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| Issue date: | 04/17/1991 |
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i UNITED STATES OT AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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In the Matter of
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Docket No. 50-322
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LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY
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(License Transfer
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Application)
(Shoreham Nuclear Power
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Station, Unit 1)
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March 20, 1991)
ATTIDAVIT OF DR. JOHN R. STEHN Dr. John R. Stehn, being duly sworn, says as follows:
1.
I,_ John R. Stehn, reside at 8 Harbor Hills Drive, Port Jefferson, New York 11777 which is about ten miles from the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station ("Shoreham Plant").
I have owned this property for twenty-nine years.
Thus, I live within both the ten and fifty mile geographical zones utilized by the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission ("NRC").to determine whether a party is sufficiently threatened by the radiological hazard and other environmental impacts of a proposal to establish the requisite interest and standing for intervention as of right.
4 2.
Before I entered semi-retirement in 1974, I worked as a Phycicist for sixteen years at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.
At Brookhaven, I was part of a team of roughly twelve physicists in the National Nuclear Data Center.
The team regularly obtained information from scientists who were making measurements of the nuclear properties of materials, sspecially those materials important to the design of nuclear reactors, in 9104240372 910419 ff PDR ADOCK OMOO322 U 0
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order to improve the quality and officiency of nuclear power plants.
Before my tenure at Brookhaven, I spent sixteen years doing very similar work at the General Electric Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory.
Although I am presently retired, I enjoy a continuing appointment at Brookhaven as a cuest Scientist.
As a Guest Scientist, I an able to both follow recent developments in my field and to continue research on a project that was incomplete at the time I retired.
Brookhaven is located about seven miles from Shoreham and, thus, I am within the geographical zone of interest not only while I am at home, but also while I am working.
3.
I began my career in graduate school by-obtaining a ph.
D. in Nuclear Physics at the University of Wisconsin.
This training, together with my thirty-two years of experience practicing as a nuclear reactor physicist and nuclear engineer at two major research laboratories, has allowed me to appreciate the technology developed during and after World War II to use the immense possibilities offered by nuclear energy to help mankind
-generate electrical energy more cleanly, cheaply, and safely.
I know very well how nuclear power plants are designed to work and, from my contacts with others in the field, how it is possible for mishaps to occur.
I strongly supporY the~use of nuclear power to meet our nation's energy n2eds in a safe, economical, and environmentally benign manner.
When shoreham was being built, I was delighted to see evidence ^ hat I would be able to retire on
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Long Island with the prospect of there being ample supplies of Anexpensive electricity to make living here both pleasant and i
inexpensive.
Now that I an almost completely retired, I find myself threatened by the rising costs of electrical power.
The terns of the agreement between LILCO and Governor Cuomo which allow LILeo to increase its rates by 5% per year for the next ten years, so long as it does not operate Shoreham as a nuclear plant, will be especially burdensome to me as a retired person.
4.
I have been a member of Scientists and Engineers for secure Energy, Inc. ("SE ") since 2982.
I authorize SE to g
2 represent my interests, as described herein, in any proceedings to be held in connection with the Long Island Lighting company
("LILC0") application to transf er the Shoreham Plant license
(" transfer") to the Long Island Power Authority ("LIPA").
5.
I am concerned that the transfer would constitute another step in the decommissioning process presently underway at shoreham in violation of my rjoht-..,d6r the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA").
The transfer would reaffirm
-and further the previous NRC decisions allowing LILCO to reduce staffing and maintenance to a level clearly inconsistent with the terns of the full power operating license-and NRC regulations.
SE submitted a section 2.206 request in conjunction with the 2
shoreham-Wading River Central School District in July of 1989 when the destaffing and plant disassembly activities had only. -,..
h just been announced and were yet to be implemented.
The Request, which has been denied, asserted that these actions should not be allowed to go forward before publication of a rinal Environmental Impact statement ("rEIS") pursuant to the dictates of NEPA and because they were inimical to the public health and safety due to their inconsistency with LILeo's license obligations as a full-power licensee.
I separately reaffirm that principle with respect to the amendment.
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6.
I do not believe that any steps in furtherance of the Shoreham Plant's decommissioning should be implemented until a TEIS evaluating, among other things, the direct and indirect impacts of, and alternatives to, the entire decommissioning proposal has been completed in compliance with the terms of NEPA and the NRC's own regulations in a single proceeding.
If the NRC allows steps which are clearly in furtherance of decommissioning, and have no necessary independent utility, to be implemented at the Shoreham Plant prior to the necessary NEPA review, my rights, and the rights of those similarly situated to have an opportunity
.or_neaningful comment on the environmental consideration of the decommissioning proposal will be prejudiced, if not completely denied.
Besides reaffirming past actions aimed at removing the Shoreham Plant from service and, therefore, in furtherance of decommissioning, the transfer would also set the stage for yet other actions in furtherance of decommissioning.
The transfer 4.-
would be a further step in removing the plant from service which is part of " decommissioning" as defined by the NRC regulations.
7.
The transfer also represents a threat to ny personal radiological health and safety and to ny real and personal property in violation of ny rights under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, an amended, since, among other things, LIPA lacks the financial, technical and nanagement qualifications to becomo the transferee of the Shoreham plant license.
Thus, transfer of the license to LIPA would unreasonably endanger my health and safety.
8.
As a Long Island resident, I will be injured if the shoreham Plant licens6 is transferred to LIPA because LIPA is statutorily barred from operating that plant and thus I will be denied the benefit of that plant as an electric generating facility in violation of the purpose of its license.
I am further interested in actions which will have a direct effect on the availability of reliable and environmentally benign electric generation to meet my needs and those of ny family and the community as 6 whole.
I understand that Long Island is presently at the full capacity of the existing natural gas pipelines which supply this area and that there is inadequate reserve capacity for the growing alectric energy demand of thw arba.
Thus, either the Shoreham Plant nust be operated or alternative generating facilities will have to be built and operated.
Because natural gas supplies cannot easily be increased, oil-burning plants will 1
inevitably be needed to replace the Sh 1
increasing our reliance on foreign oil oreham plant thereby
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security of our energy supply, among othand thus reducing the in turn, will emit pollution loweri er things.
These plants, and contributing to global warming and a idng air quality in of the Shoreham Plant's decommissioning c
rain.
These effects effects on my health and on the quality will have detrimental
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of the natural environment in which 1 live day-to-day consideration of the alternatives to decoThis calls for
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mmissioning.
9.
I am also concerned about the advers consequences which will automatically flow f e economic decommissioning of the Shoreham Pl rom the injuries include depriving me of a r liant-and injure me.
These with ensuing damage to my health able electrical supply e
area and hence damage to my property valu, loss of econom terms of the existing Agreement betw Also, under the es.
How York, the cost of electric ener een LILCO and the State of tho next ten years.
gy will probably double over In addition to these outrageous el rcte increases, the transfer to LIPA would invol ectric reduction in real property tax income for th ve a drastic (about 28%) and the County of Suff lk e Town of Brookhaven o
(about 10%) injuring me both by a precipitous decline in gov by. imposing significant real estate ternment services for me and ax increases on me..-._
r And if the scope of this proceeding is narrowed to its 10.
relationship to the choice among the alternatives for decommissioning node, I believe ny health, safety and environmental interests would be harmed by any actions inconsistent with nothballing the plant ("SAFSTOR").
11.
I understand that SE, has been joined by the Shoreham-Wading River Central School District (" School District") in seeking to intervene in hearings on other issues.
I also understand that the issues raised by all of these actions significantly overlap due to the fact that each of the actions constitute another step in the decommissioning process underway at the Shoreham Plant.
I would favor the consolidation of all of these proceedings ^o consider the issues raised by the School District and SE,.
Consolidation would be the most efficient and expeditious way to proceed for all concerned.
I also submit that such consolidation is demanded by NEPA because all of these secJmented proposals and actions are, in fact, part of a single proposc1, are cumulatively significant, and have no utility independent of the decommissioning proposal.
d Dr. John R. Stehn SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN BEFORE HE, on this
\\1 day of April, 1991.
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a BEFORE THE UNITED STATES i
NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION l
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In the Matter of
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USNRC Docket No. 50-322 j
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l LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY
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License No. NPF-82
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(Shoreham Huclear Power Station,
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(Application for Unit 1).
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License Transfer)
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE l
I hereby certify that one copy of the Scientists and Engineers for Secure Enorgy, Inc.'s Comment on Proposed No Significant Hazards Conrideration and Potition for Leave to Intervene and Request for Prior Hearing is being corved upon the following by first-class mail, postage prepaid on this 19th day of April, 1991:
Socretary of the commission Office of the General Counsel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Wachington, D.C.
20555 Washington, D.C.
20555 ATTN-Docketing and Services Branch (one copy)
(original and two copies)
Rogulatory Publications Branch W. Taylor Reveley, III, Esquire Division of Freedom of Information Hunton & Williams and Publication Services Riverfront Plaza, East Tower Office of Administration 951 East Byrd Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Richmond, Virginia 23219-4074 Wochington, D.C. 20555 (one. copy)
(one copy)
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JagQ P. McGranary, DoGi Lohnes & Alber 1255 Twenty-Third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037' (202) 857-2929 Counsel for Petitioner
-Scientists and Engineers for Secure Energy, Inc.
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