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Conditional Application for Leave to Intervene.If Atty for Safe Energy Alliance of Central AL Agrees to Modify Contentions as Listed,Request for Intervention Will Be Withdrawn
ML20126F537
Person / Time
Site: 07002909
Issue date: 03/04/1981
From: Linda Williams
SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE
To:
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8103180642
Download: ML20126F537 (4)


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All wce of Central Afaba:s (SEACA) Central bats (S::ACA), os pro >osed by 12h6 Ucrthwood Lake fg8 attom

_ Northpartt.Alaba a 35h76 B, ges[~10 g gnggs, cn is a list of these

_Via r-U. Julian L. McPhillips, Jr.,

con entions. T$e Nuclear Regulatory Attorney far SEACA Cassission's Safety and Licensing Board g

mga find that some of these contentiens a

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E Washugtm, D. C. 20555 lhe writing is cmfusing.

The nest In the matter of the application of the hazardous of the radionuclides during the Westinghouse Cloctric ce tien fcr a nomal operatien will be prticulates and soecial Nuclear Natarial dcense fcr the aerosols of all isotopes of uranium, 235, Alataca Nuclear Fuel Fabricaticn Flar.t, including U-23 U-2 g -234, and 0-U U. S, NRC Docket No. 70-2909 ps g t a

reii in the a d arid s a This is a conditional a plication to referred to in the Westinghouse Environ-file for leave to intervene Docket 70-2909) cental Report and license a tien

{.and perhaps nlutonius die"pli according to 10 CPR 2.71h (a (1) far Louis

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If C. Uilliams. I an certain'that t$e Coc>.

estinghouse Wallowod to do t and mission is aware of ths degree of my nartic-Should tg meetg.

. s as ination (see enclosed release of handbuts).

orth in than Fers---

p Should the attorney fcr SEACA,his ccn-

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la W ce g ;s2 la, page 6 of the unsti Julian ifcPhillips$e below stated su. estions aces to =odify tantions using t a [isy tions,faia.s to ge support far deals th a

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.itcnic Safety and LicensinbBosniben$cessary8 th nowa and nerhape LJoven d.,n then no intervention on my part vi eroce. Ua o noi, }ctow whether the ad I will withdraw this recr13st.

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SOE SUGGZSTED 1GIFICATICIB and/cr CHAl2 to atomic workers and the surrounding enviren:xx2t.'fras (als derived fras the1) fluorhe and flucride, Mn k,

rN ved (2) from heav{${t $ (he el 7:

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n e d:aling wit $ Deferred Contentiore in Atta$b= [f g((gg y

ec t sant C, now supersedas all previous fili::gs' lon of the che=ical reacticns bkween c

These deferred contentims should be the ccaversion of UF6 *d the freegng cf o UO2 usin gaseats thcroughly discussed in this license appli" crygen and hydrogen, an caticn because they deal with vital areas of fluorine.

health ani safety of atocio werkers and the citizens of the affected area and with

' AIA"gg y {le er, p. 7 a parent 1{ rec Paragraph 19 the A princip standard is a d.

1 deffard costs to the area ani parhaps to the ta w ers.

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, ] g ] M h va$1 Putting off these centroversies urtil halaorbhe'ndardI.Cjothatlitigat['anint..e so th2t it ma be t d

after Tiestinghouse filas the needed inforsa-orrn by tion (i.e. HPC issuine a license) will be courts may begin.

ner:r be told that $udget:t. The public may Parsgraoh 22

p. S, misses the point.

too late to make a 4 i

be MRC and Gestirehouse Tho:e are thiee se,rious threats to the s

t.nd b ement, the state of AlabasA an not ly ng after the citizona vital in,terest latasa River and the Gobile Bay Estuary.

i oo in such areas as (1) security, 2 decen-These are unaccortqbb concentrations of taminaticn and decce.issioninr 3)) use of radionuclides, rdtrates, and heavy mwtals.

_Prattville sewage Treatser:t pla.nt to handl "Both= radioactive caterials ani especial-

.eestinghouse wastewater contaminated Ul'th e.

ly_compourris of nitrogen, mostl nitrctes, radioactive materials from its laundry and will degrado envirmmantal cpa Does Uestinghouse propose to "se a

or waste fras wator of the cooling tcwers, "cive" its nitrate wastos to a papermill (h) use of huge a=ounts of water fras the pir.%?s the near by Union Ca.2. Paper

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Pr:ttville Water Treatment Plant (5) lack these pr posed nitrate by pr ucts fr m of civila evacuation proc 3dures for acci-the Uest

' use operati:r2 will serve as sabotage reolccical ucheaval nutrients o-the crganis:s dersading the s, ills of rddIoactive materials $n the pape ciil wastes from their nitrate p

or y toxic materials within er near e

cents'zt

~2 offlum2$ which would help the nacer =111 cr cn Alabama highways er into SAlabama Rimr frem barge traffic, (7)the lack of reducing significantly its organic load. T60>

to meet the 21 standhrds by v

adequate monitoring fer criticality poter:tial,Fmevar$na: sed

  • nonradioactive and taero-th5se nitrate (3) Fire protection plannin invclving the may be Prattville Fire Department,g(8) security fore acceptatie. Uill the hea metal 1smaing, ani oms.Lc7 evacuation planning contant of tho effluent to the ' bam

? r atc=ic worl:srs and citizens ani (9) the "iver be acceetable? Would not the lO l

recisely spellsd-out the role 8f the state paxr =111 and E Ucstinghouse be re-

f Alaba a as an "AGPIE T Ce state, which sponsible for the conta=inaticn from the cencarns where lies responsibility ani radwastes ani the henvy metals?

liability for =xanted costs and dangers.

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unslih[tod cbort of thebahe Dishsal Roquirements, 9S N h 29 ontions by D Criticali accident requirements.

memora SEACA attorney Julian UcPhillips coi inuod)

. 120 and the Stata of Alabama should There is no wa'y to "DEGMD5" uran '

35, disallow these axs::mtions because they by natural decay of U-235 to its willposenounduefnwen,butwill er nuclei, or to fission products in allcw the offected workers and the 7

exc cau ae in reactim. What degrudation as citizens cf the area needed notice means" the adding of more unwanted of unsafe conditions.

done here a U-238, U-233, and U-23ti. This adis to the therefore, this~

r#UCPRI Fm RMER OF STIPUu'fMS total uranium content,by 'Jestinghouse, the should not te allowed In stipulations on care 3 nor the 20.

E othing paragraph 7, which si,ates'tF.at state of _Alabamag N

Paragraph 3h, paa Personnel Dosimetry'nium cbwit$e 9.

in this stipulation shall be deemed to deali both uranium oxides ani oluto as as now practisod fail orovent the petitimor (SEACA) from to take into consideration measurements filin; new or amorried contentions upon chewing of good cause as req 11 red by '

from desimeters or cther way rom 10 CFR 2.71h of the Comnission's emissions of alpha iculates hat are Therefore the-n unquote known to be interna emitters fol owing regulation 2 unstipuldtod inhalation. Workers ham these alpha (1) stipulations, h 31 memoranium in contentions and t caitters while both al duty as well as support of lhe unsti 14ted contentions when off duty as at home. Uranium-233 should be reworded light of these.

does not giva off betas nor gamas, arII the commonts to better reflect the real dosimeters do not, therefore, accurately

. situation reganiing matter for the ncxt measure th31r very high lon13ation fra IRC-47estinghouse-5EACA hearir6 alona radioactivity within the body.

Paragraph 3 ge,9, and paragrarh 37 In mimeographed handouts by me to pa6e 102-ilest se seeks an exemption 20, Costinghouse, and it. Julian McPhil-lips (SMCA attorney) I havs cited from the 81ncreas in uranium concentratims cnd in a questionairo to seloeted,1981,

.on November 2h 1980, February 11 in the air (HOT anomain concentrations of uranium). Again, how will these air borne sp3cialists on December 31 1980 concerning (1) inadegaacy $f the, concentrations be measured? Surely not from particulates trapped in HZPA filters estinghcuse environmental report where aerosols are missed and where spikes,8

('2) how do we keep river or anisa$

er hi*h concentrations, cannot be measurod Certa $ly there mst be some kind of a continuous accurate systas for monitoring nuclides to unacceptable hhi levels?,.

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t tual q2antities of these bad alpha ceg and uggg

) wb final uranium-235 Paragraph 38, page 10 - The radio- -

facility, content be iluted by the addition of logical monitorine of solid waste matorials fertile isotopes, and depleted uranium?

any contain very high concentrations of (5) Shou 3d the Department of Energy uranium by the precess of adding ndepleted ani the 12C-EPA rule that spent fuel uranium." Certainly this largo actiition will be reprocessed.may Westinc. house of uranium material will be mre hazardous lutonium after this be allowed to use flill spant to people and the envircumort than just at the Prattville site?, (6) disposal in a safe manner of the waste witnout adding more uranium in the disguise fusi and clean ard dirt" scrap be that it is adeplated" of uranium

  • brought from overseas and Columbia, SC ragraph 39
p. los-exem ons from to Prattville? (7) Uill Lostinchouse pita.nd gam,a exposuro go,its not be request to reprocess uranium scrap in Prattville be allowed by 18C7 7)Will bestinghouset s request to pack (a[no m

.,a major prcblam durin the perfect opera-s ad.

ttvllie Fuel Planb, tion of the prYose t uranium and saloable products, inished t

s when accidents except durin;d uIARGE" excursions) occur.

and unfinished be permitted by MRC?,

of usmalla an (6) Could fissilo materials be processed nounds sf oxides and over)(about five Secause small massos by Vestinghouse for nuclear waarons, of U-235 and such as neutcrn bomb materials in U-233 are a critical mass. This. low Prattville? (9) Uill the final nesting-criticality does occur when spacing masses, and isolation barriers are Imde-.

house 2mrironmental I= pact Statement moot ICPA and C6HA requirements?

tne gact toal generally misunderstood.is quate. Also hugha amounts of f artile R 3 C 0 M 11 E N D A T I O M S U-23 can be converted to ursantad fissle.

Thorofore from the above treatment, plutonium-239 to incruase criticality once it is horowith, suggested that the three it is started by U-235. The gammas aal betas from these 'small" criticalities carties (Uostin h<nsa, !EC and S"d4A) would indicate that worzors could be

' incorporate tho abovo sug;estod chan es and rive now considcration to u graa l

cxposed to unsafo i:nization icvels during otnerwise normal oporation of the plart, the proposed SEACA valid contenfions incorporatinr them as far as possible The "ncrmala or amoiant air content of as stipulated contentions, arxi by enang-uranium can be determined prior to the ing deferred c ontentions for NGT con-beeinninc cf the plant operation.

siderations.

Paragraph bl no 10s-Using the sverags dese-equiIra$dts is totally-If the above suCgestion is dis-inadequate, because werkers and citizens allcwed tr/ the MP,C, I would lilco to

.becc=c contaminatedfar more during the apply to the atomic and Safety ard the hirh spike of ionizing radiaticn than Licensint Boarti of the 130 for lenvo from the averneo of a couacted mass of to intervene in my own behalf. This uranium (or ot$er ionization) averaro frcm request is mde because I feel that I one sample over a period of time. lgain have been a nlargon part of the 33 Cats petition, but that I feel that zalch of conti7g recording of ionisation is my input (as sumsted frcm the abovo) essent 2.

has been iradeqately treated in the Parceraphsh5 h6 h7 aniLB -

final set of stipulations, etc. Also.

"heso parigraphs deal, wit [2 the roquest by the rooulations of the IRC does parmit 3

%stinr' house to be exempted from certain intervention by a person who does not safaty codes of the Fedaral Re.~ulations, establish his right to tocome a party ficaticn raqd' r espectivel :-a wi{h) Noti-to the proceeding, where the presidirq A

These involw raonts daa respiratcry eq21;nent, (

caution signs, officer or ebaiman of the Atomic Safety Boarti determinas in his and Liccnsin~nat such a rasult is ap-) and discretion t orceriate as in 10 CF. 2.71h (a) (1 2.7ih(d).

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. as writing to ym f:: s:ce sugges 0: 2 w t3 cc";* with the ;rthle s Of 611sted by the.Eealth 5i,stecs Mrisu,

wi-m a ease :f the safe ::ero )

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--et to te tie getti g a at Prattvil[erste a F:: lear hal Plad

!32*7. f:r r la-ca::1:d. Et M i'.d e d c-q tv Alnady e, 11atac.a.

2 the gesting:::se :cr ef hw-level

..S..2.,.,,.,,0cces 7;cer 7*W lradiati:n is to dil:te creci=>-2 5 with

  • te 5at1 nal A:adegy :! Seim:e s a de;1etai urazi= =til dt is no er e

staw'N c:ctittee (to c:czressi :n the

{lz lanl. 3:c't 'all' =asim is:ce;es

!;r:d:ce = parted al;tas?

Can the C Eiclotical Iffects cf :::ising fam atie:

and the ?::Isar Iniztry rest heavily :=

(II3} tas s tcitted its n E: wever,in "d astier.s at t:p:rt.

the e-e tw:-day

. accial a:d pclitical e etsiderstMrs

-Detic; mares dealt rxe with what irs

  • er t*an : scientific data? Itis c tas10 ethics st uld te ; sed viat tasic l Wods gives 'tiga rwaaris f: g x>i s.

ass;:rtions Of scie =ce can $s used, j to a seciety that does :t =riers AM policy, #4 wrat is 4Gi c:csidered a.s itta real ;r:blets cf the = clear are.

Cer*Airty. Etat d:es the w;M *sig.if-3 Is 5 re::s singla d::se er acer.la.-

ita:t* :'ean? (Patter itJ ri=per*.,act%

{tive f::: a year, a safe ruw'ard? Exid a st;dy cf grec;s witt 30 re=s and ex-All s-A -*

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Prd er7 teari 3 tave a.rea:7 2=1d this ret lead to scrs ** tree-d.le-l teen tald 27 C".-C~Dc:;* the Fr:a-Island-like ;r+W?

f;csed 2; clear ha1 Pla:r.. A: envir:n-

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"he ft:t that osal doses cf differe=+;lto s;ea.: to iss:ss =7self at the teartsg.

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-lati: s fer these tim Of tard-toy;artify tram: aM ;b-itased en re$;d: x*.11.52 A'.ra's, n: /

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t=i= ::a7 a :w.arge d:ees f al;cas I talieve stat C:et to r: =ct ic ed.

? agree cet states.

!?ecefit fav== ea = lear *tr7 at rde westir. :f hir5-ms:s_lx Linear I ergy rsasfer fD-) is ra ;g. I a detri=es al e est to the ;rtrate :it12e=.

two c7;csite s:::cis (2: a-d the.t:1Q i; de r.:t belien that the prese=t fissj=

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l Date-- January 27, 1981.

This dilution proposal is :sda en Place ~ Pablic Hearing daaling rith the

tho assu=ption (p. 7-13 of Uestin;; house lurage::ent of Che::rical hasardeus J;rrirc==r.tal Espert) that tha State (tMt the total uranius centant isDepartmnt of Lalth of Alataca agre Wastes. Beard W iB Mg b-State Departax.t cf Haalth

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.!acceptablo. Tha State De;artmnr. needs Montgmary, Alabama, at 4:% p.n.

lto nh tM tm 6 m a ea great inenaso in th increaso in tetal ursranted uranius Fren: Louis G. WIlLIAis Ph. D.,

s Emeritus Professor cf Ecclogy uran 1 M L Un'iversity of Alaba::n.,

Hoos address This also =eans that a adwastes8 r

frm the Oak Rid;;e gasecus diffusien 12h6 Nerthrood Lake.. -

(e:riement) plant w uld be shipped to Northpcrt' AL 35h76 tha that;rT. osed Prattville Fuel Plant and 1-

- The Safe Energy Alliarme of Centrcl it would bo used to "dilt er the Alaba,il (S3aCA) is trying to win its case solid 2*duastes proci1ced at the Pratt-awainst the Westinghcuse Electric Corpore Tille FC Clant to " dilute" it to O.7tv-237.aninnwhichisapprcrinately isotepic "r tien TEC)iicense fretz the which is in the Tsegula ory Cocrtission (IGC)d"rocess cf a

Wclear

~ett to build and

. means that for ever~$9 wde 21e sol to operate a 22elaar Fuel Plant at Pratt-of

'3 to be diluted abcut ville, Alabama. This is U. S. IEC Dochet-bave to bo treught in frm Oak Rid;'e.

Nber 70-29W.

However this wculd NOT be natural ura:p The State of AIPAm :nst also ius e, sinco it would contain huge issue per=its er licenses fer asny of tlie a:3ounts of uraranted U-234. and more safaty and health aspects of this TIEC U-238, which is also a b d alpra e:itter.

operation. Jurisdictice for ;aetection Both U-23h and U-238 should be considered atomic worters, ener*;ency contaniam:ts a:xi. therefcre, additicnal cf citizens, deco =1ssioning,ith the SfATE avacuation and :stssement pollution to Alabana. The citizens cf ofradioacdivewastesrestw alab:aa do not want to solve this problec not with the Nuclear Ragulatory Comissicn.

by bri. "*/ in scre radrastes to be

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SUBJBCT aEPROCESSED SC%F Uestinghouse wishes to pro;;ose thrt.

radicactive wastes for this operation be Westir house is propsin;; to return ra h tes caniu= or scapa for defined as.any caterials having core than retrocessing at Prattville fras all crer A6 I 1CM, or.00036 clerocurias per gre:

This is a dirty c.hical of waste or 0 36 thousanths cf (tha world. which would mly centacirate ration e i nr.$n k a

cro-curies por gras of specific r'adioactivity Docs the State Department of Health frco Uranium-235. Nor=al fuel with 3%

wish to label'this hind of operatien erzicned uraniur has culy 1.57,clerocuries'

'NCEADEACTI~E" s o that these wastes por era,.

nay bo buried either en the C site er in a state-a oved chc=ical hazardous waste chr:p? pff so such a du=p5 would Alabama is an AGCC'T S* ATE, maan-as ird that the Stata of Alabana (Wot :EC) -

then be recei h tota;:ter Ccun 7 at Emelle, AL in Su=

cM=ical and aay regulate what is radioactive wastos for tha Tiestingnouse sed r:aclear fusi radioactive mates. In additien to these l

plant and for the Far ey P.tclar Plant.

umsntM urariu:s estes the chc=ical wastes frcn tne Westirchouse oper:.tien WESTIT rill include 8R U G E" ascunts of very charAcal danger"FL"'1cius flucride and

. stin: house is propcsi.g in its othw cha=ical ha aMcus mates.

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lic=se application a:xt miron r:ntal repcrt to add depleted uranius (this is The transpcrtation of basaMous what is laft aftcr creichrat at Oak reterials to arri from the Prattville cr Fcrthsnouth aftcr ro:cring oprati::n will be the Liability of the Ridre,f +.he U-235). acwever, daplated State of sim,n to :nreys. occupaticnal nesk, o y

It H2alth and Safety will also belong to uraniu= is NC*f daplated of uraniu $ ani still has large quantitics of U-23 AlMaca.

l U-23h. The U-23h is also enrichad along Do we r3 ally want this Nuclac; with tha fissile U-235. However U-23 raal Plant 71 i

and U-233 are hi[-dily "umantada., TCC g y ySincerely is asking auther ty to dilute, which they us, - - - - - -

call "dy;rade" their uranius Tastes with Lcuis G". U"ILLIim declated uranian to natural isotopic uranium con *act {0.7% of U-235)for burial ani to stabill:e to sol.d cacent fers as a ha:arious (but non-radicactivo) waste.

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