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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 07/29/1986 |
| From: | George Thomas PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE |
| To: | Noonan V Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| SBN-1173, NUDOCS 8607310157 | |
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0 Li George S. Thomas July 29, 1986 Vice President-Nuclear Production SBN-ll73 Put$c Service of New Hampshire T.F.
B7.1.99, B7.1.8 New Hampshire Yankee Division United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Attention:
Mr. Vincent S. Noonan, Project Director PWR Project Directorate No. 5
References:
(a) Construction Permits CPPR-135 and CPPR-136, Docket Nos. 50-443 and 50-444 (b) PSNH Letter (SBN-ll67), dated July 21, 1986, "Seabrook Station Probabilistic Safety Assessment Update",
J. DeVincentis to V. S. Noonan (c) PSNH Letter (SBN-1152), dated July 3,1986, "Reques t i
for Issuance of an Operating License; Seabrook Station Unit 1",
W. B. Derrickson to H. R. Denton Subj ect :
Seabrook Station Probabilistic Safety Assessment Update
Dear Sir:
Reference (b) submitted, for your review, new information we intend to include in a future update of the Seabrook Station Probabilistic Safety Assessment (SSPSA). The importance of the Staff's technical review of these documents has been heightened by articles appearing recently in local newspapers ( Attachment 1).
These articles discuss the apparent strategy of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to intentionally delay the Seabrook licensing process.
Based on these developments, it is clear we must request the NRC to expedite the technical review of the Reference (b) attachments so that we can determine whether there is an adequate basis for future submittals/
requests.
A future submittal, depending on the results of the technical review, may request a change to the emergency response plan process for Seabrook Station.
We cannot, at this time, specify what action such a future request may seek, but it is important that we address as soon as possible what options are available to us relative to full power licensing.
This is important in light of the apparent strategy of the State of Massachusetts to delay the process.
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P.O. Box 300. Seabrook, NH 03874. Telephone (603) 474 9574
United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission SBN-1173 Attention:
Mr. Vincent S. Noonan Page 2 As noted in Reference (c), we have been ready to receive an operating license since July 20, 1986. We have already been forced to announce a delay in Commercial Operations until the spring of 1987.
From this point forward any further delay is a day-to-day delay in Commercial Operations. Given the urgency of this situation, we suggest a meeting at your earliest convenience.
Very truly yours, eor S. Thomas Attachment ec: Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Service List i
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Ditna Currsn, Ecquira Potor J. Mathawa, Mayor Harmon & Weico City Hall 2001 S. Street, N.W.
Newburyport, MA 01950 Suite 430 Washington, D.C.
20009 Judith H. Mizner Silvergate, Gertner, Baker, Sherwin E. Turk, Esq.
Fine, Good & Mizner Office of the Executive Legal Director 88 Broad Street U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Boston, MA 02110 Tenth Floor Washington, DC 20555 Calvin A. Canney City Manager Robert A. Backus, Esquire City Hall 116 Lowell Street 126 Daniel Street i
P.O. Box 516 Portsmouth, NH 03801 j
Manchester, NH 03105 Stephen E. Herrill, Esquire Philip Ahrens, Esquire Attorney General Assistant Attorney General George Dana Bisbee, Esquire Department of The Attorney General Assistant Attorney General Statehouse Station #6 Office of the Attorney General Augusta, ME 04333 25 Capitol Street Concord, NH 03301-6397 Mrs. Sandra Gavutis Chairman, Board of Selectmen Mr. J. P. Nadeau RFD 1 - Box 1154 Selectmen's Office Kennsington, NH 03827 10 Central Road Rye, NH 03870 Carol S. Sneider, Esquire Assistant Attorney General Mr. Angie Machiros Department of the Attorney General Chairman of the Board of Selectmen One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor Town of Newbury Boston, MA 02108 Newbury, MA 01950 Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Mr. William S. Lord U.S. Senate Board of Selectmen Washington, DC 20510 Town Hall - Friend Street (ATTN:
Tom Burack)
Amesbury, MA 01913 Richard A. Hampe, Esq.
Senator Gordon J. Humphrey Hampe and McNicholas 1 Pillsbury Street 35 Pleasant Street Concord, NH 03301 Concord, NH 03301 (ATTN: Herb Boynton)
Thomas F. Powers, III H. Joseph Flynn, Esquite Office of General Counsel Town Manager Town of Exeter Federal Emergency Management Agency 10 Front Street 500 C Street, SW Exeter, NH 03833 Washington, DC 20472 Brentwood Board of Selectmen Paul McEachern, Esquire RFD Dalton Road Matthew T. Brock, Esquire Brentwood, NH 03833 Shaines & McEachern 25 Maplewood Avenue Gary W. Holmes, Esq.
P.O. Box 360 Holmes & Ells Portsmouth, NH 03801 47 Winnacunnet Road Hampton, NH 03842 Robert Carrigg Town Office Hr. Ed Thomss Atlantic Avenue FEMA Region I North Hampton, NH 03862 442 John W. McCormack PO & Courthouse Bostou, MA 02109
THE UNION LEADan, MANCHESTER, N.H.
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Sununu 'Very Disappointed' With Dukakis Ua fly DONN TIDDETTS sachusetts Gov. Michael Du-Sununu intends to study the 95 'in public very c!carly 4 hat gg State llouse Bureau Chier kakis may have been following page report "in detail" and theic strategy has been all
.= m CONCOftD - New Itamp. a report recommending using then "at some point, I certainly along down there and it just 8
shire Gov. John Sununu is safety concerns as a tactic to will be discussing that docu-says you can't assume they are tg "very disappointed" that af as-delay licensing of the Seabrook ment with Gov. Dukakis in as acting in gcod faith," asserted
<w nuclear power station.
much detail as he's willing to Sununu yesterday.
RELATED STOIIIES go into.
Sununu said that he was "as-See Page Three "I think it's a shame. It sets SUNUNU Page12 tounded" that Gov Dukakis*
"I don't believe in coinci-chief advisor on the Scabrook dcnces as exceptional as that in issue was "a very active part of hght of his actions so closely that whole thing.
paralleling what is in the re-
"I'm very much disappointed port." rephed Sununu.
bceause I assumed Gov. Du-Docs Sununu think Dukakis kakis had been acting in good wn!! contmue to drag his (cet on faith" when he held up submit-the evacuation plan now that tmg an emergency evacuation Dukakis* apparent strategy re-plan for Bay State communitics port has been made public?
within 10 mdes of the Scabrook
- I think it's cicar that Tom nuclea r power station.
Ilubbard has been very much a
- The concern I hate is that part of the generation of that everything that has happened report as wc!! as what is hap-seems to f all in the scenario pening ou' of the governor's of.
that the press says is outlined hec. I think, as they them-in it at repor t." said Sununu.
scIves have noted, there are Sununu was asked if he were alternatives and I think now, sa,s ing that he doesn't beheve with this coming out, people Dukakis clauns of added safety are going to look more aggres-concerns at Seabrook in light of sively at some of the n!terna-the Chernoh>l Sm set nutica r tive,. " said Sununu disaster The report - authored by a Boston law student - advised Dukakis that " focusing on safe-ty concerns or justifying cur-rcnt dissent on the basis cf a previous lack of input" will avoid the appearance he is makmg "dlegitimate use of the fla w."
The reference is to a flaw in federa! law allowing a state to indefinitely delay licensing of a nuclear plant by delaying sub-miuion of an cmergency crac.
Uation plan
Newburyport Daily News. Wednesday. July 23.1986 Dukakis reportedly approved delay strategy for Seabrook BOSTON ( AP) - Massachu. said.
brook and the effect any potential setts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis re-
"It was not an official report accident at Seabrook would have portedly approved a study on how done for state government," on the public health and safety of to delay approval of evacuation James Dorsey, press secretary to thepeopleof Massachusetts," Dor-plans iur the Seabrook, N.H., nu. Dukakis, told The Associated seysaid.
clear power plant, but an aide said Press early today. "It was an aca-The report advises Dukakis to it was not an official report done demic requirement which was delayindefinitelysubmissionof an for state government.
done as part of C.e requirements emergency evacuation plan for fe-The Boston Herald today said which he (Fitzsimmons) needed to deral review and outlines how that the 92-page study was written in complete his term at Harvard.
can be done without raising accu-April by Robert Fitzsimmons, a "And it is ludicrous to say that sations of being opportunistic, the student at Harvard University's officers of state government, in-Herald said.
KennedySchoolof Government,in cluding the governor, are being conjunction with the governor's guided in their decision by the rec-
" Failure to submit a plan would offige.
ommendations made by a student readily be perceived as an illegit.
Tne report recommends that in what essentially is a homework imate use of the flaw in the federal Dukakis delay submitting evacua. assignment."
process which puts the otherwise tion plans for six Massachusetts Dorsey said Fitzsimmons well. intentioned utility at the mer-communities that are within to " shared" the study with Thomas cy of opportunistic state and local miles of the plant and that such a Hubbard, Dukakis's chief adviser governments," the Herald quotes move could force the feleral go-on Seabrook.
the report as saying.
vernment to take over the process, Hubbard told the Herald the "The key to avoiding this char-the Herald said.
study was not an official state re-acterization lies in focusing on The federal government re-port but was given to Dukakis and safety concerns.. The ambiguity quires acceptable evacuation state Public Safety Secretary of safety issues provides a broad plans from all communities within Charles Barry and state Energy shield from accusations of oppor-10 miles of a nuclear power plant Secretary Sharon Pollard.
tunism," the report is further before issuing a full operating 11 Hubbard also denied the gover-quoted as saying.
cense to the plant.
nor was relying on it for strategy.
Dukakis has pointed to safety
'Ihe Herald said utility officials "The governor is acting on his own considerations in delaying submis-claim the report is a guide for instincts and on advice I'm giving sion of evacuation plans, the Her-Dukakis to avoid making a politi. him and others," Hubbard told the ald said.
cally tough decision.
newspaper.
The report concludes that Duka.
"If he's following a strategy like But, the Herald said the report kis could hold up the opening of the that for political gain, that's the states it was a project " performed plant and said "the governor has height of liiespGnsibility. I would in conjunction with... (Dukakis's) an incentive to delay submission" hope he'd turn his back on that sort Economic Development Office" and that such a stall could put of advice," George Edwards, and written with Hubbard's pressure on the federal govern-president of United Illuminating assistance.
ment to step in and take over the Co., a Connecticut utility with a "We're aware of what Mr. Fitz-process, the Herald said.
17.5 share of Seabrook, told the simmons concluded. but I would John Kyte, spokesman for New Herald.
note that whatever those recom Hampchire Yankee, which is build-
"Dukakis's strategy to date has mendations were, they came to the ing Seabrook, told the Herald the almost paralleled the advice con. governor some time after he stated report's conc!usions were tained in the study," the Herald publicly his concerns about Sea-shocking.
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THE UNION LEADER, MANCHESTER, N.H. ~ Friday, July 25,1986
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ROBERT NARRISON MICHAEL DUKAXI5
...unhoppy with Dukokis
...unhoppy with Seabrook
~PSNH Presicient l
s Disappointeci n Gov. Dukakis Backus said he does not be-news that the company recog.
By JOIIN IIAllT lieve disclosure of the report nizes the governor of a state Union Leader Corresponden,t will harm the credibility of And JOl!N DISTASO anti-nuclear activists in, New c,an stop the plant. That's what g vc been saying all along."
Union Leader Staff 11ampshire. "Obviously, said Regarding the report, Mc-Public Service Co. of New Backus, "we think the way t Eachern said Most politi-ifampshire President flobert J. cnsure safety is to not operate oE n'v,like to keep their options cians Harrison yesterday said he is the plant at all, not just delay i
"incredu!ous" and "very dis it, now that we know it is unnec-
. Sununu, said McEach-essary and grotesquely expen-go,,does the same thing. You appointed" in Massa hc usetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
58Ve-expect your governors to get us,,he report,,,doesn.t troub!c T
advice and then to plan accord-Ifar-ison reacted to the dis.
he said, asking, What closure of an April report to ingly. Ilow Gov. Dukakis han-x Dukakis outlining a strategy possible motive could Dukakis dies that is up to him,"
keying on safety concerns to have? What are they suggest-delay licensing of the Scabrook ing - that it's part of a Com-nuclear power plant.
munist conspiracy?
Dukalus admitted he read the
" People have concerns about-study but denied he used it as a safety and he has concern strategy guide, about peopic's concerned,"
In Portsmouth, liarrison Backus said.
said:
Two Democratic candidate
" Based on reports I've read, for governor differed in their I'm very discouraged that the reaction.
governor of Massael'usetts, if Paul Gagnon of Manchester as alleged in the articles, will called the report " bad because use the political maneuvering it at least gives the appearance to try to avoid the responsibili. of playing games with the evac-tres that he has, uation plans.
"When he's looking at a $4.5 '
"And this is a matter of very bi!! ion to $3 billion invest. serious and genuine concern to ment," }{arrison said, "it the people of New llampshire j
leaves me incredulous and very and Massachusetts," Gagnon disappointed in the governor."
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But a leading anti Seabrook "But regardless of that, these I
!awyer and at least one Demo. revelations do not negate the cratic candidates for governor very genuine fear that r.1any of I
of New Ilampshire viewed the us have that the Scacoast area report dif ferently.
may not be able to be safely llobert Hackus, lawyer for evacuated in the event of a nu-the Seacoast Anti Pollution clear emergency."
League. wondered if there isn't Paul McEachern of Ports-
"a conspiracy somewhere" mouth reacted more to Pubhc concernine tha - - ' a w <. r o Seevie+'a cavtion to the rencrt-1 I
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.slams Dukakis strategy By JEFF McMENEilY E seter Bureau Chief SEAD!tOOK - A Seabrook Station spokesman has accused af assachu-working with him in good f aith but "If snyone uys he didn't refuse to _
setts Gov. Stichael Dukakis of using each time we near an agreement, he meet with us, they're not ttlWt the a6 ice in a Harvard graduate stu-changes his tune."
truth." Kyte said.
dent's confidet.ual report to deliber-He said that prior to the nuc! ear Ms. Schwartzmann said Dukakis at !y delay the start-up of the nucle-accident al Chernobyl. PSNH and decided to send Hubbard and Aluert ar f actMy te said Dukak,is is definite-Dukakis were very close to an agree-Cartesale, who has been assigned to 4
John K>
ment to shut the lant down in the determine the affects of the Sotiet ly fono2tng the report s advice for summer. provide Dukakis submit accident, to meet with New Ilamt.-
delaying the start-up. Kyte is the but then Dukakis changed shire Yankee July 15 to broadly dis-pubbe tn'ormation director for New the plans'and announced a different his tune cuss his concerns.
Harnpshtte Yankee. the construction hst of concerns.
Dukskis spokesman James Dorsey divtston of Pubhc Service Company Soon after that. according to Kyte. Wednesday said it was " ludicrous" of Na llarnpshire, which ts the prin-Dukskis and PSNH were about to to bebeve that officers of the Massa-cipalener of Seabrook Station.
reach an agreement on the new cor..
chusetts state government. including The report marked confidential, cerns and again the Masssthusetts the governor, would make a decision cas flade pubte Wednesday and governor backed away and " changed base <f on a report that is " essentially suggests that Dakakis can take ad' e homework assignment."
vantage of a " flaw"in a federallaw his tune't about then I started to won-Stating that he has never seen a "Righ that aUowc a state to indefinitely de-der what was going on." Kyte said.
" college term paper" termed confi-lay the granting of a Ucense to a nu-dential. Kyte said this morning that clear power plant. The report by His said his concerns intensified an examination of the events shows Robert Fitzsimmons also outhnes a when Dukakis sent a letter asking for that Dukakis has been following the cay to do this without being labeled the delay of the low power testing recom;nendations of the report since a3 oppertunist.
and fuel loading at the nuclear lacih-April.
Karen Schwartaman, a spokesman ty. and then refused to meet with "I fint it interesting that the gov-far Dukakis, this morning said al*
New Hampshire Yankee to discuss ernor can find time to read college thrugh the Bay State goseruar read his concerns, which Edward Brown. term papers, but he can't !!nd time the repcrt and found tre information president of New Hampshire Yankee to meet with us and address serious helpful. "as all information is help-felt were based on misinformation.
concerns and issues." Kyte said.
ful." she denied that he is intention-ally trT.ng to delay the start up of Seabrocs Station.
"As far as developing strategy goes. It's somethits he does on tus tun. often with the help of his advis-ets." she said.
The report reached the hands of Dukakis in April through Tom Hub-bard,his chief Seabrook adviser.
Civ. John Sununu this morning said Dukakis's actions conegrning Seabrock follow with the griduate student's report to closely to have been a mere coincidence.
Sununu sa!1 he was "very disap-pointed" with what has happened concerning the report and Dukakis.
"It's very clear that Tom ilubbard eas very much a part of the genera-taca of that report."
Ms. Schwartmann said Dukskis "has no intention to delay the opera-tjon of Seabrook, except if the delay is th? caly way to get enough infor-mation to make a decision on the srbmission on the rvacuation plans."
Dukakis plans to decide whether to submit evacuation plans for the six Massachusetts cornmunities within the Seabrock Station to mile evacu-atton tone by the end of the summer.
In tht past he has cited safety issues as the reason for delaying submts-ston of the plans to the Federal Emerge scy )!anagement Agency.
K)te said "We've been trytag for several months to work with the gov-ernor a-3 meet with him over his areas of concern and we've been
THE UNISN LEADERo MANCHESTER, N.H. - Fridayo July 25 1986 0
Either Way, You Pay The fact that 51assachusetts ment and liarvard Law School, are Governor 3!ichael Dukakis has been costing them Dig Bucks caught in flagrante delicto using $50,000,000 added to the cost of Sea-strategy set forth in a Boston law brook Station for each month of de-student's 95 page study to delay con-lay, $350,000,000 for the six month, struction of the Seabrook Nuclear post Chernobyldelay alone.
Power Plant (but avoiding, in the study's words, "the appearance" of As to Dukakis' reaction to news inadying to the anti-nukes) comes as media revelations concerning the small comfort to ratepayers.
April report -i.e., that although he read the study, marked "confiden-Whether Dukakis followed the tial" and "not intended for circula-report's recommendations on how to tion," and although his tactics mir-take advantage of a " flaw" in feder-ror the report's recommendations, allaw thatallows a state to postpone he did not base his decisions on it -
indefinitely the licensing of a nu-his stance would be more credible clear reactor via the strategem of were it not for the report's explana-delaying submission of an emergen-tion that the project "toos per-cy evacuation plan is largely a ques formed in conjunction tvith the Mas-tien of interest to students of politi-sachusetts Governor's Economic cal latrigue. For ratepayers, the Development Office and turitten principal concern is that Dukakis' tvith the assistance of Tom Hub-harmfully mischievous tactics, bord," the latter being Dukakis' which are detailed in the report by chief adviseron Seabrook.
the joint degree candidate at the John F. Kennedy School of Govern-
--Jim Finnegan
- CONCOR D MON TOR. Wrdncscar. July 2119:6 en Tukakis Got Report On Politics Of Seabrook By MARK TRAVIS to start opersung in the hope that the federal wou!d play po!!Ucal roulette with tie regice/s salt Fitzsimmons has graduated from the Kert Monster Staff Writer ernment wt!) eventually step to and, per-energy future.a nedy Sdwol. *lfe4 gr.one home or snoved or eme taketheheat fcrlia dar4alon.
K also sa!d Rtzsimmons is more than a something "he said At about the time he began fretting Imhhr4y report was psepared by Itabert Mtzsim-st t cf
%e flerafd said the governor and others tr I flutbard."governsnent. "He is an aide to Tom about safety and the Seabrcok riuclear power ennna. a student at Harvard University's Kenne-Kyte said Ilubbard is Duka11s a top his office were g:ven the rnort. Dorsey sak plar.t. nt =*" ><ta Gov. Mkhael fu amis re-dy School of Government.1he report says it was aide en Seabmot. "And llubt,ard himse!f super-that's because it contained ortgtnal researct cetved a report that Oy anntatan bald in cxz$medon with the pvernor's ef-vised the prtrtuction cf that docLment. "
into the emengency planrJrig process for nucio advicconi, laying the e ticsof theissue.
James Dorsey, Dukalds's press secretary, ar power plets. It was not used as a putatical Word of the report surfaced today, and the "I am shar*ad and surprised by it " said Jotus said Kyte didn't have his facts stsalgtt. He sala strategytocJ.hetr.ht.
- quest 1m immediately became whether thr r*
Kyte, a apahanniaa for New Hampshire Yankee, Rien-ts not and has never tm an a:de
"'Itat's silly, and it didn't happen," Dorsey port is a sinister outline calling into 'Pw=r tan all the company building the plant, Kyte had not to Hulabard or anyone else cc the r's sal <t ImkmMn has done or an tanarmat term paper read the rgart }his morning, but he did not besi-staff. Mtzstmmons laterviewed It'
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Construction at the Leabrook plant is nearly that hashad noimpact on his arens gegego e,mait sey said, but Hubbard wasn't invetved in pre completed But its e -
operating date has m
Accordingto the Boston Herald, widch broke "I think !! calls fato sp==Han everything that paringthereport.
already been delay be.cause of Dhh and a tie r, tory, t.4 report advises rums to delay the governor and his advisers have said about Dorsey said Mtzsimmons prepared the report sts, mission of emergency plans Seabronk -as Seabrook," Kyte saki "I'm a'nami that they for a class at Harvard. Since sitting it Dorsey ISce DtJKAKIS~ Pagelt DUKAKIS nwhPassf)
The report is 92 pages long, and Dor-the ar.r e y sey said it inc!udes legal research and planrdngprocess.
case studies as well as some po:itical Nuclear Regulatory Comm1" tan dkr-'e But the Herald story and rules require h!assachusetts to submit Kyte's comrnents focused on passages an emergency plan far approval before dea!!ngwith pollues the comrniufon w!!! allow Seabrook to According to the iferaJd, the report operate. Dukakis, saytrig he has con. says Dukakis could a old the fallout of cerns about the safety of people near making a firm dects~n by holding up the plant, has refused to submit a plan. the emerger.cy plans. and ultimately lie nas said he needs more trJormation forcing the federal government to settle beforedeciding how toproceed.
the issue. The danger, at says. is that he Seabrook opponents, still eager to ut!!be viewed as an opportunist.
s',cp the plant altogether, lave bren "The key to avoidir's this characters.
pressuring Dukakis to refuse to submit ration lies in focusing on safety con-any plans. That might throw the plant's cerns " the re, ort says. ".. The am-futureintojeopardy.
b! fatty of safety issues prtn1 des a broad Scabrock's bui!ders, meanwhile have stue!d from accusaWns of cpportu-tried publicly and privately to press Da-rJsm "
kakis to subrn!! plans. Word cf the Rtz.
The stakes in the ffght over Seabrur,k simmons reyJon the governor's motiva-are h!gh, and the f feralds story imme-gave them s.n opportu-nfry to ques dlately caused a stir. Dorsey said he t!on. and they pour,ced on it, was woken at I this morrJng tsy an Asso "This report rnt.ics it apparent that ciated Press reporter who had san the he has just ten p!.nytng games with iferaldstory and wantnicommer.1 us," KyIe sald.
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The Basten Herald 'delnesday, N y 23, ^. d DukegetsSeabrookevacrepor Dk, From Page 1 created a stir among the ut!!!!y's officials. Public Safety Secretary executives. who claim the report Charles Darry and Energy Secre-nuke is a guide for Dukakis - caught tary Sharon Pollard.
between an anxious business What'a more.the report states it community and a strong anti nu-was a project " performed in con-cicar movement - to avoid mak-juction with..4 Dukakis') Econo-ing a politically tough decision.
mic Development Office" and Stai The federal government re-written with Hubbard's assis-quires evacuation plans for all-tance.
communities within a 10 mile ra.
The report advlaes Dukakis to dius of the plant. Approvalof eva-take advantage of a " flaw"in the aed tO cuation plans for the Seabrook nu-llecnsing proccas that gives him clear power plant is a major power to indefinitely delay sub-hurdle for opening of Seabrook.
mission of an emergency evacua-If he a following a strategy like tion plan for federal review, that for political galn. that's the It also outlines how the admin-height of Irresponsibility." said Istration can follow that strategy George Edwards, president of and not be accused of being "op.
portunistic."
Umted Illuminating Co a Con-
" Failure to submit a plan would necticut utility with a 17.5 percent
' readily be perceived as an illegitt.
stake in the Seabrook plant, mate use of the flaw in the federali "I would hope he'd turn his back process whlch puta the otherwise t Oy MtANK PHILUP3 on that sort of advice."
well Intentioned utility at the*8 Dukakis aide ' Ibm Hubbard mercy of opportunistle state and:
GOV. Michael Dukakis*
said the study - written by Ken-local government, 11 states.
Just. days before the nedy School student Robert Fita.
"The key to avoiding this char '
ChIrnobyl disaster, ap-simmons - was not an offletal aeteriaation." according to thyj p;t>ved a secret study on state report and denied the gover-report."Iles in focusing on safetyi now to delay approval of nor was relying onit for strategy.
concerns.... The ambiguity of cvacuation plans for the "The governor is acting on his safety issues provides a broad own instincts and on advice I'm shield from accusations of oppor-Sc; brook nuclear power tuntsm."
P nt. The Herald has giving him and thers." he said.
l In delaying submlaston to the, However. Hubbard - who is Dukakis' chief adviser on Sea-federalgovernment of evacuatlod learned.
Th "y I broota -acknowledged the report, plans for the six Bay State coret Comp eted in early Aprit.was giv-munities within 10 miles of t)se April by a e l
ttudint ga conjunction with en to Dukakis and two cabinet Scabrook plant. Dukakis had e governor's office, ad-pointed to safety considerationsa vises a hands-off strategy For example. Dukakis has pulv LMt trould foros the federal licly called on New Hampshire (svernment to step in.
Yankee - the plant's builder - Sq Dukakis a strategy to shore up safety issues, such as dits has almost, paralleled guarantees of beach shelters a$
th2 advice contained in the summer shutdowns for beactt ciudy.
crowds.
The 92 page study has The reports concludes that Du-kakis has enough leverage within Turn to P.sge 12 the emergency planning procee-dures established by Congress to :
hold up the Seabrook opening.
.the Governor has an incen,
tive to delay submission." the re aI port states, claiming such a stall could bring pressure on the fed I cral government to step in and take over the process.
New Hampshire Yankee!
spokesman John Kyte said the '
report's conclusions were " shock-i n g." -
C O II"';11U ED y
ployees, to replace local offi-cials at emergency posts.
From a construction star.d-Three years later, although point, two years ago Shortham LILCO scored a major victory was where Seabrook is now -
last week, the process is still 99. percent completed and months from a resolution.
c.wnting a fuel load and low-The LILCO case is precedent.
pov.dr testing permit. Accord-setting. As a result Seabrook mg ta LILCO spokesman Wil-will probably not take as long if II:m Sherrard, it became clear the same approach is followed to utility officials even earlier here, said PSNH spokesman
-in 1983 - that Cuomo would Ashoch. But, he said, "the not rpprove a plan. "In 1933, quickest and the prcierred wa made the decision to go way," is to reach agreement without" local approval-with him.
LILCO proceeded under a Kyte said Seabrook has "not stipulation of NRC rules allow-fully developed a plan for blas-Ing a utility to show that in the sachusetts" on its own, because cv nt of deficiencies in the
" things just haven't gotten to plan, " adequate interim com-that point yet. We still hope we pensating actions have been or are able' to work with 51assa-will be taken promptly" to en-chusetts."
sure the plan will be carried out Seabrook is also interested, inthleventof anemergency.
Kyte said, in the request made LILCO set up its own Local to the NRC by the Baltimore Emstgency Response Organi-Gas and Electric Co. (BGE) ration, staffed by utility em-last November, to cut the emergency zone to two rniles.
Although some anti-nuelcar activists say the BGE filing was a " stalking horse" for Sea-brook, BGE spokesman Glen Heffner said it was " site specif-1:" to the Calvert Cliffs nuc! car plant, "and we're letting the in-destry know we're not out there crusading ior them."
lieffner said the request was based on studies compMted in the wake of the Three Sille Is-land accident in 1979. The stud-les, he said, " indicated that al-though there was a 10-mile emergency zone, an area no more than two miles would not be affected if there were a worst case accident, and that previous studies over.estimat-l ed that risk of a major accident l
on the public and environ-ment."
At the NRC, engineer Jaffe l
said a report "is 90 to 95 per-cent completed, and the results will show the source term (the total amount of radioactive ma-terial released into the atmos.
phere) will be substantially less significant than had been be-lieved to be the case."
But, said Jaffe: "There is no doubt the results of the Cherno-byl accident will delay the final word on this. I don't see much hope for it next year, probably in late 1988. And what you're stuck with is a quest:en with the preponderance of scientific information one way and whether you should ignoce the i
l public.
"Ultim a tely," said Jaffe, "I'd callit a polley question."
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much more certainty" to the of New Hampshire "may be argument that a state or local SW b k5 M
put in a difficult financial posi, community cannot hold up tion," said utility spokesman power plant !! censing by refus.
Nicholas Ashoch.
ing to submit a plan. Ha said Dy JOIIN DISTASO Earlier this year, PSNH told the ruling strengthens manage-t!nion Leader Staff the U.S. Securities Exchange ment's belief they would win a Seabrook nuclear power plant officials contin-Commission it has enough cash similar challenge.
un to resist waging war with Massachusetts Gov.
on hand to meet its capital re.
The NRC agreed with 14ng Michzel S. Dukakis over emergency planning quirements until the second Island Lighting Co. that the for the reactor - preferring a negotia,ted agree.
qu rter o 1987 he ilit em r cy p1,annin stan g
ment-and at least part of the reason 13 money.
1981 due to its heavy Seabrook high level of organization be-Alternatives investment, is forbidden by tween the utility and state and are availab!c state law from charging ra-local governments," were in-
- for Seabrook, tepayers for the plant untilit is tended to be " flexible." The 31
~ perating. In the interim it mling, said it is " legally obli-out they would o
take months or may have to look to additional gated" to consider "whether a even ycars to borrowings to remain solvent.
utility plan, prepared without conclude. Even Although PSNH has recently government, cooperation, can though Sea.
changed a major assumption pass muster.
on which that estimate was James Dorsey,a spokesman b
k
"#I made - that it will not resume for Dukakis, said the ruling win, tha plant paying stockholder dividends makes a " farce" out of the
- or at least next year - the company has emergency planning process.
one or more of g
not formally changed its as.
Dorsey said the ruling has not its owntrs -
sessment of its financial needs.
changed the Dukakis plan to mcy lose in the Meanwhile, a top financial decide by the end of the sum-pmcess.
adviser to the company and mer whether to sign the plan -
Seobrook other Seabrook joint owners after a consultant reports on miy choose to:
told the Sunday News he is the implications of the nuclear o Tcke the charting financial plans for accident at Chernobyl last "Shoreham ap.
PSNil and other Seabrook own.
April.
proach" and ers based on a spring 1987 start-
"We feel compelled to follow through" on the study, said try to have a up, ". whether I believe it or not*.
Dorsey. "The importance of Bay State gobert Hildreth, Jr., a vice Massachusetts making a deci-emergency MICHAgL DUKAKis president of Merrill Lynch Cap-sion has not been diminished."
, plan approved ital Markets, said:
"'Ea ch The NRC ruling came on the without Dukakis* approval. A Nuclear Regulato-week that goes by makes it heels of the release of a 95.page ry Commission ruling last Thursday strength-highly uncertain."
report, authored by a law stu-ened th2 chances such a move would eventually Still, Hildreth said, "It is cer-dent with the advice of a Du.
succeed tainly not my first option to get kakis aide, advising Dukakis to o Move, as a Maryland utility did last year, to use safety concerns to delay into a war" with Dukakis.
sit ing back ndle have thm NRC reduce from 10 to two miles the gt yp n oug actions in "emarg!ncy preparedness zone," the area sur-run out on you." '
past months suggest otherwise, rounding the plant for which a plan would have John Kyte, Seabrook spokes-Dukakis said he has not used to be written.
man, insisted management has the strategy in the report as a not decided how long to contin-guide.
SEA 8 ROOK ue waiting for Dukakis to de-Seabrook officials say the re-(Confinuedfrom Page JA) cide whether he will approve port, because it specifically an emergency plan for six Mas-advised Dukakis to use safety The NRC has the request, sachusetts communities within concerns as a ploy for delaying and its own studies on the mat-a 10 mile radius of the plant.
the submission of a plan, tarn-ter, under review.
Kyte in fact was reluctant to ished credibility of the the Gov-
. The probitm with tions, from Seabrook,both op-discuss the pros and cons of the ernor's argument that his con-a stand.
alternatives, saying, "I'm not cerns are not politically point, appears to be the amount going to lean toward one course motivated.
of time each would take. Long of action or another because it Plant offic!als in May said Island Ligi ting Co., the owner may be perceived by the pubhc the target start-up date had of,th New York Gov. Mario Cu-we are moving in a particular slipped from October of this Shoreham, has been in a war wi direction. I!ut we are looking year to spring or early summer omo since 1983, when it became at, or evaluating, everything.
of 1987. Two months have clear to it Cuomo would not Kyte said, however, that passed - and NRC hearings on overrule objections by local of-management does believe last New Hampshire's emergency facials and sign a plan. The war Thursday's NRC ruling on the plan have slipped from next appears to be far from over, week until the fall - but Sea-While a Seabrook Dukakis fa-brook officials have clung fast ecoff may not take that long,it to that same projection.
may take nearly as long.
And according to NRC engi-ne'er Donald Jaffe, the commis-sion is not expected to mske any decision on the proposed ab.~,i,o.,.a~,,...-.~...,
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Fome s 0a4y Cerr.ocrat. Doer 1 H.
Friday fnrung. July '5 WS l
'Editon l a
The realDukakis The truth is revealed: Presidential aspirant Michael Du-kakis cares less about the safety of residents living within the 16 mile Seabrook Station evacuation area than he does the safety of his political hide.
i That is the modest conclusion drawn from the disclosure that members of the Massachusetts governor's staff collabo-rated with a Harvard graduate student to produce a report brashly recommending that to protect his political fortunes Dukakis should stall the evacuation approval process (and thereby Seabeook Station's Licensing) under the guise of being concerned with safety.
By doing so, the report advises, Dukakis might be able to i
avoid the " paralyzing level of dissent encountered by New I
]
Hampshire's Governor Sununu in his attempt to exercise plans which local governments had not fully accepted."
De report continues that Dukakis would suffer a " loss of credibility" if he flatly refused to submit evacuation plans (New Hampshire gubernatorial hopefuls please acte.) "Such ainove could be readily perceived as an illegitimate use of l the flaw in the federal process which puts the otherwise well-In**=ela=='t utility at the mercy of opportunistic state and local.
l Datlast sentence is a masterpiece. It encapsulates much
- of what haunts the American system of regulating utilities
i
- WeH s=**=*ianad companies are enfeebled by self-14hteous paintient opportunists because of flawed federal regulations.
De asanamehna.tta governor des.les the t sduate student's l
report was used ts shape his strategy for dealing with the l ditBealt Seabrook Station evacuation issue. But Public Ser-vice Company of New Hampshire, the plant's builder, and N.H. Gov. John Sununu point out that Dukakis* official post-
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tion is a virtual carbon copy of the report. Coincidence?
One wonders just how long Dukakis plans on walking his pamleat tightrope between pro and anti-Seabrook forces.
First he balked at evacuation planning because of concern
- over summertime population.Now the safety-consciouslead.
, er of the commonwealth is waiting for a report on the com-
, parisons between Chernobyl and Seabrook. What will be his
< nextexcuse?
At some point Dukahta is going to have to make a decision.
_* If he believes he can mitigate the political fallout from that
, choice, he la amistakaa Seabrook Station's battle lines are
, clearly and tightly drawn. He is apt to cause more problems 1
f for himself by attempting to be all things to all people in-stead of estahaiahing a position and sticking with it.
De point here is the evacuation approval process can and should move forward as Dukakis waits for additionalinfor-
- mat!an. Seabrook Station's start-up isn't projected to begin
. until the spring or early summer of next year; there's plenty
' of time for the governor to resolve his safety concerns as the
' evacuation plan moves forward. There is no excuse for Du-kskis' politically-motivated obstruction.
l The twisted history of Seabrook Station is replete with ex-amples of Dukakis-like antics adding hundreds of mittions of I
dollars to the plant's cost. Each month Dukakis clogs the l
system by micro-managing his political future the cost of l
Seabrook jumps 150 million.
PSNH bashers pay attention. This lastest price rise has nothing to do with utility mismanagement. It can be laid squarely on the head of a self-absorbed governor who bases 1 crucial decisions on their perceived impact on his political i s m M* ' ---
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Debate persists over controvers'al Seabrook report By JEFF McMENEMY O'llare (Kennedy School of Goo Karen Schwartzman, a spokes.
report, while acknotwedging he Emeter Bureas Chief ernment) and Dottie Robyn (Ken.
man in Dukakis' press office, said had read it.
nedy School) at Harvard Universi-this mormag that as far as she Dukakis spckesman James Dor-SEABROOK -In the latest fall-ty."
knows Fitas'mmons never worked sey described the repo-t Wedne out from a controversial n$u Each of the pages of the report, in Hubbard's office and although day as " essentially a homeu n
deot. a Seabrook Station spok'[-
entitled "Off-site Planning for Ra-he "may have" attended meetings assignment.' Any suggestion t e written by a Havard graduate diological Emergencies: Under.
between New Hampahite Yankee Massachusetts state government.
mSo said today the document standing the State Role During r-d the governor's office. he did including the governc,r. wou'd "much and After the Shoreham Contro-
- t act as the " legal eyes and make decisions based on the re-much important" th Massachusetts Gov. Michael D""
versy."is headed with the phrase, ears" for Hubbard, port are " ludicrous." he said.
kakis ts making it out to be
" Final Draft - Confidectial."
Asked why the report is termed Rough Kyte said it is too early The report outhmng methods of In addition to the charge that
" confidential" if it is just an "aca-to ascertain the report's overall delaytag the licensing of the Fitzsimmons werked for Hubbar12.
demic exercise." as she termed it,
!mpact on pubhc sentiment re-Se~ brook traclear plant. date.d had attended **high level adminik know. you'll have to ask the Ken.
Democratic gubernato.ial candi-Kyte said the graduate student Ma. Schwartzman said "I don't garding Seabrook, at least one April 14,1333 Was made bl Cednesd4y. It suggests D trative meetings" between the nedy School." The governor's off.
date has called the report "unfor-a can taho advantage of a " flaw" in Bay State governor's offee and ice did not initiate the report she tunate."
a federtJ law that allows a state to New Hampshire Yankee.
said.
Democratic gubernatorial candi-indefStitely delay granting a 11 "lle was Hubbard's legal eyes Representatives from Dukakis'
, cense to Seabrook Station and ears at these meetings." Kyte office have denied be has followed
- SeaDf00k
" Failure to submit a pian could said.
the delay strategies outlined in the Please turn to Page 12
' readily be perceived as an iuegiti-
. mita use of the flaw in the federal process which puts the otherwise well-intentioned utdity at the mer-cy of opportumstic state and local
. government." the report read.
"he key to avoiding this charactatzation lies in focusing on safety conc 2rns or justifying cur-rent dissent on the basis of previ-ons lack of input. The ambiguity of safety issues provides a broad date Paul Gagnon said this morn-he said.
, shield from accusations cf opper-ing the issue creates a problem be-Gagnon acknowledged the situs-ltumsm, but casts a shadow on con-cause the Informatien " creates the tjon could have aI. affect on puhuc
,temaons that adequate protection appearence that there's games sentiment but said be beUeves peo-O not f21sabit." it stated.
being played with the evacuation ple in New Hampshire won't put l John Kyte. public information plan."
much stock in the situation.
directoe of New Ha'npshire Yan.
"I'm sure that Public Service "I don't think it will negate the kee. which is tmilding the plant for Company of New Hampshire will very real concerca many tf not all 2ubbe Service Company of New try to take advantage of this to fur-New Hampshire people have about ympshire, said nursday Du-ther rush a power plant on line be.
the serious shortcomtings of the fore It's determined if the Seacoast evacuation plan submitted by Gov.
bakis had dilsberately follc*ed the can every be safely evacuated."
Sunnnu." he said.
Nuee of th7 report in attempting 5 delay the licensing cf Seabrook Itataen.
Kyte continued his attack Durs.
I
$ay aft;rnoon and thJ morning, sharging the graduate student who wrott the report worktd in the off.
Les of Tim Hubbar 1. Dukakis*
5 tin advtsor on Seabrx>k.
l At the bott m of the first page of the 94-pag? report to advisory gcds. "This is a confidential re-
. art cat intended fo.' circulation.
The project was performed in con-
- ur.etion with the Massachusetts
$svernor's Economic Develop-
%ent Office and written with the ssistance of Tom Huboard (Gov-rnor s Office) and Professors
.rts Edley (Law Schcol). Mike Y
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Dukakis Aide Wanted Paper On Seabrook By MARKTRAVIS htmStaff Wrttar When a controversial report on Sea-trook emergency planaltg surfaced ths seek. Massachusetts Gov. !Wchael Dukakis's staff scurried to deny any connecticsmicit.
to the renort But the report's author and two pro-But llubbard denied that Mtzsim-zation u 82ng tMs characteri-fessors involved in its development said mons was an aide,or that he Staduced on safety con-cerns or ustifyteg current dissent on yesterday that a key tr.cr.toer of the himthatway AMbeaddedsomw the g
govertwr's staff hadinitiatedit.
words of his own saying the studed's
- M8 I4CI of input," me ties to the gove,nor's off)Ce weren't Card of the report, stuch cactains a r
a 88s cardd political a==amt of the ready the issue because the Sem costs,it says and exaggera:e fear murse Di.katts has foDosed, surfaced offictds were mhreprese.t2g h M Wears,afety.
Wednesday. Dukakis spokesman James studv and its impact on tk gave
,Suge dah do me mmmonwealth Dorsey promptly ("tmmed it as a th211ag.
"homewort assignment" performed for "I think tt's a phony isse," Hubbud tmphle by etaggerating the catas.
Harvar1 llniverst*,y dm*=,
adding s&fd. his votee rtsbg. "I think !!'s tr that its author had " shared
- tt with parent what's go'ng ontx re "
gotaationp Poses,"p2De esen for ce-he it says.
The report is 95 pages lac Romas Hubbard, Dukakis's key Sea-88Y3
's cabinet h fktal draft - providedk A of and his a
brook adviser.
Itor b the on-fits of dela assessed the bene.
But yesterday Robert Atzsimmons, dais y New Hampshim Y& Mfp its ma' gstbmisalon to outwefgh the student mbo wrcte the report, and is dated Aprillt
.atNy, the report says, two professors said that flubtard him-It is as analysis of tk mqq
%g self the report.
Eulauorts that make it possible for $
should lead the federal government to ne M er Seabrock R* mman* even marked his report kakis to stall tk pg,3g.8 ptVgressM
%be "conadcottal" and ratd on its first page discussion of the costs aM beoents of processsmootplathas and make the that it was mettten wdh Hubbard's as-that(turse, ier sistance.
offidals and ne %
Publicly, Dukakis has said D' *on I AU snadents in the Kennedy School of Herald, which broke tu paruefpatein thee d-decides Scabrock g d~ phins!!he Govemment's master's program in scribed 't as a pobucal blueprtt ying na ed safely.Hehassaid heis gathe pc.btic po' icy are required to complete a outa stAlstrategy.
policy analys:s rep' ort, Professor Mike "I thirk it's a very cynical, anh*
infmnatbo (n that sumer appmach that says p pects to raake a dedsNe7 the end of tio* * ***
O' Hare said, and cItzstmmons took on Hubbard's request as h's repcrt.,
tsual 15, tk tey to w doutjas summer O' Hare said the projects are typ!cally Qamn said. "It's d!sappointbg. b One of the dane for government agenc!cs or non-uttainly answers a lot of quesuocs.ut tg hadllttle to adpah who tave
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prof!! agencies. They are btended, be But I,ubbard said Dukakis had al sfmmons wh3 wrcte it. He has grad-e Mportis Atz.
said, not as academic exerdses but as ready decided on h:2 course before tk ustedfrom dectsko-makingtm!s.
nport was written-and the word 5 school, and has ne report says that federal ernergen-therepcet appearstobenhim out, gof also recelyed a % im Hanard The rt s asteerment of the e'ner-IJwSchool, cy pia n:ng regt.!ations are ambtguous and eretradjctory, aM that they give gency $ anning is candid. It Reached in Chica
- b Dukak:s an tacentive to stau the plant's says stall 2g on
% plan al-sa!d H2bardhad federal license application by tdding icws a state to"nmab b controlof the
- and referred all further gaesuccs to bact his state's c%% plans.
timetable for Ucecsing the plad b b!m.
nat, so far,is just what Dukakis has 7*=thn" and to " secure a better bar.
Butin a Ma done. But Hubbard said the report gabicg positho with the utH1ty,
M'"l'"=yletterreleased tc1d a utili i be had alread ofY'*
amou=ts to analysis, not adst:e. "We ved as enab!2g it to " avoid
- g. y had his f
- ' g f a h e seaed -
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E dan cutsue students to get poitti-caeues andincurringtk! rho u;. u.a*".=igt e e *,g ma g,ya Seabr
,,b j to go inM 86tng less i
even it -
that a
pet,Broam has tats simply stringing them along in mercial red r com-y negotations over the
.that this guy
& platt 2 Chfg
"Dcesey virtua!!y existed." Seabrook spoker.msn John K)ta said of Rtzsimmons yesterday eveabs. "...I smeu recuething that's os qu:te right."
A top Seabrook offichl Jctri Qu!rct, even came forward yesterday to say mat H2 bard had trought DN< ""
an.1 in legal alde Quinn is an amatet to the presMeet of New Hampshire Yankee, the company managir4 Seabrmk's con-t structxn l
Hubbard said yesterday that ha had i
asked for the research project - and I
added that he tad asked the Kennedy Sctral for one last year, too, on a ditfer-
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to be somewhat cynical "The am),aguity of safety about the motives of polit!. Issues," (ne report says, clans, correctly assuming "providet a broad shictd that some decialons are from accusations of oppor-made more in self interest tunism."
than public interest. The And that was written be-public had its warst fears fore Cher.1obyl blew its cork.
confirmed yesterday when That ma y have been ra-Herald reporter Frank Phil. dioactive rain fallir.g on the lipsrevealedtheexistence of Ukraine, but it wLs manna a report written in conjunc. from hea ven for Michael Du-tion with Gov. Michael Du. kakis in 1 his election year.
k m Ma' office on he couldi Mass:.chusetta needs avoid making a decision on' power, if it is to keep grow-
. evacuation plans forthe Sea. Ing.The z. tate has in the past brook. nuclear power plant been far too dependent on
.boiore the November vote.
Importdd oil as a source of
. - The report details how the energy and nuclear power governor can Indefinitely aceds t a be part of the mix on postpone the plant opening which our atate must depend
- soothing the anti nuke for its growth.
forceswho make up a part of It is.a sad commentary on his'orgaplzed support - the riate of affairs in the without coming out against corn,;r office that our gover-the plant altogether, which nor snust be advised on how
.would panic his business not to make a dectsfon.
.r u Liz Murphy
I THE UNION LEADER, MANCHE"JER, to H. - Thursday, July 24, 'l f
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4 Duke Mypolicy' snot related
=,EEm= to secret nuke repod cret staff re ort outlining otrate to de ay the opening master'a degree candidates at the tegy ads tre. That's something nsr's office and with liut.h. ires s o
roo nuclear plant, Kcnnedy School are not the way I've got to make a decision about a ss a.et.mor.
but denied he relied on it to set we make deelstons around here."
myself." he said.
I e stmly outhnca a str..m But GOP New lla mpshire Gov.
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policy.
Dukakis told reporters.
"Polley exercises done by "I don *t iook to pcople for stra-John 8ununu, who ts pushing to th 1 te's cv at pl n open the plant, slammed the re-while citing safety lasues.
ort and said it suggests that Du-akts was "not acting in good Dukakis must approve the f
faith" by his delaying tactics.
cvacuation plans for communi-tics within a 10 mile radius Qf the "The most damning part of the controversial plant before it can i
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whole thing is that it was written open'ukakis has been lobbled j
with the assistance of aToml{ub-p hard who is the same (Dukakis heavily by the nuclear industry to j
alde) advising the governor on approve the evacuation plan, i
Seabrook." he said.
while a strong anti nuclear move-ment has urged him to reject the "That coincidence la extremo, f
ly disturbing," said Sununu.
p!s n.
The !!erald reported yester.
Dukakis has given little inds-day that Dukakis sponsored the cation which way he is leaning confidential report written by a and crilles say the rel. ort is a Kennedy Schoolgraduate student gulde far Dukakis to avoid mak-
"In conjunction with" the gover. Ing a politically tough decisfon.
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An outright refusal to submit The report explains that the a plan, the author says, may project "was performed in con.
cost the governor a " loss ci junction with the Afassachu.
credibility" or give a "percep-setts Governor's E*conomic De.
tion of opportunism." Such a velopment Office'and,wruten movs "could readily be with the assistance of Tom perceived as an illegitimate Hubbard (Governor's Office),"
use of the flaw in the federal as well as Kennedy School and pr6 cess which puts the other.
Law School professors.
wise well-intentioned utility at Thomas Hubbard is Dukakis' the mercy of opprtunistic state chief adviser on the Seabrook and local government."
issue.
"The ambiguity of safety is-Fitzsimmons begins with a sues," the report states, " pro-lengthy explanation of the fed.
vides a broad shield from accu-eral licensing proc 6ss - and sations cf opportunism but related court challenges casts a shadow on contentions centering on a similar fight in that adequate protection is not New York's Long Island con.
feasible... Nonetheless, use of cerning the Shoreham nuclear recently discovered leverage in plant.
the eleventh hour could still be "The possibility of delnying viewed suspiciously by federal submission (to the federal gov.
officials and 51assachusetts ernmen of a state approved resider.ts alike if not grounded emergency plan) rather than in safety concerns.'
renouncing the process signifi, The report also notes that if cantly expends the range of the plant eventually does open choice and multiples the strate-
"in an adversarial atmosphere, gic f actors " Fitzsimmons safety is jeopardized."
writes.
And it notes that a refusal to "To make a prfncipled submit, as "even a disguised choice, however, the Common-cave in, could cost the gover-wealth must make an effort to nor dearly in credibility with balance the perceived benefits the parties."
of not submitting the plans in a Fitzsimmons advises that timely fashion against the high.
Dukakis has " reason to avoid ly uncertain costs."
the appearance of giving in to" The study then outlines what what he calls "the far more it describca as the" benefits" of focused and visible pressure not submitting a plan. "If the from the anti-Seabrook Commonwealth has the power.
forces."
to delay licensing by a year or more " the report says, "this obviously could give the Com-monwealth substantial nego-tiating leverage over the utill.
ty."The report advises that by
" slowing down the process,"
Dukakis might be able to avoid "the paralyzing level of dissent encountered by New Hamp-shire's Governor Sununu in his attempt to exercise plans which the local governments had not fully accepted."
The author says it is in the "politicalinterest" of town ofil-cials "and the governor's that the process not appear to be haphazard or forced upon" res-idents.
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k dununu noted an " amazing co-incidence" of the Dukakis* ad-ministration's actions on Sea.
brook " mirroring what is in the report." Sununu said he had RSPOr OU I,neS read only excerpts of the study i
but said he hoped Seabrook lawyers will continue efforts to legally circumvent Dukakis in M
SSe Sr e9Y'7.
getting the plant on line.
I certainly hope there's a reasonable explanation for it,"
Sununu said.
By JOliN DiSTASO The federal government re-Union Leader Staff U!
quins emexy evamahon plans for all 23 New llampshire And Wire Reports 9
..,h and h!assachusetts communi-5fassachusetts Gov. 3Iichael ties within a 10-mile radius c,f S. Dukakis yesterday tried to the plant.
distance himself from a cur.fi-The six hlassachusetts cone dential report written with the munities have refused to sub-advice of his own aides m April mit plans and Dukakis has de-
'p /Ea-layed state involvement.
that outlines a strategy keying on safety concerns to delay 11 7
In the spring, Dukakis ex.
censmg of the Seabrook nu-e
'.e pressed concern about the sum-clsar power plant.
q mer beach population in the The 95-page study, authored l
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event of a nuclear accident. lie by a Boston law student and M %
insisted that the plant be rhut s
mada pubh.c yestctday, advises
.f down in the summer months Dukakis to take advantage of a y ~.,..
and shelters be constructed.
" flaw"in federa! law which al-3 It appeared Seabrook offi-
-:.W7 L.X cials were prepared to give in lows a state to indefinitely de-
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lay licensing of a nuclear reac-to the demand when the disas-tar at the Soviet Chernobyl nu-n tor by delaying the submission
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clear reactor oecurred.
of an emergency evacuauon
,a~
Dukakis, saying all bets were plan-
,M off, then commissioned Kenne-t DUKAKIS PageU GOV. MICHAEL DUKAKIS b
ga' flects ch le te e
tMe disaster on Seabrook and the area. Dukakig said venter.
The report further advises cess by the federal govern-Ey the p' obe ls still under way
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Ddkakis that " focusing on safe-ment. The option of working r
and he reiterated an earlier ty concerns or justifying cur-with the Seabrook's builders to promise to have his mind made rer& dissent on the basis of a obtain the best plan possible is '
prwtous lack of input" will not discussed.
up sometime this summer.
svE8 the appearance he is At a news conference, Du' In the meantime, Dukakis' making " illegitimate use of the kakis admitted he read the re -
fa lure to get the regulatory ball rolling caused a six-month, flaw "
port but he denied using it as a f,300 million os errun in the pro-Tbe report sets out a strategy '
strategy.
similar to the one Dukakis has
."I'm interested in anything ject.
Last week,Seabrook officials followed to date and even and everything I read," Du-and Dukakis aides exchanged notes. "The Governor's Cabi-kakis said, "but policy exer-charges after Dukakis refused nit and staff have assessed the cises done by master's degree to meet with plant manage-benefits of delaying submission candidates... are not the way ment in person to discuss his to gutweigh its costs."
we make decisions around Seabrook officials said the here."
concerns.
I existence of the report makes it He said the report " helped Seabrook spokesman Kyte,
clear Dukakis' tactic on the me understand the legalissues.
said the Fitzsimmons repo plant has been predetermined I don't look to people for strate-exp ua s ac "
l and long planned.
gic advice. That's something ta t pril,
Two " benefits" of delay, the I've got to make decisions e said, "I think it's clear study says, are to " secure a about myself.
probably been follow-better bargaining position with Dukakis denied he was delib.
ing h's :*. rate Every time tha utility" and to " remain in erately stalling on the Seabrook elose to an agreement control of the timetable for 11 plan.
svith them to get the prc,eess censmg the plant in question."
Seabrook spokesman John movinE along, they'd suddenl,y The study notes that in Sea.
Kyte however, noting atternpts br g p a whole new con brook's case, each month of de-by plant management to meet lay adds $50 million to its cost.
with Dukakis to discuss his rrport. authar Fitzsimmons de--
l The report also weighs the safety concerns, said, "This -
stribes himself as a strategy of a delay against an makes it pretty clear that he cree candidate at t o
outright refusal to submit a has simply been playing polit.
Kennedy Schoolcf Governmen plan. emphasizing that refusal cal games with us and that he
.injillarvard Law S h would probably lead the issue had no intention of ever reach.
This is a con into the uncharted area of a ing agreement or living up to port," Fitzsimmons says,,,not takeover of the licensing pro-hts public safety responsibili.
mtended for circulation.
i 0-Podemoum Herald (N.H.) Wed., July 23, 1988 l
Dukakis got study on how to de ay j
Seabrook plansI N (AP) - Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Di*mhty reportedly 1
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"' M*nu:"ia."" pol'*' C"ai = WM M FROM PAGE 1 Her today sand'the study was wrRten in Qg
.R Fitzsimmons, a student at Harv University's Kennedy I
Gov
,la cenjunction with the
's oince.
which he t Fitzsimmons) needed to complete his term at Harvard.
'the report recommende that har_
dela ev,,,,,,,,,
"And it is ludiereus to say that officers of state-government, including sts biassachusetts casaamanuten that are 18 et me and the governor are being in their decision by the. recommendations made by a studentin essediaHyisa W ami p "
Dorsey said
" shared" the study with 'Ihomas Hubbard, mg d a move could torce the federal L
" to take over me P Dukahle* chief aM cess,the
,g,,g' Hubbard told the HeraM the study was not an official state report but l
f all
,emia. t C8"8" "Ios, ad m. sets".'.~acceptalde evacne.t.en p ans r.om
.s given to Duka.kis and state Public Safety Secretary Claarles Barry and wa
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- e. =s a a h>=
ie nnergy S.cr.- P i-oper u"na htheple Hubbard also denied the governer was relytag on it for strategy. "The ed said m claim the repset la a pdde ter Dukakte le governor is acting on his own instincts and on advice I'm giving him and svoed wdoieme.
seers," Hubbard ted the newspaper.
,,,,,g, ime an asegback on that eart of ye out, the Herald said the report states it was a project "p*erformed in gnia, men's th
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of M,, ay wenM hope he'd turn with
- ) =conomic Devalepensar Ofnce and written g
George Abdwards, president of United Illuminating Co, a Cassocitoa Will-
"We're stare af what Mr. Fitratamens canchwenst but I would note that ty with a 17 5 share ci kabrook, told the llerald.
Whatever those recommendetsons were, they came to the governor some "DukakW strategy to date has almost paralleled the advtco cessaisod in thne after he stated publicly his concerne about Seabrook and the effect the study'" the iterald said.
any paammenna accident at Seabrook would have cr= time putdic health and "It was not an official report done for state government," James Dersey, safety of the people of Mammenenummat=," Dorsey sam.
press secretary to Dukakis, told The Associated Presa early todsy."it was 1he report adytees Dukakis to delay Indonettely submaaston of an an academic requirement which was done as part of the regerenada emergency evacuation plan for fenral review and outilnes how that can be M %8 N g done without ralaing accusationsof
.opportandsete theHeraldeaM.
l "Fauure to submit a plan would y be perceived as an lilegitimate use of the Aaw la the federal process which the otherwise wou.inten-tiened utilRy at the mercy of opportunistic to and local governments,"
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the Herald quotes the report as saytag.
"1he hoy to senadens this characterisation lies to focusing on safety con-l carms.... 'Jue ambiguity of safety leeuse provides a broad ableid from ac.
8=samesa== eiappertunism," the repost is further quoted as asyleg l
Dukakle kee pannead to safety ca==8dacations in delaying==h==a==taa of i
evacumuonplans, the Herald said.
The report concludse that Dukakis could hold up the opening of the plant j
and sakt "the governor has an incentive to delay autoimmian" and that auch j
a stab couki put on the federal government to step in and take j
overtheprocess, ' Herald aald.
John E j
i p___ga, - -- - for New Hampshire Yankee, which is building i
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- _ insa tins Herald the report's conclusions were ^~ hsag i
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Nww*uuryport body rgews, vvednescoy. July W iYB6 Dukakis reportedly approved delay strategy for Seabrook BOSTON (AP) a Massachu. said, brcck and the effect any potential setts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis re.
"It was not an official report accident at Seabrook would have portedly approved a study on how done for state government " on the public health and safety of to delay approval of evacuation James Dorsey, press secretary to thepeopleof Massachusetts," Dor-plans for the Seabrook, N.H., nu Dukakis, told The Associated sey said.
clear power plant, but an aide said Press early today. "It was an aca.
The report advises Dukakis to it was not an official report done demic requirement which was delayinde!!nitelysubmissionof an for state government.
done as part of the requirements emergency evacuation plan for fe-The Boston Herald today said which he (Fitzsimmons) needed to deral review and outlines how that the 92-page study was written in complete his term at Harvard.
can be done without raising accu-April by Robert Fitzsimmons, a "And it is ludicrous to say that sations of being opportunist <.c, the studet at liarvard University's officers of state government, in-Herald said.
Kennedy School of Government,in ciuding the governor, are being conjunction with the governor's guided in their decision by the rec-
" Failure to submit a plan would
- offige, ommendations made by a student readily be perceived as an illegit-TDe report recommends that in what essentially is a homework imate use of the flaw in the federal Dukakis delay submitting evacua. assignment."
process which puts the otherwise tion plans for six Massachusetts Dorsey said Fitzsimmons well intentioned utility at the mer-communities that are within to " shared" the study with Thomas cy of cpportunistic state and local miles of the plant and that such a Hubbard, Dukakis's chief adviser governments," the Herald quotes move could force the federal go. on Seabrook.
the report as saying.
vernment to take over the process, Hubbard told the IIerald the "The key to avoiding this char-the Herald said.
study was not an official state re-acterization lies in focusing on The federal government re. port but was given to Dukakis and safety concerns.. The ambiguity quires acceptable evacuation state Public Safety Secretary of safety issues pmvides a broad plans from all communities within Charles Barry and state Energy shield from accusations of oppor-10 miles of a nuclear power plant Secretary Sharon Pollard.
tunism," the report is further before issuing a full operating II.
Hubbard also denied the gover-quoted as saying.
cense to the plant.
nor was relying on it for strategy.
Dukakis has pointed to safety The Herald said utillty officials "The governor is acting on his own considerations in delaymg submis-claim the report is a guide for instincts and on advice I'm giving sion of evacuation plans, the Her-Dukakis to avoid making a politi. him and others," Hubbard told the aid said.
cally tough decision.
newspaper.
The report ccncludes that Duka-
"If he's following a strategy like But, the Herald said the report kis could hold up the opening of the that for political gain, that's the states it was a project " performed plant and said "the governor has height of irresponsibility. I would in conjunction with.. (Dukakis's) an incent!ve to delay submission" bope he'd turn his br,ck on that sort Economic Development Office" and that such a stall could put of advice," George Edwards, and written with liubbard's pressure on the federal govern-president of United Illuminating assistance.
ment to step in and take over the Co., a Connecticut utility with a "We're aware of what Mr. Fitz-process, the Herald said.
17.5 share of Seabrook, told the simmons concluded. but I would John Kyte, spokesman for New Herald.
note that whatever those recom-Hampralre Yankee, which ts build-
"Dukakis's strategy to date has mendations were, they carne to the ing Seabrook, tc!d the Herald the almost paralle!ed the advice cen. governor some time after he stated report *s conelusIons were tained in the study," the Herald publicly his concerns about Sea-shock ing.
Trxe HaverhiH Hass Gmcrrc '/ujn Report: Duke sta ing on n-plant BOS10N ( AP) - Massachusetts ment.
The report recommends that Du-Gov. Michael S. Dukakis reportedly The Boston Herald today said the kakis delay submitting evacuation approved a study on how to delay 92 page study was written in April plans for six Massachusetts com-approval of evacuation pla for the by Robert Fitzsimmons, a student at munities that are within 10 miles of t' e plant and that such a move could Seabrook, N.H., nuclear power Harvard University's Kennedy u
plant, but an aide said it was not an School of Government, in conjunc-force the federalgovernment to take offleial report done for state govern-tion with the governor's office.
over the process, the Herald said.
The federal government requires cials claim the report is a guide for of advice," George Edwards, presi-acceptable evacuatico plans from Dukakis to avoid making a politi-Jent of United Eleminating Co., a all commuruties within 10 miles of a cally tough decision.
Connect! cut utility with a 17.5 share nuclear power plant before issuing a "If he's following a strategy like of Seabrook, told the Herald.
full operating license to the plant.
that for political gain, that's the "Dnkakin' strategy to date has, height of irresponsibility. I would almost paralleled the advice con-THE HERALD said utility off!- hope he'd turn his back on that sort See SEABROOK, page 15 Seabrook (Coattssed freen page see) st!ncta and on advice I'm giving t!m report as saying.
and others " Hubbard told the news.
"h key to svolding this charac-tainai in the study," the Herald said.
paper.
terization lies in focusing on safety "It was not an ofDcial report done But, the Hera!d said the report concerns....h ambiguity of safety for state government," James Dor, states it was a project " performed lasues provides a broad shield from sey, press secretary to Dukakis, told in conjunction with. (Dukakis') accusaticos of opportmtsm," the
& Associated Press earty today.
Econom!c Development Office" and repcrt is further quoted as saying.
written with Hubbard's assistance.
Dukakis has pointed to safety "It was an academic requirement which was done as part of the
~ We're aware of what Mr. Fits-censiderations in delaying submis-requirements wbich he (Fitssim.
'im" cone!aded, but I would s!ce of evacuation plans, the Herald note that whatever tbcas recommen-sali mas! needed to complete his term at Harvard.
daticos were, they came to the "And it is ludlerous to say that governor some time after he stated officers of state governmant includ. publicly his concerns about Sea-ing the governor are being guided la arcos and the effect any pctential accident at Seabrook woulihave on their deciaton by the rean==ana tiots ma!e by a studert in what the peblic health and safety of the essentially is a homewutt assign. People of Ma-%setts," Dorsey ment."
said.
Dorsey said Fitssimmons h report advises Dukakis to
" shared" the study with Thomas delay ladeneltely submission of an Hubbard. DnkakW chief adviser on emergency evacustica plan for fed-Sentrock.
ral review and outilnes how that can be done without ralstag accusations ItUBBARD tdt.D the Herald the d being opportunistic, the Hsrald said.
study was cot an official state report but was given to Dukakis and "Fallure to submit a plan would state Public Safety Secretary readily be perceived as an 111egiti-mate use of the flaw in the federal Charles Barry and state Energy Secretary Sharon Pollard.
process which puts the otherwise Hubbard also denied the governor wellintentioned utility at the mercy was relytag on it for strategy. "The of opportunistic state and local gov-l l
governor is acting on his cwn in-ernments," the Herald quotes the ll -- - - - - - -
sier y 92 som; T* tU:!"!?.'.y T16K ltOSTON r.l.tmr.
Dukakis' downplays collegian's ieport Gov. Dukakis yesterday denied that a research paper written ear-lier this year by a student at Har-vard's Kennedy School of Govern-ment was gutdtng the administra-tion's strategy on the nuclear en-crgy plant in Seabrook. N.H.
Dukahta said he had read the student's paper, which he termed
, "a policy exercisel and "found the legal analysts very helpful."
Dukakis said that he wouki de-ctde whether to approve an evacu-atton plan for the Seabrook plant.
based on standards in federallaw.
by summer's end.
A spokesman for the controver-stalSeabrook plant accused Daka-kis of " playing roulette with us."
and charged that the administra-tion had no intentton of living up
'to expres::cd concerns aboOt Sea-brook's safety and emergency plans.
"Every time we jpt close to an agreement that woukihave moved the planning process along they suddenly changed their tune."
said New Hampshire Yankee spokesman John Kyte.
Dukakts' remarks followed a Dmton Herald report disckstr.g.u.
April study that recommended f.e-take advantage of a " flaw" in fed-erallleensing procedures allowing a delay in the subminalon of an emergency evacuation plarg.
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