ML20148B450
| ML20148B450 | |
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| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 12/12/1979 |
| From: | Leithauser J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| NUDOCS 8001220231 | |
| Download: ML20148B450 (5) | |
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NUCLEAR RFCULATORY CCMMISSICN 3FFORE THE ATOMIC 3AFTTY AND LICFNSTNG BOARD In the Matter of CCNSUMERS PCWER CCMPANY Docket No. 50-155 (Big Fock Point nuclear power plant)
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Contentions of John A. Leithauser and the NORTHWFST COALITICN I)That granting of' licensees request is a defacto permit to indefinitely store spent-fuel on sites and iia)That the Interagency Review Group Report on Nuclear Waste Managment(1978), states that it may take until 1995 before a final underground storage site can be opened; and iib)That licensee has in hearings before the Michigan Public Service Commission, stated that Big Rock will be taken out of service in 2000s and IIc)That licensees proposal does not include plans for the five years frem 1990 to 1995 and IId)Therefore licensees proposal is clearly deficient and should not be granted.
IIIa)That on June 27, 1979 Consumers Power Co. shipped twelve drums (of what was supposed to be solidified low-level ra-dioactive waste)"in doubtful condition'l to the NECO dump in Beatty, Nevadas and 80 01220 M f
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I IIIb)That three of the drums were leaking liquid waste s and IIIc)That at least one of these had been shipped with a cloth-like patch over what proved to be a source of leakage; and IIId)That the Beatty site was closed due to this incidents and IIIe)That this accident is typical of Consumers Power Co.: and represents numerous flaws in li'censees equipment, practices, and administrative policies in regards to nuclear wastes and IIIf)That due to these inadequacies on the part of the licensee, the request should be denied.
IV)That Consumers Power Big Rock plant dces not have adequate technical capabilities to possess a sub-critical spent-fuel pool of plutonium enriched uranium oxide: and V)That Consumers Power Co. Big Rock plant does not have the administrative capabilities to possess a sub-critical spent-fuel pool of plutonium enriched uranium oxides and VI)That Consumers Power Co. does not have the ec.onomic stability to possess a s'ub-critical spent-fuel pool of plutenium en-riched uranium oxide; and VII)That because of the considerations raised in Nos. IV, V, & V I,.
licensees request should be denied.
VIIIa)That Consumers Power Big Rock plant is a C.F.
boiling water reactor (the fifth built in the country), and as such could experience a loss-of-water accident due to a reactor explo-sion(because the spent-fuel pool is located above the reactor). This explosion could result from difficulties with the diffuser plate, or from other difficulties with the reactor; and VIIIb)That because a loss-of-water accident is credible for B.W.
reactors (i.e. in the spent-fuel pool), licensees request ought to be denied.
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I IXa)That there does not presently exist safe, workable, and effective emergency plans for the areas within ten miles of the plant and within fifty miles of the plants and IXb)That absent such plans, licensees request for a defacto ten year operating extension should not be granted, particularly in light of the increased hazards associated with the proposed fuel-compaction.
Xa)That at present there is no use for, nor means of disposing of spent uranium oxide fuels and Xb)That Consumers Power Co. Big Rock plant is a non-commercial reactor of only sixty-three megawattc(M.W.) total capacity; and Xc)That due to "grandfathering" it is exempt from numerous fund-amental safety features: and Xd)That it is known experientia11y, that shutdown of Consumers Power Co. Big Rock plant would in no way hinder the reliable delivery of electricity to Consumers Power Co. customers and Xe)That because of these(Xa-Xd), licensee should not be allowed to store additional spent-fuel on-site.
XI)For all of the above, the proposed amendment should be denied.
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document (s) 3.::..
upon each person designated on the official service'11st coepiled by
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the Offf.ce of the Secretary of the Commission in this proceeding in
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accordance with the requirements of Section 2.712 of 10 CFR Part 2-
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Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Rules and Regulations.
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Dated at Washington, D.C.
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of
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Dc cket No. (s) 50-155
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(Big Rock Point Plant)
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SERVICE LIST Herbert Grossman, Esq., Chairman John A. Leithauser, Esq.
Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Energy Resources Group U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission General Delivery Washington, D.C.
20555 Levering, Michigan 49755 Dr. Oscar E. Paris Mr. John O'Neill, II Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Route 2, Box 44 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Coc=ission Maple City, Michigan 49664 Washington, D.C.
20555 Christa-Maria Mr. Frederick J. Shon Reute 2, Box 10SC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission i'ashington, D.C.
20535 Ms. Barbara J. Godwin 306 Clinton Counsel for "RC Staff Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Office of the Executive Legal Director-U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Mr. Jim E. Mills Washington, D.C.
20555 Route 2, Box 108C Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Judd L. 3 acon, Esq.
Consu=ers Power Company Joseph Gallo, Esq.
212 West Michigan Avenue Isham, Lincoln & Beale Jackson, Michigan 49201 1050 17th Street, N.W., Suite 701 Washington, D.C.
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Mr. David A. Bixel Philip P. Steptoe, Esq.
Nuclear Licensing Coordinator Michael I. Miller, Esq.
212 West Michigan Avenue Isham, Lincoln & Beale Jackson, Michigan 49201 One First National Plaza, Suite 4200 Chicago, Illinois 60603 Karin P. Sheldon, Esq.
William S. Jordan, III, Esq.
Sheldon, Harmon and Weiss 1725 I Street, N.W., Suite 506 Washington, D.C.
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