ML20115J185

Notifies That Response to Encl Re Sheltering as Option to Evacuation Not Yet Received

ML20115J185
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	04/16/1985
From:	Romano F AIR AND WATER POLLUTION PATROL
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8504230394
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fo -353 AIR and WATER Pollution Patrol BROAD AXE, PA.

April 16, 1985 Dr. Harold Denton U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Nuclear Repctor Regulation Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Dr. Denton:

Enclosed is a copy of a letter I wrote you on March 11, 1985.

relating to the fact that the public was kept ignorant of " shelter-ing" as an option to evacuation. Sheltering is another word for death trap and must be tested just as all aspects of evacuation to other areas from the Limerick reactor.

We have not received a reply to date. If we do not receive a reply by return main I will contact Chairman Nunzio Palladino, Sen-ator Schweiker and Congressman Lawrence Coughlin, the latter two being personal acquaintances and live in the Montgomery County area of Limerick, as I do.

Very truly yours, Frank R. Romano, Chairman

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

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 marked off a weld as O.K. and P.E. also checked it out as O.K.. Later an NRC inspector , over claims by PECO that the weld was O.K., insistedona[Enspectionandthen found a tot-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--bordejing 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-pcviero -,

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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.  ;

J In.the 76-06-01 incident wereas PECO at first said 435 welds were involved, it then raised the number to over 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  ;

I 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 I 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- I dent that will require " sheltering". The public has not been l 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 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 wo'rth 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 until, 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, AI(&--WATER POL TION PATROL Q. < h W g Fra'n R. Romano, Chairman 61 Forest Ave.

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