ML20077D813

Discusses Petition to Intervene & Forwards Newspaper Articles.Individuals Living Inside Nuclear Complex Should Be Allowed to Speak

ML20077D813
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	07/20/1983
From:	White G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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Re: Petition for Intervention on Lisensing of Beaver Valley No. 2 - Amendment i

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Dear Sir:

l I am happy to see that you sent copies of my petition to all the j people who are interested in this case, and I'll do the same on anything

I file in the future.

] I request this since I live inside the nuclear complex, that's seeking

permission to kill me that I be allowed to speak for myself and the other people who live right inside that nuclear complex.

I will myself in my petition discuss in full the nonsense about evacuation drills that the F.E.M.A. and the power company are setting up to fool the public into thinking that it's possible to evacuate people when the catastrophy, j that's likely, happens out there.

1 I asked to submit as some indication of the material I will cover in j discussing the phony evacuation drills the article in the Beaver County Times dated July 15, 1983. There are hundreds of details that prove the drills j were phony besides the ones that the newspaper said and that I'll provide.

1 l I'm also submitting to go with my testimony a copy of an article, just i one of the many, showing how efficiently coal can be used to boil water l that's needed to.malie the 1000 mega-watts of power Beaver Valley 2 is j designed tp provide. You don't have to risk 20 million lives to boil' water

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l1 Nuclear plants are expensive and dangerous ways to boil hot water. We, l the people of the United States have to try to bury the radioactive waste J

at an enormous cost. We have to foot the bill when the thing blows up and kills people because there isn't enough insurance to cover. We have to j foot the bill for the salvage operation. We have to foot the bill when i 8307270298 830720 .

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! oce of these 2 nuclear plan.a blows up for creating the electricity now l being made at 4 1000 mega-watt plants that one catastrophy will destroy.

We have to foot the bill for the big advertising firms that tell you j nuclear power is safe while all their executives live as far from it as

! possible. There are a hundred concealed costs that will land on the i taxpayers' shoulders for this overpriced, overdangerous system to boil j water.

i, i We also object to any necessity for this plant. The company is desperate to find an excuse for this plant that they are making a long i term contract to sell the electricity in another state that is not needed here. Why should we, the people of Shippingport, be destroyed so outside i power companies from Ohio can make electricity in our back yard to sell to New Jersey, New York and Maryland.

An open hearing will provide the kind of light that's truly needed on the dark corners of the Beaver Valley 2 deal.

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cles." federal evaluators say the ance of plant operators like Du- Among vealthat:other things, the reports . .

re i public would be adequately protect- quesne Light Co. e Travelers and others using j ed in the event of an emergency at The Times has previously report; public facilities such as motels, resq the Beaver Valley I nuclear plant. ed that a poor grade given the 1982 taurants and parks within the r In fact, observers from the Fed- evacuation exercise at Beaver Val- .lo. mile evacuation area around eral Emergency Management ley i never saw daylight. The nega. Beaver Valley t were not notified of l Agency called this year's evacus- tive review by on. site federal advis- the mock evacuation.

tion drill on Feb.16 at the Shipp!ng- ers was changed to a favorable re- = It would have required several.

port facility a " major improve- port by a regional director of the hours and some 125 ambulances -t ment"over the 1982 cxercise. Federal Emergency Management some called in from as far away as '

FEMA observes the prepared- Agency who never saw the drill. 80 miles - to evacuate 290 handi-[

ness of state, county and local Copics of the final evaluation re- capped persons identified by Bea.

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palitics participating in the drill. County Emergency Operations gency workers. In addition, the re , .

Ev n then, the report noted, some Center never confirmed the evacu- port noted workers in Shippingport '9 cmbulances would have had to a tion order, and Industry were inadequately,, e mrke several trips to evacuate w Beaver County failed to notify tralned on monitoring cquipment. l cveryone. Center Area schools at the alert Federal evaluators were equally ,

The unavailability of ambu- stage. In fact, the schools superin- critical of emergency preparation '

i lances was graphically demonstrat- tendent was notified by Center by county and state officials in llan-

• ed at Beaver Valley 1, where the Township emergency operatiens cock County, W. Va., and Columbi-NRC reported the elapsed time be- center of the alert, site emergency ana County, Ohio - the other two j tw:en the request for an ambulance and general emergency stages even " risk counties" located within the i cnd its arrival was about one hour though it is a r.ounty operations cen'- 10-mile evacuation area. The ob-(nd 10 minutes. ter responsibility, servers reported:

o Center Township officials were e Instruments for measuring and e There was " considerable con-not sure they were to evacuate resi- recording radiation levels were not (See Dem Page A9)

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I (ConUnued from Page A1) drill at indlan Point to test the pro. evaluators reported. Columb!ana fusion" as to who ,vas in charge of posal :rnd to determine !! the plant County was also credited for sub.

the accident assessment response thnuld be shutdown for falling to stantial improvements at its emer. !'

j for the state of Ohio. demonstrate it can implement its gency center.  !

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prudent" to have ordered residents FEMA Hegion 3, which Yet, the unavailability of buses the performance of Deaver and graded to take shelter due fo uncertain data and other problems found with this llancock countles, did not specifl. I for mock radiation releases. Radia. year's exertise at the Ucaver Val. cally label deficiencies as "signifl- l tion doses received by fleid moni. Icy 1 plant were listed in the final ca nt" or " minor" as its counterpart f '

F toring teams were not carefully evaluations as " minor deficien. team from Region 5 did in grading

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e incorrect radiation level data lems whicir "have not been ade. Instead, the word " critical" was led West Virginia to order an evacu. qua tely addressed." tased by FEMA Hegion 3 to describe - -

ation of three sectors and sheltering Federal evaluators concluded significant probicms in Deaver and

, in others. More significantly. how. state, county and local emergency llancock countics' emergency re.

ever, was the revelation that trans. organizations within the 10. mile sponse plans. For example, Region mission of the cruelal Information evacuation area around Beaver 3 evaluators again expressed con.

was delayed more than 25 minutes. Valley 1 " demonstrated the capa. cern over confusion in communica. l e When the evacuation order.was bility ._ to protect the health and tions between Desver County and issued, most o!Ilancock County's 61 safety of the pub!!c"in the event of the four participating municipali.

school buses targeted for use in eva. an emergency at Deaver Valley 1. ties - Shippingport. Industry, All. ,;

cuating residents without other FEMA cited several bright spots quippa and CenterTownship.  ;

means of transportation were in use in the exercise, particularly the ex. Similar breakdowns occurred '

' for mid afternoon school dismissals eclient coordination of stren sound. during the 1952 drill: Three out of d

-with no means of contacting the Ing for the mock evacuation in all four Deaver County municipalities-drivers. The. county requested 50 three " risk countics." Except for a participating in the drill never re. l  ; , .

t,uses from neighboring Brooke brief, early sound!n;; of strens in in: cetted clear orders to evacuate. i-County, but these were alsoin use. dustry, the coordination between "Once a protective action has A similar question about the sirens and mock emergency broad. been initiated," FEMA evaluators '

r.vallability of bus service was one casts on radio and TV was given noted in the 1983 report. "It is criti.-

cf two major deficiencies which al. good marks.

most led FEMA te close the lndian cal that a continuous flow acaver County received specla! munications be established be.

of come .l' Point nuclear reactor near New accolades for the Internal response tween the county and the municipal.

York City several weeks ago. at its operations center and its dem. Itics in order to ... guard agalnst .

• Westchester County, where the onstration of an cmergency station confusion over where things stand .

Indian Point reactors are located, at Big Knob Grange to certify farm. at any given moment."

had net obtained commitments for crs returning to the evacuation zone Through Joint training efiorts, buses and drivers in an emergency, to care for their animals. FEMA noted Ohio and Columbiana ,

Consolldated Edison and the New Duquesne Light Co. also received County have reduced 17 "rigniti. ,

York Power Authority subsequent. good reviews for its general per. cant deficiencies" observed during ly obtained Ictters of Intent from formance during the drill. the 1982 exercise.to only a handful q three bus companies to provide bus. h The director of emergency re. during this yea r's drill.

es. but not drivers. sponse for llantock County, which Fc.'eral observers also found l New York Gov Mario Cuomo of. was sharply criticized in 1982, " numerous m'nor deficiencies" In F fered state workers to drive the bus. " demonstrated effective and capa. the preparedness of Ohio and Co. 'j cs. FEMA has scheduled a third ble leadership" during the exercise. lumbiana County. !!alf of the minor e

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cisa wtra repeated from the 1982 cedures ind their impicmentation Ohio later demonstrated recov.

' drill, c bservers noted. for re.cntry and relaxation of pro. ery and re. entry procedures to { l

, af ast af the minor deficiencies. gective measures could not be eval. FEAfA during the Aprit exercise at

. FEMA nited, could be eas!!y cor- usted because the state did not go the David.Besse nuclear power rected, tshile others may be de. through with thescenario. - plant ncar Toledo.

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' 2 o 21 hour2.430556e-4 days <br />0.00583 hours <br />3.472222e-5 weeks <br />7.9905e-6 months <br /> basis. County emergen Thursday to act as a " committee of f rauthority customers.

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blin3 Ccunty makes it very dif; pointempowered bysupervise" the authority '

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cin:r13 cclied for this to be includ directors George Cassell and Doda- IIlarm ny Township. Additional in. i d in the cx;rcise. ro approved the resolution. Dirce- q[,ma la fIct citer receiving word that tor John Smetanka cast the lone ,d 'c 1g the aut or t ss o i; fuquisne Light had termmated its negative vote after learning only b trti:n cf the exercise, FEAfA re- Dodaro and the authority chairman orted thJoperations staff at Ohio's would have approval over who is thority's business offi e was also m rgency eperations center sim hired and fired on the force. ' " " ' "

'ly got yp tnd left. I,ater, when Smetanka again [y*bo ct I'h e !1-sought to have Tom Modrovich, . change in Hodio's salary with the As a result, FEMA reported, appointed pro- Chris to the force, Fontana Dodaro told and ,ut John Chevarint "[,ghority a)so:

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