ML20037B675
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| Site: | 07002909 |
| Issue date: | 10/29/1980 |
| From: | Linda Williams AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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3MI Ng h i M)ine 'lestinghouse Electric Corperadon Fres:- Louis G. *lIII,II.I:S, Ph. D.,
o.w "uclear Fuel Division of Pittsburgh is Z:seritus Professer of Biology nw.7eil into the process of getting a Aquatic Ecologist and authority Aicense which is clearar:ce by r.he 7. S.
en the cencentraticn of
? clear, Regulatory Ce icn C2C) +o build.i s
radio =clides in food webs, cnd to cperate a 22 clear Fuel Plant in Ala-UNM:bIri, Alabana 35hS6 basa in the Prattvine-@;cgemary are s.
In addition ta this licensing 5 the-Ecc:e address:=
s sJM U tn**JaH=n'h=2 a n.*i.
Vcrt W,, u,cd m eabaca 35L76 12u u ri m t
Department cf Transportatica (DOT), and the U. S. Enviremental Protect 12. Agency (EPA).
Public Hearing date, October 29, 1980 Surely the responsible citizens of Ala-HAZAR.D0US l'1TWMM
, a:a cannet afferd to allow 3'EC to orches-trate the legislature and the speial For nexual operatim the 7F.C f2el c
1 ant would be WN two kinds of Qland tcxic and cerrosive flucr be, W
-.1 interests into state licensing of this nazardous wastes:- Radioactive uraslum nucleat Pael plant without proper safe ccards. I believe the peepis of Alaba-a will turn dcwn !!EC when they are p.
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!innenradioactivt,butisache=1 cal inferred about nuclear fuel plants.
' hazani. An encr=ous prcbles in dealing with the lay public is trying to remain RISKS AND COST /3Z:GF:T A:ALYS13 scientific whild cc::=nnicating in a
,n all of these,, censing activities the difficult technclogy. Please do bear i
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-.erests and well being cf the citizens of Writh =y atte=pt to not icse you in this
. dea:a should have hign cricri., 7 and Ifollowmg cc==unication atte=pt.
esoecially the pecole of Pratt e at 1 l'
- ranius hexaflucride (UFO containing
.Mtgc=ery. At this ti=e the Joint Interim 51 fissile U-235 and 95% nonfIssile C0==ittee of the Alabama legislature to study U-238 and che=1 cal basardeus fluorine the effets of radiation arxi cthsr areas of would be truched into 'his pr. sed nuclear activities has concentrated its eff arts by hearing =cstly propenents of the nuclear fuel plant at Prattf nuclear pcwer arri other s-ecial interests.
UF6 is ha:a d eus in any ways. It A big distbetin should be made bet reen the is an alpha radicactive, tcxic, ccrresive, vary law :tiwastes frm hospitals, which is ifla::r.able and explosive to high degrees Jrge volume of conrad material and icw Therefore tc activity and low volune cf radwaste saterial. lfer each of thsse ha:aMs.:fini a scre hazanicus su'es The hospitals should be pernittmi to idifficult. The peint in questian is t~
incherate most of their wastes, ~nich is no IDo we want 076 to be braucht ints ? data:a lto be processed by a dry-flame che=1 cal pat to health. Rachrastes, herev*r, fr:3 which is
-recess inte uranius dicxideiants?
.e = clear power irdastr* is a seri us
.r:ble:.. He are : CT talfcing abcut contasi-Ehe fuel for nuclear pcrer p nated acbs, clothing, shce covers, etc.
Natural uranium cre centains 99.3%
fres.the nuclear industry, ner vials and U-238 nonfissile and only OD% U-235 svringes, etc. 22:1 hosoitals. The use ef which is fissile. neapcms-grade fissile 5tremely lx levels of' radicisot:bect s in uranium-235 (as in ata=ic ecebs) is any a:spitals is no thnat. The so-ca enrich =ent above 207..
The prorcsed
" low-level" of the nuclear irdast:7 is such enric=ent of -235 fcr the pellets would radienuclides as strontium-90 and cesium 137, be at the 5% errich=ent, scat pellets at wnica when concentrated from coclar:t ' rater is no !cther alcler fuel plants ccntain only and stabilized in berosilicate glass,These l3.27. enrichcent. Ecwever, this 5% level len.'er lx but inter =ediate 1svel.
radic=clides hace a rhysical half-life of of enrich =ent can produce ursanted criti-three decades ani will be around to get ints (cality, which is a chain reaction that yr food webs for thcusands of vaars.
- can beccne a run away excursicn that could
!be worse than a meltdown at conventional
..o one is addressa, g n..e prcblens of ir:uclear pcwer plants because sore fael 7sh-level radienaclides or spent traclear wou.ld becces spent fael with unnar:ted al stcrei at nuclear power 31 ants in water fissica pruiucts and pluteniu=. "hese i
- ecau,se they are dangercusly
-t :cth
. ould escape wi.h u. e high neutrcn flux v
w ther:, ally and radicactive17. Unless the:s
,'to spread dangerous radioactive fallcut 13 a cafer criticality accident at the pre-cvar the area to rerrier it uninaatitable.
- sed = clear fuel clant there will M no
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- niu: ner fissicn milets. Ecwswr,
- rCIZAR POTut PIAN"S EUS N. E Pt.
Criticalit7 is a possibility. 7ranium-235
- leither could troduce atonic betb-7
- uld W t*e heavy-level, icng-tem probles like criticalities h blasts. The fissil 0 235 and pcmer clant created at a nuclaa; 'uel plant from n: mal Operaticn. material,luttnius it nuclear ccwer plant;
- fissile p FIRPCS2S w_ _a.: we.:
.CGT alLIMC2 are moderated by both :colantNater and This writinz is interried to show reascns control rcds that absorb nautrens. I;.e
~ scoe :f the desiens of the r" clear pczer noderaticn fran ecolant water ani c:ntrcl U.custry are not wanted Or needoc by the rods are absent at nuclear fiel clants se iverare citizen of.daba-a.
This is cerely that U-235 and created clutcnium-239 dn
- ne f :any stateaants that I nam presented produce OcIn unwanted flssica caterials Jef re penic nearings conducted by the such as strcntiu90 cnd casiu:3 137. m y gislatna cc :::::ittee to be held in the a,la.
,x.:rsi:n at a 53 P. '35 fuel plant ecuhi e
conse Chaabe: :n Octocer 29 1X0 a.t 10:00 produce a blast :f. the strength of a 6
1- % This is a fer: of M L c.earinC weapon be.:b tlat valid crodice huge ocracy and an atte=pt to get ancher arcunts of deadly neutr'cns, which wculd vaq.nint before the citizens.
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P'JFl.IC EF.22n AIAEA% E'TS3 C3/C:. Oct ber 29,1980 A;*D TO A Trl ::~E"2'G 'I! !"3 SA'3 E:~:27f.ui!?."CZ C? C2:'-'Al mu, Oct. 27, by Louis WILI,IIIB Acrding to the 'IEC license applicatics.
Engineers ana 9tofessicnal ecciogists,'
the '.EC. = clear fael plant at P sttvine know that I haw b4. a strong sin:rit--
would be allwed to haw on hand at a:rf one :since the early #C's i exposing hasarYious time abcut II tens of uraniu= sf whien abcut. chemical and =aclear was'es in the Great 12 tcns is fissile -235. This nuclear : ass Lees and :ajer rivers of the 7. S.
How could be many potential criticalities.
aany cf them ic.ew that I A ve experienceci.
Uranin hexaflu: ride (7F6) is received caca difficulty in gettag sensitive by t:ack in cylinders with each containing
.aa= scripts cleand f:r sublicatiert, let'ich abat two and half tx.s of C76. Paclear
'had to go to the cid !EC7 In Alabasa the
.ael assemblies ce=taining fael rods are pA and,ths Alaba:a power Co=pany and the Alabata ater I@ rove =e2 Cecnission kncw shipped to reacters by truck. Thcre are l'that I made first responsible state:ents-napr,transp Itat. n risks' ar,ainst the T7Ats Br'ms Ferry aM the
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!preposed 2arten and Farley Paclear Plants.
If eve:7 nuclear cla t in A= erica were !I have participated widely at =c=y of the
(=t d:wn taccrrew, then wouti still be the mastaannagantconferences,especMlly lestien of what to do with ten Milion cubic lthcse dealm.g with br e haarardous waste 2eet cf hig!>-level waste caterial that al-idu=rs, men as at 7=elle, in Su=pter ready exist, fcr a plague to fature genera. lccunty, The Thele country is " pro ta er this a=o.
It has been aada the culy
- EFA-ap l site for dangero r, tiens for thousands cf years. 'Je an stuck current = clear p wer plants and no one
- =Ims 'C38s.p dis,osa with wastes fr:s weapcns developcent and the I
n the sas*ern U S*
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he states rast decide cn "where" to bt with assurance how to sclve tne probles of ceir Wardous radhcudes. 'M
-aj:: = clear acci,ents cr heavy-level wastes basa beccce the dug for southeastern Cests of the clean up cf hree Mile Islani
- wastes wnen we an denied use of the pre-7111 te at the expense of the taxpayer ar21
,sent Ba-srell disoosal site?
t.;e rise in v7ar electric bill.
Airbass regional planners, the Alaba-H1:13 :3 AN AGREE S T STATS I=a tater I=preve=en:; Comission, ani the This =sans that -any of the sericus lAla. Cnvircn= ental Q ality Association will ad=1t that I have sade = serous respon.si-liabilities for the safe coeration of nucleari W = plants suen as Farley and the prcecsed.able stateme=ts tartg 2 pars over many! ye cmr lear fuel plant, would be assu=ed by tc.e State ani n:t by the Alabama Power Com
- atte pt to ufers the public wnen the cass
- any ner T*estinghmse. The energency Ovacu,nedia failed.,Do you telieve that the a thn of coner clants and f2el,lants is a al4Mn' Me" w=pany was responsible
. hen it used paid advertising to say that w
rescensitib.ty Of the.Ga.:ana Semrt.ent of Health. ':iho win f=1 these sta',e 3 ncticns?;you get more radiati:n fr:c ymr TV than Tao will be liable frc= stcrage, transpcrta. lim = clear pmsr placts?
ti:n, and disecsal cf ha:arims 7astes? Thej
'he n:crd will shs that I saved alreaiy rocr ' tate Of Alatsra. ~~ hen a werkerithe state of Alaba=a and the Alata=a -
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- =es deirn five years after being empicyed Cic is f iclh rs by helping the= to with on-the-jcb cancer, wne will pay his -
page better decions tased cn scand ecc--
.edical bills?
! logical rine les. I have been Earth Day The chances of a trans.c:, accident with$ E ent t'a dv s I
radioactive caterials are a,ccut.he sa:n as r:r ncr:a track or train accinant -ith the :have socken widely to many universitl rrs" g7,mps. I ccnducted wer2shocs at Ea 7ehicles cargn;;; hazard,ns caterials such as $. C., when hace accu =ts ef'icw-level
.ej, which can ;r xiuce _ ns, exples Ons ani ratxastes havs ee-ed re.3ase :f catertals vita Snizing radisticn.'hted rew-hh ""^de d h'; ave con-nm-ti:n lat rat:ry in 3er.:eley CA and at the 3G7 DO EADIC:UCLEES ATrCT !C07
, National lah rat ory at Oak didge, 23.
?:n =ay not be aware of the cr+%a-ti n of yx: tody because ionizing radiation !
In the l?5Cr, I shsed that taxie unless in heavy deses, is not -erceivsd. Ya ystes from the Hocper Chemical d"-" pol-at "ut.ng the 3 acara niver and J) were iagara : alls (nu o7e Canal do not see it, s=el.1 ner feel it. Toa can e Er.s.
l tec =e centatinated b7 eating, dri.aing,
.his was d:ne, nen I-as a prcfessi ral treathing, cr si=cly by sxin expcsure to scientists p the U. S. Pabaic nealth saterials giving off 1:nising rsiiati:1.
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?"yy' EO (a rewarO has been flatterm A soeck of alpha-esittin: ;-235 (even ncrse f i plutonia.s) when inhaled, causes
'a littis, hsever, f:r after M years of fatal lung cancer. 7:ns of this will be "ari research and protirg a scientific and 5cing 7.he U' cessed'.ile in
'f,indings have been validated which has
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out"e"r Pra'ttville.
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- 3ep c. the trping of o7,0CC dry tens res:.dere in Prattville w1 escaos as a of tailings wastes per day frem the taco-E ^ h' ** k[~
nite indistry into Lake Superior. This 2 k'l: h*ph*Ys inside
$cr':g5 f" tee pla ilbe is wgh sil_iens Of dollar,s to public E:r e
benefi..
7 :nn eps have old ::s a ex:csed to much hi-her i nizing risks. Do ne red e of Alataca ~E Alaba-a is stillally want to te stuelegreat deal about t..e envirm stuff fperation of aestinghmsets P2el plan.
Yith~ thN :ieadl out they enied =7 r:-
q'n volusbia, Su,2est to insi:e,nstect their cperation cres.perous in ot'oall. ~;ill 72: lear f2e1 a
-plon g _me. 3 _rospercus7 SC Wh thev dii sacw it to atColumbia$leshastero'fOc=::erce, z
y Cells and genes whien are rapidly the ?rattvi are the = cst T.,ike OthT I have ccncludad th t -
ilvidirq as in young "']Of.en,een,.o 50 1:srane to i:ni:atien.
have f cund W ene=y an it is us. O$
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y f trying to cope -ith e
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- Ause a:. inf1 t ;o :e :crn 7ith an irrev*rse-t;a~s.safa Jastes.o.te envirencent is cen-ien ani =entalgpolluti:n, since the Q inneradi'ed.11mse. "I 7:2 aave 17 'Ci^d Of TiCt F y is acre Three Mile hn think m *hese risks.
,4* d y s, cr =cm m Canals.
The Safe 2ner y M.1 dei is trying to
- 2rk public concern is a ;ublic i.nterest
[usaneinAlascahave=avwenderf;l and naturaa res urces. After ecr,.
vitendog to scar:c public ::ncorn St.r?.:rg:. active parti:1;atio n -rtth certir.ent is rra. ducting rese ti:n to influence a pod p.blic pclicy.
nins 2nths f r the 7.. Cepcrtcent of the Interi:t in.765 I fell in lo,e with
- Pw :any lethal rad i:ses will ass rcur Tay? ;iculd you. eally m w mak to do if M.
O.is Ms 'e Nsign 7 fall time j@
t-ith the federal Yareaucra 7 in hluth, a ra*'cr acci. dent Occu.:Ted?
Mir.nes ta to :: n to the University cf Ala'a:n. If 3 =t scrry abmat tha L t c
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