ML100150201

G20100024/LTR-10-0018/EDATS: SECY-2010-0038 - Ltr. Rosalind Casey Concerning Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant

ML100150201
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	05/04/2009
From:	Casey R - No Known Affiliation
To:	Obama B NRC/SECY, US Executive Office of the President
References
EDATS: SECY-2010-0038, G20100024, LTR-10-0018, SECY-2010-0038
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM: DUE: 02/04/10 EDO CONTROL: G20100024 DOC DT: 05/04/09 FINAL REPLY:

Rosalind Casey Carteret, New Jersey TO:

President Obama FOR SIGNATURE OF : ** GRN ** CRC NO: 10-0018 Leeds, NRR DESC: ROUTING:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant Borchardt (EDATS: SECY-2010-0038) Virgilio Mallett Ash Mamish Burns/Rothschild DATE: 01/14/10 Collins, RI Baggett, OEDO ASSIGNED TO: CONTACT:

NRR Leeds SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS OR REMARKS:

Close out response to be provided via email to Sheila McKelvin, SECY to forward to the White House Correspondence Section.

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EDATS Number: SECY-2010-0038 Source: SECY GeerlInfrato Assigned To: NRR OEDO Due Date: 2/4/2010 Other Assignees: SECY Due Date: 2/4/2010

Subject:

Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant

Description:

CC Routing: Regiont ADAMS Accession Numbers - Incoming: NONE Response/Package: NONE IOhrIfomto Cross Reference Number: G20100024, LTR- 10-0018 Staff Initiated: NO I

Related Task: Recurring Item: NO File Routing: EDATS Agency Lesson Learned: NO OEDO Monthly Report Item: NO Prcs I nfomaio Action Type: Letter Priority: Medium Sensitivity: None Signature Level: NRR Urgency: N0O Approval Level: No Approval Required OEDO Concurrence: NO OCM Concurrence: NO OCA Concurrence: NO Special Instructions: Close out response to be provided via email to Sheila McKelvin, SECY to forward to the White House Correspondence Section.

Dcumen Infraion Originator Name: Rosalind F. Casey Date of Incoming: 5/4/2009 Originating Organization: Citizens Document Received by SECY Date: 1/13/2010 Addressee: President Obama Date Response Requested by Originator: NONE Incoming Task Received: Letter Page 1 of I

9, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: Jan 13, 2010 12:31 PAPER NUMBER: LTR- 10-00 18 LOGGING DATE: 01/12/2010 ACTION OFFICE: EDO AUTHOR: Rosalind Casey AFFILIATION: NJ ADDRESSEE: The President

SUBJECT:

Concerns Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant ACTION: Direct Reply DISTRIBUTION: SECY to Ack LETTER DATE: 05/04/2009 ACKNOWLEDGED No SPECIAL HANDLING: White House ID 715457 NOTES: Provide copy of response to SECY for closeout with the White House Correspondence Section.

FILE LOCATION: ADAMS DATE DUE: 02/04/2010 DATE SIGNED:

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The event at the Washington Hilton is expected to draw 2,000 politicos, journalists and celebrities. The guests range from movie star Ben Affleck to President Obama, who is ex-pected to follow tradition and perform a comedy routine.

Corzine will be sitting not with NBC, but at the CBS table

- along with Affleck, Environmental Protection Agency Ad-ministrator Lisa Jackson (formerly Corzine's chief of staff), for-mer secretary of state Colin Powell and other luminaries, according to the network's guest list.

On May 13, Corzine is also expected to attend the State-house version of the media mock-fest: the annual dinner and show hosted by the Legislative Correspondents Club. His aides did not respond to requests for comment late Friday.

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• The tritium, levels found is the oldest (nuclear) The tritium was found. covered tritium contami- po, fer ffi'6i00,00 hofmes, is Gannett New Jersey in the wells wereup to 300 power plant in the country leaking from. holes in two nation in a concrete vault the oldest in the nationi.

times higher than the gov- that's relicensed, so we're pipes - at the plant, _said. near. its turbine building

. Radioactive tritium has ernment limits allowed for like the test site." David Benson,. a plant earlier this month. It als0. oc Tritifin isý a naturally contaminated four moni- drinking water.:

But Nell A. Sheehan, a spokesman.

has. located: 'Oyster Creek-and stopped found tritium in a.monitor- for curring, radioactive tornig wells at the Oyster. "It's just kind of scary,". spokesman for the U.S. Nu-hast locatd, hand. sopped ing well and three addi-P.. pr im of hydrogen that is both leaks,'. he said. More. oduced when-: cosmic Creek nuclear power plant said Michele Nelsen of clear Regulatory Commis- i c s l tional . wells that were:, ra5is hit air molecules. It's in Lacey, but the isotope waretown, a property inspections will be pur- drilled. recgitiy,' ac sion, which oVersees the- ording - fou nd at very low or trace has not been detected be- manager who lives about 3. plant, said, 'There s no in-. lev 'els;- in J grouhdwater to NRC and pinnt officials.'

yond the plant, according miles from the plant. "I dication, there's any (con- The nlant. shut. down . . . . wo rldwide and also is a by-to a federal official and mean basically, we're. like tamination escaping)* 'to. since Saturday because of The 636-megawatt plant,: product of nuclear power-plant spokesman. the guinea pigs here' This the environment." tnts. ' . : . . .

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Tritium leak 1,A6EYT0WNS~iII' Jj A1 natio¶'s 5ldest nuclear power kept to A-plant Nuclear plant officials plant, was granted a new 20-year LACEY - Envir-onmental operating license earlier this month experts and Exelon probing possible leak by the NRC.

Corp. engineers have Operators of the Oyster Creek confirmed that an ele- nuclear power plant say they are vated level of radioac-tive tritium found in investigating possible release of a Wyeth gets OK on drug could not confirm when the plant low-level radioactive substance this water at Oyster Creek Wyeth Pharmaceuticals said the plans to reopen, or the expected Generating Station on week. Ewrnnoon r*nmm,-,,i,*-, 6-, -ant edl time for 4epairs, but said it will use April 15 was confined to Officials at the plant, told the nl . drug the timh for additional summer the plant site. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ti* 'opo- maintenaiwce when power demand that detectable levels of tritium i CM t in- typically peaks.

The tritium level C: No biownouts or blackouts 102,000 picocuries per were found in a cable vault while have beeii reported since the 6,p.m.

liter - was five times workers were replacing a- cable to "eted

-5 shutdown, alid no radiation was re-higher than the federal an emergency service water pump U leased.

Environmental Protec- on Wednesday. rized tion Agency limit for. PJM interconnection, the over-They said no release seems to tural drinking water. A pico- seer of the regional electric grid be occurring, but the source of tri- lead-curie is a measure of ra- said power has been diverted from tium water was not known. ir ased other location. to make up the dif-dioactivity. Ls 20 ference.

Tritium occurs naturally in the pt Tritium is a low-level ilfe- Oyster Creek, in Lacey Town-environment at veriy low levels and ti

• the ship, opened in 1969 and is the na-radiation emitter that is may be released as steam from fa- yE teno- tion's oldest nuclear power plant. It used commercially to make luminous dials cilities such as nuclear reactors. p:

is operational about 85 percent of and instruments. It also can leak into soil and Dgula- the time in a given year, Benson ground water. tc se as said, which is close to the national The Lacey facility, which is the a tusal average. "When we finish these re-

- Wire-service reports OS. . pairs, our station will be in a good

- Susan Todd position to be reliable for the sum-Power plant still closed mer when people need energy the most," he said.

The Oyster Creek nuclear - Danny Teigman

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