ML20032E452

Forwards Communications Sent to Various Govt Agencies Re Preparedness Exercise.Requests Final Draft of Fr Notice on Subj

ML20032E452
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Site:	Dresden, Byron, Braidwood, Clinton, Quad Cities, Zion, LaSalle, 05000599, 05000451, 05000600, 05000452
Issue date:	11/17/1981
From:	Evan Jones ILLINOIS, STATE OF
To:	Grimes B NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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EMER, J SERVICES and DISASTER AGENCY E. ERIE JONES marews November 17, 1981 p

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Dear Brian:

Pleased to have a chance to discuss exercise dates with you recently.

I am forwarding some communications I sent out on that topic; I wcald appreciate it if you would consider these for your personal use only.

As soon as you have a final-draft of the Federal Register notice relative to exercise frequency, please forward to me at my Springfield office.

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Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 110 East Adams Street, Springfield,!!!Mois 62706 Oc m.;ber 5, 1981 Mr. John D. Crandall Director, Office of Disaster Services Hoover State Office Building, Level A Des Moines, Iowa 50319

Dear Jack:

The attached documents are forwarded for your information, use and comment.

Toward establishing a viable cyclical schedule for exercising the 5 nuclear plants where the 10 mile EPZ is within 1111 noir and the 2 plants where the 10 mile. EPZ impacts either the state of Icwa or the State of Wisconsin, it is my intention to call a planning conference involving ESDA and the two Illinois utilities shortly following the publishing by NRC of the proposed revisions of the present exercise requirements.

The objective of that meeting shall be to develop a draf t 7 year exercise schedule for Illinois with al ter natives. With that effort for Illinois accomplished, I would hope that; you and Joe LaFleur could join me to produce a mutually acceptable " dove-t ailed" final thre-state plan using similar draf t schedules as developed fc Wisconsin and towa by you and by Joe.

While the task is not an easy one, the complexity has been reduced by

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the proposed reduction in the exercise frequency requirements and I am confident we can produce a workabic final product.

Have a quiet and relaxed winter.

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i Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 110 East Adams Street, Springfield, Illinois 62706 November 5,- 1981 Mr. Joseph LaFleur Administrator, Division of Emergency Government Hill Farms State Office Building 4802 Sheboygan Avenue #99A Medison, Wisconsin 53702

Dear Joe:

The attached documents are forwerded for your information, use and ccanen t.

Toward establishing a viable cyclical schedule for exercising the 5 nuclear plants where the 10 mile EPZ is within lilinois and the 2 plants where the 10 mile EPZ impacts either the state of Iowa or the state of Wisconsin, it is my intention to call a planning conference involving ESDA and the two Illinois utilities shortly following the publishing by NRC of the proposed revisions of the present exercise requirements.

The objective of that meeting shall be to develop a draf t 7 year exercise schedule for ll.linois with alternatives. With that effort for lilinois accomplished, I would hope that you and Jack Crandall could join me to prnduce a mutually acceptable " dove-tailed" final three-state plan using similar draft schedules as developed by you and Jack.

While the task is not an easy one, the complexity has been reduced by the proposed reduction in the exercise frequency requirements and I am con-fident we can produce a workable final product.

Have a quiet and relaxed winter.

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lilinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 110, East Adams Street, Springfield, Illinois 62706 October 30, 1981 Mr. John T. Anderson Regional Director Region V, Federal Emergency Management Agency One North

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Room 540 Chicago, IL 60f07

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p' Attac!) men't to All-State Letter of October 21, 1981 titled " Projected REP Exerci,te Schedule" dated October 19, 1981 is erroneous as relates to all 111in6i's exercise dates.

The State of Illinois will establish those dates following the final publishing of the NRC ch5nges to exercise frequency.

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(1) Federal Register Proposed Rule (Alert and flotificationSystems)

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(2) Revised Projected REP Exercise Schedule

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Attachea is the recently published proposed rule for the " Emergency A-Planning and Preparedness for Produ'ction and Utilization Facilities."

This rule proposes to amend its regulations to extend the date by which prompt notification systems must be operational around nuclear power plants.

This proposed extension is based on the difficulty in acquiring the necessary equipment, permits, and clearances.' If adopted, the proposal would extend the compliance date for these

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systems from July 1,1981, to no later than February 1,1982.

'r Also attached is the revised (October 9,1981) projected REP Exercise Schedule.

Please note that some changes will have to be made in order to schedule Pal.isades and Davis-Besse for exercising prior to April 1,1982.

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TE.% REGION V i-s Projecttd REP Exercise Schedule Exerrise Date Site May 20 (81)

Quad Citibs Jul 29 2 ion '

"Sep 30 Dresden Oct 7 Zion (Kenosha Co.)

Oct 21 Lacrosse Nov 18 Zi=ner Dec 8 Prairie Island Jan 6 (82)

Fermi Jan 20 LaSalle Teb 5

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Big Rock Point Feb 17 Beaver Vallef Mar 5 Monticello Mar 17 Point Beach /Kewaunee Apr 7 D.

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Cook Apr 21 Braidwood May 5 Marble Hil'1 May 19 Clinton Jun 2 Palisades Jun 23 D' avis-Bess,e Jul 7 2 ion Jul 21 i

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Aug 18 (Open date for scheduling)

Sep 8 Dresden Sep 22 Perry Oct 6 Lacrosse Oct 20 Quad Cities Nov 17 Zi mer Dec 8-Prairie Island

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C7 measures to take in case of a nu-enother mt!I(u'ake of the same

clear, accident at the Illinois, magnitude in.the next decade.

') < Power Co. plant near Clinton We know about quakes that 92

$.seems to be progressing, but enehave caused utter destruction in j potential disaster appears to be other. areas, including some where

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-,) Aquase in this state," said E. Erie

f ? Jones, director of the Illinois Disaster planners at the Ginton plant say that the worst possible -

O Emergency and Disaster Agency. saccident would taot affect Decatur, Ntr John Cook, an engineer for Illi._ C h a m p a i.g n-U rb a n 2 am 4 y

nois Power,'said the plant is desig.Bloomimgton-Normal. There yned to withstand an earthquake would only be a need to care for 6.c along the New Madrid Iault imes revacuees of a'ID-mile radius of the 7.Dut Jos those unacqualated with,1 lanL 'Itat sounds optimistic, but p

-' the carthquake of 1810-1811. Jones at least planning is underway.

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f, "The Mississippi River ran hope for at the moment, but by the.

-backwards,"..he said.

-. time the plant is activated - as i history now, but to Clinton manag-The New Madrid earthquake is the contracto ers.and disaster officials like every person in the area to be pre-i

5. Jones, a real possibilty is present. pared for the worst that could hap-pen.

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...Tetamed up to a distance of 100 miles."

' Accumulation of radioactivity account <

Failure to seguire evacuation of Decatur

-Even in a " worst possible case" accident Dunas said that computer modehngs and *Jor the high erpeare levels,' Thompson said in case of a serious accident at the 11;inois at the Omton plant, areas outside a 10-mile.. standards adopted by the state concluded "You inhale radioactive material, and i

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Power CL nuclear plant in Clmton was ter-radius of the plant would be free from isfe,- that residents outside the 10-mile radius remains in your lungs and is distributed ta rned "ndreulous" by a scientist for a group threatcaing radioactivity, they ctatmed.

af tera worst-case accident would not re other parts of your body over the years,".h cntical of the nuclear industry.

"They are Indeed wrong " said ThomP-ceive radiation in excess of I REM.

4said. "The material also adheres to laru Gordon Thompson, staff scientist h r the. son, an engineer who holds a doctorate in 8 Thompson disputes that.

• surfaces and you get more constant expo Union of Concerned Scientists, a Cambridge, theoretical physics from Oxford University.

A 1975 NRC study based on a theortetical sure."

Mass.-based group, was respondmg to state. England.

worst-case accident, one involving a melt-

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ments made Saturday in Decatur by state Illinois officials are merely abiding by down of the reactor and breach of the cen ^.500 REMS is considered lethal, said Thomp emergency sernces and nuclear safety oth.

the recommendation of the Nuclear Regula ***tainment f acility that allows radioactive-- sonttbough it can vary according to facter Cul5-tory Agnecy, the federal group that regul-mate.-ial to escape, revealed considerably such as age and weight.

During an invitation-only m'eeting. E. c ates the nuclear industry, he said

.,. ; bagher levels of czposure, he said.

f,.Lethalness in the long term varies at Erie Jones. director of the state's emer -

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~ gency and disaster agency, and Steve Punas curMe," he said.'"Their own studies show at a distance of five miles,500 at 15 miles, vidual could have a long term exposure a of the state Department for Nuclear Safety,,that in many accidents, erposure to many 400 at 25 miles,60 at 75 miles. 24 at in hi r h " son n s o c

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could be running a significa.a4y' higher risk ci cancer. said Thompson.. :

But Thompson again admits the state of-ificials are basmg detr own 10-mile radius pideline on federal recommerdations.

"The essence of this is tba't the NRC is mot requiring emergency planning for the tyy of accidents its own studies have shon could occur." he said. "Most of these guy s Jos't.believe that accidqnts.can. happen.

Ibay are just going through the m6 ions.

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have shetNring responsibilities for < with particulate rn$tter..

[ divl' dual plans for each site.

tion became necessar) bey (

those evacuated from the five and.

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.d"We're confident that Illinois rent estimates it could a hl Several days, he sal1 About 40 people gathered Satur-10-mile radiuses state planners feel clouds did not escalate the need fur leads the world in emergency plan likely precede dec!aratio) wn m a a.w.. sp.u wrn.c -.

day in Decatur to speak the unspeak.. would be most severely threatened evacuation, he said they may "causef ing," said Jones. "But long-term problems". by infiltrating lident our plan has a lot of voids and fourth and most serious s%

able, think the unth.nkable.-- and. by what they term a " worst possible..

the food chain along a Sn-mile path.i areas that need upgrading."

nuclear accident, a generd i

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Dunas, in explaining the four-s%

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plan for chaos.

Outside the offices of the Ameri..g Such an accident would involve.blems would not affect the general; system of response for varying deg-Lisa Sauriders of the Pe(

can Red Cross Decatur chapter. the' ithe Icakage of nuclear fuel from the Cross chapter and a partig blems from such an accident "may, rees of nuc! car plant accidents, ex. press population, Dunas admitted that pro-1 reactor core and the radioactive skies were sunny and people were. material then coming into contact enjoying a glorious fall day.

with water to form a large radioac ^ come up months and years down thq But inside, mental horizons ~were road."

clouded with visions of neclear cata-tive cloud.

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}h Jones and Steve Dunas, acting strophe as city, county and private nols Power, said, "The acute impac.t emergency services officials pon. " cNef of emergency planning far the.dered what their response would be,' stat

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to an accident at the yet-to-be com-. maintained that such a cloud of ra-lies in the northern edge of Macon Despite the lack of publicity, pt i Illinois Power Co. nuclear ge-dioactivity would dissipate before there's one potential disaster that occurred on the North 4 County."

continent occurred in Nec nk.ng station at Clinton.

' reaching any major Central Illinois The utility's figures show that. worries E. Erie Jones more than.

Mo.," he said, speaking og

. The invitation-only meeting was population centers, including Deca-some 13,000 people live within the 10-nearly all others.

organized by Robert Nisbet,:.tur, Champaign-Urbana and mile evacuation zone; most of theni "I'm worried about an earth-series of tremors that hg o

Midwest in 1810-1811.

chairman of the local Red Crcss Bloomington-Normal..

In the coming months, Jor.cs told

• tiuake in this state," said Jones, who chapter's disaster services.ccmmit..,. "Our best computer modelings. in Clinton, he said.

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"It was severe enough '

in Detroit and New Yort tee, and featured presentations by - have suggested that an emergencyprotection zone is not necessary, the group, efforts will be6n '.o draw rang church bells in Bot give us more problems than any.

two high ranking state officials.

beyond 10 miles (from the sune of up an emergency plan for the Clina

... ton plant to join with others for the: thing except a nuclear confrontaen. Mississippi R Explained in general terms was Recent scientific date what the state's response would be rthe accident)," he said.

Elaborating later, Dunas said ". state's nuclear installations.

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" Illinois has more nuclear power. And though Jones was in Decatur are active again and some to a nuclear accident at the Clinton %' 7such modelings were barco on radia-tion exposure ilmits of 1 REM (with." plants than any state in the nation," ;on Saturday to speak at an invita. are predic plant, scheduled to go on line some-

"It's not a distinction we :f tlon-only gathering to consider local of that magnitude in thG time in 1983. Explained in specific

. terms was Macon County's role in ' a REM being a measure of radiation. said Jones.' particularly like. It puts a burden,on i response to a nuclear accide that plan.

exposure to he,ans).

the state and local governments.'

' linois Power Co.'s Clinton plant, he cade."

Jones warned city, es "Macon County will not be in-r At the 10 mile radius, the ge-Part of that burden was an en reserved his greatest concern for a private disaster officit neral population would not receiveradiation in excess of I REM," he ; penditure of some 2% years and 31,* phen volved in any type of plan that re -

million to $1.3 million preparing the confined to California.,

q'uires evacuation." said E. Erie, Jones, director of the state's emer - said.

overall state plan for dealing with i Ifistory, Jones noted,' warns us t. earthquake wbuld be be) thing they have experienct But, he added, these standards do miclear emercencies, as well as in. ' differently. %.,

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would Many problems stera from uncer-tainty over the number of people to of the ige in a expect and how long they will have to remain in the evacuation centers.

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"In tornadoes or floods, you have ria Iled ',a generalidea about these things based on past statistics,she said.

ipantin "But here we have no idea."

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"Your lifelines would be shat-hat ever tered. Your lake drained. Your se.

nerican Madrid, wage system would have severe pro-blems," he said, a severe Preparation of the state's nuclear ufed the accident plan, he said. has helped to prepare for catastrophes, such as o be felt earthquakes, which he feels would City. It ton. The be more severe.

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nols Power official was asked if the he said, Clinton plant was designed in consid-ault lines scientists eration of earthquakes.

John Cook, an engineer for the arthquake.

next de-utility, said all evidence be has seen

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unty and not extend to Clinton.

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[ such an commodate an earthquake along the ond any-New Madrid fault line," he said.

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