ML20126E702
| ML20126E702 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/08/1981 |
| From: | Lookingbill D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8102260153 | |
| Download: ML20126E702 (2) | |
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This letter is precipitated by the n N4 days, bu-p.
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The concern, cf ccurse, is over the restart of any nuclear reastor at Three Kile Island at any power level--incluctng the 5% foot-in-the-door level now suggested by the N.R.C. staff.
Though scre, understandablgy, seem to have successfully suppressed the recory of the events following the March 28, 1979 accident, my =ecory, unfortunately, retains intact.
After the e:otional terror we lived through, I can't war to the idea of a nuclear reactor at TXI ever reopening.
Bu t the suggestion to reopen Unit 1 before seeing to it that Unit 2 is safely cleaned up is unconscionable.
Let's at the very leest see te it that the first cess is cleaned before risking crd:ing another.
Ic this ciserver it appears that ccncern for the public's health and safety is new receiving less atten-icn than the econo ic and pragnatic argutents.
The "rajority" d to 2 decision cf the K.R.C. Cc :issicners te disregard emotional stress serves, I think, as an example.
I understand that your Psnel recorrended against that decision.
It's too bad that such concerns were nct heeded.
Recently, the public has been relatively quiet en the !KI issue.
This should not be interpreted to cean that there's been a resur-gence of confidence in the operation and operators at TEI.
(uite the contrary!
The excruciatingly slow pace and extravagant price tsg projected for the clean-up tend to leave ;cubts as to whether this unprecedented task can se safely accceplished.
Unless and Until it is accceplished, now can the reopening of TXI-1 even be
. consic.erec7 We 'd all like to. put the accident at TKI behind us.
But with the slowness and uncertainty of the clean-up at Unit 2, it's evident that it won't be over soon.
psincerelyhopethatyourPanelwill not decide to eccpound our wctries and fears by ap roving the re-cpening cf Unit 1--cectainly not ncw--hopefully, not ever.
And I.' : sure you 're aware that I don't stand alone in this view.
Thank you for listeninC.
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- IN ORDER to' help accel-analysis clearly was refer-i erate the restart of:the un-v ring to the value of Unit 1
' damaged Unit.1.freactor atioperating at. full.powerrnot '
Three Mile Isladd, the staff'of :.'the five, percent power pro-the Nuclear Regulatory Com-4 posed by staff..the incremen-
' mission has raised the spectre. tal.value of. which to the of a. power shortage crisis in. overall power supply picture t_heiregion; serviced-by.the ' is soinsignificant as to hardly-Pennsylvania-NewilJersey-l-warrant the suggestion lthat -
,. Maryland 4 power.'{giid.;Last' tit could be. a' factor in-a' vert-j
.- summer, duringanl extended-';ing a. power shortage.i; " ' ' 7
'beattwaver..whichisent,elec
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tricl'usageE s6aring - about ' ing the. conservative yard-x 1,000 megawatts 1 above 'an ; stick 1 used. by -utilities, 'the' '
ticipated peak demand, parts PJM Interconnection should" of the PJM area experienced have had ample reserve a ;
voltage reductions, tsome-pacity to cope with last sum-times more dramatically de J mer's unprecedented demand for electricity.without resort-scribed ' as " brownouts."
While Thec unprecedentsdl 'ing to' voltage. reductions. ')
amount of. power.consump-1,D OE..
notes that the'-
tion did'put.a. strain,on.the'; brownouts' occurred."even -
system, no one was seriouslys though a gross reserve mar-inconvenienced as.a conse. gin of 7721 megawatts exist -
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ed" at the time. Rather than -
s'i$ bfth'e rushing the restart of-Unit.1,
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U.S Department of Energy someone, perhaps the state Public Utility Commission, that 'an operating 'e proba-, should q, uestion why so many Unit 1 would " minimize th bility", o'f a" recurrence of-generating units were una-
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brownouts this'. summer,'.th'e.vallable for service at a time -
t NRC staff. proposes that the ;whenitwas reasonable to ex-commission > iauthorize 9 the.. pectrthat power demand restart of.-the reactoFat' a w uld ;be' at. a-high,. If not.o 7
power lev'el: notdto exceed; record, level 6 $ --., a.. -
five' percent of its capacity;... Urgent or not, the.need The consequences of an acci-.for.' and operating. Unit 1 dent'at this level of power,: should be of only-peripheral
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according to the NRC'. staff, "are sufficiently small",that and, Licensing JBoardp The,
its recommendedrchange's to hearings have just beguny
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the unit for full power opera-consider the management ca-tion need not be implement.
pability of Metropolitan Edi-son, and still have to examine
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the utility's financial'capabil.
There are two curious as-ity and emergency planning.
pects to the staff's proposal. The paramount questions re-f One, it was made 1.n response main, as they have since the to a request for suggestions day of the accident, the safe-on how to expedite hearings ' ty of the plant, the compe-before the Atomic Safety and tence of its operators and the Licensing Board on the res-protection of the public.
tart - of Unit
- 1. The staff These concerns should not doesn't explain how its pro-and cannot be side tracked posal expedites the hearing for the real or imagined ur-process. Second, the DOE gencies of the moment.
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