ML20058G521

Response to Final Set of Interrogatories & Document Requests Re Commission Question 1.Certificate of Svc Encl.Related Correspondence

ML20058G521
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	07/23/1982
From:	Posner P PARENTS CONCERNED ABOUT INDIAN POINT
To:	CONSOLIDATED EDISON CO. OF NEW YORK, INC., POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (NEW YORK
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ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8208030348
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July 2.3,1982 PARENTS CCNCERhED A3 CUT INDIAN PLIKT RESPONSE to Licensees' First Set of Interrogatories and Document Requests Under Commission Question 1 to ... Parents ..

We have answered the following interrogatories to the best of our abilities based on our personal knowledge at the present of the issues addressed herein. -

(1) RESPONSE PARENTS does not know how the AS & LB defines " risk" and "high safety risk". PARENTS has a general understanding that risk means the sum of the probabilities of accident sequences that could result in a significant release

. of radiation. Since new accident sequences are constantly

'being discovered, the risk is difficult to assess accurately.

(2) RESPONSE (1) NUREG/CR-0400 " Lewis Committee Report" .

(2) Review of the Zion Probabilistic Safety Study, Sandia and Brookhaven Labs. .

(3) RESPONSE PARENTS has no information which can help us respond to this question.

(4) RESPONSE Not applicable.

(5) _ RESPONSE None.

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. Parents, July 23, 1982 (6) RESPONSE No degree of risk from nuclear power facilities is acceptable to PARENTS, because other safer technologies, including conservation technologies, exist to supply our energy needs. We believe that no benefit to society is acceptablewhich places the burden of intolerable risk on individuals.

(7) RESPONSE PARENTS knows of no such documents.

(8) RESPONSE There is no level of radiation to which the public may be exposed without harm. The effects of radiation are cumulative. Fetuses, children and the elderly are more susceptible to radiation effects than healthy adults.

(9). RESPONSE PARENTS is not prepared to answer at this time. We will supplement when this information is available.

(10) RESPONSE None.

(109) Specify the types of nuclear accidents or accident ..

scenarios which form the basis of Parents Contention I, and quantify the probability of occurrence of each accident.

RESPCNSE PARENTS plans to use the types of acciden'ts or accident scenarios described in the following documents:

(1) Potential Precursors to Severe Core Damage (tne study by the Cak Ridge National Laboratory)

(ii) Reactor Safety Study (Wash 1400)

(iii) Three Mile Island, A Recort to the Commissioners anc to tne Public (Rogovin Commis.-ion Report)

(iv) ReDort_of the Zion / Indian Pnint Study

( NUREG/ CR-1410)

(v) Technical Bases for Estimatics Fission Product Eenavlor Durine LWR Accidents (NUREG-0722)

(vi) Risk Assessment Review Grout Retort to the U.S. N.R.C. (Lewis Report, 1.~UREG/ C R-0400 )

(vii) Indian Point Probalistic safety Study

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The scenarios involve reactor embrittlement, fire hazards, hydrogen burning, thermal shock, loss of pressure, overpressur-

. 1:ation, valve and pump failure, spray and fan cooler problems, control rod failure, aging equipment, and steam spike.

PARENTS has not idependently quantified the probability of the occurence of each accident. We therefore object to the interrogatory as being unduly burdensome.

(110) State the radiation dose absorption rate for children and for adults, and specify the protective measure which would accomodate such rate f.or children.

RESPONSE PARENTS plans to rely on the sources listed in ATTACHMENT #1, among others, in developing its testimony on radiation dose absorption rates. ,

No protective measure can completely accomodate any rate of radiation exposure by children, since radiation effects are cumulative over the entire life of the individual. However, the following measures, if all taken promptly, might mitigate ..

the most serious consequences: " reverse isolation..., sterilization of all objects in patient's room, use of... laminar-air-flow systems, large doses of antibiotics, and transfusions _of whole-blood packed cells or platelets." (Wash-1400, Appendix VI, F1, as quoted in written testimony of Dr. Jan Beyea, June 7, 1982, Table 1,~page 18.)

(111) State the difference in risk as applied to children and adults with regard to the following consequences of an accident at Indian Point: (a) prompt fatalities; (b) early fItalities; (b) early illnesses; (d) latent illnesses; (e) fatal cancers; (f) non-fatal cancers; (g) thyroid nodules; (h) genetic effects; and (i) genetic defects.

RESPONSE PARENTS has a general understanding that rapidly dividing cells are more susceptible to all the effects of ra-diation, including the effects listed in interrogatory (111).

Yetuses, whose cells are dividing most rapidly, are most sus-ceptible. The increase in dose absorption rates depends on the nature of radiation exposure and the body-part affected, and the difference between child and adult dose absorption rates may vary by a factor of two or a factor of 10.

Parante, July 23, 1982

-p Cur understandin6 is based on non-expertreports and use of the expert literature. For instance, in order to make the calcula-tions which form the basis of his testimony, Dr. Jan Seyea assumed "a 5 times higher dose for children than ad'ults for the same exposure."

PARENTS plans to rely on the following sources, among others, in developing its testimony on the difference between adult and child dose absorption rates:

(1) The Effects on Population of Exposure to Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation: Report of the Advisory Committee on the Biological Effects of Ionizing Radia-tions. 3EIR Report, 1972 and 1980.

(ii) Jablon, et.al: Cancer in Japanese Exposed as Children to Atomic Bombs. Lancet 1:927-932, 1971 (iii) Hempelmann: Neoplasms in Youthful Populations Following x-ray Traatment in Infancy. Environmental-Research 1: 338, 1967.

(iv) McMahon, 3: Prenatal x-ray Exposure and Malig-nancy. JAMA 183:721, 1963. ,

(v) Silverman and Hoffman: Thyroid Tumor Risk from Radiation During Childhood. Preventive Medicine 4: 100, 1975.

Thyroid (vi) Weiss, Rallison, London et al:

Nodularity in Southwestern Utah school children Ex-posed to Fallout Radiation. Am J Publ Health 61:241, 1971.

l (vii) Rallison, Dobyns, Keating, et al: Thgroid 1

Disease in Children: A Survey of Subjects Potentially Exposed to Fallout. Radiation. Am J Med 56:457, 1974.

(viii) Rallison, Dobyns, Keating, et al: Thyroid l

Nodularity in Children. JAMA 233: 1069, 1975.

(ix) Mays, C.W: Thyroid Irradiation in Utah

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Infants Exposed to Iodine 131. Scientist and Citizen, i

l August, 1966.

(x) MacMahon, 3: Prenatal x-ray Er.posure and Childhood Cancer. J . Natl Cancer Inst 28: 1173, 1962.

(112) State the probability of the occurrence of an accident at Indian Point having each censequence described in Interrogatory No. 111.

1 l RESPONSE PARENTS objects to this interrogatory as burdensome and onoressive. Farents has not hired an expert to calculate prob-abilities.

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Parents, July 13, 1982 (113) Provide all documents which contain and/or pertain to the calculation of the probabilities described in Interrogatory 4 lio 112.

RESPONSE Except for the documents listed in the answer to Interrogatory No. 109, PARENTS does not have custody and control of any such documents.

Respectfully s bmitted, Pat Posner PAREIiTS CONCER13D A3CU.T INDIAN PCINT I hereby certify that copies of this document have been mailed or delivered by hand (to those marked with *) to the following -

service list this day of July 23, 1982 Pat Posner

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Paul F. Colarulli, Esq. Lorns Saltmaa Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Esq. Mid-Atlantic Representative

~ Pamela S. Horowitz, Esq. Friends of the Earth, Inc.

Charles Morgan, Jr., Esq. 208 West 13th Street Morgan Associates, Chartered New York, NY 10011 'a 1899 L Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20036 Eric Thorsen, Esq.

County Attorney, County of Charles M. Pratt, Esq. Rockland Thomas R. Frey, Esq. 11 New Hempstead Road Power Authority of the State New City, NY 10956 of New York 10 Columbus Circle Geoff rey Cobb Ryan New York, NY 10019 Conservation Committee Chairman, Director

. David.H. Pikus , Esq. New York City Audabon Society Ricnard F. Czaja, Esq. 71 West 23rd Street, Suite 1828 330 Madison Avenue New York, NY 10010 New York, NY 10017 Greater New York Council on Energy Ellyn R. Weiss. Esq. c/o Dean R. Corran, :irector William S. Jordan, :::, Esq. New York University Harmon & Weiss 26 Stuyvesant S tr ee t 1725 I Street, N.W., Suite 506 New York, NY 10003 washington D.C. 20006 Honorable Richard L. Brodsky Joan Holt, Project Director Member of the County Legislature Indian Point Project Westchester County New York Public Interest County Office Building Research Group White Plains, NY 10601 9 t'.rray Street hew York, NY 10007 3,yer coerge v. segany is. Amanda Potterfield, Esq. ^

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