ML20198C931

Petition of Save Our State from Radwaste for Leave to Intervene & Request for Hearing

ML20198C931
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	11/05/1985
From:	Gleisser A SAVE OUR STATE FROM RADIOACTIVE WASTE
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
CON-#485-115 ML, TAC-52484, NUDOCS 8511120224
Download: ML20198C931 (7)

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, 5005 South Barton Road f Lyndhurst, Ohio J November 5,1965 /p"*' ,

Secretary of the Comission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Co=ission 4 Taishington, D.C. i

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Dear Sirs:

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Save Our State From Radioactive *aste (SOS), a citizen's group loested in Ohio has designated me, Arnold Gleisser, to file a petition to intervene in a hearin6 in respect to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Cosmission's consideration of whether to issue an amendment to the operating lioenee of .

the Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station to permit simple burial in the earth of radioactive, resinous sludge in an excavatien just tro feet deep and covered

y fcur inches of see:ed soil, the burial to be en :ne p:ver plant premises in .Navarre 1:arsh at the edge of Utke Erie. 'le hsv ncted thst the plant preneises have been flooded at lenst once since Toledo Edison Company began to use this ;nrt :P the rArsh for the plant. Among the radionetive elements which could be washed into IAke Erie or seeped in from the proposed burial plot are some which give off penetrating rays of radioactivity for years or dooades and which can be daraging to parts of the body such as muscles,

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k also alarmed, as are other members of SCS, that the Nuclesr Regulatory Commaission would consider releasing the proposed burial plot for unrestricted use when the Davis- Besse I Plant is decomissioned. This land and possibly some of the area surrounding it might then be turned into a dump for radioactive wa ste if permissi,c. is now given te Toledo Edison Co. to l bury radioactive waste there and TE is encouraged to use that land in any l x 346 .

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i way it chooses when the plant car. no longer be use d as a sot.rce of incone.

If the land were used as a regional dunp ve rould have to worry about leaks and spills of radioactive naterials on our highwsys v:hich eculd effect stries i

of land at let st five miles vide on either side of then. Trucks would be 1

i bringing re'. dioactive w'i ste f ron a 1 directions to suer a dunp.

5 I believe the above st%tenents set fortr. the rature of ry r1 hts 6 1 end interests in this natter.

I r.s to how I or other huren beings vould be affected by a Nuclear a

f Regulatory Co=nission decision about this propossi of Toledo Edison Company 4

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to bury rsdiractive inste en icw ground sometimes flooded by Lake Erie, I would sa:. the f ollowing.

l If the request by Toleic Idisen Ionceny to bury so ceIIed loz level i

radicactive w+ste ir the !;avarre 'le rsh area nesr the ravis cesse I Flant is appr: red, 505 . u.4 expect rcssible in cerous enr. . O.<.sti3r. of drirking vnter i by discese enuring redi: active .st<. rials. This - 15 re dest-active to the hes ith r li"e of S1 rerbers , their children nr.: otre nenbers of treir i

for.ilies ss veil s e nillic .s of :t-er reo":e for -ter.1C/.e ~rie drinking l

~1 wster is a r.ecessity.

1 I If approval is given now for the burial olet Isr.?. to be returr.ed to I unrestricted use when the Davis-5 esse 1 P*ent is decennissiened in 15 or 20 i

! years or less, one possible result could te thst 5: verr.nent, ei+her state or l federal, would arrange to use this Innd as a storste place for so enlled low t .

level radioactive wa ste, sere va rieties of which can be extremely toxic.to humans .

I SCS is also r.indful that transportation probler.s, including leaks

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4 and spills of rndioactivo naterie.ls on our highvsys and affseting our neigh-i borheods could occur a s . ste -s s hauled with frecuer.cy to and sometimes frem l

i such a dump.

3, ie also bear in =ind the history of the repository at Maxi Flats, i

Kentucky and would seek to avoid a repetition of snv part of that exeerience i

or the the events set in notion at the 7/est *.* alley, !;ew York w* ste fseility where leakage of rain-flooded low level reitos etive wa ste trenches flov.ed i

into a creek which e ptied into Lakc Erie ner.r the int 9ke for drinking water  !

1 for the city of Buffalo, Kew York. ( Plesse see acecnpsnying noterial on i

laxi 71sts , rentucky.}

I i Cn the other hand, if the *;uelear hegulatory Connission denies ~

l Toledo Idison's request to use the fragile retinnds of IAke Erie's coastal l zone fer burial cf resinous slud6e bearing radioactive raterials, the i

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, Connissian 1111 have *eted fav:rsbly in the interest of the life and health i

of millions of human beinge, including the petitior.er, who must drink the j wster of inke F ria. The Cennission wydd rossibly be seting, elso, in the 1

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4 Chairmen, j Save Cur Sts te Frcm ?.adioactive **ste

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! ce to Toledo Edisen Co.'s 1.ttsrcer for **uela.r a "aste *isposcl

) c/o Te*edo Edison Co. Onaw Pitt.msn potts & Tr=wbridge ,

300 !'a d is on ,,ve . 1600 Oonnecticut Avenue , N.? .

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Radioactive material is found in Lake Erie By WilllAM HINES of remodng cores from the two Presa-CWeago Sun-hes lakes from west of where Cattarau- ,

ANAIIEIM, Calif. - Radioactive sus Creek dumps into Lake Erie to i waste from a mothballed " atomic a pelat in take Ontario northeast M Bstifalo. N Wghest radioactin junkvard"in upstate New York has Isaked small but detectable readings showed up in the Catta-raugus Creek outfall, eclentist M.B.

amounts of the material into the Gre t lakes, including lake Erie

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scientific survey has revealed. Gavini, who is with the Woods OOOT N M80 NO8H8 Results of the survey were dis- 1I le Oceanographic Institute on nuclear weste sfump closed in a paper delivered yester- Cape Cod, said Curium 244 was the M M's article in th Feb. 10 day at the American Chemical telltale substance that pointed con- M sutM- In N Go

• r Society's national meeting in Ana- clusively to the Nuclear,est Fuel Serv- h tM th stau* h he helm. Although the author refused ices (NIG plant at % Valley, source a Development ncy to work to discuss the implicatiens of his N on Cattaraugus Creek south with the Energy De rtment in ex-o ,fal -

findings, the data seemed certain to pioring poesi sites

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fuel the fire of the ongoing contro. De curium, in tiny amounts that *'*

• vzrsy over radioactivity. could be detected because of ra- g gkh. M he hwestigation took the form Turn to Page A 4 to humanity - dioactive wastes of plutonium, matum strontium, to men-tion only a few. would have trucks rumbling over its carrying these wastes to the sto e si and endangering us all.

Even after rialin our i deposits, we would have speed b of dollars A-waste foun m En*e guarding ousands -

wastes for undreds of Continued from Page I Going west from Cattaraugus Does emor Rhodes see as a dioactivity, was discovered in bot- Creek - upstream in the ' Great growth Every ustry W g1w N should w' kite him letters Wd in-ton: samples drilled from Lakes Lakes system - the curium levels Erte and Ontario on both sides of fall off rapidly to zero, Gavini said. form that Ohioans don't want Niagara Falls. De samples also But he emphasized that it was dang wastes buried here. A ar cargasned radioisotopes that could " positively identified" in core sam. pia was abandoned in Mihan be adentified with atmospheric pies taken downstream (east) from th r governor objected. Why can't l bomb. tests going back many years, Cattaraugus Creek in both takes, emor d No do B job and prowet his l

Gavini said. Curium 137, a common byprod. te?

l Gavint ruled + t bomb tests as uct of both bomb tests and nuclear NOLD Gr2INR, 5006 South Barton t

the source of curium 244, which reactions inside a power plant's Rd., t,yndhurst does not exist la nature and is not core, was present in bottom sam-produced in an explosies. It is pro- ples going back many years. But deced, however, by the hombard- curium was not present before aseet of very heavy atoms by 1966, he said.

acutrons la the core of a nuclear NFS was built at West Valley in feetter- the 1960s at the behest of the then-Radipactive waste products from Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller, who both ppwer reactors and govern- saw it as a way to get his state a ment operated plutonium plants piece of the burgeoning atomic-have been stored at NPS since power' action It was envisioned as a about 1966. %1s was the year, specialized chemical plant where Gavini said, that the first curium used fuel elements from powe' appeared in the Great Iakes. plants would be reprocessed

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