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| Site: | 05000000, Shoreham |
| Issue date: | 08/20/1986 |
| From: | Klaus B AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Asselstine J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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t August 20, 1986 Commissioner James K. Asseltine U.S. Nucitar REGULATORY Commission Room 1136
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Dear Commissioner Asseltine,
it required but a short period of time after studying the contents of your dissent to your own NRC'S most recent suggestion that Shoreham Nuclear Station be licensed sans state or county j
participation in evacuation planning to realize that there remained j
one man whose sense of logic and concern for the safety of us q
Long Islanders was as of yet unimpaired.
f You, Mr. Asseltine, are the first clean breath of air we have been able to breathe since this nuclear plant was begun.
After all our honest contentions were summarily dismissed, J
rerouted or otherwise cast underfoot, we still held fast to the hope that the NRC was a regulatory agency and not some puffed-up pawn of the nuclear industry.
It took a lot a low shots from LILCO and most of the Commissioners themselves before we had to shed our nalevte and square up to the fact that the NRC is not a regulatory, but a promotional agency. There are little "NRCs" the world over, in every country that promotes nuclear power as a cheap, desirable, and safe form of energy.
We have begun to l
think of our United States' NRC as the kingpin of Madison Avenue" Nuke Madness, M AN-M AD, if you will.
Though the word, " mad" has mutated to assume the meaning of " angry," it derivated from
" insanity."
Licensing this nuclear station is just that.
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know about the licensee in this ' case, but we are gaining new perceptions about the licenser.
Everyone who has had the iron-walled stomach to study this j
flim-flam of a " plan," including the entire NRC, itself, knows that j
not even a hair's width of assurance for our safety and speedy evacuation is provided for.
The evacuation plan, as it is i
generously and eroneously named, does not, cannot, nor ever can provide any degree of reasonable assurance that the health and safety of our families will not be endangered by this plant's f
operation.
The latter being the irrbfutable case, the NRC unable to undermine that reality as hard as it has tried, now smears jam all over its face for all of us to see. The NRC, having contorted and reshaped many of its earlier crucial guidelines in plant-licensing procedures, breaks their one remaining, paramount rule.
Based on the hopeless truth that LILCO couldn't come up with anything better than this, and heaven 'knows the NRC has given them enough years to fabricate revisions and munificent loopholes to come up with something that achiev4; at least a facade of a plan, jq the NRC has begun to flirt with the idea of eliminating the b{
planning altogether.
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f The NRC has breached faith in the very reason for which it was commissioned, ie. to judiciously regulate and prudently license nuclear facilities.
The NRC does not feel the rightful burden of accountability l
to anyone, nor.to any principles, except to the dying nuclear industry and perhaps the President, (and if he, is not watchful, i
their freedom from accountability may even take them beyond his i
,_l scope of influence.)
That thin thread to. which LILCO's lawyers have been clinging, 4
known as the " realism" argument was never the vanguard of their
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legal arguments heretofore.
It was a legal ploy tucked way back in their grey matter because no one thought it would ever be l
needed.
And the:y hoped it would be never needed.because they l
never thought it would work.
Not until all other avenues - were exhausted did LILCO even dare to make this realism aspect into a j
serious argument.
This " realism" argument may work, however
,j feebly, in the Fifth Floor hearing rooms, but when it comes down to reality, it will speak our doom.
i LILCO's not hard to please.
They're satisfied with an 'ad hoc' arrangement for evacuation. LILCO would'even be satisfied if we evacuated by either swimming or - boating to the Rocky q
Mountains.. But now, LILCO wants the NRC to surrender one last, j
bothersome ' contention:
"Aw, come 'n boys, Suffolk 'n Albany 'll -
help if the plant blows. They're not jes gonna let all those people fry in contamination.
We'll get. somethin' t'gether--even if. it's-i at the last moment."
Whose last moment? It will be LILCO's as well.
They don't see it as possible because they,,like a. little
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child who feels cornered, believe their own lie.
That is one half the Nealism". argument. The other. half 1s
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just as-intellectually illuminating:
Presuming the plant does not i
blow its dome off-(which it very well could do, even at 5 % -)-
l they further request, 'Just give us the ' license, and in a little while, Suffolk 'll be breakin' down. our doors to get at our LERO-plan.'
1 No, Mr. Asseltine,. no ad hoc for. us,. please.
You were
...I bullseye right in your dissent, 'although some of usL would have
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-added a bit more marrow to it.
Mr. Asseltine, L0ng IslanBers have not truly come to grips with the reality that the NRC will grant ; a license to LILCO.'.
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Many with whom I have spoken, still believe that just because they so vehemently oppose a plant on an-Island from'which they cannot N
evacuate in a timely manner, that it simply won't be allowed to l
happen.. They're not aware - that for all, practical purposes (that a
j this plant has already been given its license,, being ~ allowed 'to-operate at 5% ~ or. any % - without any: hope of a plan which would 1
protect them from the reality of a Chernobyl._
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. j Further, Mr. Asseltine, most folks around here are not aware of LILCO's daily threatening occurrences.
If they were, they would have fled en masse.
Most families I know are wondering about i
such matters as do they have enough money to buy the kids new 1
school clothes.
They are not consciously worrying that the core presseres at the plant are as 'high at 5% as they will be at 100 %.
Most families I know are wonde, ring if their kids are going to j
remember their new bus numbers at dismissal on the first day at school.
They're not pondering over the temperature at the plant being as high at low power as it will be when the plant is in full swing.
They're guessing about how their kids will do, hoping for the best from a fresh, brand new start in a new grade.
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not aware of the cruciality of the over-abundant power-ups and -
downs of this plant this summer, now extending into the fall.
i Most of the folks I know have never involved themselves in the mystery of why the federal government is so exceptionally expressive in getting this particular plant on line. No, most folks I i
know are doing what they have to do in order to just keep up with life. Shoreham Power Station is bigger. than life--it swallows life whole.
Mr. Asseltine, it's a shame that your dissent could not have been more publicly viewed, perhaps printed in as bold a print as you were courageous, banner-style in the New York Times. Then, at the very least, but not in the minimal sense, our people would l
know there is one man from the NRC standing with them on this sacrificial island.
i Thankyou for your honesty.
My sorrow is that you are the only sentry on duty.
- 3. n-B.J. Klaus
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UN!TED STATES OF AMERICA NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION In the Matter of I
I LONG ISLAND LIGHTING COMPANY l
Docket No.(s) 50-322-OL-3 l
(Shoreham Nuclear Power Station) 1 I
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
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I hereby certify that copies of the foregoing. Memo Davis to Clements have been served upon the following persons in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR section 2.712.
Administrative Judge Administrative Judge
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Alan S. Rosenthat, Chairman Gary J. Edles i
Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal
- Atom'ic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board Board il.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission l
Washington, DC 20535 Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge i
Howard A. Wilber Administrative Judge i
Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Morton B. Margulies, Chairman j
' Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board l
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory' Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 1
Administrative Judge Administrative Judge j
Jerry R. Kline Frederick J. Shan Atomic Safety and Licensing Board-Atomic Safety and Licensing Board j
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nucisar Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 3,l Edwin J. Reis, Esq.
W. T. Reveley, Ill, Esq.
Office of'the General Counsel Hunton & Williams U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission P.O. Box 1535 Washington, DC 20555 Richmond, VA 23212 C. K. Mallory, !!!, Esq.
Herbert H. Brown, Esq.
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Hunton k Williams Kirkpatrick & Lockhart 2000 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
1900 M Street, N.W., Sulto 800 Washington, DC 20036 Wasnington, DC 20036 4
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Dochet No.(s) 90-333-OL-3
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Memo Davis to Clements h
Lawrence C. Lanpher, Esq.
Stephen B. Latham, Esq.
Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Twomey, Latham & Shus 1900 M Street, N.W., Suite 800 33 West Second Street
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Washington, DC 20036 Riverhead, NY 11901
.l Anthony F. Earley, Jr., Esq.
Nora L. Bredes General Counsel Executive Coordinator.
Long Island Lighting Company Shoreham Opponents Coalition 175 East Old Country Road 195 East Main Street Hicksville, NY 11801 Smithtown, NY 11707 j
1 Dr. Robert Hoffman Monroe Schneider 1
Long Island Coalition for Safe Living North Shore Committee l
P.O. Box 13SS P.O. Box 231 Massapequa, NY 11758 Wading River, NY 11792 Spence W. Perry, Esq.
Jay Dunkleberger Associate General Counsel New York State Energy Office Federal Emergency Management Agency Agency Bldg. 2, Empire State Plaza 500 C Street, S.W.
Albany, NY 12223 Washington, DC 20472 l
Stewart M. Glass, Esq.
Fabian G. Palomino, Esq.
Regional Counsel Special Counsel to the Governor 1
Federal Emergency Management Agency Office of the Governor 26 Federal Plaza, Room 1349 State Capitol, Room 229 New York, NY 10278 Albany, NY 12224 Jonathan D. Feinberg, Esq.
Staff Counsel Mary M. Gundrum, Esq.
New York State Public Service New York State Department of Law Commission Two World Trade Center, Room 4614 3 Rockefeller Plaza New York, NY 10047 Albany, NY 12223 Martin B. Ashare, Esq.
Peter Bienstock, Esq.
Suffolk County Attorney New York State Department of Law Suffolk County Offices -
Two World Trade Center, Room 4614 H. Lee Dennison Building l
New York, NY 1S047 Veterans Memorial Highway Hauppauge, NY 11788 i
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' Docket No.(s) 90-322-OL-3 Memo Davis to Closents 9
Joel Blau Director, Utility Intervention State Consumer Protection Scard t
99 Washington Avenue Albany, NY 12210 Dated at Washington, D.C. this 4 day of September 1986 j,g/jg,
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