ML20129H169
| ML20129H169 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 05/29/1985 |
| From: | Romano F AIR AND WATER POLLUTION PATROL |
| To: | NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP) |
| References | |
| CON-#285-305 OL, NUDOCS 8506070498 | |
| Download: ML20129H169 (2) | |
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AIR and WATER W
Pollution Patrol BROAD AXE, PA.
May 29, 1985 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555
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In The Matter of PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC COMPANY Docket Nos. 50-3520' (Limerick Generating Station Units I and 2)
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ar.d 50-353 COUErrr
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UShRC BEFORE THE ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING APPEAL BOARD
,,,, Christine Kohl, Chairperson M -4 A10 GFF4 E gr :;g,.
DOCsETINGX S6yy BRANCH Air and Water Pollution Patrol / Romano appeals the BOARD'S ORDER IMPLEMENTING ITS GRANT OF APPLICANT'S MOTION FOR EXEMPTION FROM REQUIREMENT OF 10CFR 50.47(a)
AND (b) FOR A PERIOD OF TIME CONTENTIONS OF CRATERFORD INMATES ARE C THE BOARD-- AUTHORIZATION FOR DIRECTOR OF NUCLEAR REACTOR REGUL 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 l1gs qualify to be considered for inclusion in a plan that might evacuate, for exam.le the prisioners at Graterford. The fact is that there can be more "prisioners" it-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 unworkable evacuation plans at Limerick do work. The Board used the term as if it was a protective aid being provided with the studied assurance by the Board to 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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AIR and WATER W
Pollution Patrol BROAD AXE, PA.
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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 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-qualifies the Order for the obvious reason that Unit 2 is not even constructed and the criminal negligence evident in the" sheltering" death trap.
Respectfully submitted, AIR 6 WATER PO CL -y ; 'pLUTION PATROL Frank R. Romano, Chairman 61 Forest Ave.
Ambler, Pa. 19002 I certify the above has been serve'd on the latest Service List.