ML18078B082

Opposes Storage of Spent Fuel,Enlargement of Spent Fuel Pools & Any Storage within the Township of Lower Alloways Creek,Nj.Requests Programs for Permanent Disposal Outside Township

ML18078B082
Person / Time
Site:	Salem, Hope Creek
Issue date:	02/16/1979
From:	Donelson S LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK, NJ
To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
NUDOCS 7903230109
Download: ML18078B082 (3)

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RESOLUTION OPPOSING STORAGE OF HIGH LEVEL RADIOACTIVE W.ASTES IN LOWER ALLOWAYS CREEK TOWNSHIP WHEREAS, Salem Nuclear Unit # 1 .. ...... *-' .... is in operation and Unit #2 is close *"to an operational permit and construction permits have been iss_ued for Hope Creek Nuclear Generating Station, Unit #1 and #2, and all *of said nuclear generating facilities are located in the To,wnship of Lower Alloways Creek, New Jersey; and WHEREAS, Public Service Electric & Gas Co., has applied for an amendment to its facility operating license for incre_ased capacity fuel racks at the Salem 'Nuclear \"

• I Generating Station, and said application will permit six1 (6) cores at any one time to be stored at Salem Unit #1 and Unit 4f2, and Hope Creek Unit #1 and and WHEREAS, the citizens of Lower Alloways Creek Township are alarmed about the dangers and risks attendant to the increased storage capacity of hazardous high level radioactive wastes at Artificial Island and/or the Township of Lower Alloways Creek; and WHEREAS, the increased storage capacity of hazardous high leve1 radioactive wastes could sigriificantly effect the quality of human environment, not only in the Township of Lower Alloways Creek, but also in other municipalities in the State of New Jersey as well as the State of Delaware; and WHEREAS-, there is a dispute as to an emergency

-need to increase the storage capacity of spent fuel at the .Salem 1 nuclear generating facility in that the existing storage pool contains sufficient space necessary to accommodate full core discharge and also to accommodate normal refueling discharges;

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• -*---NOW THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by* th.e Township Corrunittee of the Township of Lower Alloways Creek, County .of Salem, State of New Jersey, as follows: 1. That the Township is opposed to the concept of re-racking spent fuel at tbe Salem Unit #1 and Unit f.2, and Hope Creek Unit #1 and #2, to permit twenty-four (24) cores of spent fuel to be stored within a seventeen

-(17) year period. The Township opposes any application for re-racking that would permit greater storage of spent fuel assemblies greater than that originally planned at Salem TUnit #1, to wit: one and one-third (1-1/3) cores. 2. The Township opposes the construction of any at-reactor site cooling pools or spent fuel pools to enlarge the capacity of storage of spent fuel on Artificial Island beyond the requirements of periodic maintenance and storage of spent fuel for a reasonable cooling period. 3. The Township opposes the location of any independent*

storage facilities for spent fue 1 within the Township.

4. The Township urges the United States Nucl_ear Regulatory Commission to fulfill its.obligation pursuant to the United States Code, Title 42, Section 5877, thc=tt immediate ,Programs be initiated

• for the permanent disposal of spent fuel away-from-reactor_*

sites and out of the Township; and that no fu::i:-ther.

operating oermi ts be issued at Salem Unit #2, and.Hope Creek Units #1 and #2, until such time -as r:iermanent disposa 1 sites for spent fuel are operational and available.

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• . BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Township Cornmittee of Lower Alloways Creek Township, will do everything within its power to' resist and prevent the expansion of increased spent fuel storage at the Salem #1 and #2, and Hope Creek #1 and #2 nuclear facilities.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that copies of this Resolution shall be mailed. to: Honorable Brendan T. Bryne, Governor, State of New Jersey Dan.iel 0. Hern, Corrunissioner, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection Joseph M. Hendrie, Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission David Office of: .. ,coastal Zone Mana9ement Congressman William Hughen Senator Raymond ,T *. Zane Assenblyman .Martin Herman Assemblyman Salem County ""Board' of Freeholders Salem County Planning Board Public Service Electric & Gas Co. Atlantic City Electric Delaware River Joint Basin Commission Wilmapco The foregoing Resolution was adopted by the Township Committee of Lower Creek by vote at its meeting of 1979. . *

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I S.Aj-1tJEL E. DONELSON, Mayor Dated: ATTEST: ""' I / * *7.-/ Z.c:.A--:'I (

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/. '-----. MARY HENDERSON, Clerk