ML20148A980

Requests Info Re Storage of Radwaste at Plant,Per Constituent Concern Re Encl Washington Post 791006 Article

ML20148A980
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Site:	Calvert Cliffs
Issue date:	11/27/1979
From:	Barnes M HOUSE OF REP., FOREIGN AFFAIRS
To:	Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA)
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TTY-124-2793 y TTY 224-3997 November 27, 1979 .=J Carlton C. Kammerer .

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Dear Mr._Kammerer:

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are concerned about the storage of radioactive wastes at Calvert Cliff nuclear power plant in Maryland. Part of -

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this concern stems from an article which appeared in the [~

Washington Post on October 6, 1979, a copy of which.is F H enclosed.

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appreciate any information you might forward to me regarding 1) this storage area and the role of the NRC in supervising and inspecting it.

Thank you for your attention to this request. I look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely, Michael D.-Barnes MDB/mb Enclosure 90026156 84XP  %@L73

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e Firm Seeks to Double Storage Of LWastes atCalyert Cliffs .

dancy and secu-ity systems into it .

LL'SBY. Md. Oct 5 (AP)--Radione- that we feel the probabi lty of risk is Live rods are piling up at the Calvert below acceptr.ble levels." Lippold said.

i Cliffs nuclear power plant, prompting The plant's storage pool was orfgs- g Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. to seek nally designed to store 400 assembliM I

( permission to nearly double its capac- of nuclear rods. called " batches. But.

b ity for storing radioactive waste.- ~ it was increased last year to hold 728i !' ,

Calvert Cliffs was designed to stor, ba h ., ..

$ , ., I only a small 1 mount of nuclear fuel BGkE has asked the federal h'tt

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with the rest being shipped to a repro. I clear Regutatory Commission for per. i cessing plant for recycling after it had Inission to anove .the rods closer to- I cooled sufficiently. But the closing pf. gether so the current capacity of CS' 8 i

the reprocessing plant in West Va!Jc3, can be increased to 1.363. An NBC of-

• l N.Y., lei the country without a stor; ficial said he exeected the agenc.two to.

age facility. approve the request in about 3 Two years ago, a plant in Earnwe!!, months. l S.C., des!rned to take the spent fuel Dentuallv, tbc utility plans to seek ,

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' from Calvert Chifs, was put in moth- pctralssinn to mercase the storare c> 1 J balls, Icating the radioactive rods to pability to 1.6M ssserr3!!es of nuclear '  !

pile up at Calvert Cliffs. '

W. James Lippold, the utility's nu- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ l clear fuel supervisor said the growing )

stockpile poses no increased dsriger.

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