ML20210Q566
| ML20210Q566 | |
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| Site: | Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png |
| Issue date: | 09/17/1986 |
| From: | Posnack R MIDDLE ISLAND TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, INC. |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20210N493 | List: |
| References | |
| OL-5, NUDOCS 8610060964 | |
| Download: ML20210Q566 (7) | |
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. September 17, 1986 Chairman of Atomic Safety and Lic. Board US Nucicar Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555
Dear Sir:
Enclosed is the Middle Island Teachers' Association Resolution against Shoreham.
I respectfully request that this resolution become part of the " official record" that shows opposition from employee groups within the 10 mile 2000.
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P. O. BOX 162 MIDDLE ISLAND, NEW YORK 18953 HIDDLE ISLAND TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION RESOLUTION AGAINST THE SHOREHAM NUCLEAR POWER PLANT WHEREAS~, the g (number) members of this Association, many of whom are women of child bearing age, teach in 7
schools located within A miles of the Shoreham nuclear power plant; and WHEREAS, many members of this Association live within 10 miles of the Shoreham plant and/or have family members or'chil-dren who work or attend school within 10 miles of the Shoreham plant; and WHEREAS, Federal regulations require that before full power operation of the Shoreham nuclear power plant can be permitted, there must exist a workable emergency plan which can be imple-mented and which assures that the population will be adequately protected in the event of a nuclear accident at the plant; and 9
WHEREAS, the governments of Suffolk County and the State of New York, after extensive analysis, determined not to adopt or implement any radiological emergency plan for a Shoreham plant accident and court decisions have uphel,d Suffolk County's deci-sion not to adopt or implement such an emergency plan; and WHEREAS, li1 light of the recent nuclear power plant accident in the Soviet Union and its devastating effects, this Association is mindful of the potential for, and the dangers associated with, a nuclear power plant accident, and is mindful as well of the
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necessity of assuring that real and adequate protection can be provided to school children and school personnel before creating the risk of~such an accident by permitting a nuclear power plant to operate; and WHEREAS, the Long Island Lighting Company has prepared an emergency plan for Shoreham according to which LILCO employees would perform functions normally performed by duly authorized governmental officials, and'the proposed LILCO plan has been ruled by the courts to be illegal and beyond LILCO's authority to implement; and WHEREAS, the LILCO emergency plan includes provisions sup-posedly to be implemented by school officials and school person-School District which are purportedly nel in the f.nn g.,n n a intended to protect the school children in their charge from the effects of a nuclear accident at Shoreham; and
~ WHEREAS, the Board of Education for the Lengwood District has adopted a resolution setting forth its position that the proposals contained in the LILCO plan could not be implemented ef fectively by its personnel and, even if im-piemented, would not adequately protect the school children in this district in the event of a Shoreham accident, and deter-mining not to implement or cooperate in implementing any LILCO-proposed emergency plan for Shoreham; and
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V WHEREAS, the LILCO plan makes unwarranted and false assump-tions and representations about (a) the existence of plans in the Longwood District for the early dismissal, sheltering, or evacuation of children from schools in the Longwood District during a Shoreham accident; (b) the ability and willing-ness of the members of this Association to undertake or perform particular duties and actions during a shoreham accident; and (c) the purported effect,1veness of such actions even if they were takent and WHEREAS, this Association understands that according to the LILCO plan and representations made by LILCO to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, in the event of a nuclear accident at the Shoreham plant, members of this Association are expected tot (a) remain in school, inside the emergency planning zone, to supervise children during an early dismissal; (b) remain in school, inside the emergency planning zone, to s'upervise children while they are attempting to shelter from harmful ra'diation; (c) accompany children on buses which would take them through the emergency planning zone to evacuation centers to be located substantial distances away from schoolt
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(d) remain with children to supervise them in evacuation centers; and, (e) even drive school buses through the emergency planning zone as part of an early dismissal or an evacuation of schools; and WHEREAS, the Association is informed that in order to protect its own employees who are supposed to participate in implementing the proposed LILCO plan for Shoreham, the LILCO plan expressly orchibits any LILCO employees who are women of child bearing age from accepting any emergency assignments that require them to be inside the 10 mile emergency planning zone during a Shoreham accident; and WHEREAS, this Association is informed that based upon LILCO's false assumptions and representations, the Nuclear Regu-latory Commission's Licensing Board has asserted that prepared-ness in the Longwood School District is adequate to pro-tect school children in the event of a Shoreham plant emergency and that the Federal Emergency Management Agency, without even speaking with members of this Association, has ignored the fact that the Longwood District has adopted no plan to respond to a Shoreham emergency and its officials and personnel have received no training on how to respond to such an emergency; 8
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o NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the representations and' assumptions made by LILCO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the ability and willingness of members of this Association (a) to participate in implementing LILCO's illegal emergency plan for Shoreham or (b) to endanger themselves by performing emergency duties inside the emergency planning zone during an accident which LILCO does not even expect its own employees to perform, are unwarranted, without basis, and false; and be it further RESOLVED, that because members of this Association have im-portant personal obligations and responsibilities to which they would have to attend in the event of a nuclear accident at Shoreham, members of this Association cannot commit or agree to remain at school during a Shoreham accident, to accompany chil-dren on buses during an evacuation, to remain,with children in evacuation centers, or to drive school buses during an evacuation or early dismissal from a Shoreham accident; and be it further RESOLVED, that the members of this Association are not re-quired by the terms of their employment with the Lonraood School District to perform during a nuclear accident at Shoreham the actions which LILCO and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission improperly and falsely assume or expect them to perform; and be it further
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e RESOLVED, that based upon the substantial experience of its members, this Association finds that the portion of LILCO's emer-gency plan supposedly intended to apply to school children and, according to LILCO, supposedly to be implemented by school offi-cials and personnel, could not in fact be implemented in the tnn _c.un na District during a Shoreham accident; and be it further RESOLVED, that this Association believes that in the absence of a workable emergency plan that could be implementec and that would provide adequate protection for school children, the danger posed by the full power operation of the Shoreham nuclear plant should not be permitted.
This resolution was passed by the Middle Island Teachers' Association's Board of Trustees on July 15, 1986.
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