ML20128C694

Comments on Plant Site.Questions Whether Plant Situated in Prohibited Area

ML20128C694
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Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	11/02/1970
From:	Davis P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Deale V Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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T" 4LtenLions ler. Valentine B. Doulo, Chairman

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.itomic Pnerdy 3afety and Licencing Board 4c U.S. Atomic Energy Commionion

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Dear Birci In regard to NSP'o Monticello cito, wac the followinc paientific recuarch taken into concideration?

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Dr. C.

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Thornthwaite, Direc tor, Laboratory of Clima-

ology, Elmer, New Jerccy, and Profeccorial Lec turer in the Department of Got.;raphy, Univorcity of Chicago, wac a par-

icipant in the col]oguium on Radioicotopec in Man'c Environ-vn t, held in

Sy,1960, at the Univorcity of Chicuco.

O.. Jay CL. Living 'i/ith the Atom, by Ritchio Ct 1 der, nivareity of Chicago rouc, 19T2~ lt statoc, "From the many

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. ;ich they had examined in variouc parte of the world they Nul found that no cencral principle could be appliod; evor;/ lc"ality ccd itc own peculiar probleme and had to bc

sec t.12. y curveyed.

Dr. Thornthwaito gave four oxumploc.

"bno nac a cito nour the New York-How Jercey boundary.-

't wuu wooded, hilly, on a clope in a mondow valloy.

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.n a quection of microclimatology.

The concern wap. the flow oi dcnce air down the valley at night.

If thore chould be an incident, the polluted air would move down the vu.11oy for c ov e r2'.

miloc.

"The second example wac on the Micciccippi River, Jorty :.alco north of Minneapolic.

There wac no likelihood of c,.rthquakoc, and only remote poucibilities of tornadoac.

ut, by coincidence, that particular place in 111nnecota~ hac

he creatcot incidence, in the United Statec, of nocturnal 4

.nycraione during the winter--when the air near the ground

.c concictantly colder than the air higher up.

Thio would

.acan that, from an ' incident' on a wintor'c night, the radioactive relcaco, incread of occaping upward, would spread horizontally."

In NSP'c booklet, Electric Power from the Atom at I;orthern S t.tec - Power Co.wany ' c h:onticello h'uclen? Genera;ing Plant, E c:atec on page'14, " Location:

1,400-acre nito 7,0 milce northwect of Liinneapolic-St.

Paul,...."

Dir.cu the Monticello plant in on the Micciccippi Rivo;r, 40 milce from Minneapolic-St. Paul, doec it not cecm to.bo a

in the p>chibited arca?

Sincerely years, haJ.u a.w..a Mrc. Paula Davic:

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