ML18079B116

Request by Intervenors Coleman That Aslb Accept Addl Argument on Aslb Question 4 Re Consideration of Class 9 Accidents.Nrc Admits That TMI Accident Was Class 9. Certificate of Svc Encl

ML18079B116
Person / Time
Site:	Salem
Issue date:	08/29/1979
From:	Onsdorff K NEW JERSEY, STATE OF
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ct; tiifl. UNITED STATES OF A\!ERIC\ 1'.'UCLEAR REGULATORY co:.!\!ISSION . . . ' . ..... ' . BEFORE 1HE -ATOMIC SAEETI .. A'll .. LlC'ENSING.BOAHD

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Issuance of A.11end:ment to J Facility Operating License No. DPR-70 ) --*

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*---" '"' 1 INI'ERVBIDRS, COI.B!Ai\!S I ' REPLY TO STAFF RESPONSE A'ID LI[E\ISEE RESPONSE TO BOARD . QUESTION . FOUR ___ _

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• by Boar,d Question 1\'t.rrnber Four to submit still .additional arg-tlillents on this matter. Accordingly,*

Intervenors Coleman respectfully request that the Board accept this ad,ditional argument abo, particularly in light of the * -NRC Staff conclusion (which is inconsistent with its prior objection to ... Board* examination-*of--a Class Nine:*eventy-:*that Tiff-2 *,./as in-fact a Class Nine . ------------. --. -----------... *---* *---* ________ ,_ -------* ... ---------****------

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the possibility of occurrence of

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-Regulatory Commission staff that a core-melt and/or explosion is a credible --event at a nuclear generating station vitiates the rational previously adv<inced that such catastrophic ocCUTTences need not be considered in ASLB "/9 /IJ I s-o 3i-f9 L !. ' "

• e e ___ .adjudications inasmuch as they are not credible events. Therefore, it is respectfully submi ttcd that the Staff Response ------*. -**** ---,_ .. --.. ----*--... --to Board Question Four itself warrants clen.ial of the Staffis.-obfection to . Board Question:

Tirree. Respectfully submitted,

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A::'J-P;'ESS; PUBLIC 1\DVCCA.TE BY:

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• August 29, 1979 KEIIB A. ONSDORFF / , './ .

DEPUTI PUBLIG-ADVOCATE .b ==

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In the Matter of PUBLIC SERVICE ELEC1RIC .Al'ID GAS CO. (Salem Generating Station Unit !H) ------nocket:

No:-50-272 CERTIFIG\TE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that the Colemans' Reply to Staff Response and Licensee Response to Question No.

captioned matter have been served upon the service list in the United States mail at the post office-in Tr.:enton 7 New Jersey,._

with proper postage thereon, this 29th day of AugUst,-1979.

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K.EI TI-! A. ONSIXJRFF / / *, Assistant Deputy Publ.i'.c

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ATL,>.S ! IC CITY. J. r"l.3.J01 1609) 344-6539 COUNTY OFFICE 319 C/\PE MAY AVENUE MAY5 LANDING. N. J. ftio<Jl o:!S*91oa tN REPtY Rj;.F:OR 1;0 OFFICE . -*-FILE In*the Matter of Public Service Electric & Gas Co. (Salem Generating Station, Unit #1) Docket #50-272

Dear Mr. Shon:

Enclosed please find copy of "Figure l" referred to in Dr. Chauncey Kepford's technical report in response to the Board Question #4 which was submit\:ed l?Y the Township of Lower l\lloways Creek on August 20, 1979. This Figure 1 should be inserted in Dr. Kepford's report after Table 5 -page 17 and before Dr. Kepford's qualifications.

By copy of this letter we are forwarding copies of "Figure l" to the individuals indicated on the attached mailing list. We are sorry for this omission in our original mailing. Very yours, * *-I (/ 1/ /_, .' . I' I . , '* // , j .* J ! _,.,, ! '.J L/ '\. / . I i . ' \ . ARL VALORE, '-JR. CC:

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