ML20206J489

Testimony of D Gitlin to Be Presented on 860625 in Sandusky, Oh Requesting Rescission of NRC Approval of Proposed Sludge Disposal Project

ML20206J489
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Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	06/25/1986
From:	Gitlin D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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86-525-01-ML, 86-525-1-ML, ML, TAC-60875, NUDOCS 8606270180
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I Testimony to be prescntOd to tha UnitCd Sta h\\s h^.bD 6f Ameritas Nuclear Regulatory Commission before Hele F. Hoyt Admini ative Judge on June 25, 1986 at Sandusky High Schoollb%gmgu ky, so 3,, L.i ?

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David Gitlin, M.D. Westgate Medical ilding, Fairvie'v Park, Ohio 44126

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I am a practicing physician in Fairview Park, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland.

I have an undergraduate degree in physics from CCNY and four years of residency in internal medicine and allergy.

I am chief of the allergy section of Fairview General Hospital and have been active in providing testimony and expertise at various levels of government.

As an allergist I have experience and theoretical knowledge of the noxious effects of environmental pollution on human health.

I am therefor presenting testimony as a witness for the intervenors S.O.S. and Consumers League.

All parties are agreed that the sludge to be buried on the grounds of the plant will be radioactive with the radionuclides of uranium and/or plutonium decay.

4 Nor can there be any denial that such radionuclides will be leached into Lake Erie by action of rain and run-off.

Under such circumstances the radionuclides in question will inevitably contaminate the food and water of the millions of people living downstream.

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Many of these radionuclides have half-lives of years and decades.

This means that if the NRC finds af ter operation of this project that it has made a mistake it will be unable to correct the contamination that will have already occured.

It is hard to understand how the NHC could have approved this project in the first place.

Nuclear waste has occupied research for the past thirty years with as yet no satisfactory solution both as regards the containers to be used and the location for the containers.

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It is therefor bewildering to learn that it could be considered permissible to merely dig a shallow trench and dump radioactive sludge in it.

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The fact that the sludge might be considered low level waste should not be an excuse for such irresponsible carelessness because there is no such thing as safe low level waste.

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aliquot cost in increased cancer and birth defects.

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background radiation as well as medical x-rays.

In the case of background radiation, we have to endure it because no protection is possible.

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exposure is associated with consent of the patient and a compensation l

in improved defense against disease.

But in the case of the proposed disposal of radioactive sludge there is no necessity or public consent or benefit.

There is only the inevitable toll in death and disease that will needlessly result.

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'Ihe NRC should rescind its approval of the proposed sludge disposal project.

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THE U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0a4ISSION 3

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Before the Administrative Judge Helen F. Hoyt r, -

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TOLEDO EDISON COMPMiY, e_t_ al_.

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Docket No.'50-3463

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(Davis-Besse Nuclear Power i

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0x & DC?t/tJ PETITIONERS ( SAVE OUR STATE FROM PADI0 ACTIVE WASTES, THE CONSUERS LEAGUE OF OHIO, ARNOLD GLEISSER, NiD GENEVIEVE S. COOK ) SUBMIT STATEMENTS OF T40 WITNESSES FOR TEE BEARING ON ThE DAVIS-BESSE SITE DISPOSAL ISSUE.

WITNESSES:

Russell M. Bimber Dr. David Gitlin, M.D.

1C471 Prouty Rd.

Westgate Medical Arts Bldg.

Painesville, Ohio 44077 Fairview Park, Ohio 44126 Paone: (216) 352 1660 Phone:

(216) 331 2003 SEhVICE LIST Helen F. Hoyt, Esquire Charles A. Barth, Esquire Administrative Judge Office of the Executive Ledal Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Director U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Coanission Wasnington, D.C.

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Washington, D. C.

20>55 Docseting and Service Section Jay E. Silber 6 Office of the Secretary Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge U.S. Nuclear Re6ulatory Commission 1600 M Street Washington, D. C.

20555 Washin6 ton, D. C.

20036 Jack A. Van Kley Toledo Coalitica for Safe Energy Edward Lynen Susan A. Carter Ubaron didler c/o Terry J. Lodge, r; squire Assistant Attorneys General 616 North Micnigan St.

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