ML20070P221
| ML20070P221 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/15/1983 |
| From: | Jun Lee AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC |
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j$,i'h" Among some of the growing concerns applicable to the restart of Unit I at
.ni Cy' Three Mile Island (TMI) t r. the mounting evidence of countless corrections and r,, s 9 4,, l modifications related to commercial nuclear power plants.
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k-f It is little comfort to those of uc who must now live in the shadow of an experimental technology which threatens un eccnomically, biologically and morally Q..p J,y(f.
because the" masterminds" could not or would not follow through on matters vital
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to confer with medical science on biological effectn from low-level radiation.
, ;.h Now, too late, heH captive by this malevolent creation, we are confronted
.b;i e,Iith~ Pest, present and future malfunctions and human errors that leave us all g
isendering where the next accident will occur and what the toll shall be.
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, {t t For months, prior to the melting of two-thirds of Unit II's core, the NFC
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eam blind corridor after another seeking methods to recover and maintain a water-
_JQ V severed core. Unfortunately, the operators, who had been programmed that this uma a fall-safe technology,16nored their instrument readings and specific training
-a, r. '/ - ~ instructions and shut off the emerger:cy coolice system...a 'no-no in trainir.g
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This particular " human error" han been repeated many times at nuclear
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Darinc the on-going accident, 400,000 gallons of contaminated (radioactive) maate water was released into the river from the turbine building where the pj og,
accident was causing back-up problems.
There was substantial debate between NM the IRC officials and Karl Abraham about who should take the respcnsibility for 9 bru g [ granting permission te dump. The NEC, too cowardly to grant permission, contrived 2
Q, to, seduoe Gov. Richard Thomburgh into granting the release. But the Governor's
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Abraham then suggested 1$
that perhaps Lt. Gov. Scranton might do the honors.
It was resolved by the on-site o-;
Y WN S. MC inspectors in the control room who gave permission to dump the radioactive cunw b, tater. The Dept. of Environmental hesources was notified without even a murmur of
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cation. 21s bill only deals with the processed water which is highly radiometive.y 1 p;
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This water is contreninated with radioactive tritium and.como cesium. (See status reports.) Tritium cannot be filtered from water. herefore,.
F.r it is being dumped into the river and is harmful to those who are drinking it.'
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The argument used by the utilities that dilution lessens the harmful effects ia;.b,hg nonsense. Dilution is not the solutlor. to pollution.
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As the on-si te accident began to <1cteriorate, the NEC spent days debating' '
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action on evacuation evebhlMh recognired the seriouness of the situation. Timey
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argued and labored over the phraseology of the P.emo that would signal evacuatie'.;:.'N..
s, 3-i While the t@C continued to vacillate, local residents proved to be more prudent
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E Attached to this letter are seventeen independent problems that report' a syntd,g,
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of malfunctione and failures.both human and mechanical, which the NEC has been
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working on for the past six months. We titles are as follows:
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l.,..,. s a) STl ESS CORROSION CRACKING IN THICK-WALL, LARCE DI AMETER, STAINLESE
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( October 14, 1982)
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b) DEFICIENCIES IN PhIMAI Y CCNTAINMENT SI ECTIICAL
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SSINS NO. 6820--
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1, d) HYDROCEN EXPLCSICN WHILE GINDING IN 1E VICINITY OF SSINS NO. 6835 DRAINED AND OPE!: REACTC! C001 ANT SYSTEM IN 82-28 20 9c (July 23, 1982
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e) CONECL RCD IIIVE GUIDE 111BE SUPPChT PIN FAILUlu;S SSINS NO : 6835 M.sY AT GSTINGHOUSE PWhS IN 82-29
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f) OVE EXPOSUER OF LIVER DUBING WCFK IN FUEL STORAGE POOL SSINSNOs683$l,[S[
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g) CRACKING IN THE UPPEE SHELL TO TF ANSITICN CONE GIKTH WELD Y
7 OF A STEAM GENERATOR AT AN OPE 3ATIEC PRESSURIZED WATER REACTOR
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h) FAILtlRE OF SAFETY /FELIEF VALVES TO OPEN AT A BWE SSINS NO. 68351.. ',ff (October 22, 1982.
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i) DEFICIENCIES IN LWF AIR FIITSATICN VENTILATICN SYSTEMS SSINS NO.368 h (Nevember 16, 1982 IN 82-43
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k) FAILUPES CF ACASTAT CF 0095 FELAY SOCKEPS SSINS NO.
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December 21,1982.)
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NUCLEAR PCWER STATION r '. u, ' - 3 68Mye d,s o) SEISMIC Cf]ALIFICATION OF WESTHOUSE AB FELAY WITH LATCH SSINS 50.
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ATTACFMENTS USED IN WESTINCHWSE 'ICLIL STATE PROTFCTION IN 82-55 SYSTEM (December 28, 1992) iQk e
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thermal clocks thic would fracture the shielding and
,h cause irreversible loss of coolant followed by a melt-s yp down. 'Ihis would require an incediate evacuation of jjk 150.000 People i., a twenty mile radiun.
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figures estimate '6,000 deaths and 00,B00 ! njuries in i.M Central Pennsylvania. (see N' C document enclosure).
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deterioratirg generator tubes wY.se explosive expansion jfk repair is in doubt and cannot be certified by the NEC at J;p q
this date.
We definitely reqi.: rc an unbiasad repcrt from LQ p i, l J[S a metallurrist to entablich tne 'ntregrity of the tubes n:
following thic procedure. (see enclosed correspondence...
letter to IMmet rior Easdekan arW response from Harold p ),q s
.Denton and Wm. Cot trell M ! !de National lat.)
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{1 approximately twenty-cir dayn out of thirty-one for many, many months.
(see weather reports in the Patriot / Evening News
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f "Ventin6 scheduled for today").
The releases include Krypton gas. Tritium (in form of vapor)
" YJ[df lk Iodine 131. Cesium 13'7 and particulates (strontium).
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(see NRC Status I,eports for 19%.)
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J ? P-The venting of the 56 thousand curies of krypton gas the first year followirt the acciden+ was merely a forerunner for more of h]
the same in the future as wo knew it would be.
The NRC sets j it -ig k, I ' t-new precedento every day.
All this is no thanks to the Union of g
Concerned "clentists who prefertvd the flaccid approach ratt.or
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4 A week rarely passes now that w do not encounter a telephone Mk O ?/d[ -
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call informing un that another ne1 hbor has died from cancer 6
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or another who has just been diagnosed with cancer. This is a mral area.
Our population levela do not jur.tify this amount i@
of cancer. (see enclosure... ACCIDENT 5 EIEASES M
h]M On CBS national news. I;cc. 10.1982, tr. 00bert Weber, the local Of Vet in thin area for the pa nt '8 ', years, stated that although the
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health problems have now abated. cancer it. animals has tripled.
In view of what we knov about releases substantial enou6h to create "Q4 sunburns on local residents and i n nome instances blistered mouths
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surprise then that cancer raten are spiraling at a quizzical rate.
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5 Prior to the accident Coldsboro 's population was 600. It is now
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Many of the original residents would no longer be livin6.
in Coldsboro if they could find a buyer for their home. But alaat caution is the better part of valor as any Met Ed. or NRC. employee:
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The KhC ir, now evaluatir:6 the question of earthquake arei tornado j
proof structures at TMI.
We now know from examining TMI documents
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ll?t/pW Q y-On On February 23,19731.ancaster cc. encountered an earthquake.
July 17, 1978 at 2:39 a.m. the., encountered a second one.
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registered 3 0 on the lichter reale and was sufficient to awaken residents who flooded switchboards. This tremor apparently was above a new underground faul t.
Although 3 0 is a mild jolt.
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The epicenter of these carthquaken revealn that TMI is not the only
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Icach Botton will also become a problem.
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The diversities within the h1C where inner-agencies neglect to inform
'fg each other an problems arice, han creatsid an administrative nightaare
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where the lef t hand never becomer acquainted with the right and the
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The psychological stresa 6enerated in thic area over TMI is far from groundless. Those who 1cok askance at protesters and noisy assemblies.
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' yt which have grown to considerable proportions in almost four years.
T4 would serve their own best interents by examining, in depth, what ST many.in this area especially, have discovered. We are not talking about blind fear but rather psycholo6 cal stress generat'ed out of
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documented readirc fror. the hTC document room.
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Realistically we cannot expect the hTC to hang their dirty laundry.
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By the hT C's own admissions hi p.1.
from their own document room they have failed to make nuclear powr " safe"[ #,
" clean" or " reliable".
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For all of tl.cse reasens we protect the restart of TMI Unit I now or N
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