ML20034C878
| ML20034C878 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 05/15/1990 |
| From: | Charemagne Grimes Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | William Cahill TEXAS UTILITIES ELECTRIC CO. (TU ELECTRIC) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9005180042 | |
| Download: ML20034C878 (3) | |
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May 15, 1990 Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50 446 Mr. William J. Cahill, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Nuclear Texas Utilities Electric Company 400 North Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201
Dear Mr. Cahill:
SUBJECT:
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR THE COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION In a letter to the Commission dated April 12,1990 (Enclosure), the Citizens for Fair Utility R?gulation (CFUR) alleged that there are deficiencies'in the public education and information program and the alert notification system for Comanche Peak, based on a survey of local residents.
We request that you assess the concerns raised by CFUR in its letter and, in coordination with the State of Texas.and local authorities, take actions, as.
appropriate, to resolve the concerns. Please respond by June 15, 1990 with the results of your assessment and the schedule for: resolving any concerns requiring further action. We will expect you to report on-the resolution of-those issues requiring additional action.
Sincerely, (original signed by)
Christopher I. Grimes Director Comanche Peak Project Division Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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- Docket Nos. 50-445 and 50-446 Mr. William J Cahill, Jr.
Executive Vice President, Nuclear Texas Utilities Electric Company 400 North Olive Street Dallas, Texas 75201
Dear Mr. Cahill:
SUBJECT:
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FOR THE. COMANCHE PEAK STEAM ELECTRIC STATION In a letter to the Commission dated April 12,1990 (Enclosure), the Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation (CFUR) raised several cuestions regarding the public education and information program and the acequacy of the alert notifi-
' cation system for Comanche Peak.
We request that you assess the concerns raised by CFUR in its letter, and in.
coordination with the State of Texas and local authorities, take actions as appropriate, to resolve the concerns.
Please. respond by June 15,1990wIth the results of your assessment and the schedule for resolving the concerns requiring further action. We will expect you to report on the resolution of those issues requiring additional action.
Sincerely, Christopher I. Grimes,-Oirector Comanche Peak Project-Division Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Assistant Director Jack R. Newman, Esq.
for Inspection Programs Newman & Holtzinger Comanche Peak Project Division 1615 L Street, NW U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Suite 1000 P. O. Box 1029 Washington, D.C.
20036 Granbury Texas 76048 Chief. Texas Bureau of Radiation Control Regional Administrator, Region IV Texas Department of Health U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1100 West 49th Street 611 Ryan Plaza Drive, Suite 1000 Austin, Texas 78756 Arlington, Texas 76011 Honorable George Crump Ms. Billie Pirner Garde, Esq.
County Judge Robinson, Robinson, et al.
Glen Rose, Texas 76043 103 East College Avenue Appleton, Wisconsin 54911 Mrs. Juanita Ellis, President Citizens Association for Sound Energy 1426 South Polk l
Dallas, Texas 75224 E. F. Ottney l
P. O. Box 1777 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 I
Mr. Roger D. Walker Manager, Nuclear Licensing Texas Utilities Electric Company 400 North Olive Street, L. B. 81 Dallas, Texas 75201 Texas Utilities Electric Comptny c/o Bethesda Licensing 3 Metro Center, Suite 610 Bethesda, Maryland 20814 William A. Burchette, Esq.
Counsel for Tex-La Electric Cooperative of Tei.as Heron, Burchette, Ruckert & Rothwell 1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20007 GDS ASSOCIATES, INC.
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CITIEENS FOR. FAIR UTILITY REGULATION-7600 Anglin Drive Fort Worth,-TX 76140 April-12, 1990.
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TU Electric's full power licensing request Toi The Commissioners Sirst-Citizens-for Fair Utility Regulation - understands ' that the Commission on April 16, 1990 will hearsTU Electric's ~
request for a full power license for the Comanche Peak ~
s nuclear power-plant'and at that time the Comm'ission I
can either deny,. delay or-grant the1 request.-
s CFUR recognizes that many of the concernsiabout i he t
safety of the plant have.been resolved to t)ie satisfaction of the NRC staff.
However, some of these concerns still have troubling aspects to'those who must live here.
Concerns that the Commission in-its-responsibility to.
l make safety of a nuclear power _ plant the: overriding issue in determining whether or not-to grant a license, o
consider throughly and thoughtfully before crossing j
must this final threshold for Comanche Peak.
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For that reason, CTUR requess the Commission'to consider the following new information which has recently been made available to CTUR.
Shortly after the fuel load and low power license was granted to this plant in February, CFUR was contacted.
by representatives of the Hood. County-Taxpayers Associa-L
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- and/or work ~inithe vicinitylof the plant'.
CTUR board member Betty Brink was; contacted by the i
L Association's board member Allene Van. Pelt'who-lives in-Granbury in Hood County.
Mrs. Van Pelt expressed the. Associations belief that the evacuation plan supposedly in place.and approved.by the Atomic Safety and.
9 Licensing Board in earlier. hearings was inadequate.
Based en a random telephone. poll conducted after the low power license was granted in February of;1990, by Association members who called residents and businesses-within all of the evacuation zones in bot.. Hood and.
Somervell counties, the Associaiton believes that the plan is seriously deficient.
(This was a rendam surveys it was not a survey. of.
.i Association members.
The. survey is attached.)
The Association called 340. residents randomly selected' from each evacuation zone, out of that' 340, 219 had working telephone numbers and the Association received =
some kind of response. (Copy of zones attached. )
The first question asked simply if the resident-had received TU Electric's instruction booklet mailed out'in 1989. This booklet is to give them the information they.
- will need in case of an accident &c the plant.
62 responded yes.
147 responded no. (Ten didn't b
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In.other words, 67 percent of'those polled.hed.
l not received the only piece of i'nformation TU is required to provide to the. citizens which would tellSthem what to do to protect themselves and their loved ones11n case of an accident at tho' plant.
out of 209 who answered the question, "Do you.know'
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what location you should' report to?", 135 did not know.
v whers to go if'they had to evacuate, or 64 percent.
Only five of those polled knew what evacuation zone they lived in.
When asked if the residents could hear the siren in-their home or area, 46 said yes, 34 said no.
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Out of 44 who said that they had children,J18 said they would allow the schools to'be responsible,for the
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evacuation of their children; ten said they would not.
79 residents answered ths-question, "If1you went to i
an evacuation center and were told ~that.you could not return home, would you have some place to go7" of:
those 79, 42, or 53 percent, said they would have no place-to go.
CFUR recognizes that this survey has been-done by citizens with no " professional" credentials.- However, the. Association of Taxpayers which conducted the survey is a long established organization of active, community service volunteers with wide experience in l
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conductingLthis type of survey.
The. questions,with the exception of the last one are-straightforward andtun-i; biased.
Because'the only one'with a' bias-Lis the last, j
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CTUR believes the Commission should recognize that'this i
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survey begs for more~information.
It shows the:need for t
a muen more in' depth study by TU Electric and the'NRC i
staff to determine if these results accurately reflect the level of knowledge that residrn who live near this i
plant actually have concerning wir sa must do:in case of'an emergency at the plant.
Citizen surveys are not to be discounted.
These-are, after all,.the people who live and. work-near the plant.-
They and their children will be the first to suffer if l
t there isuan accident at Comanche Peak.- They.must'know what to d'o to protect themselves,-their: families, their land and their livelihoods.
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j CTUR would point out to the Commission that many of the residents who live in the small communities and< rural
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areas surrounding this plant are older, retired persons.
Many live alone.
They are especially vulnerable.
That vulnerabili1ty is apparent in the answers given.by the 53 percent who said they would have no place to go if they could not return to their homes.
i There are also a number of nursing homes in the area i
and a large nursing home, retirement development is
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in the planning stage.
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.While only a small percent answered t' hat they would ne: allow the schools to evacuate thear children, that few, roughly 5 percent, could create cha'os-at the schools t
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I-In addition the Commission should know that during-the i
L summer months'the area is111terally alive with children, in church camps.
There are dozens.of camps in.the region ~
surrounding the plant which house children from the Fort Worth-and Dalles area churches as well as churches f rom I
the surrounding communities.
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This added' summer population has not been taken into consideration by s carefully worked out evacuation plan.
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Not only have the churches throughout the Fort ~ Worth, Dallas area not been brought into any-evacuation planning, i
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only in the area during the summer months and they_have no access to any-information.
The instruction booklets have only been' mailed to permanent residents in _ the evacuation zones and it is i
apparent from the survey that that mailing may be L
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I l-f An equally important aspect of this survey is that it underscores the need for a much greater degree of community education and involvment than has occured to i
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with the county and. state officialsLwho will be.respons1-t
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the different kinds Questions need to be answered about l
of accidents that might occur, the levels of severity
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and the.importance-a pregnant woman atithe;greatentrisk) of adhering to-a.well understood,Ldisciplined evacuation I
procedure in order to protect everyone.
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be aware of what they are-to do if.
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any plan is going to work.
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indicates they are not.
At the-very least that there may be serious problems'which could skew a safe evacuation and could lead to-a complete breakdown in the most important job of all, the protection of the health and safety of the people in the real world of a nuclear accident.
CFUR knows and'the Commission knows that the real world-and the theoretical world do not :always mesh.
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the Commission to consider this very-urgent-request by CTUR to delay the full power licensing of Comanche Peak until this issue, raised - by. the residents themselves, can' be further investigated and resolved.
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