ML20217J852

Submits Info Re 2.206 Petition Under 10CFR20 Against Ga Institute of Technology Nuclear Research Reactor Located on Campus of Ga Tech in Middle of Downtown Atlanta

ML20217J852
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Site:	Neely Research Reactor
Issue date:	07/28/1997
From:	Blockeyobrien AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Bechhoefer C, Kline J Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO)
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'Iho Executive Direstor, US NRC, Frms lionorable Judges Dochhoefer, Kline and Lam, Pamela Blockey-O'Brien, US NRC Atmic Safety and Licensing Doard, D23 Golden Valley, The Comissioners of the NRC, Douglasv1110, GA 30134 lionorable Albert Goro, ,

Vice President of the US.

President William Jefferson Clinton, Prosident of the United States.

Senator - Max Cleland, GA.

Senator John Kerry, MA.

11onorable Director CIA.

'Iho lionorablo Director of the FBI.

Ron Docket No: 50-160 REN (ASLEP No. 95-704-01 REN and my 2.206 Petition under 10 CFR Chapter 20 against the Georgia Institute of 'Ibchnolog Nuclear Research Reactor located on the campus of Georgia Tech in the middle of downtown Atlanta surrounded by countless thousands of peop10, and all my additional letters sent in under my 2.206 Petition , plus my 20 pages of testimony , maps and approx 500 pages of supporting documents presented to the lionorable Judges Dochhoefer, Kline and Lam at the hearing (which were also sent to NRC to be considered under my 2.206 Petition.) and my lettere to the Presidont and my telogram to the President on this matter.

1) I wish to make sure t' at everything I gave the Judges, plus my entire 2,206 Potition and all other letters I sent in were made part of the GANE/

ASLDP/ Docket 50-160-REN files and also placed in the 50-160 Filo on Tech and their Neely Nuclear Research Reactor, and that the testimony to the 11onor-6 10 Judges and approx. 500 pages of support documents were entered under my 2.206 Petition.

2) You all haven't heard from me partly because dealing with the hhite llouse, the DOE, the NRC (Osent the lionorable Judges ,who I hold in high estceam) on thers issues is similar to being gassed in the trenches in hWI.

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2 If anything is eveer achieved for the good of humanity, it is a) short lived, b) those in positions of authority or power repeat the process in other guises, usually for reasons of greed and power but often out of sheer stupidity,so the sacrifices made have little effect , c) the cost is maiming, d) something worse than gas gets invented by people who should be safely tucked away in asylums for the criminally insano,but,who are instead held up as personages to be emulated. And it's all business as usual.

I just finished reading NRC's " Proposed Findings of Fact. .'.'. blah , blah of Oct. 25th, 1996, on the famed License renewal. I believe the title should be changed to " Techs' radioactive ants are"not substantially worse " than others in our Proposed Findings of Fact" , or something like that - I mean overy time NRC opens its mouth on the 1bch issue it seems to put both feet in it. To say/ make comparisons with how badly other reactors are run across the country in an attempt to mke Tech with the highest number of violations in all, look

) better is a bit like saying

• that , even though Joe, itxn and liarry are drug dealers - Izzy in Atlanta , who is also a drug dealer,is not quito as bad as 3 Izzy doesn't do as much cocaine even if his marijuana sales are up. Its ludicrous and its dangerous and its WRCtO. (see pages 96/97 ) And the radioactive ants in Cherry Iberson -- p.133 - are appalling - ants have extensive tunnelling systems and can spread contamination all over, let alone pass on mutatifons to other unts and to any birds that may devour them etc. etc. NRC is sure to say that having radioactively contaminated ants strolling around a university campus has nothing to do with whether or not that dump of a reactor should be relicensed.

Or that it is in an area of stuff licensed by the state. It would show that the State should not be allowed to license anything and that since reactor IIP staff also have oversight it shows that Tech can't be trusted to handle their radiation programs on campus as they are onco again causing contamination.

In one of the mountain of letters NRC has sent me (some of which I could not pick up from the post office so they got returned to NRC- prcbably doesn't mtter anyway ao they were sure to 1;e full of the same runaround) h goes into the tritium contamination found in soil (a:rarpad up sail, nctatteagid

3' d the reactor as3 measured in grams, with the conclusion by some bunch of great minds, that it was all no big deal, that the " total offectivo doso fr m theH-3isinsignificant",(,NRCInspectionReport 50-160 96-03 )

First, neither pUcplo nor animals stand on one gram of soil. Multiply thoso contaminated grams of soil and you have got one big radioactive mess, all leaching to groundwater. The sama applies to the CO-60, Cs-137 IU 238, U 235,.Ha 226 and 1h-232 found. (the words " The measurement results indicato that there is essentially no co-60 present" are enough to gag a mulo) Think in terms of the thousands upon thousands of kilos of soil fr m the top of which a little scrape was taken and the picturo looks very bicak, but hoy, EPA mara levels varo not exceodoc the same EPA who just dumped thousands of contaminated sitos from their cleanup lists (dbuldn't in bothered with all that public health and environmental safety either ) 1ho samo EPA that regulatos the ENSCO incinerator in El Dorado, Arkansas thathasboon'burkng"plutoniuminviolationofFederallawsovohavenothingtovor about . . .. 'lho reactor basoment area is ropod off as it is contaminated, but that's OK too it scoms. NRC has concluded its not spreading outsido the controlled area

- translation = past the repo. Give ma a break. . . 21 mr/hr and lots of use of the word" indicated"E Not very specific is it ? In the Oct. 25th 1996 NRC Radio-activo Ant document we find that management can reach consensus on what goes in j

inspection reports even though they did n,o,t do the inspection. Disgraceful.

In NRC's Sept. 26th letter to me it is stated I never provided anything or. the mud flap that blasted reactor sits on. I have repdated until I'm blue it is in the ORIGINAL 1960 Safeguards Report. I included the p art in my back-up documents which go with the testimony to the judges and which I Ant in to be put under my 2.206 Petition to NRC.'lho page in the Jan.1960 Safe-guards report is page 80. First t.ind second lino of the second paragraph :"'Iho flat tank bottm rests upon concreto footings and a MID FLAP" Among the worst, is that the NRC and 'Ibch allowed the William Downs situttion to go on and on. And now, we have an Assistant Reactor Manager, who is barely out of diapers3 appointed to such a position at such a terribio facility. No matter how good he might bo, or thinks he is, this is no place for young graduates with little experienco except as a student thero. . Its no placo for anyone, period.

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I could continuo to disect the thousands upon thousands of words and roams of paper on this entiro situation, but it appears the way a lot of it is handlod is dono in other ways anyway. For examp10, I have boon told soma of it was handled over dinner. If this is the caso, then the NRC can tell Mr. Coro (and Mr. Clinton ) that chatting to the Governor over dinnor about what to do concerning the reactor (prior to tho Olympics) just L

doesn't quito got it. And If leaving the whole sorry mass downtown is the White llouse, NRC and DOE's idea of protocting the public and the environ-ment and ground water supply , that is pretty pathetic.

NRC , in an Oct 24th 1996 letter to mo (NRC's response to my June 27, '96 phone call to Pres. Clinton on the dangers concerning this dump of a radio-activo ocxnplex- ) NRC " assure" (S) me that the way the entiro situation was

, handled beforo, during and after tho Olympics was that everyonoi.e. the Federal Government including the NRC (Nrc's words) took "appropriato action" to "onsuro an acceptablo lovel of protection for public health and safety with regard to the Goorgia 'Ibch Noely Nuclear Research Contor, because I had said (more or loss ) nothing had been dono, and overyone who has dealt with me l

on this issuo knows that I mean NtmlING OF SUDSTANCE REGARDIlO RDiOVAL OF EVERYTilltU OUP OF DOWtnUWN. 'Iho hundreds of thousands of curies of co-60 are still thoro etc. etc. MayIremindNRC,thatasaresultofmyraisingcortILR4 security issues to FBI and NRC -(which netther had considorod) - certain major sect:rity upgrades woro undortaken}but my point had boon to remove overy-thing. You all throw money at it, but the problem is the same. IT'S 'HIERE.

Purthormore, the llead of Government Secured Installations at Toch was not even awaro that the underground mazo containing the infamous co-60 irradiator existed a stones throw from the 'Ibch Presidents house and the Olympic housing.

110 found out when I told him, which he and ,I both found outrageous in that he had to bo told by an "outside" person, llad it been exposed, or gotten into tho wrong hands, it could have killed countless people, not just poor bunny rabbits and dogs that sickos experiment on. And where is it now ? Still l

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. 5' d uck under that useless 7/0ths of an inch thick containment demo ?

1ho damnod thing should be sent back to the Canadians from whence it came.

I am completely against any re-start of this dump of a reactor. In an article in the 1/1/1965 issue of the Atlanta Constitution / Journal it showed how the reactor first vont critical for about five minutos, after which they had a malfunction and had to shut it down. Unsaid, is what Mr. Doyd told me, namely that the placo filled up with radioactive Argon and leaked like a sievo.

It has boon ono malfunction, leak, disastor over since. - a recent example (one of a bunch) is in the July 3rd 1996 Notice of Violanion and Notico of Deviation NRC Inspection Report 50-160/96-02 concerning the contamination ovent during the March 18th to March 29th 1996 timeframe where it was found about 100 square fect in the reactor containment building was reading about 400 cpn abovo background (WilAT background ???) - the excuso was the usual .

11mro was also alpha and beta going out the capola over the high bay roof, but hoy, below the limits .. (pity it wasn't done when I had asked for it, 1.0. during the fuoi removal) . 1 hen wo have all that interfer Anco from " naturally occurring radon" going out the stack (ccxne on guys, ) hlnd the "licensoo does not routinely decay correct for the particulato radioactivity".

And thoro voro activation products present in the floor fuel storage vator but no fission products (how lucky can we get ?) ;

Unliko some of the GANE positions on this dump, I believe the entire complex should be dismantled ploco by picco and all nuclear material and the contaminated campus soil removed and taken to a " government National Sacrifico Area" such as SRS or Oak Ridge as those sites are already contaminated beyond belief but scrne containment it being dono at thoso sitos. I would ngt necessarily say this if the Toch Reactor and complex were not in the middle of a city,on a campus;in a high groundwater area and part of the Chattahoochoo River Basin upon which millions depend., as I am not in favor of shunting this radioactivo crud around the nation under most circumstances. Plus these sacrifice areas bro closo, so students and faculty can go there to study how to cloaa up Danto's Inferno.

There is contamination at the facility and in soil outside, NRC itself also now admits it even while trying to play it down. I said there would be, there is.

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As copies of this are going to two law enforcement / intelligence agencies most poopio don't want to either go near or touch with a ten foot pole, namely the C.I. A. an-and the FBI (both of whom my well have been wasting their time for years tracking peoplo like myself and getting all their info wror.g in the process anyway (!) in-stead of going after criminals and terrorists and the criminally insano - I could not resist this little asido) I want to make it clear that the reason they are getting it, is sheer desperation on my part, as I hope SCHEBODY will vake up and realizo scamfaing has to be done about this situation to get this nuclear mess out of downtown Atlanta ( and similar off other University campuses) as it is a sitting duck for any criminal mind out there as I have said repeatedly.

Memo to the CIA and the FBI Are you guys aware that nuclear crud is being sont round the world on an almost continuous basis ? By land, sea and air ? Want more details ? Come and seo me sometime.

Mr.po to the CIA, the FBI and President Clinton : According to news reports, the President is going to appoint the former Secretary of Transportation, Mr. Pena to head the IDE. Now Mr. Pena my be a very nice man, but as far as heading the DOE is concernod j it is absolutely insano to appoint someone who just fell off the turnip truck with regard to detailed knowledge about all of the nucioar ago frcan wea pons to hoalth effects to the thousands of dumpsites containinated with radlation.

It is an outrage. Put it another way : If someone owns a hotel and needs a chef, they do not go out and hiro a truck driver who only knows how to cook ham and eggs.

'lho head of the DOE should be a radiological health specialist with a broad knowledge of all the aforementioned and a special concern about the effects of radiation on children and the environment. Does the fact that the DOE vants to ship enormous amounts of highly radioactive, deadly wasto across the US by road and rail over the next twenty years, despite the fact that their own documents show how many deadly catastrophes will occur , have anything to do with a Transportation Secretary being nominated ? Ah, I wondor......

Nothing quito liko sacrificing the public on the altar of stupidity to pleaso the Soplewhohaveprofitedfromcreatingthenuclearnightmare,fromscientiststovasto haulers,is thero ??? One littio mishap and there goes up to $2o BIILION dollars in cleanup costs, countless lives and miles of dead land out the window, but DOE is ready to risk it. Read the documents. It's criminal, bO OM h,30W h k h \1A, o.

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