ML20078Q836

Motion to Reopen Contention 8/9 Re Synergism.Commission Rept on Cause of Disease & Possibility That Conditions Exist at Facility Requested.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML20078Q836
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Site:	Waterford
Issue date:	11/07/1983
From:	Burstein C JOINT INTERVENORS - WATERFORD
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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ISSUANCES-OL, NUDOCS 8311140161
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'83 NOV 10 P3:21 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA -

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BO b jfcf Administrative Judges:

Christine N. Kohl, Chairman Dr. W. Reed Johnson Howard A. Wilber In the Matter of LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY Docket No. 50-382 OL (Waterford Steam Electric Station, Unit 3)

MOTION TO REOPEN CONTENTION November 7, 1983 Now before this honorable Appeal Board, through undersigned counsel, comes Gary Groesch, Chairman of Waterford 3 Joint intervenors, who with respect moves to reopen Contention 8/9 with respect to Synergism, for reasons which appear in a l UPI press release carried in the New Orleans daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune /The States-Item on October 31, 1983. This

article is reproduced on the following page and is the only i

showing Intervenor is able to make at this time. Thus, while reserving the right to ask later for a public hearing, Intervenor respectfully requests for the present time that the staff of this honorable Commission do a study and make a report to Intervenor covering 1) whether the nuclear plant caused the l

disease and 2) whether similar conditions exist at Waterford 3.

Respectfully submitted, ADO O!hoch82 -

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Carole H. Burstein Co-Counsel for Joint Intervenors D

e Researchr- pnks to / Jtf p X-plant, diseases IANDON (UPI) - Alarming levels of leukemia said calves with hairless deformed limbs or without and cancer have been found in children who live tongues and ears have been born over the last three near a nuclear power plant in northwestern England, years.

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hv.4 to research for a British television docu- Professor Edward Radford, a leading epidemiolo-j mestary. gist at the University of Pittsburgh, told Yordire Yorkshire Television said research shows that television "the worst has happened fat Windscalei children in the village nearest the Windscale plant and the contamination is potentially much more have 10 times as much leukemia as the national serious than anyone would have realized 20 years average and a significantly higher incidence of can. ago."

cer. Radford, formerly chairman of the committee set The documentary will be shown Tuesday, up by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to Copies of reports commissioned for the program research the effects of radiation, said the cancer allege that deadly plutonium dust has been found in risk in one village is one that "I would consider homes 40 miles from the plant. unacceptable if I were liting there."

The reports say animals are grazing in fields that The television team studied five coastal villages are contaminated with 100 times the normal level of near the plant and found 14 children with cancer radiation. compared with a national average of three for the l A farmer whose land borders the plant, in Cum- same number of population. They said the chance of l bria county some 250 miles northwest of London, that happening is one in 50.000.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that service by First Class Mail has been made by me this day on the - parties named on the appended list, which is attached hereto and made a part hereof.

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New Orleans, Louisiana, ,

( c f V Ly Carole H. Burstein Co-Counsel for Waterford 3 Intervenors 445 Walnut Street

- New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Telephone : 866-6363

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .

NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION' Before the Atomic Safety and Licensina Appeal Board In the Matter of Docket No. 50-382 OL LOUISIANA POWER & LIGHT COMPANY (Waterford Steam Electric '

Station Unit 3)

SERVICE LIST Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Christine N. Kohl, Chairman Sheldon J. Wolfe, Chairman Atomic Safety & Licensing Atomic Safety & Licensing Board Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm.

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commi . Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Administrative Judge Docketing & Service Section (3)

Office of the Secretary W. Reed Johnson U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm.

Atanic Safety & Licensing Washington, D.C. 20555

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Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm.

Washington, D.C. 20555 Administrative Judge Bruce Churchill, Esquire Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge Howard A. Wilber 1800 M Street, N.W.

Atomic Safety & Licensing Washington, D.C. 20036 Appeal Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comum.

Washington, D.C. 20555 .

Sherwin E. . Turk, Esquire Office of the Executive Legal Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comum.

Washington, D.C. 20555 Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board Panel U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comm.

Washington, D.C. 20555.

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