ML20235X557
| ML20235X557 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 10/05/1987 |
| From: | Mavroules N HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| Shared Package | |
| ML20235X519 | List: |
| References | |
| 82-471-02-OL, 82-471-2-OL, OL, NUDOCS 8710200041 | |
| Download: ML20235X557 (2) | |
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!!on. Ivan Smith, Chairperson United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 RE: Submission - NRC !! caring on Emergency Plans for Seabrook Station Docket Nos. 50-443-OL / 50-444-OL Occr Judge Smiths (ASLBP No. 82-471-02-OL Offsite Dnergency Planni Emergency preparedness is at the very heart of the Seabrook controversy.
And it is the issue of emergency preparedness that brings all parties before this respected administrative tribunal.
For over a year, as representative of the six Massachusetts communities that fall within the ten mile emergency planning zone of Seabrook Station I have criss-crossed those communities and have spoken to or heard from I
hundreds of concerned citizens.
As a result, I have a very real sense l
of where those Massachusetts communities stand on off-site emergency planning.
The majority of the people, including polico, fire and civil defense officials do not believe evacuation in the case of a radiological emerger.
is a realistic possibility.
Due to the location of Seabrook Station, the geography of the Massachusetts communities and surrounding environs, the network of antiquated and inadequate roads leading to and especially frcr.
Seabrook, the density of the population (a density that increases in geo-metric proportions during the summer influx)and the weather patterns, wit their unpredictability and proven potential for severity, my constituent believe, that even with the full participation of the State, there is no evacuation plan that can be conceived and impicmented that would adequatt safeguard them in the event of an accident at the nuclear power plant.
They also agree that sheltering in the case of an emergency is not a
j realistic alternative either.
What must be obvious to even the most i
innocent observer is that the vast majority of structures that would
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serve to shelter the residents of the six Massachusetts communities are not constructed of brick or concrete - but of wood.
And during the summer months, many of these are open to the weather.
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- massive effort to construct sheltering facilities that could protect, in a worst case scenario. over two hundred thousand people, sheltering is not a real option.
Until public healthiand safety concerns are sufficiently addressed, until-the range of protective actions has been-fully explored and exhausted,-
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and until an evacuation or sheltering plan is devised that is "truly" within the realm of the_possible, licensing of Seabrook Station to l
operate at all, let alone at five percent, would be a grave mistake.-
i Those communities within the orbit of Seabrook, as do their elected representatives at every 1cvel of government, from town selectman to
- United States Representative, demand that the civilian uses of nuclear,
materials and facilities be condacted in a manner consistent with the A
9 public health and safety.
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1 To date, the people of the Sixth Congressional District of Massach'usetts do not believe that the current state of off-site emergency planning satisfies that demand.
Respectfully submitted, i
Nicholas Mavroulos Member of Congress I
l NM/mq cca Samuel J. Chilk, Sect. NRC J
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