ML20006A423

Forwards Town of Essex 890711 Ltr Requesting That Reactor Safety Issues Be Addressed & Resolved Prior to Licensing of Reactor,For Response.W/Certificate of Svc

ML20006A423
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	01/11/1990
From:	Piercebjorklun AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC ATOMIC SAFETY & LICENSING APPEAL PANEL (ASLAP)
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• ESSEX, MASSACHUSETTS 01929 July 11, 1989 '

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Sirs: '

'f It is our_ understanding that you have statutory authority to intervene as a party in reactor licensing hearings to raise any safety related issues. We ask that you intervene in the Seabrook Reactor proceedings .to require resolution of the fol-

-lowing hazardous reactor operating procedures which, if allowed, will cause predictable and permanent damage to the Town of.

Essex, The Essex River Estuary is one of seven marine estuaries i which form a series of interconnected pristine tidal marshes, coastal islands and barrier beaches extending continuously from Seabrook, NH, to Gloucester, MA, fourteen miles south.

Contamination of any portion of these marshes will spread by tidal action to all portions.

Operating discharges to air and ocean from the Seabrook Reactor, which is sited within the northerly portion of'these t marshes, will accumulate in these marshes causing' long-lhed <

isotopes to enter nutrient cycles. These unstable radioactive particles being ingested or inhaled alter cell tissue and genetic coding in plants, humans, animals and marine micro-organisms causing genetic deformation, cancer and other disa-bility, t

The Town of Essex will suffer irreparable injury by reason of permanent contamination caused by the following unresolved reactor safety issues:

-1) Venting of fission gases to the a tmosphere in the' >

form of " planned operating emissions" will release partially decayed gases, lodines and other unstable particles which will cool and fall over coastal temperature interfaces within the first hour after w

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d'ischarge leaving permanent toxic residues on coastal marshes.and meadows. Deposition of long-lived particles ,

airborne with'the gases will typically occur in corridors where wind velocity decreases _due'to topography, i.e.,

behind barrier beaches, coastal uplands and islands. The e Essex marshes twelve miles soJth lie precisely in the first hour deposition _ path.

2) Containment o_f fission gabes produced during radiological l emergency is only temporary. All gases produced will be vented after the emergency, therebeing no other means of -

disposal. Release of active fission gases during the emer-gency may be necessary to avoid build up of concentrations '

leading to breach of containment and breach of heat exchange cooling system and consequent contaminated discharge at ocean outlets.

3) There is at present no means of disposal or storage of fission gases.other than delayed discharge to the environment._ There <

exists at present no method of accelerating decay for gases or solid wastes produced by atomic fission. There is no method for atomic fissioning that does not produce gases on a daily basis. j

4) Class 9 catastrophic radiological emergency causing wide--  !

spread permanent property contamination can occur at low ,

or full power operation. Loss of coolant causing core fuel temperatures to rise from 6000F to 40000F in seconds pre-cludes timely warning of the public.

5) Seabrook Reactor having 100 tons of uranium fuel will produce in one fuel replacement cycle, gases equal in-volume to those produced by _ vaporization _ of 1000 Hiroshima bombs. These gases will be vented as " normal operating emissions" to the atmos-phere. There is no possible assurance those gases will be fully decayed or clean at the time of discharge.

6) Discharges to air and ocean during radiological emergencies will instantly violate " permissible discharge limits" re-quired for compliance with existing NPDES permit and FES i required by EPA laws. Those permits were issued based on incomplete information which omits ' impact of Class 9 emergencies on environment. The NPDES permit expires in 1990 and should not be renewed.

7) In a Class 9 catastrophic radiological emergency the reactor core at Seabrook cannot be isolated from the marshes and meltdown debris moving with ground water would leach to marshes. The ocean discharge would also be thoroughly con-taminated at the outfall.

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8) Corrosion of heat' exchange pipes can be expected to f

allow exchange of radioactive materials to' contaminate '

ocean coolant discharged to ocean.

9) Each fuel cycle releas.es gases produced by fission of 100 tons of uranium to the atmosphere, i

10) . Evacuation is not safety. It is extreme hazard.

Being forced out of one's home onto dangerous highways

• p during radiological contamination.and being unable to return home due to permanent contamination is a viola- ,

tion of basic constitutional rights.

We'are not required by our constitution to suffer fatal injury i

to. demonstrate damage. to life and property. Nor can any government agency impose upon persons' circumstances requiring loss of life and .

property.

We consider contamination of' properties and threat to life caused by operating discharges from Seabrook reactor to be taking. 4 of land without due process and a violation of our constitutional rights. We ask your intervention on our behalf.

Very truly yours,. "

Chairman

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cc: Atomic Safety & Licensing Board, Boston MA Environmental Protection Agency, Boston ,, MA

• Governor of Massachusetts Attorney General of Massachusetts

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l In the Matter of' I h i PUBLIC~ SERVICE COMPANY OF-NEW ~1 Docket No.(s) 50-443/444-OL

'HAMPSHIREi ET AL. I p .( Seabrook Station, Units l and 2) l I

CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I" l hereby certif y that copies of the f oregoing AB M&O W/ ATTACHMENTS DTD 1/23 l

-have been served upon the following persons-by U.S. mail, first.classi excspt I

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as otherwise noted and in accordance with the requirements of 10 CFR Sec. 2.712.

Administrative Judge Administrative Judge G. Paul Bollwerk, !!! Thomas S. Moore, Chairman Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal  !

Board Board U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Washington, DC 20555 -l l

Administrative Judge  !

Howard A. Wilber Administrative Law Judge  ;

Atomic Safety and. Licensing Appeal Ivan W. Smith, Chairman. l Board Atomic Safety and Licensing Board j U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission j Washington, DC 20555' Washington, DC 20555 l 1

Administrative Judge Administrative Judge Richard F. Cole Kenneth A. McCollom 1 Atomic Saf ety and Licensing Board A'tomic Safety and Licensing Board U.S. Nuclear-Regulatory Commission U.S. Nuclear. Regulatory Commission j!

Washington, DC 20555_ ' Washington, DC 20555 Administrative Judge  !

Robert R.-Pierce, Esquire James H. Carpenter

~ Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Alternate Technical Member f U.S.. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety and. Licensing Board  !

l Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555

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Edwin J. Reis, Esq. Mitzi A. Young  ;'

Office of the-General Counsel Attorney

-U.S. Nuclear' Regulatory Commission Office of the General Counsel  !

Washington, DC 20555 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission L Washingtcn, DC 20555 1

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b-Diane Currani -Esq. Thomas 6. Dignan, Jr., Esq.

. , Harmon, Curran-& Tousley Ropes & Gray 2001 S Street, N.W.i Suite 430 One International Place-Washington,-DC -20009 Boston, MA- 02110 Robert'A. Backus, Esq. Paul McEachern, Esq.

Backus, Meyer & Solomon Shaines & McEachern

!= 116 Lowell Street 25 Maplewood Avenue, P.O. Box 360 ,

Manchester, NH 03106 Portsmouth, NH 03901 Gary W. Holmes Esq. Judith H. Mizner Holmes & Ells Counsel for Newburyport l 47 Winnacunnet Road 79 State Street Hampton, NH 03042 Newburyport, MA 01950 i

l ii Barbara J. Saint Andre, Esq. Jane Doherty I Kapelman and Paige, P.C. Seacoast Anti-Pollution League 77 Franklin. Street 5 Market Street  ;

Boston, MA 02110. Portsmouth, NH 03801 1 George W. Watson, Esq.

Ashod N. Amirian, Esq. Federal Emergency Management Agency  :

145 South Main Street, F.O. Box 39 500 C Street, S.W. -

Bradford, MA -01030 Washington, DC 20472 4

-Jack Dolan George D. Bisbee, Esq. l Federal. Emergency Management Agency Assistant Attorney General 442 J.W. McCormack (POCH) Office of the Attorney General .

Boston, MA 02109 25 Capitol Street I Concord, NH 03301 4

Suzanne Breiseth John Traficonte, Esq.

,, Board of Selectmen Chief, Nuclear Safety Unit Town of Hampton Falls Office of the Attorney General Drinkwater Road One Ashburton Place, 19th Floor ,

Hampton Falls, NH 03044 Boston, MA 02108

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S Peter JJ Brann, Esq. Richard-A. Hampei Esq.

~.g Assistantf Attorney General Hampe & McNicholas Of fice ci the Attorney- General 35 Pleasant Street

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[l; Allen Lampert William- Armstrong l ; e. Civil Defense Director Civil Defense Director Town of Brentwood= Town of Exeter

. 20 Franklin Street 10 Front Street

"- Exeter, NH 03B33 Exeter, NH- 03033 Sandra Gavutisi Chairman Calvin A. Canney Doard of Selectmen City Manager

[e , ' RFD al'hox 1154- City Hall Kensington, NH';03627- 126 Daniel Street l Portsmouth, NH 03801 Anne Goodman, Chairman William S. Lord , j Board of Selectmen Board of Selectmen j 13-15-Newmarket Road Town Hall - Friend Street Durham, NH .03024- Amesbury, MA 01913 R. Scott Hill-Whilton, Esquire-

. Michael- Santosuosso, Chairman Lagoulis, Hill-Whitten %:McGuire Board of Selectmen 79 State Street

- South Hampton, NH 03027' Newburyport,,.MA 01950 i I

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Stanley W. Knowlesi Chairman Norman C. Katner Board of Selectmen ~ Superintendent of Schools P.O. Box 710. School Administrative Unit No. 21 North Hampton, NH 03862 Alumni Drive .

Hampton, NH 03842 l

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' Civil Defense Director Gordon J. Humphrey  ;

Town of Kensington ATTN: Janet Colt

/ Box 10, RR1 United States Senate East Kingston, NH 03827 Washington, DC 20510  ;

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