ML20195E541
| ML20195E541 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 10/27/1988 |
| From: | Lewis M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| FRN-53FR32913, RULE-PRM-50-52 53FR32913-00003, 53FR32913-3, NUDOCS 8811080211 | |
| Download: ML20195E541 (3) | |
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Dear decretary,
t Please accept the following es my further comments on thu Potation for Rulomakana noticed a n 53 FR 167:32913 dated 29 nuoust 1988. I am addino a flow York Times ari;1clo to the record.
If addir.g the entiro article infringos upon copyriaht rules,
pleaso add oniv this references flow York I' i mo s d a t.,d 10-5-88 on Paco Al ant i t led. L i lco 's Compet ing Voices. tJh110 still pursuing liconao for Shoreham. Utility seems intent on abandonino plant."
i (Jhat the Articlo points to and what I was tevang to brir.g out i
in mv petition is that a utility to financial trouble performs i
acts nhtch are not in the interest of the health and safety of the public. A utility in financial difficultion would put the health and safety of thc oublic on the backburnor and its own i
financial survival ahoad of
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right now phore local util1tios cannot securo onouch cuportonced i
control r o ost. operators and have had to ask for loss experienced operators to be approved at 1MID. The (JRC would be under pressure I
to allow many of thoso practicos under the fear that the utility l
would crash without those quesvionable approvals.
f 14e are facino many financial problems ahood in the nuclear andustry. A signal from the FARC to allow practicos for monky savano roanonn only would givo a croon licht to ut111tios to r
practace questionably. A stonal from the f1RC that financial I
problems 0111 again be studied es a part of 11constna would alvo j
a signal to DublIc and utilitios to koop the question o f safet) above the question of financos. Ihe atomic Enerov Act roquarus
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thct all safotY questions have proforence over financial questions.
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has joined and agreed with this petition for rulemaking.
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w lang Island Ushting Company ' plowed ahead th coveted an operaung beense for i rs difficult iham Nuciser Power Station fts engineering a ruedon and rip-or p6ng out and rebuildmg. all the while ig.
era, but as it nears its goalthe util.
the critics who predicted that s showing ambivalence, simulta. Sho sly seeking permlesien to ope m could reduce ulco to pen.
Shoreham while patientln uty.now that the ' opponents' have been F"' awaiting ' approval of ay n proved right
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- U)co has indeed been a
lyuls ,greementtombandonit.Even af.et'editaans a 1 Impovertshed by Shoreham's soaring
- 1. costs in part due to p ' eense to mto ics caused - Ulco is delays the cru. l full has said e
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et operste the' biliton, 000R ing its prise because the reactor no watt reactor as the agree.
r offers the benetus it once prom.
.h - N * < :' 7,6 with New York to abandon
' Experts on utility operations say that ant O stjit up for al by its elders and the the difference betweca abandoning the as c 9.
plant and operating it would not swt as Monday, W final'y re.
approval from.the Seneties stark as it would seern at first glance.
- change Commisson to schedule Engineers would lament destroytng an eholders meeur unused machine,lapt even if an operat.
O of sorts was (also sett !! thefor Nov. 4, a ing beense were granted, further legal challenges by the. state and Suffolk ces not act, the testauve agree.
llows unco to hw from it County could delay its cperting for atter tts ska vote. But aving pure'.**..
track" Continuedon Page B2 Column I openIne opt We negotiat ing the
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ashing toward commercial 4 reflects a change of heart. la 1980's, when Ulco won a r low-power operauen,11-..*,
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woved ahead, even 'though ' S retton substantially boosted
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_Lilco on Shordham: StrategyHfs Cfanicting Goalp
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!Shoreham to the state for $1, cells (c trate mereun a s Peneni a ve
- less constratned about heensing the ' Operating the plant. After inauguration Day,lts view ithe first three years and of about (fu Contmued Frorr:Pruge Al lmuch for seven more years. Those e may change, especiauy d o
ars more. The state and the count the new President is Michael S. Duks- > p}gnt }S St{ gn gresses are, about what Ltico wo }have reedved under a " pose Shoreham on the ground tha kis who is far less sympatheuc to the cg Ishnd could not be evacuated nuc, lear industry than the Reagan Ad '.g^ Ohtion* ago by the Pubbe Service Cornmisst s raMas5, to get the p.we of the operatig C fely in a nuelear accident , But Linco does hos seem to think #1 cr, -_W ( in tdditica, reg!atory decisions and mto rates without too much shed Nbbe e regmitions Wh the state have al. gent that the commission decide soon. That is because te.._"ate adY reduced the fmancial imNr. One renon may be thai 2 court et.el. fervice Commission ruled in 19di that Enuswrs. The Public Reissions Fr.etor ne og opening the plant. And startmg lenge to a heense is hkely, throwing i I ,m tly t gh ts anag me t if there is no major fmancial diff " [h., ' P" in$y ""g("t sount of construcuon, and that that a ce, there are nonfm6ncial gains rh o: w pr lerrs for Lilco a ra. en could not be passed on to consurrn bandonmg Shoreham. One is put retched power network, e peg g pauence is that ths plant's fate means The commission, however, at ade a lthough it has not always t> Delay in Legislature lenue image; a much lets to the utility than almost ended that regardless of what rr bvious in recent years, utthtles pr sonal o The curr:nt dela :s in the State Linco emld expect under trad eir relanonship w tth the public.
- gtsl ture. Long fsland legislatorsanyone could have imagtned a few.' rate-making procedures, the uhty th"If they close the reactor, said -
eit:nd that the settlement is too years ago. Cost Alread Reduced shwM n t g ban so n p i an-i xecutive of a utthty with nuct
- nerous to Linco, lhe utthly, unchar-other $1.9 bilhon of reham cost e m the New York metropoh
- t:risucally, has wetted panently, af.
N rmally, uuhues earn nothing on mio the formula useQ m cal ulate planta egion, "people w til stop bashing it iough the r<tiod between Elecuon ther invntmerus m generstmg sta. rates, even though the plant w the head" Another utthty em a not r ey cnd inaugurabon Day could te tions unut those plants enter rervsce, at running. As a result, Lilco is a d ver ta y oJve said that if Lilco gives up on Sh< which time rates rise to refDct the in, earning a return on that part of am,"it wH1 be hke the Marshall P hore-t nure! for Shoreham'when the votes of vestment plus a rate of return. But in ham,about $400 million a year. h with Lileo as the defeated count Af ter Election Day, Shoreham a case, the $5.3 bilhon cost in addauon, the plan negouste with For the first time m years, Ltico c-ong ist'.nders are not a ressi con d sell the Nu has already teen whittled down to have the cooperation of the Pt lest Regul: tory Commission about $2 bilhon. the state,under which Linco wou ern Io the Repubhcan P rty'maY feel I Service Commission and local gov i ments. Part of that image is the reliabih electne supply. Smce the early Lilco has argued that compi, Shoreham was necessary to avoh mtnent summer brownouts and outs. If such events come after S ham is shut by an agreement, LHe> say,"I told you so." Alternatively - if the expenen other utlhues is any guide - es Shoreham did begm commi operation, there is a f atr char would stillbe unavaHable on peak posmg other problems for LHo Reactort like Shoreharr, are eraHy available for use less th percent of the year. The owner improve the odds by schetuhng tenance shutdowns for perms e demand m the hope that the r* would te ready when the busy su months come. Delays Are Common But unscheduled shutdowr co delays m reopening, are Reactors in Massachusetm Pi vania,1ennessee and Alabam. been shut for more than a year b of management problems. Ther ways the possibthty of major ment f ailures, like those tha 3 m Hu-closed Indian Pomt N.Y.,or Robert E. Gmna, near I ter, for months at a time. And there is alw avs the chant endent. The Three Mile Islane reactor w as the newest in the r the time of its partial meht years ago nest M arch. And f or techmeai reasons, M w-}}