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Requests Hearing & Intervenor Status on Plant Re Proposed Decision to Rule That License Amend Requested by Util for Redesign of Spent Fuel Pool Does Not Involve Significant Hazards Risk.W/Certificate of Svc.Served on 920702
ML20101M967
Person / Time
Site: Millstone 
Issue date: 06/29/1992
From: Griffiths R
CO-OPERATIVE CITIZEN'S MONITORING NETWORK, INC. (CCMN, EARTHVISION, INC.
To:
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
CON-#392-13072 OLA, NUDOCS 9207090097
Download: ML20101M967 (5)


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20555 ATTENTION: 00CKETING ANO SERVICING BRANCH R e n (!Z M 2 DEAR SECRETARY:

PLEASE ACCEPT THIS AS MY WRITTEN REQUE!,T FOR A HEARING AND INTERVENOR $TATUS ON DOCKET #50-336, NOTICEO IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER ON 28 APRIL 1992, AT WHICH TIME THE NRC ANNOUNCED THEIR PROPOSEO DECISION TO RULE THAT THE LICENSE AMENOMENT REQUESTED BY NOHTHEAST UTILITIES ( NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANY) FOR THE REDESIGN OF THE MILLSTONE II NUCLEAR FOWER PLANT SPENT FUEL POOL DOES NOT INVOLVE A SIGNIFICANT HAZARDS RISK.

I FEEL THAT SIGNIFICANT RISK MAY BE PRESENT AND REOUEST THAT YOU DO NOT ALLOW YOUR RULING ON JUNE 4, 1992 OF NO SIGNIFICANT HAZAROS TO PERMIT NORTHEAST UTILITIdS TO USE THAT SPENT FUEL POOL UNTIL HEARINGS ARE HELD AND SAFEGUAROS CAN BE PUT IN PLACE TO INSURE THAT NO INAOVERTENT CRITICALITY OR LOSS OF COOLANT WATER WILL LEAD TO A LOSS OF CONTAINMENT AND LARGE EXPOSURES OF RADIOACTIVITY TO THE POPULATION.

I REQUEST THAT YOU HOLD THE PUBLIC HEARINGS IN NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT WHERE THE NUCLEAR PLANT IS LOCATED.

I AM ALSO REOUESTING THAT, UNDER THS NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT, YOU CONOUCT AN ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STUDY TO EXAMINF THE EFFECTS ON THE COMMUNITY OF A SPENT FUEL POOL ACCIDENT THAT CAN RESULT FROM A CRITICALITY ACCIDENT AND A LOSS OF COOLANT WATER ACCIDENT. I ASK THAT THIS ASSESSMENT WILL INCLUDE OTHER POSSIBLE METHOOS 09 STORAGE THAT 00 NOT HAVE RISKS THAT CAN LEAD TO A RELEASE OF THE RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS THAT ARE NOW OR WILL

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1. I AM A MEMBER OF CO-OPERATIVE CITIZEN'S MONITORING S6 NETWORK (CCf1N) ; ( OR EARTHVISION,INC.) AND I AUTHORIZE CCMN

( OR EARTHVISION ) TO REPRESENT MY INTERESTS IN THE MATTER 3EFORE T H e. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION IN PROCEEDINGS k

CONCERNING THE SPENT FUEL POOLS AT MILLSTONE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT IN WATERFORD, NEW LONDON COUNTY, CONNECTICUT.

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2, MY HOME ADDRESS IS 8A M' V N d", h t

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SOUTH) OF THE MILLSTONE POWER STATION,

3. MY FAMILY'S SOURCE OF ORINKING WATER DERIVES FROM SURFACE RESERVOIRS [ PRIVATE OR CCMMUNITY hELLSJ THAT WOULO DECOME CONTAMINATED-[ FROM RAIN WATER REPLENISHING THE GROUNOWATER]

FROM A SPENT FUEL POOL ACCIDENT RESULTING IN THE RELEASE OF RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS INTO THE AIR, ADDITIONALLY, THE MAGNITUDE OF SUCH AN ACCIDENT WOULD MAKE IT OIFFICULT TO FIND UNCONTAMINATED FOOD, AIR, OR SOIL.

THE-VALUE OF OUR PROPERTY WOULD BE AFFECTED AND WE WOULO BE UNABLE TO SELL IT, WE WOULD HAVE TO LEAVE OUR APARTMENT AND ALL OUR POSSESSIONS BECAUSE THEY WOULD DG CONTAMINATED, AND IT WOULO BE DIFFICULT TO FINO NEW RENTS IN AN UNCONTAMINATED AREA NEARBY, MY BU S IN E S S A S,_ DOM _ M t N n t wt WOULD BE AFFECTED.

I MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO

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MILES FROM THE PLANT AND MIGHT BE UNACCESSIBLE BECAUSE OF HIGH RADIATION LEVELS.

ALSO THE OSCTORS AND MEDICAL FACILITIES THAT WE USE ARE WITHIN 3

MILES OF THE PLANT AND MAY BECOME CONTAMINATED OR MAY BE UNACCESSIBLE TO ME OR MY FAMILY BECAUSE WE MIGHT BE

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PREVENTED FROM DRIVING TOWARD OR INTO GREATER CONTAMINATION.

I WOULD NOT FEEL SECURE KNOWING THAT MY CHILOREN MIGHT-BE I

EXPOSED TO LARGE AMOUNTS OF RADIOACTIVITY AND THAT THERE MIGHT NOT BE ENOUGH OR ANY WARNING SO THAT WE COULD EVACUATE IN TIME, i

THE SCHOOL [S3 THAT MY CHILOCREN] ATTENDS IS _J1 MILES FROM

-THE PLANT, THIS SCHOOL IS-USUALLY [SOMETIMES3 OOWNWIND FROM THE PLANT AND MAY_NOT HAVE TIME TO MOVE THE CHI 8.DREN PRIOR TO RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS BEING RELEASED. THE CHILDREN ARE SCHEDULE 0 l

TO BE MOVED TO ONE OF SEVERAL EVACUATION AREAS, ALL OF WHICH ll WOULO BE AFFECTED BY RADIOACTIVITY IF A FULL RELEASE FROM THE j

SPENT FUEw POOL WERE TO OCCUR, THE EMPLOYMENT OF PRESENT TECHNOLOGY IN STORING HIGH-LEVEL l

RADIOACTIVE WASTE RESULTS.IN THE RISK THAT A SPENT FUEL POOL ACCIDENT-MAY RESULT IN 0FF SITE CONSEQUENCES.

THEREFORE I AM CONCERNED THAT THE-PRESENT METHOD OF STORING THIS WASTE AND THE DESIGN CHANGE-THAT WAS GRANTED BY THE NRC ON JUNE h,

1992 (AMENDMENT #1$8) DOES NOT ADDRESS AND PROTECT THE HEALTH, SAFETY,-WELL BEING, AND SECURITY GF MYSELF AND MY FAMILY AND THREATENS-OUR INTEREST IN A CLEAN AND HEALTHY ENVIRONMENT, l

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i UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of NORTHEAST NUCLEAR ENERGY COMPANY Docket No.(s) 50-336-OLA (Millstone Nuclear Power Station, Unit No. 2)

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing LTR R. GRIFFITHS TO DSB - 6/29 have been served upon the following persons by U.S. mail, first class, except as otherwise noted and in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Sec. 2.712.

Office of Commission Appellate Administrative Judge Adjudication Ivan W. Smith, Chairman U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Reauletory Commission Washington, CL 20555 Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Charles H. Kelber Jerry R. Kline Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear-Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 John T. Hull, Esq.

Patricia R. Nowicki Office of the General _ Counsel Associate Director i

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission EARTHVISION, Inc.

Washington,.DC 20555 42 Highland Drive South Windsor, CT 06074 Nicholas S. Reynolds, Esq.

John A. MacEvoy, Esq.

Mary Ellen Marucci o

Winston & Strawn

-104 Browne'l Street 1400 L Street, N.W.

New Haven, CT 06511

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