ML20128P724
| ML20128P724 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 06/03/1985 |
| From: | Romano F AIR AND WATER POLLUTION PATROL |
| To: | NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| References | |
| CON-#285-254 OL, NUDOCS 8506030625 | |
| Download: ML20128P724 (2) | |
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W Pollution Patrol BROAD AXE, PA.
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20535 In The Matter of PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY DocketNos.50-352Eh (Limerick Generating Station and 50-353CL -
Units 1 and 2)
'85 JUN -3 All :59 BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD
__ Christine Kohl. Chairperson LFFG E t'4 m.,,t
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BRANCH Air and Water Pollution Patrol / Romano appeals the BOARD'S ORDER IMPLEMENTING ITS GRANT OF APPLICANT'S MOTION FOR EXEMPTION FROM REQUIREMENT OF 10CFR50.47(a)
AND (b) FOR A PERIOD OF TIME CONTENTIONS OF GRATERFORD INMATES ARE CONSIDERED BY THE BOARD-- AUTHORIZATION FOR DIRECTOR OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGULATION TO ISSUE FUL POWER LICENSE.
The degree of carelessness with which the Board glosses over a life and death situation re Limerick is evident in the 5/24/85 Order which calls for full power op-eration not only of Unit #1 but also Unit #2.
The order seems contemptious of the situation which as of now finds the Unit 2 reactor does not even exist as fact (check Pa. PUC)
Further, it is apparant that the ALSB 's view of the evacuation plan for Limer-ick does not include all human beings. The Board would decide which human beings qualify to be considered for inclusion in a plan that might evacuate, for example the prisioners at Graterford. The fact is that there can be more "prisioners" im-prisoned in the homes of people being radiated during a General Emergency accident.
The Board has barely mentioned " sheltering" as an option to create the impresion that the unworkabic evacuation plans at Limerick do work. The Board umd the term as if it was a protective aid being provided with the studied assurance by the Board to i
deminish the effect of lethal radiation disseminated in a reactor accident.
The fact is that Margaret Reily, Chief of Pennsylvania's Bureau of Radiation Protection, testifying before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board, revealed the death-trap nature of " sheltering" when she stated that sheltering might be effective up to 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br /> from inhaled particles. She did not even mention the greater hazard of gamma radiation.
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AWPP/ Romano's Appeal of Board's Order of May 24, 1985 continued:
The quasi-criminal negligence in the deficiencies in the required " workable" nature of the Limerick evacuation plan, its planners and its Mongtomery County Emer-gency Co-ordinator, Mr. Lindly Bigelow, is evident in the contemptious answer by Mr.
Bigelow, who when questioned by me as to what people do after 2 hours2.314815e-5 days <br />5.555556e-4 hours <br />3.306878e-6 weeks <br />7.61e-7 months <br />, calmly dis-missed the deadly situation by saying, "they have a problem". He said that in the presence of Mr. Pennington, the representative of Mr. Paul Bartle, Chairman of the Montgomery County Board of Commissioners, who himself, on Jan. 15, 1985, before Judge Helen Hoyte's Board stated (Tr.18,614, line 13) he was not aware that a situation l
could develop where there would be no evacuation (that option was " sheltering").
When asked if sheltering would improve his feeling on the unworkability of evacuation, Mr. Bartle (Tr 18,616, Line 15) said he could not answer to sheltering.
AWPP appeals on the basis that making a decision involving, Units 1 and 2, dis-
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qualifles the Order for the obvious reason that Unit 2 is not even constructed and the criminal negligence evident in the" sheltering" death trap.
l Respectfully submitted, AIR 6 WATER P LUTION PATROL L.g
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Frank R. Romano, Chairman 61 Forest Ave.
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