ML20063A492

Comments Taking Exception to NRC 820727 Denial of Friends of the Earth of DE Valley Amended Contention Re Fear & Psychological Stress Caused by Sight of Reactor plume.Post- Traumatic Anxiety Generic.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20063A492
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	08/12/1982
From:	Romano F ROMANO, F.
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8208240361
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am sna UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION '82 AE119 P2:24

. BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD OFFI~E W 3hk i,u t.

IN THE MATTER OF

1. U j$E*VM PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY DOCKET NOS. 50!352 0 LIMERICK-GENERATING STATION, , 50-353 UNITS 1 AND 2)

INTERVENOR COMMENT ON NRC STAFF RESPONSE TO AMMENDED CONTEN-TION BASED ON NEW MATTER FILED BY FRIENDS OF THE EARTH IN "

THE DELAWARE VALLEY.

Intervenor Romano takes exception to NRC's Staff's 7/27/82 re-sponse to F0E of the Delaware Valley re fear and psycological stress caused by the sight of the reactor plume and alarm about possible radiation exposure as defined by the May 14, 1982 decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit '

concerning the NRC's consideration of psycological health effects based on the renewed operation of TMI-1.

The Commissioners' denial conclusion, amon states there must be " post-traumatic anxieties"g other reasons,and that the post-traumatic anxieties "must have been caused by fears of re-curring catastrophe"." Further the F0E contention is denied on support that such post-traumatic anxieties can only apply to the Three Mile Island accident areas.

Intervenor AWPP (Romano) requests consideration that post-trau-matic anxiety as a result of the TMI accident is generic. Interven-or further states that the Commission and the Court, to consider psycological stress as a geographic phenonema acted capreciously with discrimination. Pennsylvanians were ready to flee for their lives. . .not only those of the TMI area. Such geographical limitae-tion makes a mockery of any and all attempts for safety prepara '

tions for any occupational hazzard or social need.

The inhuman, unrealistic, and biased ruling is better felt when you consider that the Atomic Energy Act and the " post-trauma-tic" anxiety principle requires citizens of the United States to first accept being forced (without recourse to law) to risk their health, welfare , and lives. . .before they ca'n protest and use their natural right of self-preservation.

Unbelievably, such a ruling in this democratic United States of America now forcibly requires men, women and children to,in eff-ect, subject themselves to a game of nuclear Russian Roulette.

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.' Only after having suffered the anxiety offbe@ing killed, can free Americans argue post-traumatic anxiety". Because they could

- be killed on the first press of the nuclear gun to their heads, to require that they can protest fear for their lives only after the trigger has been pulled once, and they did not die, suggests savage ritualistic sham of personal freedom and what America stands for.

Such a ruling would be sufficient justification in the most undemo'cratic society for a public uprising against it . Such a ruling is not at all made for the security or protection of the lives of Americans. It tramples justice to favor a profit-making, unneeded process that has already failed...and thereby endangered me, my family, and members of AWPP, and millions of Americans who now, as a result of that failure, do have post-traumatic anxieties v Qb

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, . - t CERTIFIC' ATE OF SERVICE h,7 Copies of the foregoing have been mailed this date to the -

12 A% 19 P2 Service List as follows: .

0FFICE 07 Stata CDCP.EilG & SEPv:.

5M NCH Lawrence Brenner, Esq., Chairman Environmental Coalition on Administrative Judge Nuclear Power U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Dr. Judith H. Johnsrud, Co-Directo Washington, D.C. 20555 433 Orlando Ave.

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Dr. Richard F. Cole Administrative Judge Thomas Gerusky, Director i U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bureau of Radiation Protection i

Washington, D.C. 20555 5th Floor, Fulton Bank Building .

Third and Locust Sts.

Dr. Peter A. Morris Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 Administrative Judge .?

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Director PEMA

• Washington, D.C.20555 Penna. Emergency Management Agency Basement, Transportation & Safety Max Weiner Building Consumers Education and Harrisburg, Pa. 19120 Protective Assoc. (CEPA) ,

6048 Ogontz Ave. Robert L. Anthony j Phila., Pa. 19141 Friends of the Earth of thr '

Delaware Valley Attomi; Safety and Licensing 103 Vernon Lane, Box 186 Board Panel Moylan, Pa. 19065-U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.20555 Judith A. Dorsey, Esq.

Limerick Ecology Action f Wilson Goode 1315 Walnut St., Suite 1632 l

Cith of Philadelphia Philadelphia, Pa. 19107

City Hall l Phila., Pa. Donald S. Bronstein, Esq.

l The National Lawyers Guild Mr. Edw. C. Bauer, Jr. 1425 Walnut St., 3rd Floor Vice President & General Counsel Phila., Pa. 19102 Philadelphia Electric Co.

j 2301 Market St. James M. Neill, Esq.

4 Phila., Pa. 19101 - -

Associate Counsel for Del-Aware Box 511 Troy B Conner, Jr. , Esq. Dublin, Pa. 18917 Mark J. Wetterhahn, Esq.

Conner and Wetterhahn Walter W. Cohen 1747 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Consumer Advocate Washington, D.C.20006 Office of Attorney General 1425 Strawberry Square Mr. Charles B. Taylor Harrisburg, Pa. 17120 24 W. Tenth Ave.

.Collegeville, Pa. 19426 Robert W. Adler, Assistant Counsel Commonwealth of Pa. , DER Mr. Marvin I Lewis 505' Executive H9 useg 1 6504 Bradford Terrace P.01-Bgx 2357 1 T Phila., Pa. 19149 Harrisburg, Pa. 19120 Atomic Licensing and Safety Appeal ~ 1Randall Brubaker, Assistant Counse Panel (5) Commonwealth of Pa, DER

_, U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1315 Walnut St., Room 1200 Washington, D.C.20555 Phila., Pa. 19107 Docketing & Service Section Josehp H. White, 111 Office of the Secretary 11 S. Merion Ave.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bryn Mawr, Pa., 19010-Washington D.C.20555 Robert J. Sugarman Alan J, Nogee Del-Aware Unlimited, Inc.

The Keystone Alliance Berle, Butzel, Kass &' Case 3700 Chestnut St. 2115 Bartbridge St.

Philadelphia, Pa. 19104 Phila., Pa. 19146

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