ML20235W016

Requests Commission Assistance in Refusal to Pay Rate Hikes Imposed by Philadelphia Electric Co Since Oct 1985 Due to Plant Operation,Design,Location & Evacuation Plans

ML20235W016
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	05/25/1987
From:	Bye M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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ci, Doylestown, l'O. 18901 l

I'.ny 2 5, 1987 I

The-Honorable Lando Zech Chairman Nuclear Rouul.i t ory comn 1: :i on l

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Dear Commissioner Zech,

Since October l'85 1 have re uced ~ o p a i, the rate hike im-r posed by the Philadelphia pony

'n cover construction costs for first Salem

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c!i tion Limerick, 1 have held this money in escrow

'e 4e instol etion of more effici-ent appliances which would rectuce my dependence upon Peco.

When Philadelphia Electric demanded Nyment, I continued to refuse and sent a complaintto the orr ty:v.m i;

~ublic Utility Commission.

Their response informed tre that

tate lublic Utility lacks "ju-f risdiction over safety-rel.to id<ra' i n' 4nvolving commer-cial nuclear power plants..

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Cc ss of the United l

States granted exclusive au'hort to t he U RC to regulate the

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commercial use of nuclear p'

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Therefore I turn to you, Er.

och,and your Commissioners for f

help.

I rerrind you all of thr

.C.. i n a l Environmental Statement for Limerick which stated that i. n nuclear accident wind-borne radiation could cause immediate deeths up to 25 miles away/ Fur-thermore your staff and one of /r - commit ioners indicated thet a major core melt-down has< ' ' '

'rch ne llt y of occurring some-where in the U.S. within 2 0 vec r.

ca aj e r Limerick e prime i

candidate for e catastrop:ic Why?

because of i t '. vo r ;

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. tion and evacu-atict plans, which our County

r. ' c.i,2s hevc described as a cha-rede.

They are unworkrtin.

a n c h o n.1 children beyond the 10 mile EPZ home in e n err e r g e r.c 3

,2tuation is untenable.

Besides there are no provisions to deco: teminate the refugees who might have been contaminated enroute.

P.i n s.l l y H c. c o J d Den ton of the NRC's Office of Reactor Recul ".

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ified that Limerick wcs 72 h { h{0 2

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"too close to a large popu]ntiem confor" ( r: von i ng Bulletin, May ?7, j

1980).

Now it'n l'18 7 and t h e, roblem of pnpulation density has

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bken compounded as anyone who,m s driven on the Schuykill Ex-pressway, the Pennsylvania Turn ice, or RouLe 202 in l'ontgomery County can confirm.

However my objections tc nayinc: for Peco's Limerick plant are not confined to misgivings atcut-.ts ovccuetion plan.

They rest in part upon the corments cf

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'dvisory Committee on Re-adtor Safeguards and ir : irt scr's publications describing the containrc en t, inclu:ine

< > ' ' of it under construction.

In its memo to you anu the os e

,;h e J <, of January 15, 1987, the ACRS Doints out that an < cci 'm L of th: magnitude of Cherno-byl is by no me.ns impossitic

+ Un i t r-d States.

To avoid such e catastrophe,

t. h e Advisory Committee stresses the importance of c om p r' t e n t-

'iv, Led p1cnt operators.

Re-cent events at the ieco ;o

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'n installation call into question the company's : b.i l.i '

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'rovide such management. (It could be impossihle jf.'

i n :, i tivation and compe-tence).

But to continue,.

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ricum occurrence at Limerick, during its ear 13 m.*

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,o w r aneration, in which s

an employee vas injured.

rently in on effort to cover up or at least minimize radioact /e il) nt toe plant just oe-o fore NRC inspec tors tinre dur-e rnive on rou tine visi t.

Add to these instances the foc-t-

.to er rqency drill data and security personnel 'u1f;c v

' fro oth subjected to falsification _md.you -;ill una r :- - re my rn u ji vings about the credibility of neco's manecemen_.

Further the ACDS ainpoints t9 importance of design.

A dia-gram of the containment at Iimerick shows pipes and conduits sticking out tnrough the containment well with only a couple of valves separating the insido fror the ou t si de at each pene-tration.

Accounts of mishers t nucloar plants around the coun-try often point to one or rr. o r -

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iefective hardware responsible.

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Finally, the ACRS m orno r ar W rr

+n of crtassium iodide to f

be administered to peo p.1 e,

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emergency items; o spon f.

also procedures for relocotin

! rqn populaLion groups, pro-tecting ground water and other 1rinking wate:r suppies, decon-taminating land and f acili ties, and protective measures for mini-mizing radionuclides in-take through food and other pathways."

I commend the /sdvisory Committee Reactor Safeguards for their on realistic, rational recomrrend a r s.

Sedly I do not see how they will be implemented in 'uc

nun ty whnre I live.

I just called the Court c &

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Iodide available fer citizens in an emerger "ot:n ty

~icials have called our evacuation plen n ch :re.

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,>ro tec t the ground and other drinking water supplies if a radioactive plume is l

sailing overhead?etc etc....

How could my house and garden be l

decontaminated during my lifetime after a Chernobyl-sized acci-dent at Limerick?

'! hat kind of insurance would I receive to con-tinue my way of life elsewhere'.

Lot the Price-Anderson Act, l

l which sets an inadequate flet ar"unt as an upper limit, no mat-l l

ter how many people are a r' r e c t <

<r hew great the damage.

If Peco is certain of its cepaci!

o " rate lirrerick safely, then why does it not insure my n ce

e ;e i.% ot their true worth?

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There is still one safety-r conni& ration that I have not raised: the continuel n ord rd r:en t of ourselves and our en-vironment by routine rrdioacL2.w n: 10.;iens from Limerick.

They have recently been shown by thc

_, tie n e l icedemy of Sciences to be 200 times more lethal than,itherto suspected.

Great as my dread'of an accident is, it is exceeded by fear of this present danger.

Building, operating and even tue 31y decomrrissioning Limerick helps sustain the whole nucle.:r uel cycle; mining, milling, r

transporting, enriching, burning und burying nuclear material.

in my judgement all of these actions pose a deadly threat to this and future generations.

In the words of George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends, "Nothing brought

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t you'into the world, nor nothing you shall take out of the world, l

but leave all creatures behind you as you found them, which God l

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hath given to serve all nations.ind generations."

l Therefore I call upon you to i.n s t r u c t Peco not to collect my refused rate hikes until the ist;ues raised in this petition have been resolved.

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