ML20128E710
| ML20128E710 | |
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| Site: | Trojan File:Portland General Electric icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/30/1992 |
| From: | Marbet L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Curtiss J, Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 9212080162 | |
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E HOV-30-92 f10H 9145 GPEGORY 6 60VRY 5010242471 p,03 Lloyd.9C.%{arbet 19142 SE Bakers Ferry Road Boring, Oregon 97009 (503) 637 3549' Monday, November 30,1992 Ivan Selin, Chairman James R. Curtiss n
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Subject:
Start up of the Trojan Nuclear Plant I am faxing you this letter and a press announcement that I will be making this (norning regarding the continued operation of the Trojan Nuclear Plant along with a letter that I have taxed to Ken Harrison of Portland General Electric. In the interest of adequately reviewing the safety of Trojan's steam generators I ask that you grant my request and join with the Oregon Energy Facility Siting Councilin holding a contested caso hearing and at the same time use your power to keep Trojan closed. I wish to reiterate that it is my intention to take direct action at Trojan only as a last resort and non:
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..m Lloyd K Mar 6et 19142 SE Bekers Ferry Road Boring, Oregon 97009 (503) 637 3549 Monday, November 30,1992 There has been nothing more ditlicult for me than the decision i am announcing today. For almost twenty years I have diligently tried to work within !..e established processes of government to raise my concerns regarding the environmental and economic impacts of nuclear power; and more specifically the dangers we face with the continued operation of the Trojan Nuclear Plant. I have played by the rules only to find that when you are succcccful, the rules are changed, the petitions for hearings are denied, and ballot measure campaigns are bought by a utility whose resources are far greater than our own.
On November 9,1992, only six days after Ba!!ot Measure's 5 & 6 lailed, Trojan springs a leak and the plant shuts down, causing Portland General Eictric (PGE) to buy replacement power for an energy resource we are forced to pay for regardless of whether it works. On November 23, Robert Pollard of the Union of Concerned Scientists releases an internal memorandum of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), dated September 28,1992, which reveals that the risk of a moltdown at Trojan is 3 chances in 10.000 per year, 300 times more hkely than permitted by the NRC's safety goal of 1 in a million per reactor per year, Now PGE is attempting to restart Trojan this week by seeking an emergency change in their technical specifications which would allow them to restart the plant without further analysis of their steam generatos tubes. This is a nuclear plant whose steam generator tubes are suffering from a corrosion problem which no one has been able to identify and for which they are allowed to operate with unrepaired flaws in 428 tubes.
I have written and where possible faxed letters to the NRC Commissioners, to all the members cf the Energy Facility Siting Council, to the head of the Oregon Department of Energy and to Govemor Barbara Roberts asking that Trojan remain closed until an impartial public forum (an adjudicatory proceeding) is held with full procedural rights for all individuals and parties lavolved including the right to cross examine and present witnesses; access to all PGE, Westinghouse, and NRC files; and the ability to irnerview NRC dissenters to determine the safety of Trojan's steam generators. I do not believe that this request is to much to ask. Trojan's safety analysis has been declared proprietary and removed from full public scrutiny, We are asked to trust regulators who repeatedly deny our petitions and by whom we are forced into a trial by media rather than a trial by law.
On Tuesday, December 1, at 9AM, the NRC is holding a meeting at Trojan which will be attended by two members of the Energy Facihty Siting Council. At that meeting the question of operating Trojan will be addressed. I will attempt to raise my request for an adjudicatory hearing again at that time and following the meeting will contact the chair of the Energy Facility Siting Council by phone to raise this request as well. If I am unable to obtsin an affirmative answer then I, along with Art Honeyman, intend to non violently tjock the entrance to Trojan in an effort to keep it closed. I am at a loss to know what else to l
do to protect our life support systems and I take this action in the interest of myself, my family, those Ilove and the community I care for. I have no desire to hurt anyone or to be hurt and I ask that if anyone desires to join me that they too do 50 in that spirit.
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