ML20235B062

Expressess Appreciation for Opportunity to Testify Before Commission on 881209 Re Opposition to Facility Restart,Until Effective Radiological Emergency Response Plans Implemented, Approved & Tested

ML20235B062
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	12/12/1988
From:	Arons B, Butters G, Thompson A PLYMOUTH, MA
To:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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s TOWN OF PLYMolJ1H

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oEORoE W. CAMERON 11 unecin Street DAVID F. M ALAoUTI Plymouth, Massachusetts 02E ALBA c. THOMPSON chournan wiu TAM R. GHimN ExectmVE $F.CHETARY - (506)747 1620 December 12, 1988 I

Lando tech, Chairman .

Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.

Dear Chairman tech Thank.you for the opportunity afforded the Town of Plymouth to tutify before the Commission on December 9,1988. We spoke honestly and with deep concern. We felt you really )

listened.

Obviously it was an advantage for your staff to have heard the EPt communities outline the status of their unprepar&dness for the re-start of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station before it made its presentations.

I Dr. Bellamy's statements took on the nature of rebuttal, but his sources of.information could only have been based on whatever the staff believes it known about our plans and .

procedures. Thtt is a good deal less than what we know about ourselves.

Rere is the nub of the problem. Your emergency planning staff assumes that even preliminary drafts indicate a readiness for operation. Almost all of those drafts were prepared by the planners of Boston Edison and are merely Of beginnings to be developed by our experienced personnell course the utility would like to believe pieces of paper tranalate into emergency preparedness, but your staff should >

know better.

lig 6saf t plan which is unapproved or untested can be said to be operable. Additionally without the responsible individuals knowing, by training, what they are expected to 2 do, no draft can be said to be anything but a piece of paper. l We certainly know that. l

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The insistence of your staff that the Town of Plymouth is  ;

j prepared to deal with sizable radiological emergency is )

untrue.

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Review. . . Date due Comm: Jan. 4. . .Cpys to: RF, Cmts. OCC, SECY... 88-1243.

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• sihce no MRC emergency planner has ever seen our implementing department head

• procedures or spken with a major Plymouthabout-the' capabilities of h find the truths on which to base its-assumptions?.

You have beardWe our now Civil set Defense Director and our signatures toour thisChairman letter in-speak for us.  ;

our support of our collective judgment reflected The in the truth j testimony presented to you on December 9, 1988. ~

was presented. The Town of Plymouth reiterates its-

- i j positions-q l The.Pilgria Nuclear Power station ought not be r permitted to restrrt until there are effective, l l radiological eargency response plans in place l )

which have been approved and tested.

The preservation of-the public health and safety is our.only motivation. The welfare of our citizens, All their lives and 3 their property, is our unending concern. of that is in jeopardy.if re-start is permitted without effective, We do notapproved have such and tested radiological emergency plans.

a readiness at this time.

Sincerely, BOMLD OF SELECTMEN 0 bm J YYulm Alb'a'C. Thompaq), Chairman Bruc M. Arons LAwagon _

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