ML20070L925
| ML20070L925 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Clinton  |
| Issue date: | 06/02/1982 |
| From: | SARGENT & LUNDY, INC. |
| To: | ILLINOIS POWER CO. |
| Shared Package | |
| ML17256B288 | List:
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| References | |
| CON-4536 E28-1002-08A-EI, E28-1002-8A-EI, NUDOCS 8301110388 | |
| Download: ML20070L925 (1) | |
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......y Gentlemen:
The Commission must be aware that your future, like ours, is inextricably bound up in what happens at Three Mile Island, and that your credibility with the public hinges largely on the decisions you will make about the future of T.M.I.
You are aware that if you authorize the restart of T.M.I.-1 and something goes wrong, your agency will suffer the same loss of credibility and public trust that it suffered after the T.M.I.
accident and the snafus at Diablo Canyon.
In short, you seem to be aware the technical problems at stake in the T.M.I.-1 restart proceedings require your closest and most careful considerations.
Your investigation into T.H.I.-l's seismic capa bili ties, along with the Appeal Board's decision to reopen the record on decay heat removal, suggest to us that you are indeed looking more carefully at the technical problems than the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board.
While your record of favoring the utility's wel fare over that of the people of the T.M.I.
area does not inspire much hope in us, we would like to offer the following observations for the record.
We hope
- that, if you are serious about reexamining the probl ems of plant design at T.M.I.-1, you will take some action in the following 8301120388 830107 areas:
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- 1) We believe that you should require G.P.U.
to make the necessary improvements to the pl ant 's seismic capability before any Anti Nuclear Group Representi..g York. Central Pennsylvania Union Coalition, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power. March 28 Coalition. Newberry Township TMl Steering Committee, People Against Nuclear Energy. Susquehanna Valley Alliance, Three Mile Island AlertDsa3
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restart, instead of letting the company delay the improvements to the fi rst refueling outage and beyond.
- 2) Since the Commission has decided to investigate the seismic issue, which is basically a generic safety problem and was uncovered during a general study of U.S.
nuclear plants, the Commission should reopen the hearing record to consider Union of Concerned Scientists Contention 17. This Contention addresses the question of whether T.M.I.-1 should be allowed to operate in the absence of a plant-speci fic resolution of unresolved generic safety issues.
- 3) We believe you should invesigate the ability of the plant to withstand a Class 9 accident, and the effectiveness of local emergency planning in the event of a Class 9 accident.
- 4) We believe you snould requi.re G.P.U.
to install hydrogen control equipment.
You have ruled that the hydrogen control. problem need not be investigated because it was not, a direct cause of the T.M.I.-2 accident. We remi nd you that perhaps the time period when local residents experienced the greatest anxieties was during the hydrogen bubble episode of the T.M.I.-2 accident.
- 5) We are deeply concerned about the lack of a solution to tne problems of Thermal Shock and Er.bri ttl ement.
This is particularly disturbing in view of studies that you have conducted that indicated T.M.I.-1 to be among the top twenty reactors in the country that are potential candidates for this occurrence.
- 6) We are al so concerned about the inadequacy of the ten mile emergency planning zone..Various studies on the evacuations that Anti Nuclear Group Representi. g York, Central Pennsylvania Union Coalition, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power, March 28 Coalition, Township TMt Steering Committee, People Against Nuclear Energy. Susquehanna Valley Alliance, Three Mile Island Ales 1
Three Mila Island Public Intercst Resource. Center 717 233-4241 Harnsburg, Pa.17103 1037 Maclay Street took place during the T.M.I.-2 accident indicated.that a significant number of residents living up to twenty-five miles away from the plant left the area.
While your consideration of these issues will not necessarily regain the credibility that you _have already lost in this area, we believe that resolutions of these and other generic issues before any ' decision is made on the restart of T.M.I.-1 will be in the best interest of all parties concerned.
Sincerely, The Board of Directors T.M.I.
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Gov.
Thornburgh General Public Utilities Anti Nuclear Group Representi..g York, Central Pennsylvania Union Coalition, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power, March 28 Coalition, Newbe Township TMt Steering Committee. People Against Nuclear Energy, Susquehanna Valley Alliance. Three Mile Island Alert