ML20148C153

Requests Copy of NUREG-0553, Beyond Defense-In-Depth, for Use in Preparing Lake County,Oh Radiological Emergency Response Plans.Newspaper Articles Re Estimated Expenditures by Local Govts for Emergency Planning Encl

ML20148C153
Person / Time
Site:	Perry
Issue date:	11/26/1979
From:	Bimber R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
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RTR-NUREG-0553, RTR-NUREG-553 NUDOCS 8001280234
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s Tw g216) 3431000 RUSSELL M. BIMBER 104F1 Prouty Mead punasviLLa. owio 4 aort Nov. 26, 1979 Director, Division of Technical Information & Document Control USNRC

'dashington, D. C. 20555 cc: Dr. S. N. Salomon, same midress ,

l hease send me a copy of the report, "Beyond Defense-in-Depth", (NUREG-0553).

I have been appointed by the Iake County (Ohio) Commissioners to help prepare i the County's portion of radiological emergency response plans for the Perry Nuclear Power Plant (Docket Nos. 5040&5041).

• • • • • • • • • • • preliminary comments for Dr. Salomon ****************** : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :

I believe 51 million may be an insufficient allowance for local government planning and preparedness costs, and Lone allowance for continuing reimbursement ,

for preparedness costa should be made. If reimbursement covers only those expenses incurred within two years of NRC concurrence, this places an improper l 1

pressure on government to rush its planning to completion. It takes some time and expense to develop county personnel qualified to make some decisions, and Ohio hiring away Iake County Health District's Radiation Erpert did not help!

Local governments around both the Perry and Zimmer plants have independently estimated local government radiological emergency response phns at about dr 55 million (see enclosures). And you should know that roughly 10% of the 753 area within g (,the'f. 10 allek=^around k - M the%Perry _& plant

, falls within. Ashtabula County, so there should be sometning added to Iake County's estimate.

Dr. Salomon, you should receive further comments from lake County af ter we study NUREG 0553.

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county commissioners at a closed power plant is. operating in 1983, Stewart bristles and turns red in- meeting last Monday on.the study chances are Lake County officials the face if someone disputes tae and on a recent trip be made to

,"8A will have spent.inore than' $4.5 need.for the systems He believes Columbus to discuss nuclear,disas.

a. , W18 million for a. program.to protect the system should be operated by. ter planning. , . .

' county residents from a possitae, the county, not by the Cleveland Commissioner Roberf E. Martin -

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I ' Officials have offered that figme of the $6.2 billion plant, or by the_ '"A planning study alone.willhe/ said

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preparedness. T  % posed to nuclear energy. It's- the.- might cost more than 13.5 million.

.. To start with, Stewart believes-. thingc ot ther future and the'y,'re' Flth rising prices and additional' .*

needs,Tthe $4'5"iiiini5iiflgure Is" W there should-be ibout# 40 warning '. (power com'panfesk going'to get .

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'a He also advocates' a number of radiation monitoring stations in and

. out do ayou think book like the state this?" would put ~ ,,It's suyposed tocome outof county ..

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! near the power plant. They would dropping a.two-inch. thick copy of would be all ri,ght' if the taxing-

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radiation. leaks. He said the depart ~.'such good roads. It was a test, and 4."But that's not the' way It works, ment has already begun planning the' 'everyone met at the Diamond. owned

unless they (legislators) can change ' property in Concord Township, had tha tax laws or the (three) Perrys - typeof system it will need. ,

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. ' agree to consolidate. Operating under '. Undefth5 sys'te2th monitoring '"We had de.M,ech,.and ,

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~ ;in North Perry (where the plant is, , radiation. Sirens would automatically in tiiPeounty involved, ano we used U.S. 20 and Ohid 84v.Nowswe have-

. con Center St.) would drop to about.10 be triggered by computer throughout J.' mills. producing about 34.2 million in " Lake. Couhty, letting residents know 200.000: people in the~ county, but.we

. - something was happening.; 3, , p.;_ .also have.better roads and more po-

! '., lax money a year."'.m 4 a. f Stewart hai a map in his office licemen than we.,had then.'{,4 , .

Ig State lawso requires that millage a community , earns be .with red and yellow circles marking ~ Another plan'being prepared by his

/,(reduced proportionately wbat. it needs.. North proposed locations of sirens.The animils more . office. suggests evacuation and petsQepple!would be of !farm -

f> Perry, a village of.3.8 square miles. . strategic

.ind 803 persons by itself would hardly .are marked in red., Tandchighly a...p. populated areas 3 ;

encouraged not t5 eat food from,the-

bn able to justifyV the heed for 342 Next step would' tie to notify locai[ . area,The plan eixpresses concera'over

• inillion a year. s .y radio and television stations, newp ', delayed' health : problems caused by>

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~ group studying the effects of the plant volunteers. Stewart said',that would -.; the severity of the disaster, people

'on the community, said he hopes taxes 'take about a half.bour... , . ' . . * * * #' *

(will be kept at a rate high enough to bs~pecia'lly Y?7 '

' . pay the cost'of the needed planning . ttiose Perryliving areawithin residents a 5 /to 10-mile -. "Say there was a leak fn the plant" lgnd disaster services.

" radius of the plant, would be the first "; .and radiat2on started escaping through 4- # r.

.'*n "It adds up," Martin said. "We'll

• evacuated. .

j deed ambulaocestradioequipmentand' J Stewart saidIhe speed necessah s m he said "I'he tio wou

.,all kinds of communications capabil* for evacuation.and the direction of-

• be in particles that would move in a 3'.

, .ities. Just think of the cost of one , the evacuation would depend on the kind of steam' cloud..The particles ambulance. 3, , 7 . . direction of the wind. Generallyc the.'. eventually would fall onto the houses.

But'11 a person %rere to stay inside

J "If it (a nuclear disaster) should ' winds the county, blow from but there westare to east across. and keep the doors .and wiridows -

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,' ,arise, we want to be ready."

What would happen to the millions Lake County' r$idents already closed, he'd' be . safe until' he. went ~

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-" ~ -linin'g the routes for evacuatiorr; as Stewart expects'the radiation would

'uc disaster *." well astthe buildings. listed' as, safe '. begin to dissipate in a few days and.-

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. .be used," Martin said. He admittedi. . care centers in the county. Many are .'

Nhowever, that the ambulances might -> schools and other public buildings.> 5. decontaminated.3 ,

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Within a' halphour, a .specialradio ~~ He admitted decontaminztion would .'

. fall apart before an emergency arose .

.fl they weren't put to some tise. ,

broadcast would tell raidend,the ' be a problem because radfation prob

• ably would fall on homes,. trees and I E4Perhaps we could use themJelse. - ? direction of the wind", and the. routesthe ground. Rain would wash the treer .

wh'ere in the meantime," he said. : . :co follow. Then, Stewart said; 80,000 - .

agree [.! eople wuld be on their way, prob.  : . and the homes,' he taid; B P

~Both Stewart and Martiti might have to be turned over to get..

there is little chance of an explosion. abb using Interstate 90 or(Ohio rid

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.at the platat. (CEI has said an explosion to have enough time to get everyone

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is7 impossible.) A radiation leak like ~, ' WhatShappens,.,ifiomeone plants. p

That at the nuclear power plant at ., out," Stewart said. What if there is a ,, crops in soil that still c

< Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania is '.high wind that carries the radiation (z more realistle possibility,'even . . yfarther and faster? "We'd just ,have Jr tion, even' ,thoug

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.though statistics say -r a lf eak -is .to move fas r.g : '

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.unlikely. . " . tomatoes you've ever seen, .he said,.

.D!artin said he 'wan'ts the Lake - One Sunday back in 1951 or.*52, we .%Q.A f4*M. wg-ated almost 20,000 people in a, .". smiling. 7.% s.y .. ,J:. +

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