ML20052C633

Forwards Constituent K Felt Ltr Re Evacuation Plans,For Response

ML20052C633
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	04/20/1982
From:	Tassell D V SOMERS, NY
To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8205050315
Download: ML20052C633 (3)

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What is the response.of the commission to this criticism?

I would greatly appreciate this information, so I could have a response available for other constituents.

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up called " Parents concerned About hallan Point". This group of local caring citizens has recently been_ accepted aa#an intervenor in a trial that will begin 2--

very soon involving representatives of th'e Con Edison and PASNY nuclear

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_ _ _ power. plants and ari assortment of organisations concerned with the I

health and safety of people and the environment. This trial will be

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an opportunity for the Nuclear Regul.atory Cosmission and the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board to scrutinise the operatiing conditions of the plants and evacuation plans for the people. Pre-trial hearings i

will take, place Apell 13 and 14 in White Plains.

If the operators or operations of these plants do not meet the high standards of the i

i goverruset off&cilis then.thsy will be shut down to ensure public

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I am sending these articles to you because you are a public official of a town or village within the ten mile radius of the j

Indian Feint nuclear plants. Please read them and cor. sider the dire warnings they contain. The possibility of a melt-down or tube failure cannot be brushed aside.

In case of a disaster the evacuation plans may not work We mast do something to prevent any l

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ble for about 23 percent of nuclearplant-n c.',,. (*, ? *,- - 'trical short circuit. The short wreaked shutdowns that are unrefated to sched.

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havew' m the plant's control systems u!ad refueling..

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could cause " ineffective ref:oodeg" of a

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- four steam generators with J.000 to sous, dunas a sensuasar meer wouldhave ruptureuL 15.000 tubes each. Another cornmisston huictka at of

• h The kinds of control systems that study based on 1981 data reported tube

.clearplant aroe 1es mdted Sta wentbaywtre at agehoSetsare very degradacon in 270f the 47 licensed pres.

the steelvessel est houses me m 12ely to fall at crucial times in other surtsad water reactors, but the cew re.

active are is te N h a nuclear +ower pleets. When a pipe port states the confirmed number la now *'at least 40."

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borsta, or a seal fada, or a valve sneladswm.meanostaansuskhed selska, eenomatic control and safety The natica's 25 other nuclear plants cadent.whichutBWaanym }

synessus almost lastantly take action uns hoshog water reactaw. =tuch do not damnwy me plaat and M h I to=f-= buttheydemet atways havesteam generatortubes.

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eterford, Carta respectively, as two Nament and hdustry am M w stam.They are not launune to fue or of the 40 plants that have empenanced inwuling to deal Imsely and as.

fnGure; they often have no eignificantsteam generater tuDe degro.

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ne' report mise noted simnar tube so are peces to etaspie fau.

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uhely he==aa the wroms nestat was P'The N.R.C. s,aff has taken the ponn.

' used ha the reactor vennels, and wie tion that if a plant gets into trouble be.

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• • "a*s sa*fety s'ystems"to"take care"of' problems at the Girma plant rest

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lt h and more prume to crack in case W Rochester.N.Y where a eteneruptured

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• . any probleurs. But this is not so, as ce Jan. 25. and at the truitan Pomt 2 and.

events et the last few yeare show. At

• pressurs Ranshe Seco, at Three btile Island.

• 3plaatsinWestchestarCounty.

One manufacturer d nuclear reno.

and at other plants, centrol systems w

tore has reported to me fluclear Regu.

• latory P~arniamia=r that in three to.

, five incre years, the vessels la some i not thought vital to the safe opersuism plants wul be tno brittle to operate

, safely. But this estimate is wishful of a plaat ended up causing sedous

• thinksag based on tsareaustic an.

problems.

isinnpuons about plaat operators' ao. '

The Nuclear Regulatory Comrnia.

cons and arred== sequences. Some skus is charged with ensurtag that nu.

j plaats are already Ino daagssene se clear lRaats are operated "with aden quate protection"of the public health

• . operate withms carreselee sesseures, gt..ame easety. But L i foot.

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~ -' esedd de a great draggmg and preoccupauon with pub.

., deal te prevent such an arr4A==w ang uc relacons and financiaJ problems of stretch out theIfves of many of these

, brittle vemoets, if it ordered the type of the industry are contribunne to a corrective steps already taken as shortst5hted view - that technical

• some European reactors. But the problems can wait or do not exist.

some members of the staff scimowl.

, comral=='s== regulettes na industry

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edge the safety problems===ar4=ted

• cal problems,is! stead of taking taltia, with Emotrol systems, but the agency has yet to demand from utuideo oper*

tives tends to sweep difficult tochalcal ating nuclear-power plants the techni.

.probleene smaler the rug. reacting to cal: Lata on contaol systems r.mr cy

, crisesonlyaftertheyoccur.

The e==lemia= must reallas that to aness the systeans' natety

, this crtsis is upon us. A temperanare fuuy.

. change severe enough to crack a brtt.

It may be that we need nuclear

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power to maintain our sr.a,t,tg of ggy.

currut. la Calaforata, but not at one of Ang. But there is a vast difference be.

theelder.morevulnerableplants.11mo tween having to accept somethlag.

cornmordal nuclear Industry's ad.

and mahtag it acceptable. We can.

. mirable safety roterd - no deathe.

makenuclear poweracceptable.

t r=ad by radiation - st::1 la intact, no Nuclear Regulatory ComraA.

but this cannot last much longer, be..

sian chairman Nunrfo Pauadino, has cause the reactor vessels and other spoken of cleamns v eur mirimar act. (

criucalcomponents areaging.

As a private ci:tzen. Ihope that we do

.. For many years,it has %en known so, beginning with TigLlance at the

.that ve ie ese h=reuning brittle.

N.R.C. One tuore accident the stre of

-What makes the probleen urgent is Three Male Island's, and the puhuc*s that the metalis s3 tag more rapidly reacuan almost certataly will forov 1 that wouki cause such as accident now

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