ML20112A647

Opposes Operation of Facility Until Sheltering Fully Tested, Sheltering Drills Implemented Similar to Evacuation Drills & Public Assured That Benefits of Facility Worth Risks.Friends of the Earth Motion for Show Cause Order Supported

ML20112A647
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	03/11/1985
From:	Romano F AIR AND WATER POLLUTION PATROL
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8503180407
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AIR and WATER Pollution Patrol BROAD AXE, PA.

March 11, 1985 Dr. Harold Denton NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Washington, D.C. 20555 [d

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Dear Dr. Denton:

You may remember four years ago I wrote you regarding blast-ing at the Trap Rock Co. on the same rock upon which the Limer-ick reactor is built. I thank you for having required a second look by PECO and the NRC relative to that issue.

The blasting was only one of the many factors not taken into consideration by PECO. In fact one of my admitted contentions in-volved Limerick welding inspections...in particular IE-76-06-01 where a welder markod off a weld as O.K. and P.E. also checked it out as O.K.. Later an NRC inspectorr, over claims by PECO that the weld was O.K., insistedona[nspectionandthenfoundatot-ally unacceptable weld.

What I had originally put in as a contention was a " pattern of carelessness", starting through 1974 on welding, electrical, concrete work, etc. But the ASLB denied the pattern contention but ultimately permitted litigation on the contention only to welds that I could find improperly inspected: and improperly dis-positioned. How is a citizen not permitted to go into the reactor to investigate able to do such?

It was in the 76-06-01 " Broomstick Affair", as I called it, that proved the carelessness--and worse--bordering on the crimin-al, namely, falsification of records and fraud, wherein Mark J.

Wetterhahn, Attorney for PECO repeatedly stated "all welds inspec-ted by subject inspector (a Mr. Ferretti), both visible and invis-ible, were re-inspected'.' .

It was on the basis of that statement that the ASLB was influ-enced to deny my original contention. But on my insisting for proof, by affidavit from PECO, that all welds both visible and in-8503180407 850311 g~ h hDR ADOCK 05000352 g/pd3 OM PDR J"*l0

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visible were re-inspected, Mr. Wetterhahn could not corroborate his previously repeated statement regarding inspection of all welds.

Thereupon, my contention, limited to welds, was admitted.

Int the 76-06-01 incident wereas PECO at first said 435 welds were involved, it then raised the number to orer seven hundred then to over twelve hundred. In a mixed-up, unbelievable state-ment as to how PECO missed.certain welds, and how they inspected others, and ultimately dispositioned welds by engineering or computer, a classsical example of PECO's contempt for NRC reg-ulations became obvious.

I join with Mr. Robert Anthony / FOE in calling for a show cause order on the revocation of P.E.'s low power testing licen-se issued 10/26/84. As detailed in Mr. Anthony's letter to you of 2/25/85,.I have all the Licensee " Event Reports", and there is no industry in the U.S. that would not immediately discharge all management and quality control with such a disgraceful rec-ord that borders on the comical if the errors were not capable of tragedy in the near furtue if an operating license is given to operate limerick.

Above and beyond the instances listed by Mr. Anthony is the lack of protection that the errors definitely suggest will be needed. I refer to the possibility of a General Emergency Acci-dent that will require " sheltering". The public has not been adequately informed as to what sheltering is and what their chan-'

ces are of injury and death, for example, in 3AM darkness with bilzzard blocked roads, so that people could not leave their homes, nor could people reach them.

I ask that.PECO not be permitted to operate until " shelter-ing" has been fully tested; until the public is told what their

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chances of injury and survival are; until sheltering practice drills similar to evacuation study; until the public is assured that the benifits from Limerick are worth the hideous risk of the death trap referred to as sheltering.

MS. Margaret A. Reilly, Chief, Division of Environmental Resources, testimony before the ASLB re sheltering was an abject and sorry indication of that death trap being desguised by the use of the word sheltering. (see enclosure) Think of it 0.08 dose reduction of " general shine". How can an 0.08 reduction be considered anything but suicidal? Is Ms. Reilly afraid to use the term gamma rays for " general shine" because people might then know an average house could never protect against high intensity gamma rays?

Are you, Dr. Denton, going to permit such careless contempt for lives of people and genetic damage to children yet unborn?

It is your responsibility, more important your duty, to insure no operation of Limerick unti:1, like evacuation, the public is informed, tests are done, and acceptance by the people who will have to take the risks.

Please advise.

Very truly yours, 1\I " UATER POL TION PATROL

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g Fran R. Romano, Chairman 61 Forest Ave.

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