ML18086A461

Requests Injunction to Preserve Status Quo of Reracking at Facility

ML18086A461
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek, Maine Yankee
Issue date:	05/04/1981
From:	Coleman A, Coleman E AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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• • 35 "K" Drive Pennsville, N. J. 08070 *May 1981 Harol.d R. Denton, Director United States Nuclear Regtilatory

• Commission

.. . .. . . Office of Nuclear Reacto*r *Regulation Washington, D. *.c. 20555 Dear Sirs SALEM NUCLEAR GEN'EHATING STATION UNIT #1 ._

_NO.-

RERA.CKING SPE'IT FUEL POOL . . During the hearing held*.in Bethesda, Maryland on April JO, 1981. (oral*-argument*

was presented.

before the Atomic Safety Licens-ing A,ppeal *Board regarding the proposed.

• storage expansion of . *the spent .fuel. pool ..;. reracking -. at 'the Salem Nuclear* . *

• Generating Station Unit *i¥1)_ we made an oral application to . preserve status quo of the*_ reracking

{which we understand is about J8% complete)

• * * . . . . .. * . We* informed the ASLAB that Applicant (Public

• .. Electric &*Gas) *was **in tli.e _process of *reracking .the Salem_*#l

• spent-. fuel pool. * * * *Chairman Christine Kohl denied our oral motion and.re'commended

• .that we put. in writing* our request ,to en"joiri the applicant.

until :sµch time as this:* appe*a1 has been resolved.

• The Applicant

• ha:s proceede.d with arrogant confidence

• from the* beginning; i.e.; -ordering the racks either before the .applica--tion was filed or at.least during the proceedings.*.

The Applicant cont.inues as if to be above the *law. We .. _find it .. extremely difficult to.understand how the applicant.can rerack a:ri appeal is pending resolution..

• . It was our that an initial decision directing an amendment to"an operating license would become ef'.feci;;ive unless a party had shown* good. cause,. subject to review by* the_ Commis'sion. (Atomic *Safety & Licensing Appeal Board) upon. exception's filed. by any party pursuant to Title 10

• CFR Part 2. ?62.

• If Director of Nuclear Reactor Regulation or. the Director of. Nuclear Material Saf*ety & Safeguards, *as appropr1a.te issued .. an ame11.dment to. operatfng lic_ense for "Salem .#1, *authorizing the . Applicant.to rerack the spent fuel poor, within ten (10. days from . the date of issuance of the decision, we would appr_eciate a copy. We have not seen-any writtenpermission allowing the Applicant to . 'rerack; therefore,(we motion for an injunction to preserve.

status quo and *suggest immediate*

disciplinary penal ties be' invoked. Very trulJ( yours, . .Alf;Qd -C.

Jr. / . . .

' I 18 1 0 511 (j_l) . . Eleanor G.

• SERVICE LIST Christine N. Kohl, Chairman

• U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission . Atomic Safety & Licensing Appeal Board Washington, D *. C .* 20555 Dr. W. Reed Johnson, Member Mr. Thomas s. Moore, Member U. S. Nuclear Commission Atomic $afety & Licensing Appe_al Board D. _C. 20555 *

• Janice Moore, Esq. . .. U. s. Nuclear Regulatory C.ommission Office of the Executive Legal Director Washington, D. c. 20555 . . . . Office .of the Secretary . . . U. S. I'Juclear Regulatory Coinmiss_ion Docketing and Section* : . *.Washington, De C*.

• 20555 Richard ..

Jr. , Esq. Asst. General Solicitor Public Service*:E1ectric'&

Gas*company 80 Park Place_

• Newark, Jers_ey 07101 ._ Mark J m* -Wetterhahn, Esq. Conner & Moore 1747 Avenue,. N.W. Washington, D. C. 20006 * . June D.

Esq., Deputy Attorney .*General Tatnall

• Box 1401 Dover, Delaware 19901_ *.' . . . . . Rebe'cca Fields; Deputy Attorpey General . . Departmen*t of Law & . Pu'bli*c -Safety -*. Stat*e of New Jersey * ,36 We.st State *street Trenton, New Jersey 08625 ' ' r ' .. *. . " *,*, .. * . ' . . . Carl Valore, Jr.,'Esq.

Valore, McAllister, Aron, Westmorel'and

& Vesper .5.3.5.Tilton Road N6rthfield, New Jersey 0822.5 ' .. . : '