ML20246A046
| ML20246A046 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Limerick  |
| Issue date: | 06/14/1989 |
| From: | Romano F AIR AND WATER POLLUTION PATROL |
| To: | Harbour J, Kline J, Margulies M, Roberts T, Zech L Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel, NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| CON-#289-8791, CON-#289-8792 OL, OL-2, NUDOCS 8907060125 | |
| Download: ML20246A046 (1) | |
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AIR and WATER W
Pollution Patrol BROAD AXE, PA.
. CI991 89 JUN 20 P4 :38 0*
June 14, 1989 ffi
'U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bh Commissioners and Atomic Safety Licensing Board
'M Washington, D.C.
In The Matter of Docket Nos. 50-352-OL& OL-2 PHILADELPHIA ELECTRZC CO.
50-353-OL & OL-2 (Limerick Generating Station 1 & 2 Administration Judgest Morton B. Margulies, Chairman;Dr. Jerry Harbour Dr. Jerry R. Kline--Commissioners Lando W. Zech, Chairman; Thomas M.
Roberts;Kenneth M Carr;Kenneth C.
Rogers; James R.
Curtis Gentlemen:
I respond to your ORDER of June 8, 1983, as a resident of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where the Limerick reactors are sit-uated, and as a former intervenor re improper welding at Limerick Unit 1 reactor pressure vessel and its patched-up primary containment, I,
my family, and memers of the Air and Water Pollution Patrol (AWPP) do strongly oppose the granting of an exemption under LOC.F.R. &&51.6 and 50.12 re license for any level of operation of Limerick Unit 2.
I do so for the following reasons:
(1) Since the licensing and operation of Limerick Unit 1, the Limerick area and for 15 miles around that area, development of resid-ences and industry has mushroomed so that evacuation which was not poss-ible even then is out of the question now--and more so as development continues.
The evidence is there any 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm even on a Lood weather day.
With rain--or snow--at night, there will be casualties even on the rumor of an accident.
(2)
The Limerick 1 reactor pressure vessel, being a General Elect-ric type is already known and warned by some of GE's own engineers to be marginal as it relates to safety.
However, at Limerick 1, it is not only that it is of questional reliability, the reactor vessel's steel shell had sections cut out of it hunting for concrete voids caused by improperly formed concrete in the primary containment str ucture(meaning the patched-up steel reactor pressure vessel, sections of which were cut out and then rewelded,no longer had its monolithic integrity).
(3)
At the 1989 Annual Stockholders Meeting, in answer to m that the Limerick 1 pressure vessel could burst at high pressure,y charge Chair-man Paquette called on his Limerick reactor high official Mr. O'Neil who, in front of the 7 or 800 stockholders, stated no sections were cut out of the unit 1 pressure vessel ne thereforePQblded back into place.
When I confronted him with NRC e
76-01-06 and nearby reports, Mr. O'Neil O
could not respond so that Mr. Paquette said Mr. O'Neil would talk to me l
later.
Over 3 months have passed by,Mr. McNeil has not contacted me.
(4) EPA is issuing new maximum contaminant levels for Asbestor in Both Limerick reactors shed asbestos fibers into the Schulykill, j
water.
the drinking water for more than a million people. eC~ ;)g.<
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Franr R.
Romano, Chr.
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