber. It is expected that the l

Milly A114nnce and a new group, Dmocrats Uni.ted for Energy

' i Safety (DUES) will lead a cmpaign on write-ins to Congress-non,and the NPC in protest to " halt all construction, derrf

! reissuance of any construction pernd.ts, cancel all licenses, t

and declare Bailly Nuclear I site unsuitable for nuclear con-struction."

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E. PoliHen1 conflict, although often about key substantim .

issues, seldan is expressed in these terms; rather, there is a tendency.to reAsco the conflict to siaple, syt:bolic terns.

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built on lake Michigan in a denely populated area, but, in-

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.t areas.. Bailly I site is the only nuclear site in the nation .

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to'have nuclear power and then. they say, But don't out it. . _ , _ . ..

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ccntninad and laid to rest fur a th. Conflicts arise again ,:'; V S 1 .. ;u .?.

and again. Congress, cnce dacidadly pro-rnelear, is under- 08%$

going a transition. It is not prepared to andarse umlear power reficcting the heightened concern about nuclear safety brought about by the accident last March at the 'Ihree Mi.le Island plant in Pennsylvania. 'Ihose concerns had led increasit 3 ,

Innhers of legisintars to agree that until those questions are ansered, Insrinm power cannot be depended on as a rajor energy source for the future. 'Ibe public co2d is for nore, not leds, regulation of nuclear power. 'Ihe Kamny Cemninsion, appointed to study the 'Ihree Mile Island accident, indicted the govern-

,nent and industry safety practices and enlled for fwd-ntal

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. changes to avoid future accidents. So the util.ities are setting

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! as an in-house regulator of refety. Certifying utility train-CPP P m c6 + Jcrc. cm; qccm.z; scq cctg._ nm.s in g prpgrams for plant cperators for one thing, and also an ..

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? . .or shutdown. 'Ibe ;vuuuuut took responsibility 20 years ago v.i w.;l uc,n;; wi. c,L rtp, ; a : en .c. , tce._ s ; p

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D.-la. , and others want to candate an interim ' storage facility y ai.Iv -

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that would last 50 to 100 years. In the meant-ir,n, their bill ;c. >'.C. ...'

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have prevented percnnent underground storage, such as how to

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isolate the wastes for hundreds of years and how to convince N.&~.5 a state to provide the storage site. But Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., ubo bands a nuclear panel for the Envimumt and Public Works Carmittee, wants an earlier dandline for porr~mant underground storage. If no such storage were avnilnble by 1985, the bill wuld rcquire the generating capacity of opera-ting reactors' to be recad by 10 percent a year, with all reactors closed down by 1995.

And there is tp.e problem of evacuation--R,i.11y Allinnce states that it muld put two nnjar industrial regions of the state, Gary cni rnnt t and South Bend-Goshen-Elkhart, in.the path of a potential accident at the R, illy plant. Such an accident would kill over 3,300 persons, injure.

45,000 and lead to 45,000 cancers over the next several years. 'Iher'e are 300,000 people livingwithin the 10 mile radius (IEC's new Fmnr- 4

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gency P1nnning Zone radius) and up to 750,000 people within a 25-mile radius. Bethleben Steel has over 8,000 enployees next to the Enilly

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site,and one of the tw bottleneck ti_11 cntrances is the only access . . -.

to Bailly. Many thousands of people visit the Indiana Dunes National  ; _.

Inkeshore each year next to the site and the Indinna Dunes State Park n'"". . . . $

less than 3 miles away. U.S.13 nearly all 2 lane,is the only road scrvicing the lakeshore area betmen Gary's FSiler area and Michigan bDy. ..r 3

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'Ihus, I a proposing that we do not need R, illy Nuclear Ib, I in the heavily populated area around Bethlehem and Gesterton, Indiana. In-3 If.M '.

stead, we need to be pursuing other alternatim forms of energy such h.:.[...y,,

3w n nore ronlintic 11y and with post-haste. I'm psing that Solar ,,

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Energy be core efficiently used in existing systms as noted by qy. ..-

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electricity, uses that heat for neighboring buildings, thereby boosting the plant's operating efficiency. Pomr plants can be built with co-  !

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generators. It can begin to go solar by putting solar collectors on the roofs of houses, feed the heat into the district heating systs, using less fuel. New breakthroughs are being rude every day in solar energy to unke it more feasible. Put our sunshine to wrk.and store it for future use too. Use gasohol that can be unde frm cull potatoes, off-grade rolasses, and " grain ~screnhs" with " distressed grain,"

m which are being sold on the waste or low-grade nurket. Or from cellu-lose frm crop byproducts, saw.!ust, trash und paper pulp into glucose,

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which can then be distilled into alcohol, which would not affect our food supply. Rep. Floyd Fit.ian, D., IN, stated "I think the pre-oil and pro-rnehr bias in the Departrent of Exc gy has been intolerable.

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that their udndset coces from those industries. He notes that the -

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nation has.a potential crnual capacity for proAring 7 billion gallons .

of alcohol fuel from grain, including 115 ndllion gallons of alcohol _' ,

that could have been produced last year from 19 rillion acres of crop- C-land on which the goveuumt paid farunrs to grow nothing.

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is renewable, wholesotn and abundant, and David M. Sd.th, Professor .fg,'i:3t-ji .'; ,

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Thus, I conclude that rnclom energy has provtn to be an enviuamental bust for us. Int us then gn on to other forms of energy and know that .

all of us will be safer, healthier and richer by using other forms of i energy and conserving. Ibere are nuny ways to conserve and it behooves .

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"To build the Bailly Nuclear Pla nt would we wilIing to accept all of these grave I be sheer madness," Russell Peterson, diects of ' nuclear power in Indiana.

prendent of the National AudubonSocicty, Fortunately for us, economical alter- ~

recently stated. Peterson also served on natives do exist.

the President's Cammission to study the

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• The Bailly site is the only nuclear plant cheaper. Unlike uranium, we do have 1]%b '

site in the nation to fail all of the new siting abundant coal resources in this country. Ws .

guidehnes (based on population density) proposed by the Nuclear Regulatory The New York Times article also talked about the huge amounts.of our tax mot ey Q.4 Commission.

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• If a core meltdown accident occurred that goes to subsidize the nuclear industry (over 5%t million proposed for next yearl.

h' Q" l at Bailly, many thousands of people would

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l be killed. This is accordmg to accident billion to build. Add to that the cost of studies done by the NRC and others. An handling radiactive wastes, unknown area the size of Pennsylvania would be health costs, the ccot of decommissioning contaminated with deadly, long-las'.ing the radioactive plant once it is oboirte, radioactive pollutants. ahd you see that Bailly will end up ccstre.g

• Bailly would be only the second nuke in ts a lot of money. -

the U.S. built on a foundation of ' pilings'.

• GE and Westinghouse say they will

%ese pilings will not even reach bedrock. have photovoltaic cells (convert sunlight

• Seven major oil storage tanks with a directly into electricity) that are com-capacity of more than 30 million gallons petitive in price with any other electricity and two natural gas pipelines lie . . source within six years) ~,.'

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. 40% less energy by the year 2000.' Con-

.only 300 feet from the reacter site. The

. pipelines-are 150 and 200 feet away. The' seriation is the cheapes_t, safest and least NRC taa force recommends these should . disrtptive energy source -immediately be at least one half mile away. < available, according to Harvard resear-

• The-Bailly site is only 1000 feet from chers and many others. ,

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• We do not need the Bailly nuclear l is adjacent to the Indiana Dunes National plant. It would be unsafe, unhealthy and takeshore. ~ ]y } very cos ly. Let's keep Indiana, non.

• Bailly ' would routinely release ' v radioactive. With our help, Indiana can be radioactive materialE. into the en- the' safe energy state'. t ,,

vircnment. Nuclear Jplants are also . Anna Grabowski I ,,

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and from there into our bodies, Scientists . Two cars received' minor damage in a say this willlead to a marked increase in collision in the Big T parking lot at 801 cancers, birth defects and other illnesses. Broadway ink Chesterton Saturday af.

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• If there were no alternative sources of were backing out of parking spaces op. /h,tf energy economically available, we might posite each other and collided, police said. -Q [ >

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-. Indiana should. support thileffort to .stop bedrc& R is now est.imated it will'czt construction of Bailly. Nuclear 1 because $1.1 bilnon and it is not scheduled to be or, we believe in the long run this plant will be line until its design and equipment are '43 bad for the economy of out, aria.; .,,g years old. .'.d.

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• caste disposal, and spiracy theory applied a gainst either side. high costs of construction as we!! as fuel.-

It is .unlikely :thattenvironmentalists ,. , What is.needed is a return to the old across the : country < have(conspired .to . , fashionlinventive? c'reative thinking that weaken American industry and make this - d.ade this country str'ong. Steel mills in the country, a " third . rate power',', /as a ,. Calumet . Region could produce- all the :

groponent of Bailly Nuclear 1' told us/ [ electricity.needed.by the mills and'then Likewise, it; is . unlikely thatij plant .;some by using f.he her.t that goes out the *

' nianagers are in a conspiracy wi.th in- is'mokestacks, but, utility rate.st:uctures vestors to make a short term. profit and _ imake this' process 7 called cogeneration,

'i place. an industry -in: jeopardy.byj nht keepingopwithnew technology::g ,- @,?economicallyunfeasit le.- Jobs could be created by m5 of Indian'a Bailly Nuclear 1 would be,an, economic <;jcoal, and the by products of desulfuring disaster. Any hint of trouble at the nuclear tthis coal would be.an asset-to #, society and plant or even a false alarm chiild resultin .:Itheeconomy.

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Bailly has been delayed the, last 3's gWe'say tell NIPSCO Saturday to stop wasting our money and placing our lives a'nd jobs in Jeopardy.

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