ML19290D648

Requests Info Re Emergency Planning.Util Is Responsible for Evacuation Plans for People within 10-mile Radius of Facility.Wind May Carry Radioactive Plume Many Miles Into Heavily Populated Areas

ML19290D648
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Site:	Salem
Issue date:	10/11/1979
From:	Covert J CUMBERLAND CONSERVATION LEAGUE
To:	John Miller Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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CUMBERLAND CONSERVATION LEAGL'E J

P.O. Box 114 '

Port Norns, New Jersey 08349 0 g ,

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October 11, 1979 " ~

The Monorable Willian 3radley Senate Office Building Washington, D. C. 20510 '

Dear Senator Bradley:

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Please find enclosed a copy of a letter written to Mr. James R. Xiller, '

Acting Assistant Director for Site and Safeguards, Office of Nuclear Reacter Regulation, Nuclear Regulatory Commission. '

1 The letter regards the distance a utility is responsible to protect in the event of a nuclear accident. As you know, it is presently

' limited to a ten-mile radius.

Our group feels this is insufficient. please advise us of your views en this distance limitation and whether there is legislation pending that would increase tne limitation. .i I

Respectfully, ,

s.yx._ L'Y:f Jeanne Covert .

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b Octooer 11, 1979 "r. J.anas R. Miller Actinz Assistant Director for Site and Safeguards Cffice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation 7aclear Regulatory Connission Washington, D. C. 20555 3 ear Mr. Viller:

The Cumberland Conservation League is a 150-member environmental group which has worked since 1974 to preserve the natural resources of Cumberland County, New Jersey.  :

Ne are greatly concerned with the evacuation procedures cf Cunterland C ou n t:. since the boundary of our county is only eight niles frc the

aler ! 'uclear Jenerating Station. The city of 3ridgeton is less t*ir.c-lar'

". r - twenty r.iles from the plant and the cities of :..illville and

'New Jc-sey's largest city) are less than thirty miles away.

de is are concerned because the utility, puolic Service Ilectric and Oc, is only required to be responsidb for the pecple withir a te:. -ila radius of Salem I when, in fact, the wind c.ay carry the radioa-tive plune many miles further into the more heavily populated areas of our county.

Therefore, we support the pr:posal that the utility be responsible for the them people within a fiftv-mile radius of the plant, to protect arainst radiation doses that may be carried by the wind.

The utility should be financially responsible for preparing and distributing information leaflets, newspaper, television and radio ads explaining nuclear accident. to the public what they should do in the event of a They should, also, finance the stockpiling of potassium iodine which is takcn to prevent internally by those who may be exposed to radiation doses, Trasently, the absorption of radioactive iodine by the thyroid gland.

it is being paid for by the taxpayers of New Jersey.

.he utility should finance the additional equipment needed by each

.unicipality's civil defense, such as warning sirens, trucks and the extra the to alert personnel public. required for route-alert teams which are nececsary nd, finally, the utility should finance the transportation of persons ir hospitals, institutions, senior citzen complexes, and otner groups or individuals requiring transportation. jails, prisons

';!.e nunicipality should not be financially responsible for any did the notmentioned since if the nuclear power generating station exist, nor would the need for the information leafletc, the potassium iodine, the special equipment or special arrangements for transportation.

We d isashave ters ,not deemed these things necessary in the past for natural of which we happily have few, and if deemed necessary now, it is for a potential unnatural disaster caused by a nuclear power plant built by the utility.

If the to risks utility the builds peoplea living nuclear power near plant knowing the potential it, then the utility should be responsible for the protection of those people. The existing ten-mile frer the radiuspossiblewillrisks.

not protect the people in Cumbepland County Again, we support the proposal that the utility be responsible for the people within a fiftv-mile radius of Salem I, to protect them against radiation doses that may be carried by the wind.

T'e strongly urre that this proposal be acted upon.

Ar ir.ediate trapocr.1 reply advising our group of the status of this would be creatly appreciated.

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