ML20100B686
| ML20100B686 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/01/1984 |
| From: | Behan J NEW YORK, STATE OF |
| To: | Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| CON-#484-428 OL, NUDOCS 8412050101 | |
| Download: ML20100B686 (2) | |
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U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman
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Dear Mr. Palladino:
L I have written to you before concerning the licensing of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station.
Given yesterday's NRC licensing Board recommendation that the Long Island Lighting Company be given approval to begin low-power testing I
must again voice my strongest objections
-to such NRC approval.
Major questions still remain unresolved with respect to full-power licensing of the Shoreham facility.
The most important of the unresolved questions concern
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. evacuation planning and the emergency diesel generators.
hs you are well aware, Suffolk County and. the State of New York have determined, based upon the best available
- evidence, that the development of an j,
-emergency response plan to assure the safety of Long (CSAIREAN-fEl%nd in the event of a nuclear accident at Shoreham is an impossibility.
This was not an arbitrary and capricious
- finding, as NRC actions would
- suggest, l 6 iU/ 54 AAt00 a sincere effort on the part of the governments l
of. Suffolk County and the State to serve the public
' interest by protecting the public safety.
You woulql be ill-advised to dismiss the intent or I
the commitment of the county and state wich regard
,E to this issue.
As Three. Mile Island has
- proven, qC.
accidents do and can happen. It is a real and instant E
- threat, one which we. do not take lightly and neither
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should the NRC.
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There is, to put it quite
- simply, a
serious legal h.
question as to the status of an evacuation plan which l
- g4 is neither sanctioned nor participated in by the county-or state.
Both the President and the Secretary of o Energy have
- stated, and I quote from a letter from s
President Reagan that
.... this Adcinistration does not favor the imposition of Federal Governnent Authority over the objections of state and local governments in matters regarding the adequacy of an emergency evacuation plan...."
However, as if the evacuation problem were not enough by itself, LILCO has also been unable to show that its emergency diesel generators can meet NRC safety requirements.
In good conscience how can the' NRC license'a plant when the facility does not meet safety requirements imposed by the NRC itself.
I find it absolutely mind-boggling that the NRC would compromise the physical safety of the people of Long Island for the economic safety of a utility.
Public safety cannot and must not be compromised.
The ramifications involved with licensing Shoreham before these questions are resolved could have a
profound negative impact upon Suffolk County.
The granting of a low-power license will allow LILCO to load nuclear fuel and to begin the nuclear chain reaction, with absolutely no assurance that full-power licensing will be permitted.
Or, has that decision been made already?
In my estimation, the pivotal question is whether Shoreham will be granted a
low-power license.
If so, I'm afraid that we on Long Island will be presented with a
fait
- accompli, and a
nuclear reactor which is neither wanted nor needed will be imposed upon us.
It has always been my belief that the NRC (formally the Atomic Energy Commission) was created on behalf of the public's safety and welfare.
- Instead, the NRC has become a
captive of the nuclear industry.
You have the power and authority to-change that.
I urge you to act in the public interest and reject i
the ASLB recommendations of approval ~ for a low-power license for Shoreham.
These vital issues must be l
addressed before any license is granted, on nse and reason dictates no less.
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