ML20207H935
| ML20207H935 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Saint Lucie  |
| Issue date: | 07/18/1988 |
| From: | Graham B SENATE |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC |
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| CON-#388-6844 OLA, NUDOCS 8808300121 | |
| Download: ML20207H935 (5) | |
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July 18, 1988 SERVED AUG -11988 Mr. Carlton Kammerer, Director U.S. Nuclear Fegulatory Commission Office of Congressional Affairs Washington, D.C.
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Dear Mr. Kammerer:
Enclosed is a letter from Joseph Filonowicz, who ham conce rnt, regarding spent fuel rods at St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant.
I would appreciate your reviewing this situation and providing me with your comments.
Please send your response to my state office:
Post Office Box 3050, Tallahassee, Florida 32315, Attertion:
Becky Liner.
I am grateful for your cooperation ano assistance.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
With kind regards, Sincerely, i
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TREASURE COAST ENVIRONMENT COALITION
_g A Four County League of Conservationists
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. Senator Bob Graham
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Joseph C Filonomcz 286 4180 vlCE PAESIDENT June 18, 1988 Lloyd Brumheid SECAETAAY
Dear Sir,
Beny Lou Wells TREI,SUAEA I am IeVriting you regarding Spent fuel rods at the Enk Mamn St. Lut'ie Nuclear Power Plant.
I believe this deserves DIRECTORS I am enc 14 sing a latter letter tc Sen. C'.iles whiCh
- Bud" Kleckner Stena Aosa, further explains my Concerns."
Huben Van Oyke Birane Wilfem:
I would be willing to meet with you on this matter in Washington or elsewhere after the 4th of July.
COUNTY COOADINATORS INDIAN river COUNTY Sincerely, Nancy Irwn 567 8234 Q^
MARTIN COUNTY Carof Howeit 692 1617 Pt side D
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Rosa Durando 965 2420 ST. LUCIE COUNTY Tom Murpny i
229 3732 ENVI AONVE NT AL ATTORNEYS MAATIN COUNTY j
W E. -Ted" Guy PALM BEACH Col-NTY Terrett Art ne 55 East ocean Boulevard, Stuart, Florida 34995
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.' m THEASURE COAST ENVIRONMENT COALITION A Four County League of Conservationists June 18, 1988 Senator Lawton Chiles
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Subject:
Nuclear Wa'ste Storage at FP&L St. Lucie VICE PREStOENT Nuclear Power Plant uoyd Bu*4d i
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Dear Sir:
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Betty Lou Wees TREASURER We have received no response from you as promised in Erc uanin your letter of May 9, 1988 regarding the subject matter.
P_PECTORS Mr. Rich von a partial victory in his first hearing
~BuC N before the Atomic Safetyand Licensing Board that accepted i
7 of his 16 contentiUnit that storage of spent nuclear g
si w m rods were unsafe as related in the enclosed news article..
8' COUNTY COORDINATORS Washington Lawyers, paid for by FP&L customers,are INDMN RIVER COUNTY inundating him with thousands of pages of legalese laden i
Nancy irvin documents in an obvious attempt to wear Mr. Rich down.
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MAR COUNTY Here is a very responsible American citizen trying to e,
692 1617 protect millions of Florida residents from possible PALM BEACH COUNTY radiation injury who is without support, funds, knowledge Rosa Dwando of law being over-run by powerful private and public 965 20 agencies following tons of incomprehensible bureauocratic gy regulatory procedures.
2?9 3732 The Constitution and the people's elected representatives are designed to protect the little guy against this sort ENVIRONMENTAL of abuse.
Please see what you can do to protect and aid AnoRNEYS this courageous citizen.
Now!
MARTIN COUNTY w E. Tod" Guy The Atomic Age of present technology is coming to a close.
PALM BEACH COUNTY Both the Hanford, Washington and Savannah River, S.C.
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complexesthat produce A-Bomb and reactor rods are obsolete, overworked and absolutely environmentally damaged beyond repair.
For over 40 years Congress has promised to find a technology to take care of spent fuel rods.
It hasn't.
Also enclosed is a letter to Mr. Hill of the President's Council of Environmental Quality who hasn't bothered to answer my very important letter to him on this issue.
Where is the government'ssensibilities toward the public?
And finally, I am sending a copy of this letter to Senator Graham who also did not bother to respond.
I thankyou for your response and look forward to another.
JOSEPH C. Fit.ONOMCZ T
Sincerely, 3475 SW Forest Has Ct.
Palm City, nodda 34990 55 Mulevard, Stuart. Flodda 34995
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l TREASURE COAST ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION A Four County League of Conservationists l
April 1, 1988 omcens Mr.
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Paul cotter, Chairman U Atomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission wm passeauf Washington, D.C. 20555 u.ys sammamed sEcasTAny
Dear Mr. Cotter:
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This coalition requests that this letter be made a part of the hearing proceedings condeted March 29, 1988 pertaining to the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant on Hutchinson Island in Florida.
i We fullysupport Mr. Campbell Rich's cantentions and concerns wm over the "routine" approval of the expansion of radio-active fue se.a. n storage facilities at the Planc by the Nuclear Regulatory Comm-N o.,tven D W ission.
Long term storage of large quantities of this extremely 8a* ""*
hazardous material at this site on a barrier beach island is an unacceptable threat to public health and safety and to our incal 1
environment.
Further, we strongly contend that the NRC legal outscTons AND opinion that a full-fledged environmental impact statement is couwrv coonostATons not required is not consistent with the National Environment m e en.,
Policy Act and the President's Council on Environmental Quality' l Nancy tyvin guidelines.
We wish to cite one of many factors which support wrma couwiv our contention.
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n.ee m The original E.I.S. and design criteria for the St. Lucie sT.westcouwry Nuclear Power Plant assumed an 18 foot storm surge would occur as a result of a 1000 year frequency hurricane.
This engin-eering assumtion is no longer valid.
World-wide ocean levels are rising at an increasing rate according to measurements by ENwnomaswrg such scientific organizations as N.O.A.A. and the Woods Hole ATTonNgys Oceanagraphic 19stitution.
The last major hurricane hit this in 1949 and caused an estimated storm surge near the plant area awnw couwry site of 13 +/- feet m.s.1.
Since 1949 the ocean level has PNes risen 8 to 12 inches.
Many U.S.
scientists now predict that couwrY T,ren Arna.
the world-wide ocean levels will continue to rise as a result of the melting of the Anartic ice shelves due to the overall varming of the Earth's climate.
Within 50 to 100 years the ocean levels will rise according to conservative predictions somewhere between 2-4 feet.
Lriss conservative estimates predict 6-8 feet.
Obviously, such an increase in ocean levels vould proportionately increase the storm surge elevation at the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant site.
The plant site, which was at an elevation of 23 feet above mean sea level at const-ruction vill in,the future become a small island arid be subject to wave damage and flooding when a 1000 year frequency hurr-icane occurs.
These facts alone vere suf ficient reason to mandate the preparation of an EIS before any decision was made ggo crt5$-
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In addition; the approved safety and design criteria must be revised to reflect the new flooding and wave damage potential during a major hurricane.
ThisVCoalition wishes to make one additional request:
The issue of long term storage of spent fuel rods on site is not unique to the St. Lucie Nuclear Power' Plant.
It is endemic to nuclear plants in the U.S.A.
The original design and safety standards, on which the approval of construction of every power plant was based, was predicated on the assumption that on site emergency fuel rod and spent rod storage vould be short term and justified for two reasons:
1.
A plant shutdown for repair or in an emergency requiring removal of the fuel rods from the core; and 2.
Temporary storage of spent fuel rods during a cooling down period prior to shipment to a reprocessing plant or central hazardous vaste storage facility.
As you well know, the Congress, The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the nuclear power industry through their national lobby organ-ization ("he Atomic Industrial Forum and the National Association of Electric Companies) have f ailed in their promise and responsibility to the American People to build the reprocessing and nuclear vaste storage facilities.
This crucial decision has been allowed to become a political football.
The time is long overdue for the President and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission hazardous vastes on nuclear power plant sites.to set a fira date for termina This would of course pose the threat of closing down all the nuclear plants in the nation and should provide the necessary political and economic incentives to get the long overdue legislation and appropriations through the Congress.
Clearly, Florida Power and hight is not the culprit here.
We contend that no further study is justified or varranted; public health and safety dictate that a nationwide cutoff deadline be estab-lished immediately.
Sincerely, 97//I d37-9fb-)
oseph C. Filonovicz, President JOSF.PH C. Ftt.ONOWICZ C.C 3475 SW Forest HWis Ct Gov. Bob Martinez Patrn Ca*y. Flonda 34990 Senator Lawton Chiles hL2NHIM Senator Bob Graham Cong. Tom Lewis St. Lucie County Commission Martin County Commission Council on Environmental Quality
TREASURE COAST ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION A Four County League of Conservationists April 26, 1988 omeans Pg, A. Alan Hill, Chaizuan
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y Council on Environmental Quality 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
wcs m Washington, D. C. 20500 u.yv en,mn.as EscRETARY
Dear Chairman Hill,
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1mEAsunen se m We request that the CR over rule the use of an Environmental Assessac+. (EA) in place of of a fbil blown Environmental Impact Statement in the construction of the increased spent fuel zod storage faruity at the St. Lucie Nuclear Power Plant. %e enclosed letter mnu, m spells out one very important environmental factor which was not si.n n considered in the EA.
here are a number of other deficiencies W Vea Dyk.
including inadequate public notice.
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Increasing the on site storage capacity of the extremely hazardous radio-active wastes from the original 390,000 lbs. to over 2.2 auscToms AND million pounds Constit 1tes a Rajor increase in the threat to the couwTy coonosNATons public health and safety.
We change in storage time fzm short t4IW to long terW (at least till 1998) also greatly incitases the aEXAN M CouwTY m ney %
threat to the environment.
Because the St. Incie Nuclear Power numN couwTY Plant is located on a barrier beach island the threat of dire y,g consequences is further increased.
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sr. Lucus county Ve request that the CW overzule NRC and the ASLB and oztier the De Murphy preparation of a full EIS.
Sincerely, mmno+saswrAt srToRNEYs C.
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President c.s. T.v ouy was sEACH county Tems A,ma.
JOSEPH C. FILONOWICZ 3475 SW Forest HWs Ct.
Patrn City. Ronda 34990 Tel. 2864180 55 East Ocean Boulevard, Stuart, Florida 34995
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Prove atomic waste storage is safe, IBy JIM REEDER wastes.
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The racks will allow FPL to place 1,706 An FPL spokesman said company offi.
t HUTCHINSON ISLAND - Florida spent fuel assemblies in a space originally cials had expected the board to recuest Power & Light Co. will have to back up its planned to hold 728. Used fuel removed more informadoo and remained confident
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el:im that doubling the spent fuel rtorage from the plant every 18 months must be the challenge will be dismissed.
capacity at the St. Lucie I nuclear power stored on site because the federal govera.
"ne board wants to see the data that unit presents no hazard to the general ment has not provided a permanent stor-supports our Don things will be safe at pcblic, the federal Atomic Safety & U.
age facility for high level radioactive the plant,"F L rpokeswoman Kathy Scott censing Board ruled nursday.
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said. "We will p~ ovide the additional data The decision is a partial victory for Port Rich could not be reached for comment and will ask that the claim be dismissed.
Salerno resident Campbell Rich, but it al-Thursday but said at a March 29 hearing "Similar contentions nere made about lows FPL to continue installing the new be was prepared to present witnesses to our Turkey Point plant in a hearing last storage racks Rich fears will result in back his claims that FPL hasn't adequate.
September and we've just been notified Hutchinson Island becoming a permanent ly considered all of the problems associat.
they've been dismissed after we supplied disposal site for high level radioactive ed with storing more spent fuel rods at the additional data," she said. "We feel it's a I,
INTY federal board tells FPL similar situation here "
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Rich listed 16 issues he beheves should dropped into the spent. fuel pit, whether J
be considered further by federal officials the pit's liner will be able to stand up to and the licensing board said nursday it higher temperatures and heavier loads wants more information from both sides created by increased storage and whether on seven of those issues coohng systems could fail Among them is Rich's primary concern Scott said FPL expects Rich's claim to that borofler, the plastic material used to be dismissed without further public hear.
build the rew storage racks, could shrink ings af ter the company presents additional and erack. Caps in the racks could permit data a chain reaction te start occurring in the radioactive material, critics of boroflex Three judges f rom the Atomic Safety &
Licenting' Board met at the Sheraton say The other issues for further consider-Beach HMel on Hutchinson l<tand March ation deal with what unuld happen if a f uel 29 its hear arguments by FPl. and Rich
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