ML20207P748
| ML20207P748 | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 01/09/1987 |
| From: | Curran D, Ferster A HARMON & WEISS, PUBLIC SERVICE CO. OF NEW HAMPSHIRE |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| ML20207P749 | List: |
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| CON-#187-2199 OL-1, NUDOCS 8701200160 | |
| Download: ML20207P748 (3) | |
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.o 00LKETED January 9,1987 uwc UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION
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Docket Nos. 5 0-4 4 3 OL-l '
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ISSUES INTERVENORS' JOINT MOTICN FOR LEAVE TO FILE SUPPLEMENTAL OPPOSITION TO APPLICANTS' MOTION FOR ISSUANCE OF PARTIAL INITIAL CECISION AUTHORIZING LOW POWER OPERATION The New England Coalition on Nuclear Pollution
("NECNP"), Seacoast An ti-Pollution League ( "SAPL"), and Common-wealth. of Massachussetts (hereaf ter "Intervenors") hereby request leave to file the attached Joint Supplemental Cpposition to Applicants' motion of June 17, 1986, requesting the Licensing Board to, inter alia, issue a partial initial decision authoriz-ing the operation of Seabrook Unit 1 up to and including 5% of rated power.
Intervenors' Supplemental Opposition is based on new information contained in an article that appeared in the Boston Globe on December 23, 1986.1 The article discusses the NRC 1
Larry Tye, "Seabrook may need improvements, says NRC safety official."
The article is attached as an exhibit to Intervenors'
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. Staff's reaction to Applicants' recently submitted petition to reduce the radius of the Seabrook emergency planning zone from ten to'one mile.
In the article, a senior NRC official with supervisory authority over the Seabrook plant states that the Staff now intends to reconsider whether it should have issued a number of regulatory exemptions that have been granted to Applicants; and whether more safety measures are needed to jus-tify Applicants' bid for a cmaller EPZ.
The extraordinary revelation that the NRC Staf f new intends to re-evaluate a significant portion of its safety eview con-stitutes important new information that af f ects the Board's con-sideration of Applicants' pending motion for authorization to operate at low power.
This information suggests that, regardless of the Board's determination on any other iss+es that are before it, the NRC's technical review of the Seabrook operating license application is f ar f rom complete or ready for disposition by this Board.
The change in the Staff's position on the Seabrook 11. cense application is a recent one, of which Intervenors did not become aware until publication of the Globe article.
Because of the significant bearing this new information has on Applicants' entitlement to a license to operate Seabrook at low power, Inter-
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Diane Curran Andrea C.
Ferster HARMON & WEISS 2001 "S"
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Suite 430 Washington, D.C.
20009 (202) 328-3500 I certify that Harmon & Weiss is authorized to file this pleading on behalf of the Intervenors named e..
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