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| Issue date: | 06/25/1997 |
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June 25,1997 Mr. Dennis Rathbun Director of Congressional Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852 273C i
Dear Mr. Rathbun:
The attached communication sent to me by Jane Lee has been respectfully referred to you for your review, consideration, and comment, f
I ask that you kindly return the enclosed correspondence to Tom Davidson of my staff.
Please mail response to:
-Congressman Bill Goodling 2020 Yale Avenue Camp Hill, PA 17011
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If you have any questions, concerning this inquiry, please contact at 717-782-4526.
Thank you in advance for your assistance.
Sincerely, BILL GOODLING Member of Congress WFG/td -
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- MONDAY, JUNE 23,1997 Nuclear power lgr.
u TMI rod failurel durin shutdowM i v.v,
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Radiation levels But of more concern to the piant operators and feders oven did not increase seers is that three of the 69 ccm4 a
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BY TERCsA CANDoRI Or THE patriot NEWS while inspectors evaluate thie' problems that caused the loss of incoming pcwer which trippeC The company that operates the automatic shutdown.. At the Three Mile Island nuclear least one national network yes--
i power plant said yesterday that terday reported that radioamj Saturday's shutdown caused no tive" steam had been released
- dete-table increase in radiation from the plant. But the steami' levels cround the plant.
was no more radioactive, thanl The Nuclear Regulatory Com.
the steam released everyttisge;l mission agrees, the plant shuts down..accordk44 '
And a watchdog group that to TMI and the NRC, and didpot, mon! tors radiation levels said a increase radiation levels around momentary spike at one moni.
the plant.
- ^M toring station a mile from the plant might be meaningless.
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TMI/ Control rod malfunctions cause worry From Page 81 est e:nergency category used in the watchdog group Bil Citi-reports from othar monitoring The white mist that can be the nuclear power industry DlI zens Monitoring Network.
sites before any conclusion can seen billowing from the plant's has declared an unusual event Whitock said the device mes-be drawn.
cooling towers when the plan
- is fo'tr times in the last seven sured 50 counts - or clicks -
Neil Sheehan. spnkesraan for i
in operation is not steam, but years according to Karinch.
per minute when the normallev-the NRC. said a Commission in-j rather condensation formal According to plant officials. elis 10 counts per minute.
spector was onsite during tha in-when tie heat rising from the here's what happaned Saturday-But Deborah D:nenport, a citi.
cidant Saturday, and ha con-tower hits the cooler air.
Tie generator shut down auto-zen who monitors radiation lev-firmed there was no i-uwble Steam and gasses are released matically at 1214 p.m. after a els on both,the system main-increase in radiation levels whenever a nuclear reactor loss of incoming power.The loss tained by B11 and the citizen around the plant.
shuts down because the of power was caused by a failure group's, said the monthly level Sheehan said tie malfunction in a circuit breaker at TMI's on-at Whitock's site has been of the control rods, however, is a generator operates under ptrs.
site substation. Power was re-around 35 counts per minute.
cause forconcern.
sure. and the pressure must be released to cool down the react-stored at 1:44 p.m., and the plant with a maximum of 65.
It's snmething tley need to remained in unusual event sta-TMrs own monitoring system work on.~ ha said. The rods.
or. TMI last shut down its react.
tus until 9-21 p.m., when normal measures radiation in milirems which cre msertw1 to stop tie or in the fall of 1993.
cooling methods were restored.
per hour-0.007 per hour is nor-lission process in tha reactor's laurn Karinch. spokeswoman 11111 Whitock, who lives in mal background radiation - nuclear cere. aiv supposed to in-for GPU Nuclear, which oper-Goldsboro about a mile from the and it's complicited to compare sert in 1.6r. seconds or Ims.
ates TMI. called yesterday s plant. said he heard a loud noise the two measurements because according to GPU NucI*ar.
NBC News report "a sh:une. A and noticed steam coming from the conversion rate is different Bree of the rods tonk up to a statement she issued Saturday tie generator building and black for different sources of radia-half-second kmccr to insert.
after the plant declared the mei-smoke rising from the island.
tion. Ievels ateve 75 cmmts par Even a half-second is impor-dent an " unusual event indicat-Karinch said the noise was from minute would trigger an alarm tant." Sheehan said. "Whenever ed that Um steam contam, mi the steam escaping, and the on the citizen group's system-you nmi to shut down the plant trace amounts" of radioactist-black smoke was from the "One reading of 50 counts per in a hurry they neel to insert as ty.
plant's diesel ru.H -d Unw m-minute doesn't mean anything."
quickly as they're supposed to.
" People aren't used to the idea cy backup ganerators kicking said Davenport. who is on the Every second counts. *fhay've that a lot of things around them on.
board of directors for TM1 Citi-got to ba very stringent - '
are radioactive." she said "like But the noise, steam and zens Monitoring Network. "That The control rnd problem has the bricks in your homa your smoke prompted Whitock to little spike could be something.
surfaced several times over the own body. radiation from the cink a radiation detection de-but it is very small."
last 10 years. Karinch said tie sun, radiation from the earth."
vice on his preparty. which is She said the readings will control rods will ha tasted tMore An
- unusual event" is the low-part cf a system monitored by have to be analyzed along with tie pbnt restarts.
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Concerned that local NRC officials are not properly rnonitoring most recent unusual incident reported at Three Mile Island on 21 June 1995. believes that event is much more severe than originally reported. See attached inedia report.
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