ML20214G769
| ML20214G769 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Columbia  |
| Issue date: | 10/10/1973 |
| From: | Boyd R US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Moore V US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| References | |
| CON-WNP-0101, CON-WNP-101 NUDOCS 8605220486 | |
| Download: ML20214G769 (5) | |
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WASHINGTON 20545 October 10, 1973 NOTE T0: Voss Moore Please prepare a memo from J0'L to L W on the Hanford situation as indicated in the attached press clipping and LM's note. Get input from Dick and Dan. If comments on exemptions are appropriate, they should be included. (Bill Mcdonald, with his Yellow Book, may have some info on the construction delays for Unit 2.) Shoot for the end of next week to complete this.
Roger S. Boyd, ADDRP cc:
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Could you have an analysis of these delays made.
It is time to tell it the way it is in the northwest.
If we have a problem, let 's get to it.
If not, let's say so.
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i llanforfs labor force will the unicn, said the 14.000 -
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Ferguson said the outlook The session was sponsored for llanford is Nery stable" by Plumbers and Steamfitters ed on for use in the 1941'Jfd f'
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/# f f rd Compary for a was'e watts in the winter of 1977 73 retovery system and a s@ of N,000 k!b
[g waatts for the win;er of 1%0 Fergusen said if the pro, cram proves feasible, "cer-
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Model said BPA has 2ndh T
cations tom plants usi be the shutdwt of eight reac-delJied a year.
tors. He said the la;ihts has At Rich:and, Wad, a n b gger operatin;; budge:
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(('lOl}h smkesann for WPPSS s.:Id tuday becau;c of a d m t-k is possiYe txrh projects esticattor trorratn.
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lic gave the T r L.C i t y two nuclear pnacr plants te11 sti'l hopes tn rieet f;s h J( 103r Iodubtrill CoPC;I wf,[ rnten a pO Aer shortJf,4 o rlEin al schr<u!e.
T*,7 credit fer eviverting liarhed for the No;th aest rnore sett stoke.sman sa:d the delays.!
I' freta a wartime la peacet rte ous than earher pmdictk*ti fLthav dw+s w:11 resatt ind:cated, Baar'eville Powej Tro n nngg I.n er-I Adm nmc.n ieporte gy Cmimis son ream aWis /
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the I adla Northwest over t.a aext.$esera! years 1/xat comteir two plants
!fes ur.ons wil: deterrua,e how t4 m N tMt t.v Wa.h.n;*in rT ct m a rp o w e r reta.re-pu5.s Power Supp:y Syste-1 wrnld mean 2.3 miUXn kib n.ents,
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No.1 cooling plan rejected by EPA 7.w-%3 Orice-through use of Cd rrest of the proposed stan-D e heat limit has been "It boks hke EPA intended mum stress cendit: ens fer umbia II.ser eater to cool dards, but rejerted the section bitterly disputed since the to p r e h i b i t once4hrcugh fisn.
a replacement Int N remetor regubtmg mater temperature state was required to draft conimg mth their decision.
However, the Washmgton at Iba crd has beca rejected increases dv to mamade new water standards by the "They've taken a firm Public Power Supply System, r
by ec Environrwnta! l'ro-heat sources. repnrted George Natronal Water Quahty Act position on it, and unless we which operates flatford No te< lion Agency.
liassen. E e o I e g > planning cf 1972.
change it, they wi:1 go ahead I, repeatedly has testiled the f
Construction of the N replac-supervuor, ne state first planned to with their own temperature river organ:sms show no ef.
c*rcat phr.t. also caDed llan-De federal a;;ency called reenmmend a half-degree standard "
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- t. is scheduled to for a half 4cgra !ctit on hmit, tnen reverted to the discharges.
start this year. N discharges temperature increases, while original s!iding scale after lie said the state hopes to Hansen noted that regar.
its cocb. t mater into the rive. the state had reenmmended statewde bearmgt decide by Thursday uhether d! css of the temper:ture he re;cction came as part a shd.ng temperature scale The fixed lim:t likely would to antinue pressing for a linuts fmally adepted. cnce-of the EPA's actinn os the v,"ch would allow more heat prohibit direct discharge of shding scale.
through cooling could be state's mater quahty stan-to be released at lower river coolmg water into the river.
l{ansen said the strict !!mit allowed if it can be shown dards proposed by tbc ten pera!.:res.
which is now beir:g planned was ordered because EPA harmless to the environment.
N Departmcit cf Fcology.
EPA has Imal autMnty en for the rebuilt llanford. No.
beheves high ri y e r tem-De EPA also has fmal The I?PA Manday ampicd the standards _
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peratures are creating masi-authority in that decision.
TnI-CT: E.NLD 9-14-73 ea v4 Plant tests n-waste disposal A test plant at the llanford residue by the process.
E o g i neering Development recovery of the main conta-he volume reduction is minant, plutonium.
1.aboratory is "catmg" into the problem of rubd waste especiary important during Untd now all contaminated nuclear iueI fabrication, solid waste at IIanford has dqumt now facmg ihe where about a cubic yard of been compacted and buried nuclear industry.
he pilot plant uses a mis-waste is generated for every inside steel drums to await inre of imt concentrated sul-100 kilograms of fuel, a IIEDI, a more effective disposal spckesman said.
method.
farie and nitric acids to d:ssoire combustible wastes A cubic fact of solid waste he test plant is scheduled that have become conta-can be dissolved down to to operate for two years at minated with radioactive about a pint of Lght powder.
IIEDL, operated by the matenals.
The process also guarantees Westinghouse llanford Co. for Wastes such as plastics, safe containrrent of the the Atomic Energy Cem.
wnnd. paper, rags and rubber radioactive residues during mission in suppert of the are redund mfo a low-handling and storage. And the nation's breeder reaetor yoIume. non-combustible volume reduction sirnphfics research.
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in delays of Hanford 1,2 7-/Z~73 a full year's delay car be No, I replacement of the N ne schedule for Hanford By 7031 JtlGERT
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licrald Science Writer He blamed the delayt en reactor hs. ret been fixed well enough to say how much Expeeted construction three mais facters:
delays of Hanford's two e Atomic E n e r g y Cem-delay it will experience, he nuclear power plants will mission regulatsma have been added.
cause huge power deficits, the changed to prohibit any cen-
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' B o n n i. v iiI e Power Ad-struction except for westher pended to maintam the ministration has announced.
towers before issuance of an mmerciai sc W ed c operation date,p, he said.
An cxpected year's delay in i Atomic Energy Commission the 1.2 milhon kilowatt llan-construction permit.
ford No. 2 will cause an elec-This could cause an 8-t>9-The expected delays fir >t trical shortage of nearly one month delay in the H6cford came to Lght hadey right milhon kilowatts, a BPA No. I reconstruction, which during testimony by EPA ad-spokesman said.
has not yet been hcensed by ministrator Don flodel before A similar delay.in the 1.3-the AEC.
a jointlegislathe session.
million lulawatt Hanford No.
At that hearing Hodel said I would produce another f 9 Quahty assurance re-million kilowatt shortage in quirements for pla:t con-WPPSS had informed.him struction have been steadily both plants would be delayed 198481, he added.
increased. nis is the major a year or more.
A spokesman for ihe cause of Hanford No. 2 delays Washington Public P o w e r If o w e v e r, a WPPSS Supply System said Tuesday '
so far, the spokesman said.
spckesman toda) denied the startup of Hanford No. 2 will O Environmental protection org mzat:on told liPA that.
probably be set,back a full is taking up in c r e a sin g lie said BPA apparently con-year - to 1978 - becaase amounts ot time and money, cluded a year's delay was of construction delays The spokesman said delays likely for both p! ants after And meeting the Hanford at ifanford No. 2 "have e'i-d.seussion about lar.g lead times now required far plant No.1 reconstruction target of minated any potpntial leeway 12 is nct impossible, al-in the schedule to the point construction.
Only Hanford No 2 now is thou;h very tight," he added.
where further delays could faced with a certaia delay lie said it's still too early have sericus effects on the of a year,he asserPd.
in the project to tell whether who'e schedule."
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