ML20125C014

Comments on Steps Taken to Set Up Emergency Evacuation Plan for Residents within 10-mile Radius of Facility.Recommends Cancelling Nov Public Hearing Because of Scare Tactics by Nuclear Foes.Criticizes Util Shutdown

ML20125C014
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Site:	Rancho Seco
Issue date:	10/22/1979
From:	Wrinkle H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Harold Denton, Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM), Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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T.15 Turnbrid e Dris e, i.a. c r tr.a e n to, C ali f o rnin, 95823, j

0:to er 22, 1979.

Uurold H. Denton, Director of the Of ~ ice of Nuclear Reacte r..egulation and f

Joseph M. Hendrie, /

Chaircan, U,S. Nuclear :Legulatory Cocaisa:cs, D

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hh UMU Gentlemen, Thanks to Mr. Denton f or his prs =pt reply to my letter of June 14, 1979. Rancho Seco, in Sacramento, is breesing along and has had only a few minor tie-ups since going back cn the li:e this summer, not enough to upset the power picture here in Northern Calif ornia during one of the hottest summera in this area on record.

As you know, Pacific Gas & El.ee; Co. " loans" power to SMUD when Rancho Seco is shut down and gets it back when it is running, plus buying all the surplus power the facility turzas cut over and above what SMUD needs for its own custoners. Without Seco this atmmer, this part of California would no doubt have experienced c ro wn-o c t s 4.nd black-outs on the hottest days, Public of fice buildin g s here have kept their thermostats at 80 degrees and SHUD GM 'm illiam Wal bridge did a great job in his TV appeals to SMUD customers te save electricity, a:d they did.

This winter the Utility Distric t is busy put ting in changes reqces ted by SRC and upgrading perf or-mance of all Seco's pernonnel.

Steps are also beinz taken to set u-a dispersal plan for all i

persons living in a 10 mile radius of Secc, Facific Telephone has a pago

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la ents area's paone ocok with a map cf the entire ares showing zip code numbers.

If SMUD takes a suggestion given it, this page of a map showing the zips can be used with all the major higbways overlaid on it, such as 1-5, 80 and 99 doing nceth and s outh'.and 60 going west and east and 50 going east.

Fortunately, major high radiate from this area like spokeslin a wheel.

Anybody currently living in the 10 c:le radius cokld be evacuated i

without crowding the highways since it :.s sere sparsely settled than most other parts of the area. Check the map f or the zip code and there/$$gfn,h no.

Since your nuclear engineer *i: res;dence" at Seco. is seeing to it that SWD is fast making it " f ail saf e',

9.c ner cent of the people here would like to see vou call off the Novecoer hetrinc on haucho Seco because foes of Nuclear Power, such as a wealthy ac tress we won' t name, will gather funds to fly in activists and " experts" te stir up and cause scare tactics to alarm local residents.

They did this at the trial of eleveu protestors

,[.i who scaled the fences at Seco earlier this year (not one was from Sacramento or other areas adjoining Seco) and ande a "cir:us out of it."

The two month shutdown of Seco t is year coe t SWD customers well over two million dollars and P~.r&E cus :v:a s 35.2 million as PG&E had to buy oil where it could to push production on th+ i;l fired plants to the tune of as much es $28 a barrel.

Now that D i t t i o C o.n. yin : s ready to go, it is costiu.

PG&E cu s toice r s about.a =illion do_1.lare 4 :1+ n interest costa on its much over a billion dollar plant, in perso:n+1 reacy to go but being held back f roc l g

working, and in the value of the e l ec tr:.: a y n: t being turned out.

This does not even mention that vast a=ount of ;ree;;;s :il that has to be used by the utility that could ba.ve been saved the :::e:.s.iablo Canyon goes on the line.

Aoro-Jet Ge:.eral Corprati:n :f 12crameuto hna come up with a meano:

to reduce low level li.:uid atssic waste

~..er e eut to a residue that won' t burn, absorb mois ture c.nd will net " e r. s s. r t a p metal. Ray Garcia is mer-chandising the device.

See attacued clipp:.; from a local pub cation. Four have been sold to U.S. Nuclear Plants.

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e Attachment Chemist Eugene.Vander Wall and his team came up with the below mentioned process, which itay Garcia of Aero-Jet General is now marketing along with his marketing group.

They are talking to SMUD and to managers of nuclear plants throughout the U.S. and the world.

Governor Bizie Lee llay of Washington and the Governor of Ne ada have now banned burying nuclear waste in theirus ta tes.

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the Federal Government could be induced to build two disposal plants quickly at these two sites and nuclear plants in tue nation could be charged for costs in disposing of their liquid and solid low level radio-ac tive wastes.

These sites for the plants would be a the dump siton themselves and all the dangerous materials stored there now could be pro-

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ceased and made harmless.

Garcila's phone in Sacramento is Area Code 916-355-2722 and he is there Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Pacific Time.

NEW DEVELOPMENT BY AEROJET A system for reducing the low and liquids from water purification levei radioactive wastes from nuc-systems, laboratories, equipment lear power plants by as much as ten drains. laundry wastes, and cleaning to one, developed by Aerojet Energy solutions. These low level wastes Conversion Company of Sacramen'o, should be distinguished from high will be used by Commonwealth Edi-level wastes which are generated son Company of Chicago and during the reprocessing of spent fuel Carolina Power & Light Company of elements.

Raleigh. N.C. in generating plants Commonwealth Ed' on will currently under construction.

utilize the system designed by the in making the announcement of California firm at its Byron nu~ clear the contracts totaling nearly $6.5 station 100 miles west of Chicago million. Aerojet Vice President and at its Braidwood station, which Wayne E. Kramer explained that the is some 40 miles southwest of the system utill:es a unique fluid bed city. With a generating capacity of l

heat exchange process which con-2240 megawatts each, the two plants verts the low level radioactive liquid will provide electric power to 2.2 wastes to a free flowirg solid which million custome s.

has a consistency similar to table Under the ter::s of the contracts, salt. The salts then are mixed with a Aerojet will supply the hardware solidification agent such as cement and associated engineering services and put into 55-gallon metal drums to the utilities, who will install the for shipment to burial sites.

systems.

Low-level radioactive wastes gen-Aerojet Energy Conversion Com-erated by commercial nuclear power pany is a divisics of Aerojet Liquid plants consist primarily of materials Rocket Company of Sacramento.

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