ML20081E608

Discusses Environ Areas of Concern Re Injury in Fact Test & Zone of Interest Test.Identification of Accidents Causing Harmful Radiation Releases Requested.Exhibits 1,2 & 3 Encl

ML20081E608
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley
Issue date:	09/28/1983
From:	Walker R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
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NUDOCS 8311020128
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. m I wish to note the July EO,1963 response by t$b#EDu.C. to ne.

I asked to intervene in these hearings and thet Section S.714 (c)t E) opplies to me. The " injury in fact test" and the "rone of interest test".

This meeting is to identify environental areas of concern. Since taxpayers money pays for U.R.C. and not the nuclear utilities, your scope of responsibility cannot end with the safety of the physiccal eree or E.V. 2 but the effect on the taxpcyers in other areas, such as rate structures, poor business judgement, etc. If not in your reslm, then it is your duty to bring it to the attention of the proper governmental body for further action.

Ducuesne L3ght, part of a four way ownership of B.V. 2, ownes 13.74 N. This is 114,451.2 EW of 833,000 EW of B.V.2. Also the estimated cost of 3.1 billiott leaves Duquesne Light with e 425,940,000 plus interest in cenital investmentn Since the N.R.C. has limited the scope of its hearings to the safety copects of B.V.2, the only equasion not addressed is human error and the various degrees of life and. property that could be affected. Can the N.R.C.

identify the type of human error that could cause such results ?

After reading the material describing the factore and rules pertain-ing to B.V.2 and its equipment and the U.R.C. agenda of inspection, it is mind-boggling. 1 can understand most of what 1 read but the more areas of N.R.C. concern also increases the possibility of human error.

About three months ago in Chippewa Township, near Beaver yells, a small sewage treatment plant was completely destroyed by an explosion.

Two men died in this explosion. In the history of sewage treatment plants only a few accidents have occured when a floating cover has blown off or a digester and deposited on the ground. 1 do not think the human error cGusing this explosion will ever be found out.

Nuclear plants do not explode but release radiation that could endanger and harm small or large parts of the population. *1his U.R.C.

cannot ignore this responsibility. It is not enough to just assume part rssponsibility for the physical part of the ulent. ' ill you identify the physical parts of 3.V.2 which would ceuse releases of harmful radiation - to small areas - to larger crees - to very large areas due to human error ? Also cescribe what could hansen in case of a neltdown.

I wish to include trhibits 1 3. xost are copies teken from Enorgy Notebook - Summer 1983. '1his was mailed by vuquesne Lisht to its customers, o.c. Robert u. Perlis, Esq.

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Und6r a federal mandate, and The Alert s.ren sivnal is a ,' , .,C . T,3 h.T1g as part of the Company's steady, three m:nu .e tone . 1: g.,*- ' ^~.n ",.p Emergency Preparedness Plan, is not a wathng or varbling J Duquesne Light has installed a signal. If you hear this slanala Refueling of Seaver Valley Pow-number of specialized warning the only action vou should take er Station began in mid-June.

sirens in the Emergency Plan- is to tpe your radio er TV to Refueling is the operation of ning Zone (see map on front one of your Emerrency Ercad- removing the fuel that is "used

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cast System e stations for up" or " spent" during the proc-Na'lialiOR ETOlection law in C- Mr y ess of making electricity, and replacing it with fresh fuet gIrOadcast Pern>ylvan.u would ke7p closer tabs on the w: af rm m:ive Since Beaver Valley began full-i(DES)

-:atecrialif a bil1!ntroducec in the Senate beco: power operation in 1977,it has

. :rt, hircducec, tast weel:. would increase rad:,:q'- !av: ' q mea x . - . . a .n c f.

[ been refueled twice; this refuel-L ru L3 tapning new funding sources, De;nr.mt: . ' '.,x;rc n. TV ner:21 Res< urcer officials said. ing voll be the third. Each time.

11 Th new me .r;y u culd be used to nearly da.'aic the "... - der about one-third of the reactor's WTAE -Ch. 4

C of DER's Bureau of Radiation Protection. 'anim: ira ni nu. fuel (about 52 fuel assemblies)

k .. ;% c-r ol: r.ts would inercase and the state v oud t. Le over . KDKA -Ch. 2 was replaced.

rem sib:Utt for about 1,030 federally licemed u,en of radioac. -

tM materiai. sr.M bureau director Tom Gerusky. .inty The fuel that is removed from "We just do not have the ability to do the job that should be the reactor will be temporarily done." Gerusky said. The 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island stored under controlled con-rue: car power plant in Middletown showed the state "we can't ditions in a speciaDy designed

. rust the knowledge of people at the plants or the Nuclear Regula- steel and concrete building on tury Commission " he added. the plant site. In about 120 Under the legislation, which was drafted by the department. ,y days, the radicactivity of the each cf thr lo nuclear power plants in Pennsylvania would have to spent fuel will be reduced by pay a $150.000 annual fee. Other users of radmactive material TV a ould als a pay a fee, but the amount has yet to be determined. KDKA -Ch. 2 more than 90%.

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During the refueling, Duquesne

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Light will also make some

(' additional modifications to the sea. plant. This work will include Two Fttels Used the insertion of new fuel eie-ments to extend the plant's 12%

uraruum tO Generate running time (the time de-Electricity Duquesne Light Company operates on the philos-

\ tween refuennes) from la months to 15 months.

ophy of generating electricity by the most practical, - - - .

economical, and reliable means. In 1982, approxi- L 3 mately 88% of the electricity distributed by the Com- Energy Notebook is published pany was produced by coal-fired stations; about 120/ by the Public Information was generated by uranium at nuclear stations. Department of Duquesne I.ight

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power plants by the Nuclear _. most of it is very complex.. . . . _ _

Regulatory Cornmf asion. For . Everything has to work pre-

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tion, the EPZ encompasses thing isn't right, as a safety

-~ portions of Beaver County, " precaution the plant will shut -

It's my pleasure to intro- .._ ..__ __P_ A; Columbiana County, OH; _ down. If that would have hap ,_ _._ .

duce this first issue of and Hancock County, WV pened - even for a second -Q

}k Energy Notebook. -- -- - _ (see map). .we would have had to begin

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i ~ This is a publication for -~We hope you will find Ener- counting our continuous-days neighbors of Beaver Valley gy Notebook informative, -- - -of-operation all over again."-s Power Station, an electric _ -. ..and we hope it win be a way. Since January 1, the power sta- ._

( producing nuclear power for you to get to know us a tion also achieved high capac-

,. plant in Shippingport, PA. - little better. _ _ - - - ity and availability factors - -

two indications of a plant's kA ) Those Steve Lacey lO-mile ofradios you who of the liveplant in a Plant Superintendent performance. -

3 are probably most aware of Beaver Valley Iower Station / Capacity factor is the amount cnd affected by its opera. ~ ~ ~ -- - - - ' of electricity generated com-3 tions. We have developed g _ . _ _i pared to the amount that could

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be generated over a period of G Energy Notebook to help % keep you informed about the(.

• EP time. Availability factor is the 4 Beaver Valley plant, and ( j y- ~~,,  ; number of hours electricity was k cbout energy, nuclear j .._l' -- y ~~

, generated compared to the power, and the people - pos. _- y _ , . .

, , , .  ! number of hours that it could cibly some of your friends, ! .. M .p ' ~ have been generated over a relatives, or neighbors - -"~=

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who work to provide safe " g.. Y~ Z Y For the period January 1 cnd dependable electric -. "-

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its availability factor was published periodically and . _ . . . ' 97.5%.

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/ 0 Also of interest. During the 10-mile plant radius March 1983, Beaver Valley

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known as the Emergency ( recorded its highest single l Planning Zone (EPZ). This ne lome z:nergency r.en=4 ::ne f:r '

monthly electrical output - i lo-mile area was estab- meaver vaney Power s auon e .cc: ;uses '

' more than 602 million lished fcr all U.S. nuclear prum s cf haver Ccunty, PA. Colu::tlana C:un y. CH. and Harmet Ccun y, WV. ' - };7gg. <hours of energy g '

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