ML20212M623
| ML20212M623 | |
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| 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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| ML20212M616 | List: |
| References | |
| FOIA-86-451, FOIA-86-A-121 NUDOCS 8608260419 | |
| Download: ML20212M623 (2) | |
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Friday, May 23,1986 17A is.ss DallasTimes Herald Remove plant's uranium,NRC urge-d 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 l
K Dallas-bsmed cittsens group uraniurn, which he says is con-saki the incidmt is an example of rnanaged.
l Thursday asked the Nuclear Regu-tained within fhe cylindncel in- " gross negleet" she says has Ramsey saidTexas Ut[Ittles' fhil.
m latory Commission to temove an struments that wlit help monitor plagued construcuan of theplant.
ure to secure a perrrut for the ura-estimated 40 grams of enriched radiation levels at tige pierd, is be-
" Dais is but the most recent nium-filled instruments was a mi-o' urenhum Dom a fbel storage boiH - Ingstored withoutan NHC permit.
event inthe continuing Comanche nor oversight, and said the Peak story of nushaps and debber-tr bu.we are being kept in a Ing at the Comenche Peak nuclear m
plantin Glen Rose.
Ramsey sakt plant ometal. 'y ate violations of federal nuclear guarded budding where uraruum-to Members of Citizens Association not reahse they did not have the safety law," Ellis said. "It's thmes age fuelis stored, for Sound Energy, a group that fle-properpermit to receive the instru-like this that destroy people's con-
- (De instruments) are not po-quently has creticised the plant ments tmtil after they arrfved May fidence in the wtiole project. If tenusUy dangmras at au " Ramse scuthwest of Fort 'Itarth, said the
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(Texas Utilities) can't obey the Law said. "You can handle them with m
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urantan is potentially dangerous MRC spokesmen said Texas Util. once the plantisin operation?"
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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
!!'s not enough supercharged want to assemble atomic bombs.ButR star Tettsress wruers see anything wrong w'tbothersus.
aald.'The facttheydon Their response should have been nted because it uraniumto makeabomb,butthe40 grains of uranium thatwere deliv. worry k unwarrawould take400 timer thatamou ertdtoComanchePeakisenoughtocausesreactionbyopponentsof the butid a Ramsey said the regulatory agen.
back."
ld i kuP ey was Informed the same day the Alembers of the Citizens Associa. 'Thisissomethingyoucou p c nuclear power plant.
h ds It'sshippedin finalon detectors arrived atthe plant tionforSoundEnergycalled'thurs. Withyourbare ao.
' not enough-alte,and the agency recommended [
day for the immediate removal of a wooden box.'Ibete s that officials keep the material ke anythin "
the safety equipment that is coated material to maEllissaldthatopponen dad not malnob.
- thers, withhtshly eariched urartium.The equipment-partof theplant'sfuel jection is that the agenc i ' fall-
'thedetectorswillnotbeusedun 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 Peak project.*1 don't see any dan-I l
ger."Noonan said the equ_lpment alm-i 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 tutofold,1f,111s said.'Ibe first danger i
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