ML20132A938

Forwards Copy of Neighborhood Update

ML20132A938
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Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	05/11/1996
From:	Decamp W AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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P.O. Boer 243 l Island HeiM NJ15732 May 11,1996 i l Hon. Shirley Jackson, Chairman )

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission i Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Dr. Jackson,

I am writing on behalf of Oyster Creek Nuclear Watch to respectfully request  ;

that your office investigate and correct a highly inaccurate public statement recently '

printed and widely circulated by GPU Nuclear regarding the current license amendment application for the Oyster Creek Nuclear Generating Station.

In the enclosed April 1996 " Neighborhood Update", which is circulated to many thousands of households in Ocean County, New Jersey, GPU Nuclear makes the following statement on page one in their lead story:

"Both GPU Nuclear and the NRC agree that this [ license amendment request] is not a safety issue, but a procedural one."

That the above statement is untrue is clearly demonstrated by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bulletin of April 11,1996 which states:

"The NRC staff audited both the initial and updated 10 CFR 5059 evaluations pe. formed by the licensee [GPU Nuclear) and determined that the proposed cask movement activities represent an unreviewed safety question that should be submitted to the NRC for review and approval pursuant to the requirements of 10 CFR 50.59 and 990."

"Accordingly, as defined in 10 CFR 5059(c), if an activity is found to involve an unreviewed safety question, an application for a license amendment must be filed with the Commission pursuant to 10 CFR I 50.90."

As I know you are aware, the necessity for GPU Nuclea 's license aniendment request is created by GPU Nuclear's desire to leave the nuclear reactor running  ;

while they lift an unprecedentedly heavy (100 ton) load over the reactor's l containment structure (the torus) and over the used fuel pool for the purpose of j transfering used nuclear fuel from wet to dry storage. l l

t This is a safety issue par excellence, and the public deserves to be told the truth, not the opposite.

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. i We therefore respectfully request that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission require a new mailing by GPU Nuclear specifically dedicated to correcting the 4

misinformation disseminated in the April 1996 " Neighborhood Update".

We also respectfully request that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission take any disciplinary actions that may be appropriate in this matter.

Sincerely,

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\,) ho b William decamp, Jr., Trustee J'.]' f.g .

! Oyster Creek Nuclear Watch i

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• April.1996

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l l License Amendment Request Delays interim l Spent Fuel Project

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move some of Oyster Creck's fuci storage luciht.s acec hcIJ in .\lait h l

spent f uel into an intenm dr> Hoc. \lananne Kan PuNa Aflans storage facihty at the plant site has been Alanaga GPL' Nu6Ica, Cosp . Optcr Cecci:.

delay ed. andl at L'u no 5cnon PaNa Affain Rcp..

The delav is the result of a request hv CT N"'Icas Corp,0,s ua Ceccle, ansacr the Nuclear' Regulatory Commission ~ 'I"#""'"'

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' ' '" '#a pu Nic tNRC) for GPL Nuclear Corp to amend its operatmg hcense in order to transfer Both GPU Nuclear and the NRC agree l

, spent fuel from the plants spent fuel this is not a safety issue. but a proce- ,

pool to the storage tauhty while the durai one l l Pl ant is operanng r

it will take about a month to prepare l Oyster Creeks spent 'ue! is currently the amendment documentauen for sub-l stored m a specially designed pool mittal to the NRC. accordmg to Joe

inside the reauer building but space Andrescavage. Intenm spent Fuel for the fuel uill be depleted this year Storage Installanon 5ne N!anager for GPU Nuclear had been working unh 0) ster Creek After the request is sub-the NRC to mo.e the fuel under the mitted, the NRC is expected to take l

plant's exisanc operaune hcense. how. about a month to review it. after which eser. the NRC resent!> requested that the hcense amendment documentanon -- g ( , ,

the beenu be amended m order to will be made available for pubhe review ,/

mose fuel w hile the plant is operaung and comment

il the buense amendment is approsed i he said. the spent fuel may be mased u;.,j

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maintenanse outage. scheduled to begin steiag .uca m september The intenm fauhty is needed at i The 10 sons rete. steel-remforced i Ovster Creek to store some el the plam, saul:s that will salch store some of the plants elJest spent fuel arnsed on sue used nuslear tuel unni the lederal cos-crnment estabhshes a sentral repositen in late January for the nauons spent fuel 1

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g or >oen-y ear-old Chnsona Ly nn in3t role m a nanonal produenen Barrymore Alan A!Ja and Gokhe Hawn 5kle os. one of the best parts about Chnstma played the rele of July a touch were also on the set performine m the Broadway play I Lycar-eld orphan Anme' was know me that w hen -he same Like his mier. Tomms lohn was a nat-

\\ hat is a hke for a 3csen year old to oral in fast. he gase Allen -ome athise 1 home trom the our-month nanona; tour auenon and get a part m a nanonal pro- Just belore filmme the s ene. Allen

{ she woulJ get ths pet parakeet -he haJ dusnon' Chnsuna takes a m stnde esplamed to the young actor what he ahuy s wanied

~1 wa n t reath nenous. because lie should be domg on camera. but n ad not To her proud parents. \ tan Beth and su nght unh Tommy Jc.hn been m Anme l$efore un other local pro.

Tom 5kleros. a Radiolopeal Controls ductionsU Chnstma said of the audinon. ~1 told him 1 don't thmk that5 such a Techmuan at Oyster Creek. the best ihmg -g ,ang m) lun i> knowmg that long after the road tnp saymg in their'es mmds that outI gotand the 1 knewexplamed panJ they were good idea. Wter \\ body.'

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ends. Chnsona will hase expenence and But when she learned she got the role- actor's directmg ups to heart memones to shen >h for the rest of her life -

she uas ihnlled Tommy John can also be seen in a

~5hc walkp out on stage and doesn t hat an eye, skleros. a Barnegat resident. .I was umpmg around i uanted to mmmercial for the Lifetime Channel I said. -To her. performmg is Econd nature. 'au cerybody and teH them... she said N!anagmg the careers el that two but to Ntary Beth and 1. uc're thnlled - Coincidentally that same day. Tommy chddren makes for an acuve sshedule.

John recened some cood new s as well But Tom and N1ary Beth also manage the The asung bug must be sentapous in the >kleros househok! Esen thnsunas The dat Chnsuna cot the tall sanne she d'U"? *areen of 11 other .hddren. some

.:ot m innie.' we got a call saym of uhom are pan of the Barnegat Bay ine > car-o!J hrother Tommy John has .

John haJ io be m New p m It York at 6'c Timms Bree:c smgers. a local chddrens mc:ng hegun takmg on small asung and smpng turneJ out he had an mieniew unh group directed by tne tuo l I""*

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Atter meenne unh Allen n seemed work you put in san come hack to you thing hke this again. they can ahuys tell that Tommy Johns persona was lust nght skleros said stones to their crandchildren about thae I expenences ' skkros said. "And that is '" 'inaH singne pan in AHen.s upwm- Both chddren have been performmg w hat makes it all w onhw bde. me nme stated for release this fall AHen locally and reponally for quae some ame.

uanted Tommy John for the small role >kleros said Chnsona. he s.ud has tung l Chnsona resenth completed a four- because he is iust a regular boy, not a and danced m more than 100 perform.

t month " Annie tour that took her to 40 flash). poh>hed performer in this scene, antes around the area The losanons base enies m 18 >tates and Canada It was her f Tommy John gets to work with Drew ranged from senior an:en groups. nurs-ne homes. local cable teleusion. Gieat

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/- 'C Chnsuna studies voice with sal Dupree.

of the famous 1%0s smpng group, the Duprees. of Barnegat Township and

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