ML20214Q087
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| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 10/17/1986 |
| From: | Walker R HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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. 1ITw DesinCT. Ps=Nsnwma JOHN W. HOWARD WASMeNGTON OFFCE MARC T. PHILUPS GOVERNMENT OPERATeONS DeSTRCT OFFCES SC:7.NCE AND TECHNOLOGY house of Representatibes Masfjington, B.C. 20515 October 17, 1986 Mr. Carlton Kammerer Director, Congressional Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
20555
Dear Mr. Kammerer:
The attached communication is sent for your consideration.
Your investigation of.the statements contained therein would be help-ful.
In addition, I would greatly appreciate any information necessary to make a satisfactory reply to my constituent, as well as the return of the enclosed correspondence.
Thank you for your cooperation in this regard.
I will look forward to hearing from you at your earliest opportunity,
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OWhpthe w hee "u'"bmerm eemanraa Plant industry.
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Bottom AHiance tPBA)lety w.
Maise says two serious formed to focus on the sa seest
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aded Domes Besse plant in Ohio and the Ran-PBA menibers met week insed aganization talpb N r.
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on the NRC.
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A subcomittee of the House shared i mation on energy i dant:mergency shutdowns,which Cenesings Energy Committee requested the ternatives, oppnsed further devi y
NRC undertake an internalinves-opment of nuclear power a iring plant operations to a rapW m
tigation to determine to what ex-helped persuade the,Maryla halt are risky business because tent its " failure to correct knowti legislature to resist dum mg he/ place tremendous strains on ent weaknesses and de-radioactive water from ir
'pment and operators, Public ysignects" m responsible for the Susquehanna Rmr, neau tiaen hterature en laina.1he e
the Davis-Besse accident. ' The the former president. Stan Kolle UtC estimated in leefthat a fifth h
subcommittee said, in eNect, that a b6 ologist who lived in Card, if all component malfunctions NRC wasnt paymg attendon Md.
accur anu such emwgency abut.
With the~finner pointing at the But gradually the gro Iowns.
a1he NRC, in its latest Sys-NRC, the NRC 6egan pouq_the " burned out " Kollar said. Voh fin er. Malze says the NItC teers. scrardbh'r.g to find the tir ematic Ammenment of IJcensee
%h fight, confronted the utsh. ; o ked some of the weak sisters and the money b,
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'erformance (SALP) report, crit.
w cized the Peach Bottom operator Verk Co.
sla around."
or "inattendon to detail,' ' tom-believes that publiciz-employees at every pubbe me PEACH ing the dangers of the worst ing. " Eventually you get 0; ala
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oversight.".
BOTT004 plants and aEministering "a slap gunned,"Kollar said.
in last years Peach on the wrist"in the form of a fine lottom, which sits in southern will take the heat off the NRC if
.But thm m anothn reas (ork Q>unty, south of the Norman afba
,a wi wha ir a eil or xc ing pow nuclear teatup rates and pressure limits; Map loceke Pooch.Benem, ny allowing these plants to contin-
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a some modifications or Taize the NRC should al and wm receivmg lar sitI erdin radiatie doses at work, cc dupp r west ts, such as Maninf be shutting down plants like vinced a number of PBA me.
o na sprays inside the 8=nWatr to Peach Bottom. "In this regulato-bers to moveout of the area.
nosN' em'rabeestounremaanaNe-cool gases, backup power environment the only way I
eve 2if tion. In addition to keep cochng pumps somg a ts get shut down isif the utih-Xollar himself " thought his year:
e 1he NRC levied a $300.000 blackout and vents.
voluntary shuts down or was the next ' cal candidate i 1he reactor that melted down blow up and shut ves a major ace'
." He took Ine againd PECo for control red -at Gernobyl was not i==ad in a down " Maize said.
leave of absence from his test emovat mistah*= made by four concrete acd steel marnament 1he only protection is in pub-ing job at Harford Commun icensed reactor operators during he Un$ 3 startup m March.
building as is at Ameri licvigilance Maizesaid. -
CollUe and moved to the Controt rod removal resultsin can commerical anta. At Ger-Daniel ford, USC's former fala n but has since r.tensification of the nuclear fis. sebyl, redsoacti was spread executive director, puts it this hve in Norrisville.
, Soviet citizens have no
- Everyone is concerned.
way: " heir country's nuck v pro-stops there " said Kollar. T sion reaction and producuon of over a earea.
wat. Untimelv removal could eini most
- move, say in t sllow the reaclion to get out of the NRC added Peach to a gram. American citize:s, if plant is generally perceived as list of " problem niants" submit. enough of them exercise their good neignbor who7vides nor
'nand. I e Barold Denico, the NRC of. tad to the House toergy Commit-rights.can have the finalword?
income to the area 5cial who presided over the TMI tee's subcommittee on energy a1he NRC has charged the After PBA dishandad, fortr accident, cr:Ucized Peach Bot. conservation and power in July, plant rators with complacen-members like John S.
"K-Am's ytanagement before an au. citing "sporadae mnhapa." relat-cy. A onal subcommit-Adams of Airville j*oined the 14 Sience.of l ancaster Rotarians in ed to " poor actices and ald-tee has the NRC its been caster-based %m== Val; tudes"at the ant.
derelict in its oversight duties. Alliance (SVAWhile Carol Ni fune, occusing PEco of being In the of Neil McDer-But the public also seems to share aan of Delta went to a few Yt preoccupied" with its new Lim.
track auclear plant to the detri. mott, esman for PECo, the the penc-hant forlooking the other Enviornmental Alliance (YE ment of the Peach Bottom plant.
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the TMI accident y eitsent a SVA, formed b IJnkin Peach Bottom with need to improve upon and that's Before the TMI accident, a had some to FMI and
, he said the exactly what we're to do."
citizens'
, Save Solanco En-biggest threat om nuclear He predicted a '
vironmen successfully opposed *mitment to Peach Bottom ora power is by poor manage. ment in. reports (from NRC PECo's to build another nally. "It is in our objective ment, not nuclear technology.
about the planD and the public's reactor ce the Lancaster County watch Peach Bottom," si eThe RC ordered a special confidence should be raised,that side of the river in Fulton Town-Frances Skolnick SVA spok inspection team to undertake Philadelphia Electric is runmng a stup. George Boomsma and Tom woman. Yet with the batue os round4beclock monitert'ng of the quality operation at Peach Bot-Spackman, both of Peach Bottom, what to do with TMI radioact-tom."
wem active until the group won waste water just getting tuu, plant in June because os its re.
McDermott said while the its Dght and disbanded.
way,"I cant see that we ever.
neated. violadons of NRC proce. NRC may seem critical of Peach noomsma, a former sales-have the time, energy or mone) ilures..
e pather NRC ofDelal said Bottom management, the NRC's man who describes himsar as On the other side of the riv-in Juiv that General Electric latest SALP rqort gave manafe- ** sidelined" by a 1982 struke, said YEA has also focused on D Mark.1 containment buildings, ment high marzs in matar*naw it wasn't easy to rally support in though the Peach Bottom p; ant withm its borders. Spokeswom
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like the two at Peach Bottom. and refueling the his small ru al communi.
r would failin nine out of10 serious utahty.was on for "There was a great dealof apa Jean Fiz said YEA "could nes much of the an====
period-then and that continues " he sai. -
any interest down there,"
accidents. Wayne Houston deputy 1he dihty will use that argument Eemema said be found le-area surroundmg theplant.
director of sne Bot'h~ng %ater of tne NRC were more concerned abou w t
" People in Delta dos. 6 waat Reacter Division was referring to in the bogbe
.000 finen they mistakenly thought were know, don't want to hear it."M tolower.
a neu* study under way that re.
PECo has made nochangesin more important issues, une mak-Nilsson said about the NRC's I vivedb' anfety debate going on
""""'ement in response to NRC ing a hving.
estalarmsconcerningPeach ;
sincePeseti Bottom, like Cherno. critietsm. McDermott said, and etman, who is reUred, re-tom.
he denied Denton's charge that he had powerful motivation As a PBA member who cirt is a boihng-water reactor byl. d pressure-subression con.
PEco ed Peact Bot 40getinvolvedinthat f!ght.PECo lated petitions, Mrs. Nilsson "3 '
with tom to boost
, which would have taken his 30 acre a lot of flak," from ant peol tainmknt system.
steam re.
went on line in Febmary. " Opera-starsi. a-e and from towns she sa leased during an accident is sup. tors at Peach Bottom have a tre
. Spackman a id he has rea'd 5he had her b business posedto be condensedin a poolof mendas amount of experience about the recent fine and the think alaut. Then she receis ;
water to hmit the pressure inside the containment buddmg' and,really are doing a Arst-rate strong criticism the NRC has threats of physicalharm.
on lower job.
been cashing out to Peach Bottom Mrs. Nilsson is no longer a i the ch Bottom t
He called an Enkage of minarement. It-doesn't surprise tive in any anti-nuclear group. * '
h'ghter and Peach Bottom and yl "ri-him. And after J4 years of resi-got too scary for all or us. T i e is smaller $uild than the diculas."
dency near the plant, it doesn't best thing to do is foren it.1 l buil money to t McDermott said a nuclear in-even alarm him.
le arent going Io chan cost con t buildings at TMI dustry group is working with the "We recognise the, dangers
- s. There's no sense losi wtuch'do not rely on pressuresup' NRC t, assure that their sugges-and so forth. It's something we re-Efe or upsettmg your far 1)e NRC is currently consid. tions for -*==nt improm ally cant & anything about,", y"shedecidd pressionto assist containment.
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