ML20073G127
| ML20073G127 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 04/12/1983 |
| From: | Posner P PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT INDIAN POINT |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8304180129 | |
| Download: ML20073G127 (3) | |
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COINISSION
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CONSOLIDATED EDISON COMPANY OF NEW YORK
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Docket Nos. 50-247 SP (Indian Point Unit 2)
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50-286 SP
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POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE Oc NEW YORK
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A ril 12, 1983 (Indian Point Unit 3)
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P PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT INDIAN POINT MOTION FOR EXTENSION OF TIME TO SUBMIT TESTIMONY ON CONTENTION 6.2 Parents Concerned About Indian Point has complied with the Board's revised schedule for the rest of the special safety investigation by submitting the testimony of John R. Thornborough on contention 6.2.
Mr. Thornborough's testimony was included in Parents Response to Licensees' Motion to Compel Under Commission Question 6, dated March 24, 1983.
During the last few days, Parents has been able to secure the agreement of Dr. Alice Stewart, Dr. Bcrry Brazelton, and Dr. Daryl Bohning to testify on the contention, "A benefit would accrue f rom the shutdown of Indian Point Units 2 and 3 because the environment of children in the vicinity would be improved by a decrease in the release of radioactive material."
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Dr. Stewart is Senior Research Fellow at Birmingham University in England and an internationally recognized x-ray researcher.
Dr.
Stewart and her colleagues in Great Britain were responsible for landmark studies in Great Britain on the effects of ionizing radiation on infants in utero, including subsequent leukemia and cancer in childhood.
Dr. Stewart would testify on behalf of Parents Concerned About Indian Point that there is no threshold dose of ionizing radiation below which no ill-effects occur; routine and accidental emissions from the nuclear reactors at Indian Point cannot be assumed to be harmless; the effects of ionizing radiation are delayed and may be masked in a population of hardy individuals; human cells are most vulnerable to the effects of ionizing radiation during embryonic and early childhood development when the cells are rapidly dividing; and children who live near the plants are exposed during the period of greatest vulnerability.
Dr. Brazelton is currently Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, and Chief, Division of Child Development, Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Massachussetts.
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Brazelton's curriculum vitae is attached.
Dr. Brazelton would testify on behalf of Parents that present medical knowledge about the effects of low-level radiation leads a prudent practitioner to advise against any unnecessary exposure to radiation, and this is especially true of child ren.
Because of the very busy schedule of these experts, and beca2se Dr. Stewart lives in England, it is impossible for them to appear before this Board any time except the la'tter part of May.
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- ~- l Dr. Brazelton are willing to travel to Washington to give testimony at that, time, and Parents respectfully requests that this Board modify the hear!ng schedule to the extent necessary to accomodate these witnesses.
We are not requesting that findings of fact on other issues be delayed, but that a date be set ten days after the Board hears the testimony of the eminent experts offered by Parents as a deadline for findings of fact on contention 6.2, if the witnesses are scheduled after May 17, which is ten days before findings of fact are due.
Dr. Daryl Bohning received his Pht. in physics from Iowa State University and has done post doctoral work in physics at Rutgers University and post doctoral work in bio-physics at Harvard. He has had ten years experience in environmental and biological research including research i
in the medical use of radioisotopes and other aspects of nuclear medicine.
He has recently completed a chapter for a book entitled Nuclear Almanac.
Dr. Bohning's contribution to the book is called " Radiation and Public Health: A Perspective."
Dr. Bohning will base his testimony on NUREG/CR 2227, NUREG/CR 1496, and NUREG/CR 1497. Each of these documents is an annual report, Radio-active Materials Released from Nuclear Power Plants, a compilation of reports by the Licensees to the Commission.
Dr. Bohning will summarize the radioactive materials which will no longer be released at Indian P6 int if the plants are closed down, and will critically assess the data compiled in the NUREGs. Parents was unable to give Dr. Bohning the material on which he will base his testimony until early April.
Dr.
Bohning's testimony will be available on Monday, April 18, and we request that his testimony be scheduled for Friday, April 22.
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