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Forwards Notice of NRC Decommissioning Meeting for HNP on 970115 at Haddam-Killingsworth High School Cafetaria
ML20136C127
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Site: Millstone, Haddam Neck  File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date: 01/07/1997
From: Blanch P
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To: Hannon J, Stryker W, Zwolinski J
NRC (Affiliation Not Assigned), NRC OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL (OIG)
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l From PAUL BLANCH <PMBLANCH@ix.netcom.com>

To: WND2. WNP3 ( j a z ) , TWD1. TWP4 (gam, wj s) , WND1. WNP9 ( opa )

Date 1/7/97 5:02am Subjects Today's News NRC DECOMMISSIONING MEETING FOR HADDAM NECK Wednesday, January 15, 1997 7:00 PM Haddam-Killingworth High School Cafetaria NU will outline their plans for decommissioning the Haddam Neck Reactor and the NRC will discuss the new decommissioning rule and give a general overview of decommissioning.

NRC Representatives to be present will include: Mort Fartile (project manager for Yankee Rowe), Semour Weiss, and people from the OGC (Office of General Council) responsible for the new decommissioning rule, i

The public will be permitted _to ask questions.

Come to this very important meeting. The NRC and NU will attempt to snow the public into believing that decommissioning is "no big

( deal". This. fallacy is further complicated by the fact that the Haddam Neck reactor has been operated for 28 years in an unsafe manner without crucial safety systems and with inaccurate reactor blue prints. There is absolutely no reason to believe that it will be dismantled safely. Decommissioning is a big deal as workers, the public and the environment risk higher than necessary radiation exposures.

The NRC allowed Yankee Rowe to be decommissioned in a fast, dirty, illegal and undemocratic manner. The NRC then codified the Yankee Rowe decommissioning experience, stripping citizens of their right to be involed in an issue which vitally effects them. How Haddam Neck is decommissioned will surely set the precedent for CT and the rest of New England.

A message from Rosemary Bassilakis, Citizens Awareness Networks $$$$$$$

l Conn. seeks probe of Conn. Yankee plant shutdown l Source: Reuters l HARTFORD, Reuters via Individual Inc. : Connecticut officials l said Monday they want to know how l much the proposed closing of the Connecticut Yankee nuclear plant, operated by Northeast Utilities

, <NU.N>, will cost ratepayers.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Public Utility Control (DPUC) Chairman l

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, 'Reginald Smith in a statement urged federal energy regulators

l. to consider carefully the costs of shutting down the plant.

l Blumenthal and Smith said in a letter to Federal Energy l Regulatory Commission (FERC)iChairman L Elizabeth Anne Moler that"the FERC should " review not only L (Northeast's) economic analysis but must additionally determine whether final closure was the result of l mismanagement or imprudence."

A group of power companies' headed by Northeast said on Dec 4 they would permanently close the L Connecticut; Yankee plant,;amid criticisms of Northeast's l nuclear operations.'

The 582-megawatt station in~Haddam Neck, Conn., was shut down I for repairs and refueling. July 22. )

1 L The plant was operated and 49-percent owned by Northeast, with the balance owned by~seven other New i England utilities, i

l- A Northeast spokesman said last month that dismantling the l plant, which had 350 employees, would cost a bout $425 million.

, The 29-year-old plant had been licensed to operate until 2007.

! But after its shutdown in July, an economic analysis showed that customers could potentially save $100 million or more by the early closing of the l plant.

The FERC is required to approve the cost of permanently closing nuclear plants and is responsible for l determining which of those costs should be passed on to j ratepayers.

l Blumenthal and Smith noted that the federal Nuclear Regulatory l Commission (NRC) found that Northeast i failed to properly operate its nuclear plants.

All three of Northeast's Millstone nuclear plants in Waterford, Conn., were closed last year for safety reasons. Northeast's new managers said last month they expect to have all three Millstone plants ready to restart by spring 1998.

Blumenthal and Smith noted the string of safety violations at Northeast.

"We believe that the unique circumstances surrounding the

decision to close the Connecticut Yankee plant j require the FERC to enhance its effort in protecting the

public ' interest in this matter and assure, with added 1 diligence, that any ratepayer consequence for the early  !

retirement of the Connecticut Yankee plant does not 1 reward a failed management," they wrote.  !

--Matthew Lewis, Hartford newsroom (860) 727-0224 Mail: P.O. Box 3393, Mission Viejo, CA 92690 Phone #: 714-768-0585 FAX: 714-458-6455 E-Mail: millsglen9msn.com January 6, 1997 H The Honorable Shirley Jackson Chairperson U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001-Dear Chairperson Jackson-In September 1996 we sent you a letter expressing gratitude for the excellent job Teresa D. Linton has been doing in supplying 1 information on the San Onofre )

Nuclear Generating Station. We have found a second NRC employee '

who excels in public service. Mark Hammond of the NRC Walnut Creek Field Office has performed better than any individuals I have known in public service. We have received by E-Mail documents such as inspection reports in only hours following our request. He has agreed to expedite sending us hard copies of documents which cannot be handled by E-Mail. This-has saved us much time and money as we use our personal funds and not the rate payers money to investigate Nuclear Safety Concerns. We have found the Local Public Document Room at the University of California Irvine to be worthless and have no plans to use it'again. It is too time consuming, too costly and often times not open.

During annual performance and salary reviews, we believe that each and every NRC employee should be evaluated on his or her service to the ,

l public and not just service to the nuclear utility or vendor. As

! an-example of poor public service, we have observed that it l . takes more than two and a half years for the l NRC to response to a public. petition whereas a request for a l licenseL amendment is processed in'a' matter of months. An example  !

is the' Paul Blanch Petition of April 13, 1994, concerning-failure of spent fuel stored in spent fuel pools.

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We need copies of design documents. The FSAR would be adequate.

So we-are again requesting that you establish a web site for the i FSAR.

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Once again a special thank you to Teresa D. Linton and Mark Hammond.

Sincerely, Glen R. '

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-Paul M. Blanch Energy consultant 135 Hyde Rd.

West Hartford CT 06117 l Tel: 860-236-0326 l Fax: 860-232-9350 1

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