ML19338C087

Motion of Intervenor,Lloyd Harbor Study Group,Inc,Re Visit to Natl Reactor Testing Station,Id & Depositions Re ECCS Tests.Aec Should Produce Copies of All Documents & Data Re Evaluation of Eccs.Certificate of Svc Encl

ML19338C087
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	07/09/1971
From:	Like I LLOYD HARBOR STUDY GROUP, INC., REILLY & LIKE
To:	Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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ML19338C084	List: ML19338C083 ML19338C087
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NOTION OF INTERVENOR, THE LLOYD HARDOR ~*

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AND DEPOSITIONS RE~ECCS TESTS q i PLEASE.TAKE NOTICE that, pursuant to 10 CFR Part 2. ..

Sec' tion 2.741, intervenor, THE LLOYD HARBOR STUDY GROUP ,

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Directing that the Staff produce copies of all 3

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documents-and data which will.be relied upon in'its re

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evaluation .of the emergency c' ore cooling system of the pro

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documents and data . relating to tests r 845-850 and the re' .

sults of the series 'of experiments conducted for the AEC

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National Reactor Testing Station in l Idaho to take' the de -

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periments,- and to examine an'd receive copien of t.he docu- ] ,

ments and data generated by such tests and experimentn.

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-PLEASE TAKE-FURTHER N.OTICE that intervenor requests' ..

the Board to visit said Idaho facility, at its earliest - .

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. The failure.-of the ECCS tests at the Idaho facility '

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't have become.a matter of widespread public concern and has

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rai. sed anew the question. of khether nuclear plants are , , .,

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" Nuclear Power. Plants are Unsafe" by Wilson Clark, published , .>.. -

in "Not-Man Apart",, July 1971, Vol.-1, No.f7, a publication ,

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issued by the' influential and respected organization, Friends I '

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reflects the - growing anxi'ety of .~the- public on the . question p .- .; .

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need for a thorough dishlosure of all relevant facts con

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h..q cerning thel effectiveness of the' ECSS.

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- .Intervenor requests this relief so that -it can obtain ,

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t ' CERTIFICATE OF_- ERVICE ".

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-I lereby . certify that copieslof ' the " Motion ~of Intervenor,' The - r:

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Reactor Testing ?-Station,- Idaho, and Depositions Re ECCS Tests",

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dated July 9,1971, in the' cap,'tioned matter, have been served - 2 on tL he. following by deposit 'in the United States mail, first .

class or airmail,.this 9th' day of July-1971:

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Hon. J&mes R. Yore '

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} Washin,gton,.D.C. 20545  ! , .

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'D'r. A'. Dixon Callihan [ -

Joseph.Scinto, Esq. .. ... [ ,. /'

Atobic Energy Council-

' Union Carbide' Corporation *

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. Martin'G. Halsch, Esq.

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! Edward J. Walsh, Jr.., Esq.- "

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[LongiIsland Lighting cCompany '

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