ML100150201
| 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 | |
| Download: ML100150201 (10) | |
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EDO Principal Correspondence Control FROM: DUE: 02/04/10 Rosalind Casey Carteret, New Jersey EDO CONTROL: G20100024 DOC DT: 05/04/09 FINAL REPLY: TO: President Obama FOR SIGNATURE OF :** GRN **CRC NO: 10-0018 Leeds, NRR DESC: ROUTING: Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant (EDATS: SECY-2010-0038)
DATE: 01/14/10 Borchardt Virgilio Mallett Ash Mamish Burns/Rothschild Collins, RI Baggett, OEDO ASSIGNED TO: NRR CONTACT: 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.-o 1 -7 Ee lý ~c 0 EDATS Number: SECY-2010-0038 Source: SECY GeerlInfrato Assigned To: NRR Other Assignees:
Subject:
Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant
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NONE OEDO Due Date: 2/4/2010 SECY Due Date: 2/4/2010 Response/Package:
NONE I OhrIfomto I Cross Reference Number: G20100024, LTR- 10-0018 Related Task: File Routing: EDATS Staff Initiated:
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Close out response to be provided via email to Sheila McKelvin, SECY to forward to the White House Correspondence Section.0O Dcumen Infraion Originator Name: Rosalind F. Casey Originating Organization:
Citizens Addressee:
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5/4/2009 Document Received by SECY Date: 1/13/2010 Date Response Requested by Originator:
NONE Page 1 of I 9, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: Jan 13, 2010 12:31 PAPER NUMBER: ACTION OFFICE: LTR- 10-00 18 EDO LOGGING DATE: 01/12/2010 AUTHOR: AFFILIATION:
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Rosalind Casey NJ The President Concerns Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant ACTION: DISTRIBUTION:
LETTER DATE: ACKNOWLEDGED SPECIAL HANDLING: Direct Reply SECY to Ack 05/04/2009 No White House ID 715457 NOTES: Provide copy of response to SECY for closeout with the White House Correspondence Section.ADAMS FILE LOCATION: DATE DUE: 02/04/2010 DATE SIGNED: EDO --G201000 2 4 I VO 71$GjS. I 4(ek -g,ýt X 4 J4ýAQ 6<O4WARf/,Y v 4 1,0/a/,a -oaý2 rS 4>
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So it came as no surprise that the gover-nor is listed as a VIP guest at the annual White House Corre-spondents' Association dinner in Washington, D.C. on May 9.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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- " 1 i-.... .... .....4% MA BYTODD B. BATES -*Gannett New Jersey.Radioactive tritium has contaminated four moni-tornig wells at the Oyster.Creek nuclear power plant in Lacey, but the isotope has not been detected be-yond the plant, according to a federal official and plant spokesman.
The tritium, levels found in the wells wereup to 300 times higher than the gov-ernment limits allowed for drinking water.: "It's just kind of scary,".said Michele Nelsen of waretown, a property manager who lives about 3.miles from the plant. "I mean basically, we're. like the guinea pigs here' This is the oldest (nuclear)power plant in the country that's relicensed, so we're like the test site." But Nell A. Sheehan, a spokesman for the U.S. Nu-clear Regulatory Commis-sion, which oVersees the-plant, said, 'There s no in-.dication, there's any (con-tamination escaping)*
'to.the environment." The tritium was found. covered tritium contami- po, leaking from. holes in two nation in a concrete vault the pipes -at the plant, _said. near. its turbine building David Benson,. a plant earlier this month. It als0. oc spokesman.
'Oyster Creek- found tritium in a.monitor-for has. located: and stopped hast locatd, hand. sopped ing well and three addi-P.. pr both leaks,'. he said. More.i c s l tional .wells that were:, ra5 inspections will be pur- drilled. recgitiy,'
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It's nd at very low or trace'els;- in J grouhdwater rldwide and also is a by-duct of nuclear power-tnts. ' .: ...since Saturday because of a failed traiisfcrmer, dis-The 636-megawatt plant,: which generates enough'pro pla Tritium leak kept to A-plant LACEY -Envir-onmental experts and Exelon Corp. engineers have confirmed that an ele-vated level of radioac-tive tritium found in water at Oyster Creek Generating Station on April 15 was confined to the plant site.The tritium level 102,000 picocuries per liter -was five times higher than the federal Environmental Protec-tion Agency limit for.drinking water. A pico-curie is a measure of ra-dioactivity.
Tritium is a low-level radiation emitter that is used commercially to make luminous dials and instruments.
-Wire-service reports 1,A6EYT0WNS~iII' Jj A 1 natio¶'s 5ldest nuclear power Nuclear plant officials plant, was granted a new 20-year probing possible leak operating license earlier this month by the NRC.Operators of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant say they are investigating possible release of a low-level radioactive substance this week.Officials at the plant, told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission that detectable levels of tritium were found in a cable vault while workers were replacing a- cable to an emergency service water pump on Wednesday.
They said no release seems to be occurring, but the source of tri-tium water was not known.Tritium occurs naturally in the environment at veriy low levels and may be released as steam from fa-cilities such as nuclear reactors.It also can leak into soil and ground water.The Lacey facility, which is the Wyeth gets OK on drug Wyeth Pharmaceuticals said the Ewrnnoon 6-, -ant edl nl .drug'opo-i CM t in-C:-5 "eted U ir pt ti yE p: rized tural lead-ased Ls 20 ilfe-* the teno-could not confirm when the plant plans to reopen, or the expected time for 4 epairs, but said it will use the timh for additional summer maintenaiwce when power demand typically peaks.No biownouts or blackouts have beeii reported since the 6,p.m.shutdown, alid no radiation was re-leased.PJM interconnection, the over-seer of the regional electric grid said power has been diverted from other location.
to make up the dif-ference.Oyster Creek, in Lacey Town-ship, opened in 1969 and is the na-tion's oldest nuclear power plant. It is operational about 85 percent of the time in a given year, Benson said, which is close to the national average. "When we finish these re-pairs, our station will be in a good position to be reliable for the sum-mer when people need energy the most," he said.-Danny Teigman~kze~ ,~Dgula-tc se as a tusal OS. .-Susan Todd Power plant still closed The Oyster Creek nuclear power plant remains shut down for maintenance after power was lost to one of the plant's two transform-ers Sat urday night.Plan:pokesman David Benson C0 a>s- ca P) 0* M4- 0 C) Z' .$os n.-,CCMCýn):~cs' -rý, ý 4-. 4,? g) cc,) a) $ O'.-d C In a 1)'0 .(3. W)C. .2d 4,b 0 i -,A , 0 rw -- .0 4 n 'co CU Ei~) ,) .,- 0j CI CC10 ~ ~ .-.0 .a, 0 a) 2~ to ~ C a)- ., U)# C) U)W0):- *-- g-~-C =.. .-'C-0)' .0. CU 0v (1) $"4 4 Cýb C~nC) nQ'rV -W C.),~0 (L)O~ a) 03 CZ~5 a) .- -> a) ,- 0ýt a W ) U U jL ) -a> ,> 0 g ý: ' 0i.S i a) S. 0 ona f LOOSISIM"V ML3 KER 4 V~~i -W64101ý0I 1 1111 1 H1 11 H 11 1 1111111H'p 4- j 5<