ML20133A815
| ML20133A815 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Braidwood  |
| Issue date: | 09/27/1985 |
| From: | Copeland V COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO., ISHAM, LINCOLN & BEALE |
| To: | Brenner L, Cole R, Grossman H Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| CON-#485-645 OL, NUDOCS 8510020370 | |
| Download: ML20133A815 (17) | |
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WILLtAM G. 8EALE. 1885-1923 I . f TELEX. 2-5288 SeptemberFRh019 o h IAn< 00CKEilNG & SERVICI BRAEH Herbert Grossman, Esq.,. Chairman Lawrence Brenner, Esquire
' Administrative Law Judge Administrative Law Judge Atomic Safety and Licensing Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 Dr. A. Dixon Callihan Dr. Richard F. Cole
. Administrative Law Judge Administrative Law Judge 102 Oak Lane Atomic Safety and Licensing Oak Ridge, TN 37830 Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: In the Matter of Commonwealth Edison Company (Braidwood Station, Units-1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-456 and 50-457) O/ -
Dear Administrative Ju'dges:
I am enclosing a copy of the Booklet entitled
" Emergency Information-Braidwood." This Booklet is referenced by Lawrence D. Butterfield in his testimony which was served on the Licensing. Board and the parties on September 20, 1985. As stated in Mr. Gallo's letter of that date, Applicant intends to
- submit the Booklet into evidence'at the hearings on Rorem Contention 1(a). I would also remind you that the attached Booklet, with some limited number of changes as discussed in Mr. Butterfield's testimony, is the same as the Booklet that was served on the Licensing Board and the parties on August 13,.1985.
Very truly yours, Y YW- *'- Victor G. Copeland One of the Attorneys for COMMONWEALTH EDISON COMPANY VGC/mg cc: Service List Enclosure 8510020370 850927 ADOCK 05000456 PDR
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, m - DEAR CITIZEN:- We are providing this booklet to you, in cooperation with your state and local governments, because one of our nuclear generating facilities, Braidwood Station, operates in the area where you live, work or are visiting. We want you to know about the plans that have been developed for your safety in the event of a serious accident at this facility. We have never had a serious accident, and it is unlikely that we ever will. But as with any potential emergency, your safety could depend on your preparedness. Please - read this booklet carefully. Remember what you read. Although this information focuses on a potential nuclear facility emergency, much ofit is useful for any major emergency. So try to keep this booklet where you can later find it and refer to it. On the page at the right is a summary of what you will find inside. We encourage you to share and discuss the information in this booklet-with members of your household. We also encourage employers to advise their employees of this information. Extra copies of this booklet are available upon request. If you would like additional booklets or additional information, please write to Communications Services, Commonwealth Edison, P.O. Box 767, ,. Chicago, Illinois 60690. Or you may write to one of the Emergency Services offices listed at the end of Section 6. . Commonwealth Edison L '
l Here is a summary of what you will find inside: IF YOU HEAR A SIREN SOUNDING IF OFFICIALS SAY TO TAKE SHELTER INDOORS ( v3 x IF OFFICALS SAY TO EVACUATE y , MAP: AFTER YOU RECEIVE EMERGENCY INFORMATION - N (g; WORDS TO THE WISE w YOUR AREA'S EMERGENCY PLAN m v 7 NUc<E _ER _S 4 h' RADIATION gg _ W__
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y. IF YOU HEAR A SIREN SOUNDING , l, ,(,;,lj) e A LOUD, CONTINUOUS SIREN - holding it's pitch for 3 minutes or more, may mean thatthe Public Notification System has been activated. To find out... O CHECK IT OUT- is it only a test? In Illinois, siren tests occur on the first Tuesday of each month at 10:00 or 10:30 am. If you're not sure, assume it's REAL A real warning could mean a number of things: fire, tornado, chemical spill, nuclear accident. To find out... e TUNE TO ONE OF THESE RADIO STATIONS: AM 1340 - WJOL _ FM 96.7' - WLLI or other local radio stations. This is your best source of information and i,nstructions. e YOU.WILL BE GIVEN INFORMATION AND INSTRUC-TlONS if there is a real call for concern. Respond promptly to all instructions. If officials say to fake shelter indoors or evacuate, refer to the sections following and to the MAP in the middle of this booklet. 9 DO NOT USE THE. PHONE unless you have a special emergency right where you are. Leave lines open for emergency workers.
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fireplaces - air conditioners e STAY TUNED to one of the radio stations listed on.the previous page. This is your best source of up-to-the-minute information and instructions. e SHELTER YOUR LlVESTOCK. If possible, make pro-visions for feeding and watering them, preferably with stored feed. You will be permitted to return and care for them as s-o'on as it is safe.
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IF OFFICIALS SAY TO EVACUATE ( + , V O REMEMBER " Evacuate" does NOT mean"run foryour life." It is a precautionary move that might be recom-mended to minimize riskto you. This can work properly l only if you act SAFELY, CALMLY, and DELIBERATELY. O GATHER THE PEOPLE in your home TOGETHER. If you have children or others at schools, hospitals, overnight campgrounds or nursing homes, DO NOT try to pick them up. These facilities will be following their own evacuation procedures, and you would probably miss . 4 connections. STAY TUNED to one of the radio stations listed earlier for information on where persons are l being moved. Students, patients and nursing home residents will be accompanied by Staff to relocation centers. Their needs, including medical needs, will be provided for until they are reunited with their families. e if you are disabled and have previously notified officials, special services will be provided for you. If officials do not know you are disabled, notify them overthe special emergency phone numbers that will be broadcast on the radio. O DO NOT USE THE PHONE unless you have a special j emergency right where you are. If you have a special emergency, use the special emergency phone numbers that will be broadcast on the radio. l l
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e EVACUATE THE PEOPLE in your horno TOGETHER. Leave when advised and go where advised. Follow the directions given on the RADIO. The MAP in the middle of this booklet will be of help. D'O NOT RUSH. Law enforcement agencies will maintain security in evac-uated areas, and will provide traffic control. .
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, e DO NOT TAKE PETS (unless you are going to a l f riend's or relativ e's. house). RELOCATION CENTERS WILL NOT ACCEPT PETS. e SHELTER YOUR LIVESTOCK. If possible, make pro-visions f or f eeding and watering them, pref erably with stored f eed. You will be permitted to return and care f or them as soon as it is saf e. e PLAN FOR TWO DAYS AWAY from home. Lock things up and turn things off as you would for a weekend vacation. Bring essential items such as those on the checklist below. ( *
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! 2 MONEY icash, credit cards, important documems .
O PERSONAL HYGIENE ITEMS (wasning. snaving . dental, eye care, sanitary ) C CLOTHING C BA BY NEEDs (formula. diapers. f avorite toy) O PoHTABLE radio and battenes C MISCELLANEOUS usEFUL ITEMS. matches. flashlight. bags. can opener i
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WORDS TO THE WISE: - BE PREPARED \ / W You never know when you might have to leave your home on short - notice, for a variety ofreasons. A severe nuclear plant accident is only one remote possibility. Floods, fires, tornadoes, chemical spills, and family emergencies could also occur. That's why it pays to prepare now to make things easier later. Here are four sensible ways to prepare for any emergency.
- 1. Keep emergency gear in a special drawer or other place that the whole family knows. A portable radio and flashlight with extra batteries, first aid supplies, extra sets of car keys, and other items will then be handy if the need arises. Keep this booklet there, too. Be sure you have marked your location on the map on the previous page.
- 2. Keep your important papers together in a safe place. Then you can find them quickly in an emergency. .
- 3. Have a list of things you want to take if you must leave home quickly.
Post the list by the back door or other convenient spot. Make sure you keep a supply of the items you listed.
- 4. Keep your car in good running order. Fill your gas tank whenever it gets down to half. If you don't have a car and require transportation, fill out and mail the card on the inside back cover of this booklet.
YOUR AREA'S EMERGENCY PLAN D Emergency planning means being prepared. from the plant. Then, they 'could stay with This applies to each ofus personally and to all of friends or relatives or at specified" relocation the organizations up the scale. It begins right at centers',' until advised to return. Special pro-home or at work and extends upward to higher cedures have been developed for people in levels as needed. For example, if you cut your schools, hospitals, nursing homes and other finger, you can probably handle the situation by institutions. yourself; for a serious injury you would call in outside help, such as a doctor or paramedic A Public Notification System with outdoor team. warning sirens has been installed within the Emergency Planning Zone. It was designed to The same idea applies to our governmental warn the public of a serious problem at Braidwood organizations. Your city or village can usually Station, but it may be activated for other emer-handle most local emergencies such as fires, but gencies as well. The sirens are tested each if things get too severe or widespread they may month. In an emergency, the airens signal the call on the county for assistance. Similarly, public to tune to a foral radio station for counties may call on the State for bigger emer- information. gencies such as tornadoes, and States may call on the Federal government for a major disaster If a serious problem occurred at Braidwood such as widespread flooding. Station, government officials would be notified immediately over " hot-line" telephones right Your municipal, county, and state govern- from the plant control room. This would start the ments have plans for responding to all types of emergency plans rolling, with all authorities emergencies. One set of plans applies to nuclear being kept up-to-date on plant conditions. State power plant accidents. In Illinois, this is the and local officials would then determine what, if Illinois Plan for Radiological Accidents (IPRA). anything, the public should do. These plans devote specific attention to Their advice would be given to the news people within 10 miles of the nuclear power media, along with continual reports on plant plant, in the Emergency Planning Zone, or conditions directly from Commonwealth EPZ for short. For example, there are proce- Edison. Local radio stations would transmit this dures for sheltering and for evacuating people in information to you on the Emergency Broadcast this area. If evacuation should ever be needed, System. This is your best smrce of up-to-the people would be asked to go to pre-designated minute information ( traffic reports, shelter loca-registration centers in towns 15 to 20 miles away tions, evacuation directions, etc.).
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In most cases, the.se actions would begin well we pretend that a serious problem has occurred before the problem actually affected the public. and go through the emergency procedures. You Chances are that an emergency involving public can usually read about these exercises in the actions would never develop, but specially- newspaper when they occur. trained personnel are ready for action --- just If you have questions regarding your area's in case. emergency plan, call or write one of the offices To make sure that the emergency plans work, listed below. They can also help if you have they are tested periodically at each nuclear special needs that relate to emergencies. power plant. This is called an exercise, where m r-Will County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 14 West Jefferson Street, Joliet, IL 60433 (815) 727-8751 Grundy County Emergency Services and Disaster Agency 111 East Washington Street, Morris, IL 60450 (815) 942-9024 Kankakee County _Emegency Services and Disast,er Agency _ . 400 E. Merchant Street, Kankakee, IL 60901 (8151937-8255;
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tilEh ($ h NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS ; " TT V Commonwealth Edison generates electricity fuel rods that are arranged into fuel assemblies. for people in northern Illinois using power plants These assemblies stand vertically in a round atfourteenlocations. Fiveof these use uranium cluster called the core. The core is encased in a as fuel; they are nuclear power plants. These very thick steel capsule, or vessel. The whole fiveplants produce as much electricity as all of assembly is called a reactor. Since a very dilute Edison's coal power plants, or over half of all form of fuel is used, a reactor could never the electricity Edison generates. But for nonhern explode like an atomic bomb, no matter what Illinois to have a bright economic future, plans went wrong with it. m ist be made to assure that we continue to have adequate supplies of electricity. Edison's plans When any fuel is used to make energy, some include an additonal nuclear power plant, waste products result. Coal power plants have which will become operational over the next few smoke, slag and ashes as waste. Nuclear power years. These will help provide the generating plants collect wastes right in the fuel pellets, capacity to support economic growth for northern rather than releasing them to the environment. Illinois through the rest of the century. These waste products could be hazardous and must be kept sealed away from our environment. All large power plants work by boiling water to make high pressure steam, which spins tur- This is why the uranium fuel pellets are sealed bines connected to large electric generators. The inside the fuel rods and the fuel rods are sealed big difference between nuclear and coal power inside the reactor. Even the whole reactor, with plants is that a nuclear plant splits uranium all of its piping, pumps, and other systems, is atoms, instead of burning coal, to make heat to sealed again inside an airtight steel and concrete boil the water. building called a containment. Uranium is a very concentrated fuel. One It is not likely that this triple safety seal could uranium pellet (the size of a person's tingertip) be penetrated. But ifit were, some of the waste can release as much energy as half a ton of coal. products could escape to the environment. Uranium pellets are stacked inside long, thin These wastes are radioactive, which means that each waste particle emits radiation.
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(- RADIATION /E Radiation is energy that can travel through It takes radiation doses of over 20,000 milli-the air, such as light, heat, and radio waves. One rem, received within a day, to produce identi-type, nuclear radiation, comes from radio- fiable effects in the body. Very large radiation active material, which is part of everythmg in us doses (over 100,000 millirem) may be directly and around us. Nuclear radiation, like radio harmful or even deadly if received over a day's waves, is invisible, silent, tasteless, and odor- time, but the same doses stretched over many 1:ss. Just as a photographer measures light levels years may not. Federal regulations allow work-with a light meter, radiation workers measure ers at U.S. nuclear facilities to receive up to nuclear radiation with special instruments. 5000 millirem of radiation in the course of a year's work. Like many things in our lives, radioactive material has the potential to harm people if handled carelessly. But decades of experience Radiation levels are constantly monitored have shown that the safe application of radio. both inside and outside each nuclear facility. active material, in medicine and industry as well These measurements show that a person living as in electricity production, can benefit our for an entire year right at the fence of an average society, nuclear power plant would receive less than 1 millirem of radiation, about the same as an The amount of radiation dose a person ab- airline passenger receives flying from Chicago sorbs is measured in millirem. The average to Los Angeles. Illinois citizen gets from 60 to 120 millirem of radiation each year from the natural environ-ment. This is called natural background radia- If a nuclear plant accident were ever to occur, tion. In addition, each year the average person teams of specially-trained personnel would be sent to get even more detailed radiation readings receives about 70 millirem from medical and dental X-rays and other procedures, and about all around the plant. In most cases, there would 25 millirem from the naturally occurring be no excessive radiation. But if the accident radioactive atoms in his or her own body. were serious, and could expose members of the public to 1000 millirem or more of radiation, There are no identifiable health effects from state plans call for protection of the public by these low levels of radiation, but scientists taking shelter indoors or by evacuation. b:lieve that any amount of radiation, no matter how small, carries some risk.
PEOPLE WITH ; 1 SPECIAL NEEDS : Your local authorities should know if you or someone in your household has special needs that may be important during an emergency. This information would be kept confidential. Circle YES or NO for the questions on the back cover. If any answers are "YES", make sure to write in a phone , number where you can be reached. Then, tear out and mail l the card. An official emergency planning representative will then contact you to review your special needs. If you wish, you may instead contact one of the offices listed at the end of section 6. l PLEASE ANSWER
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