ML20198K653
| ML20198K653 | |
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| Site: | Haddam Neck File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png |
| Issue date: | 04/17/1996 |
| From: | Dodd C SENATE |
| To: | Rathbun D NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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| FOIA-97-377 NUDOCS 9801150062 | |
| Download: ML20198K653 (3) | |
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l April 17,1996 Dennis K. Rathbun, Director Office of Congressional Affairs Nuclear Regulatoiy Commission Washington, D.C. 20555
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Please permit me to bri to your attention the inquiry I recently roccived from rny constituent y 3 k/j ' uclear Power lant located in East I!addam, Connect aan her concerns gp
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Thank you for your assistance and attention to this matter. I look forward to a reply at your earliest convenience.
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April 10, 1996 Dear bsnder DcAd About three' weeks ago, I mailed to you a copy of a letter I sent to Mr. Allan Wang, the Haddam Neck Reactor Project Manager.
In the letter, dated March 9,1996, I discussed Haddam Neck's large liquid tritium releases in the Connecticut and the adysraeI henith ef fects which can be associated with tritium exposure.
have not yet received a response from Mr. Wang although he assured me on the phone I would receive one the first week in April.
I would like for you to keep abreast of this issue and advocate I am concerned that the commission will not for me if nacersary, take this issue seriously as they alli 3d the large tritium releases to occur.
The reactor could have lessened our communities tritinm exposure by changing their bed, leaky fuel rods, but there was no financial incentive for them to do so.
Nsu that the panator will be going to a 3 post fuel opolo, thoy needed to change their rods from stainless steel to sitconium.
Unfortunately this will not mean an immediate decrease in tritium l
releases as tritium has a half life of 12.5 years which means that the tritium in the primary cooling loop will be there for a long time.
I woula also like for you to do what you can to have a health study done in the affluent pathway of the Haddam Neck reactor.
The reactor has osan releassag large amounto of liquid tritium into the river for nearlu 27 years, in addition to routinely releasing other radionuchides into the air and watere Unfortunately air inversion studies done before the reactor went on line show that air inversions occur here nearly 50% of..the Air inversions trap air in the valley hereby liniting time.
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T~mm very' concerned about the health of the people in my The community and other communities in the affluent pathway.
state of Connecticut does not keep a birth defect registry, does not keep track of Downs' syndrome nor does it study cancere in I am the affluent pathway of any of the reactors in our state.
aware that the stata did do a cancer study in 1995 for the years for all the towns in Connecticut.
What I can not 1989-1991 stress enough is that a study (involving birth detacts and
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It is very time I apologian for the handwritten salutation.
consuming, as I am sure you know, sending letters to the appropriate people.
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I Thank you very much for your time and for what I hope to be you assistance with this very important issue.
l Denny Galloway; Supervising Radiation Control ces Physicist-CT Dept. of Environmental Protection
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