ML20212M623

Package of News Articles Re Case Opposition to U Removal from & Delivery to Plant

ML20212M623
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	05/23/1986
From:	Lindsey D, Millar B, Potter K DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM, FORT WORTH, TX
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FOIA-86-451, FOIA-86-A-121 NUDOCS 8608260419
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i is.ss Friday, May 23,1986 17A, DallasTimes Herald '

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• 1: ens group, crtuctaed the NRC's ing aNRC construction pmnft also By DAVIDIJND5EY hdtardous.

- Texas Utihties spokesman Dick deetsson to aHow storage of the in- undermined gxiblic confklence in Staffwrtter Ramsey acknowledged that the struments d Comanche Peak, and the way the facility is being K Dallas-bsmed cittsens group uraniurn, which he says is con- saki the incidmt is an exampleRamsey of rnanaged.

saidTexas Ut[Ittles' fhil. m Thursday asked the Nuclear Regu- tained within fhe cylindncel in- " gross negleet" she saysure has to secure a perrrut for the ura-latory Commission to temove an struments that wlit help monitor plagued construcuan of theplant.

" Dais is but the most recent nium-filled instruments was a mi- o' estimated 40 grams of enriched radiation levels at tige pierd, is be- event inthe continuing Comanche nor oversight, and said the urenhum Dom a fbel storage boiH - Ingstored withoutan NHC permit.

• Peak story of nushaps and debber- tr bu.we are being kept in a Ing at the Comenche Peak nuclear . m Ramsey sakt plant ometal. 'y ate violations of federal nuclear guarded budding where uraruum- to plantin Glen Rose. "

Members of Citizens Association not reahse they did not have the safety law," Ellis said. "It's*(De thmes age fuelisare instruments) stored, not po-for Sound Energy, a group that fle- properpermit to receive the instru- like this that destroy people's con- -

quently has creticised the plant ments tmtil after they arrfved (Texas May Utilities) fidence can't in thethewtiole obey project.

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scuthwest of Fort 'Itarth, said the 'l fkom a Californiasupplier. m now, what are they gtsng to do your bare gands, and they're N urantan is potentially dangerous MRC spokesmen said Texas Util. once the plantisin operation?"

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MAY 23,1986 Friday FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM Foes decry uranium delivery to plant "The material was ahlpped and is that the uranium is bomb grade received and sto:sd without a per.

By MAREN PO'!"fER auality,she said,and eould be attrac- mit. In the meanilme, the NRC and BRUCE MILLAR tlve to I.errorists and groups that didn'tknowit,and they don't really ith it" she star Tettsress wruers see anything wrong w'tbothersus.

!!'s not enough superchargednted want to assemble atomic bombs.ButRa because it aald.'The facttheydon Their response should have been uraniumto makeabomb,butthe40 grains of uranium thatwere deliv. worry k unwarrawould take400 timer thatamou back."

ertdtoComanchePeakisenoughtocausesreactionbyopponentsof ld i kuP eyRamsey said the regulatory agen.the butid a nuclear power plant. h ds It'sshippedin was Informed the same day the Alembers of the Citizens Associa. 'Thisissomethingyoucou

' not enough- finalon detectors arrived p c plant atthe tionforSoundEnergycalled'thurs. Withyourbare ke aanythin " ao .alte,and the agency recommended [

day for the immediate removal of wooden box.'Ibete that officialsskeep the material the safety equipment that is coated materialmalnob. to not dad maEllissaldthatopponen thers, withhtshly eariched urartium.The i ' fall- 'thedetectorswillnotbeusedun equipment-partof theplant'sfuel jection is that the agenc '

plant alts near Glen Rose May 6, CASE contends that the equip. ment, mentwasshippedinvlo6stionoffed '

erallaubecauseplantowneraTexas Ut,Ilties Electric Co. had not yetreceived a permitforit,grouplead.

erJuanita Ellis said.

But both the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and plant owners say thereis no cause for alarm.%ey have everyrighttobavelf,"

said Vince Noonan,the regulatory agency'sdirector fortheComanche I Peak project.*1 don't see any dan-l i ger."Noonan said the equ_lpment alm-ply w as"le f t of f" Texas Utilities' ear-lier request for a fuellicense.

Uranium fuel was debeered pre-and now both the fueland f eleusly, ion detectors, as they are th4 fiss kqewn..are- stored in a separate butidingthatis protected by accurb ty,estd Dick Ramsey, Texas Utilities spokesman. Plant opponents' worries are i

tutofold,1f,111s said.'Ibe first danger

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