ML19270H257

Submits New Contentions Per ALAB-535 & 790412 Order. Questions Ability of Eccs,Soley Dependent Upon ASLB Single Source of Power

ML19270H257
Person / Time
Site:	Allens Creek File:Houston Lighting and Power Company icon.png
Issue date:	05/25/1979
From:	Otthoff F AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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,w '. rUBLIC DOCUeu.M ROOM 5/25/79 In the Matter of EOUSTON LII.'ElliG i FC'.iEE COMFeda

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9 y'l NEX CCliTF.NTIO iS SUEMITTED 01 ,y EX. F.. ii._ FCTTSOFF III As an intervence in tha allena Creek matter, I submit the. fellowing contentions in accordance with ALa3--535 ani the Board's April 12 Ordert-I.. In the Houstac-Galveston area, nusercus tcrnados have ocurred over the years (the latest being reported in North Housten on May 22, 1979. See Houston Pcst may 23 1979 page 4.A . ) The Pral tmi"any Safety Evaluation Sepcrt states " All category I civil structures, will be dad , M to resist perfcr-.

ation, penetration, amt spall hs by terra.dc-driven missiles "

I conterd this: can he dona sucessfully only if the pin"t is buried underground, or cavered by an eartn. mnund of at least twentyf tve feet at. its ~1 ' ast. rnd i u n g II.' On Aug. 25,.1S72, at the si11 stone aeactar in Connettcutt, 2h6 asr"n11}crashedintoannnnitetransforme', rede".dering the pl ant's ECCS tcen11 r useless, due te the fact th+ n systen was cperated.

by electri.ci.tye Fron this incident.1.t isnSt too hard to imagine a Wac, cr torr 2.de ymrated mi ssiles, destroying ACliGS trans-.

far=ers ami thus reniering the ECCS incperable. Tc cffsat this, I centeni the Applicant should use,as a prima.'.7 or backup system, a syster:t operated by air pressure or sen+ c,1 seans .

III In the FES, tha Staff corc16ed that "wird. carnce, be ccrsidered a viable al.ta""ative snu"ce. cf energy . . .* to 2314 038 om""] s'To'{A A =

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ACNGS. This is not true. Large wind-powered generators have been technically feasible in this counwy since_ the early 1940s, when the central veracnt Publis' Service Company operated the 1.25 Mw Saith-Putnam wird machine. In the puM+~ tion Wird Machines (Gover-ma"t Printing Office,1976, NSF-aA-75--

031) wind-powered generators. are estimated to be viable when the price of oil rises FU-l dit toel5 a barrel. The Federal mergy Arimi ni ctration report Prolect Indecerdence states wind eg is a " Source that can 'ce developed and initially is p emmted on a relatively ahnre time scale.- Using a NASA su==ary of costs appearing in. Wini Machines, ($1490/ Kw for production units),1 have calculated a wind system built for HL&P would cost $1.8 billion, as compared to S2 3 billicn for ACNGS (swr n"7 cf figures given in FES, S.10.4.2.) Such a wird system would be. ore. erztircnnentally souri than aCNGS since "-( L) it would be an electrinni supply that does not require water, making water available for other uses, . .(2) it would have small cr na envirormaeni effects. " (Pro. ject Irdenerdence. )

Under the authoritz of the Nationa'2 Environtental Protecticn act, the Scard shouli deny the aCSD& pa*mit.

17. In the FES the Staff states that since phetavcleaic cel' n now cast about $20,000 per kilowatt, they are not currently eccnd-mically feasible. However, in a science- publicaticn last year,

("New Alloy Brightens Solar Cell Prospects", Science News, Vcis 114, No. 24, page 406) Stanf'crd R Ovi n*/ a""mm ed. his invention af a new solar cell. ande: from a= accrphous materials al107.- He stated in the article smine cella using, his invention ecuLi be marketed in 3 years at. 304 a peak wat:4-that is, 5500/ Kw..

The report Profect Indetenience estimates that phetcvoltaic cells costing at least. 570 Xae, would be compatative with oil-pcwSRei u4 D

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generators bu:nring oil at $14 per barrel. If a systen using i

Ovinsky's solar cells were built instead of ACNGS, I est -ate it would cost $60 mill i on. as for environmental concerns, Project Inderendence estimates large i n=d areas would be needed far ::entralized power plants, but could be avoided if solar cells were nounted on roof tapa.. No water would be needed, and there would be no pollution frca solar cell operation. Such a c,si is environ:.:entally preferable to .sCNGS, ani so. I ask the Board to deny the permit..

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