ML20056E510

Comment Opposing Proposed Rule 10CFR20 Re Radiological Criteria for Decommissioning

ML20056E510
Person / Time
Site:	Palisades, Cook, Zimmer
Issue date:	08/11/1993
From:	Shearer V AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-58FR33570, RULE-PR-20 58FR33570-00019, 58FR33570-19, NUDOCS 9308240154
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(58FR 33570) 124 Chestnut St., #210 Englewood, OH 45322 August 11, 1993 .g3 gg )g 773 3 j Secretary, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Ccnnission  !

Washington, D.C. 20555 l A"'I*1: Docketing and Services Branch

Dear Secretary:

The follcwing connents are in response to the Nuclear Regulatory Can-mission's notice of intent (Federal Register, Vol. 58, No.116, June l 18, 1993) to prepare a Generic Environnental Impact Staterent (GEIS) . j I am studying rest seriously your proposal to codify radiological l l

criteria for termination of licenses and release of land and structures after levels of residtr' conta;mination have been appropriately re-duced.

I am writing also after having had the edifying experiences of seeing a large scale rodel of Westinghouse's Cook Plant (Michigan), of being '

within 200 yards of Cambustion Engineering's Palisades Plant (Michigan) when energency alarms sounded, and of being in the control room, seeing the inside of the reactor vessel, and walking under the steam lines to '

the turbines at the General Electric Zimer Nuclear Plant (Ohio - now oonverted to coal). I have some sense of the enormity of the task of decontaminating and decommissioning at these tac licensed sites.

Yet knowing that high-level radioactive materials are generated through fissioning of the fuel in nuclear power reators, and that egalgaent be-ccres contaminated with the sare radioactive material at these sites, i I have serious concerns about whether these ccrnercial plants which have completed their " lifespan" can in any way be deconmissioned by other than a]nplete renoval of all debris. This removal must include contaminated soil, sedirent, surface water, and groundwater. In no way should these sites be released for other uses until such tire as pre-licensure background levels of radioactivity are achieved.

In regard to other NRC licensed sites, I believe it would be no less than proper to require the sare level of achievement.

Sincerely, Rev. Dr. Velma M. Shearer Neighbors in Need Project i

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