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
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Site:	Salem
Issue date:	08/29/1979
From:	Onsdorff K NEW JERSEY, STATE OF
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CO~IPA'iY }-- - . Proposed. Issuance of A.11end:ment to J) Facility Operating License No. DPR-70 (Salem. :Nuclear Generating --* *::~::..-:-.~.: -----*---" '"'

Station, Unit No. 1) 1 INI'ERVBIDRS, COI.B!Ai\!S I ' REPLY TO STAFF RESPONSE A'ID LI[E\ISEE RESPONSE TO BOARD .QUESTION NO~ .FOUR ___ _

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Despite the fact that the time' foi-a.rgument on the. issue' of the

~oard' s con_si<;l~ratio_I1 __o_f_the impac~~ .?~ _a_ ~~as~ -~~~ . ~~~-c_id_e_~t_on__~Jte Sale.J!l.... __ *-* --

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--..-- _spent- fuel pooi--ha~. long passed,..P.S .E*. &G- -CC?_** .to_9k: the~QpIJortmi ty presented

• 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

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Class Nine:*eventy-:*that Tiff-2 *,./as in- fact a Class Nine

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• -:- ._. =-. f\C:C:~deJ!:t-.:_cBy...;;ubmith.1.1:= d.a_tcd_~June 1,- 1979, *the Staff asserted that ASLB of ~~ch'

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-*:-~~:sut1cfri~".'fas:nc5t:_>appr()pli':fate"":bec~use the possibility of occurrence

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highly unlikely_

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now told

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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

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___ .adjudications inasmuch as they are not credible events.

Therefore, it is respectfully submi ttcd that the 1\11~.C Staff Response to Board Question Four itself warrants clen.ial of the Staffis.-obfection to

. Board Question: Tirree.

Respectfully submitted, STJ\L~LEY-C ;,-:A::'J- P;'ESS; PUBLIC 1\DVCCA.TE BY:  ;:(~~ 1. -:'/_* (~, (-~~-. --.;;__{~?: ,/~--;./'

KEIIB A. ONSDORFF / , './ .

August 29, 1979 ASSISTA~'T DEPUTI PUBLIG- ADVOCATE

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In the Matter of ------nocket: No:- 50-272 PUBLIC SERVICE ELEC1RIC .Al'ID GAS CO.

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CERTIFIG\TE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that the Colemans' Reply to Staff Response and Licensee Response to Bo~rd Question No. Four~-the-above captioned matter have been served upon the service list by_~eposit 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.

K.EI TI-! A. ONSIXJRFF / / *,

Assistant Deputy Publ.i'.c *7dvocate August 29' 1979

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Frederick J. Shon Atomic Safety & Licer.sing Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C., 20555 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.

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