ML20039G239
| ML20039G239 | |
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| Site: | Zimmer |
| Issue date: | 01/08/1982 |
| From: | Reder M ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS - ZIMMER AREA CITIZENS OF KY |
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| Download: ML20039G239 (7) | |
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SS Ntu County #o'r Campbe.1 r testimony states as follows. ;
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.I Mary Reder, am a resident of Campbell County, Kentucky.
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I have resided at that rural address, Route 2, Box 270, California, Kentucky.
I have represented which is abou't four miles from the Zimmer plant, since 1967.
the City of Mentor, Kentucky,'in the Zimmer. licensing hearings and have received count.lcss ' documents dealing with the Zimmer plant and related radiological ' d.
emer6ency planning, includir$g so-called "interin" plans for Kentucky and Campbe
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lans as well as hVREG-0554 Pendliton and Bracken Counties. 'I have stadied these I have attended numerous and parts of 10CFN that address emergency planning.
meetin6c'about and including radiological einergency planning, both publi.c and relatiVely closed,fwith officials.from NRC, FEMA, state and local D5, fire and l
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, police departmente, schools, public offices on the state, coun y, an and others and have had'many private conversations with many of these people.
I have discussed Zimmer emergency plannin6 with General Wilbur Buntin, Wayne Berry, Tom Little',-and Bob Alexander of DS3,. Superintendent Gene Sell of C mm.
County Schools, and county Judge-Executives Hehl, Corliss, and Pribble, amon6 moo.
oo Od o mg many others'.
The latest Zimmer radiolo6 cal emer6ency plans that I have seen for Ken-1 d October, 1981, and oo
.tucky and Campbell, Pendleton and Bracken Counties are date 00~<
I hav'e heani DES and CG&E repre-oE' are cicarly identified as " interim" plans.
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sentatives describe these plans as unfiniched and incomplete.
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4 d safety, the have questioned the adequacy of the plans to protect.oW health an taken care of by so-planners' answer has of ten been that these concerns will be t some unspecified called Standard Operating Procedures that will be developed a Neither as a representative of Mentor before the NRC nor time in the future.
tunity to see as a citizen who lives within the 10 mile EPZ have I had the oppor t d plans or revisions or or evaluate any of these SOPS or any final plans or upda e In my opinion and as one who has a reasonab additions to these " interim" plans.
the plans as they exist, the " interim" plans knowledge of the problem and of ident at Zimmer could are unworkable and reliance upon these plans during an acc To issue an operating license to Zimmer on the basis result in disaster.
to study and approve plans and before the community has had ample opportunity j tified.
final or relatively final plans is dangerous and completely un us lans in-Further, the Kentucky and Campbell County radiological response during an emergency.
validate themselves because they repudiate their own use "Durin6 an emergency, The Campbell County plan contains the following statement:
ill be employed Standard Operating Procedures (SOPS), developed from the plan, w t".
This state-to respond to the emergency rather than this planning documen ll County Basic Plan and ment is essentially repeated elsewhere in the Campbe SOPS are not included in the plans and havs not twice in the Kentucky plan.
Since the plans disavow themselves and establish S submitted separately.
d since no SOPS are the sine oua non of emergency planning during an emergency, an b itted, the people of contained in the proposed plans or have been otherwise su m t t their health, Mentor, of Campbell County, and of Kentucky have no plan to pr As t the Zimmer plant.
safety, and interests during a radiological emergency a d by objective inspect 9 they stand, the so-calleil plans are by self-description an To consider them for plans.
simply statements of intentions or, at best, plans their right to make a in,any other light would deny Mentor and affected citizens i
mergency, thost timely evaluation of plans that would actually be used dur ng a that, if they. exist, are hidden in the undisclosed SOPS.
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Although the 50-mile ingestion pathway for tha Zimmer Staticn EPZ includes about 700 square miles of southeast Indlaria, there are no radiological emergency plans by or on behalf of the State of Indiana or the affected local Indiana gov The emergency plan for the William H. Zimmer Nuclear Power Station in-erments.
cludes the radiological emergency plans of Kentucky and Ohio by referenc pendices E, G, and H), but there is no Indiana plan or reference to it there.
I have seen no evidence to suggest that Indiana has a plan for Zimmer or the This omissio0 inclination to produce one or the capability of implementing one.
e endangers the health, safety, and interests, not only of the people of Indiana but also of the people of Mentor, Campbell County, Kentucky,' and Ohio.
The people of Mentor, of Campbell County, and of Kentucky (and of Ind political boundaries are of no significancG and Ohio) do not live in a vacuum Parts of Kentucky (including Mentor), Indiana and Ohio form a tri-state here.
area within which there is production, distribution and consumption of milk a The people of other foodstuffs with little or no regard to point of origin.
Mentor buy their food in this tri-state market and must not be exposed to th hazards of contaminated food from the unprotected Indiana part of the 50-Simple humanitarianism extends this concern to all people who might
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Having worked in Ohio for several years and in Alexandria for several y driven -larga parts of major evaeusttion-routes thousands of Q I have regularly In addition, for professional, social, and personal reasons, I have dr of the other roads within the 10-mile EPZ, most of them many timei many thousands of miles over these roads, night and day, winte of the roads are narrow, winding and hilly, and slick and treacherous during Few have center lines or shoulders. Many are in various
.after rain or snow.
Some are supported by pilings states of disrepair, some relatively extreme, and fall-offs into ditches, creeks, and hillsides are frequent.
Several times each year some roads are impassable because of floodin
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occur on California Cross Road stand.nearGubser Mill, on Smith Ro
Sometimes, especially at several places on Route 10 and on Twelve Mile Road.
night in the fall and winter, fog is so thick that driving at 10 miles an hour
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Snow and freezing rain are special problems, usually several times is dangerous.
On two or three occasions I have been snowbound at home for sev each winter.
several times I have had to stay intown overnight because sudden days at a times
'Ihe schools are closed for several snowstorms made driving home impossible.
" snow days" each winter because it is difficult or impossible for buses to travel There are so many steep hills and bad situations in snow and these rural roads.
four that come to mind im-freezing rain that I can not list them all heres mediately because I drive them often are Persimmon Grove Pike near California Cross Road, Schababerle Hill Road, Route 10 between Wesley Chapel and Ivor Road, Snow removal is often delayed by hours, sometimes and Smith Road near Route 8.
The most days, and is often largely ineffective, especially in the rural areas.
recent example occurred after a relatively moderate snow on or about December 16 U.S. 27 was closed for two to three hours because of snowdrifts at Low 1981.
Route 8, Poute 10, and Persimmon Grove Pike were snou covered and dangerous Gap; and there was no evidence of any snow removal in the late morning hours when I Persimmon Grove Pike was still icy and dangerous two days later.
drove them.
Because of the above factors, among others, the Stone and Webster evacuation
' time study is deficient inseveral respects and gives a falsely optimistic impres-sion of the ability of the people to evacuate in a safe and timely manner during The study grossly underestimates evacuation times; a radiological emergency.
does not give estimates of evacuation times for the segment of the non-car-owning population dependent upon public transports does not indicate the critical ns-sumptions which underlie the time estimates (e.g., day versus night, workday versus weekend, peak transient versus off-peak transient, and evacuation on ad-jacent sectors versus nonevacuation); does not address the relative significance of alternative assumptions; does not make evacuation time estimates for each does not consider the impact of peak
,special facility on an individual basis:
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for actions that could be taken to significantly improve evacuation times does not ceintain comments by the principal or6anisations resulting from their review of a draft submittal of the study and contains unresolved conflicts of Great pro-portions between evacuation time estimates by Stone and Webster and those by the Kentucky Disaster and Emer6ency Services, the Ohio Disaster Services A6ency, and the Clermont County Disaster Services Agency.
The Study also contains errors in measurements of road widths that could in-fluence calculations of road capacities and result in additional underestimations I have measured the road widths of the major evacuation of evacuation times.
rohtes at random places and found that the widths indicated in the study exceed the actual road widths by several feet in each case.
Traffic delays and detours caused by weather and road conditions, automobile accidents, or other impediments are ordinarily not uncommon and are crucial factors Other to consider in a mass evacuation in the event of an accident at Zimner.
crucial factors are extraordinary traffic congestions and the possible path's of Common senss would dictate prior consideration and testing the radioactive plume.
Nevertheless, there are no of several alternatives for such a severe emergency.
provisions in the plans for alternate evacuation routes or for evacuation in op-Ceneral Buntin has publicly stated tha9 posite directions on the provided routes.
provisions for alternate evacuation routes will not be written in the plans but He would not be that such decisions will be made during an emergency as needed.
Such a casual specific about the process or the mechanics of the decisic making.
and authoritarian approach to a possible disaster situation is entirely unacceptal and must be condemned.
A designated major evacuation route, Kentucky Route 8, is dangerous in placer
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In partic for ordinary use and obviously unf.9.t for emergency evacuation purposes.
ular, south of Twelve Mile Creek the road is built into the side of a steep hill and is frequently subject to slippages, some of them so severe that the north Piles have been bound lane has been practically unusable for weeks at a time.
driven recently in an effort to support the roadway, but the road surface is
dengsrously irrrgular and convoluted cnd would ba particularly hazardous during emergency evacuation conditions.
The proposed system for prompt notification -of the public is inadequate and a burden to the people in that the siren systen is designed to warn only 40% of the people within the 10-mile EPZ and has not been tested to ensure that it will achieve that design objective in any or all weather conditions for people outside the radio system uill or inside their homes during all their various activities:
not serve people who are outside their homes, farmers in the field, or people in and the integrated siren and radio system is not adequate to their automobiles:
protect those with hearing or sight impairments or those who operate or are near loud or noisy equipment and,being deper. dent upon electricity, will not function
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Much of the rural area in Kentucky near during Periods of electric power outage.
Zimmer is served by Kentucky Utilities and Owen County Rural Electric Cooperative.
As a recent example, Power outa$es lasting from minutes to hours are not rare.
on January 4, 1982, during and following e. windstorm my home was without electricit from 6:15 A.M. to 8:00A.M. and from 10:00 A.M. until after midday. We expect to be without electricity for long periods of time several times yearly and keep oil If it is contemplated to use batteries as lamps and a supply of candles handy.
backup power in the home redios, the questions of battery life, replacement. pro-cedures, and expense have not been resolved. A growing number of people in the area heat their homes with wood and spend considerable time cutting trees with The attenuating effect chain saws in nearby woods, especially in the autumn months.
of the standing trees combined with the noise of the chain saws would probably make impossible the hearing of warning sirens.
Present plans call only for the Kentucky Radiation Control Branch to "co-ordinate the efforts of the Department for Natural Resources and Environmental Protection in collecting and delivering water samples" to some unspecified destinat for analysis and possible isolation of the public water supply and General Buntin has publicly stated that Kentucky's equipment and proceedures for protection of e
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j public from contaminated water following a radioactive release are not equal to or comparable with those of Cincinnati. No formal plans exist for the transporta-tion or rationing of uncontaminated water within the 54 mile zone. Therefor'e, provisions for the monitoring, control and regulation of public water supplies, or for the availability of uncontaminated water to the public, before or during a Isdiological emergency are not adequate to protect the health and safety of the people of Mentor er for a large population within the 10 or 50-mile EPZs in Ken-There is no evidence that the water treatment and suppy facilities have tucky.
the equipme'nt or trained personnel for continuous monitoring of water before and during a radiological emergency. The present plans are too undeveloped and.too clurtosy and time-consuming to ensure that prompt and appropriate protective action can be taken. I have seen the recent settlement between the Applicant and Cincinnati which contains a lengthy list of sophisticated equipment for the protection of the people of Cincinnati. The people of the City of Mentor and a large population within the 10 and 50-mile EPZs, who receive their water from.
treatment and supply facilities that are situated near and are not unlike those of the City of Cincinnati, have not received consideration and potential pro-tection similar or equal to that given the people of Cincinnati.
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L MARY REQ $h Sw'orn to and subscribed in my presence this 8th day of January,1982.
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