ML20065K720

Comments on Draft Suppl to Fes Re Decommissioning of Crbr

ML20065K720
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Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	09/08/1982
From:	Chong L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC
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HRC-Washington, DC 20555 Att: Director, Clinch' River.Braeder Reactor Program Office RS: Draft Supplement to the Final Anvironmental Statement (I:UR23-0139) for public cocment by Sept. 13

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I:y comment will focus on pp. 10-4 through 10-3, which addresses decozaissioning of the CRSRP. The AL7.R/. policy '

as it applies to this nuclear project cnd the costs of decom-1

missioning draw my attention. 'ihile I make my commants on.

4 ALARA, they will take on a personal nature'because otherwise the people affected-by the CRERP are successfully kept as statistics only.

1. ALARA stands for "as low as reasonably achievable" j and on p. 10-7 it.is worker exposure that will be handlad e.Li.RA. Yet it is health affects that will be ALARA. Terminal. . cancer and birth defects will be allowable at the CRBRP - - among the workers - if only they are kept to a certain number that someone -

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has determined is " reasonable." 1.s formar.Comm. -

' Fatar Rradford pointed out during his term with the i NRC, it is time to debate what is " reasonable" to ~

suffer in exchange for nuclear-power-generatad elactricity. ,

To make tha issue parsonal - - it nust not ba allowed 4

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to ha kapt only in the statistical realm - - I am about to receive amploymant bacause. a local twelve-year-old boy has contracted cancar of the bone. His

! hip bene is affected,-so thera can be no amputation j

"above the next joint." He has had chemo-tharapy, lost-his hair and much body weight. ::o longer will John cm Church be on the Plymouth High School's cross-country or dcwnhill ski teams - - a supar athlete. So his mothar, a teacher, can be at home with him in the His I~

' mornings, I will take her morning teaching load.

father has curtailed his,employmant so-he can be with.

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Jchn in the af ternoons . Cne of thase davs John will

• simply dia. If he is *:crt of the ganaral population the URC covers with its : ALARA policy - - and who can

rove that he isn't? - then who is it who detarmined 3.t is re sonable for John and his familv to suffer now

[* whili ;a slowly 3nd pa5 nfully F.ias ?

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3 3. I aprese the '..L. gelicy tharavar "t is . '. sed as a I ,rotest that

. rcti:nala for the CR2.r's existance.

h gl not enough people realina how they are affected by '

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4. As for the costs of e.ly of the decommissioning proceduras, the costs associated with TII Unit 2 era conspicuously absent from this sat of pages.

54 billion has been given as cost to cican up T!.I Unit 2, and we are now 34 years past the tine the accident there began. I raceive the I:id:iletown, PA, PR:33 a JOURl!'.L and know the process is badiously slow, with any nurr.ber or combination of surprises possible as the damage to the racctor core is revealed

.y equipment that is invented qs the operction proceeds. Ecchtel Corporation has also sean fit to launch a FUSRAP program - - a money-maker needed because ?MI shows there will be accidants to clean up and former reactor sites to decontaminate. ':ith '

Bechtel s eeing the " market" as goed enough for launch of ?U5 RAP, I criticize these pages on CRER?'S dacomissioning as being naively optimistic that all decomissioning comes after a problem-free plant operation and the costs can be calculated acrly in the game. As a tax-payer I protest the use of tax dollars this way when social service programs for our country badly need funding.

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IMtcr 2rodford, Iiaine Public 'dvocate .

H 7ep. Drbara Bowler 2:H hacutive Councilor Ray Jurton ICH 3enator Gordon ?-:umphrey

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