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E-mail from Leslie Vincent Forwarding Article Regarding Oyster Creek Foes Appeal to Force NRC Review of Metal Fatigue
ML083231041
Person / Time
Site: Oyster Creek
Issue date: 08/04/2008
From: Vincent L
NRC/OGC
To: Ashley D, Farrar K, Lund A, Masnik M, Johari Moore, Brian Newell, Williamson A
Office of New Reactors
References
FOIA/PA-2008-0306
Download: ML083231041 (2)


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Donnie Ashley From: Leslie Vincent on behalf of OGCMailCenter Resource Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 9:27 AM To: Edward Williamson; Brian Newell; Karl Farrar; Michael Masnik; Louise Lund; Donnie Ashley; Janice Moore

Subject:

FW: App.com Augujst 3 Oyster Creek foes appeal to force review Attachments: Oyster Creek - Docket No. 50-0219-LR Original


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MANAHAWKIN BUREAU Opponents of the relicensing of the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant-in Lacey have filed an appeal of a ruling that rejected their efforts to have the issue of metal fatigue of the plant's recirculation's nozzles reconsidered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Earlier this year a coalition of groups asked the Atomic Safety Licensing Board to reopen the relicensing record to reanalyze whether five recirculation outlet nozzles on the reactor vessel will sustain too much stress over an additional 20 years. The 38-year-old plant's operating license is due to expire next April.

In a 2-1 split decision handed down July 24, the board rejected that effort.

Relicensing opponents claim Oyster Creek's use of a simplified calculation of nozzle metal fatigue falsely indicated that the amount of fatigue in the future would be acceptable. In their motion to have the issue reopened, they state that reanalysis would reveal the nozzles pose a potential safety threat.

Oyster Creek has said the original methodology used was acceptable and that any further analysis would produce similar results.

In the appeal, filed with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the group cites the dissenting opinion of panel member Anthony J. Baratta as grounds have the nozzle issue reopened.

Baratta stated the citizens met the standards for reopening the record to address a, "serious safety issue."

"It is something that needs to be explored. When you talk about metal fatigue of a nozzle in a reactor, that is extremely vital," said plant opponent Janet Tauro of Brick.

Tauro said the opinion of Baratta - one of two technical judges on the panel - that rejecting the motion is a "grave error," has given opponents hope.

"It buoys us very much," she said.

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Original message -----.......------

From: Richard Webster <rwebster@easternenvironmental.org>

> UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

> NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION

> BEFORE THE COMMISSION

> In the Matter of

>) Docket No. 50-0219-

> LR

> AMERGEN ENERGY COMPANY, LLC

> (License Renewal for the Oyster

> Creek ) August 1,

> 2008

> Nuclear Generating

> Station)

> Please find attached Nuclear Information and Resource Service,

> Jersey Shore Nuclear Watch, Grandmothers, Mothers and More for Energy

> Safety, New Jersey Public Interest Research Group, New Jersey Sierra

> Club, and New Jersey Environmental Federation (collectively

> "Citizens") Petition for appeal of LBP-08-12, together with a Certification of Service.

> Respectfully submitted,

" Richard Webster

> Legal Director

> Eastern Environmental Law Center

> 744 Broad Street, Suite 1525

> Newark NJ, 07102

" Tel. 973 424 1166

" Fax. 973 710 4653

> rwebster(*easternenvironmental. orq 2