ML20100F352
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| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 01/13/1970 |
| From: | Muskie E SENATE |
| To: | Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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i ! l Honorable Glenn T. Scabor6 l Chairman . Atomic Energy Conmission ! 1 Washington, D. C. 205 +5 Dear Mr. Chairman-Attached is a copy of a letter I received on 11ovember ! 3 from Wayne M. Herris, Chairman of the Air and Water Pollution f i Committee of the Monroe County Conservation Council. ; I would greatly apprecinto your considering Mr. Ihrris' questions and responding directly to him. Sincerely, g 9 cc<r w<S. V.r/ 6 %
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i December 23, 1969 Senator Edmund V.uskie United States Senate ; Senate Office Building ' i 1lachington; D. C. Re: Oycter Creek Nuclear Poser Plant ,
Dear Senator Muskie:
l Would you c.dvise me if you have received any reply from the Atomic Energy Commission relative to the questiona f I possed in my letter of November 3, 1969 to you ( a copy o .
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.JOHNSTOWN, PENNSY LVANIA 15907 P. L. LUM N872 ER v.c. en. . , , May 6, 197o Mr Howard Brown Assistant General Manager U. S. Atomic Energy Commiss!on Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr Brown:
In our procedure for alertin6 the Commission to negative public acceptance activities of a possible significant nature in the northeastern Pennsylvania area, we have been relying on informal telephone notification from the Safety Division Manager of the nuclear activities group of our parent company (General Public Utilities Corporation) to his normal contact on the Division of Reactor Licensing and occasional communication between our Public Information Manager and James Lyman of the AEC's Information staff. In recent months there has been the increasing activity, including contact with members of Congress, aseistance from national " anti- i nuclear" figures, public meetings and other efforts by a core group ' i committed to a national as well as local " anti-nuclear" position. We, therefore, believe it may be more helpful to formalize this public acceptance communication with the Commission even at this pre-decision stage of the GPU-Penelec/ Atomics International study project on an IMFER for a site Penclec owns at Scottsville, Wyoming County, Pennsylvania. 1 If it meets with your approval, we shall, therefore, address future communications in writing to you with copies to Mr Dohme of the Division of Reactor Licensing and Mr McFarren of the Division of Reactor l Development and Technology. If appropriate, we will provide notifica-tion in short notice situations to Mr Dchme by phone with follow-up correspondence. For your own back 6 round, the public acceptance activities record for this study project Goes back to late 1907, is fairly well documented and, until January of this year, was almost entirely a favorable one. I have attached summaries of the status and history of that record for your information and file. The specific current item that is being called to the Commission's attention is Item No. 1 in our April 24 Public Acceptance Activity Report describing the most recent business meeting of the Citizens l Committee for Environmental Concern and an advertisement recently p blished by that group. , Rec'c Utf. D' . of P g. g2/ A, i Date ? /5 h g. Time / ' %) -- i a qes n , M &
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l- <be making.a previously arranged mailing of a background presentation ! L ,
- oniour project to Rep. ' McDade, Rep. Flood,' Sen.- Scott, Sen. Schweiker and State Sen.'T. Newell Wood and State Rep. Kenneth Lee.
We would like to note that in this and future cases, the material-
,j we will be forwarding because of possible interest to you will j generally be of a negative nature. We, therefore, hasten to assure i
,you: that it will represent only that one part of the total public !
acceptance climate; that we are and shall continue our communications ! and other efforts in the region; and that we have a short-range public ! acceptance program for this pre-decision stage and-will have an even !
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Dear Senator Williams:
I Enclosed please find copics of a letter to Senator Proxmire , and his reply to me. . ) At the present time, and after the above mentioned corres-pondence, I an in possession of a study cormuissioned by Jersey Central concerning delays during construction of the s ' Oyster Crook Nuclear Gcnerating Plant. I also have cross-examination testimony from the associated rate hearing, to
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management and industrial engineering principles were not Article By Senator Proxmirc developed by the Company. (Re: in S_aturday, neview) The Petition For Investigation was filed by assigned rate counsel in the main hearings and presently awaits disposition. These young men have done an outstanding job and deservo overy assistance. As you know, the utility industry is planning much future ex-pansion of basic generating capacity as nuclear capacity. At present, a developmental monopoly is being maintained, at any
' cost, by Gonoral Electric, Westinghouse and Combustion Engi-neering. I fear that their contracts with privato utilitics are becoming cost-plus bonanzas with experimental development being underwritten by the public, in the same fashion as some scandalous military contracts.
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- investigate Oyster. Creek and the underlying business prac-tices-of General Electric. I urge you to consult with Senator Proxmire and other interested officials before
- nuclear' power-plant' construction becomes so widespread and confused.that accurate fact-finding and control becomes jmpossible, a ; - At the present time I understand that the subject power com- , l hanies are building,a second nuclear plant (Forked River) and may build a third (Union Beach). They ,do participate in. a fourth (Three-Mile Island, Pennsylvania) . Public Ser.vice.
Electric and Gas Company (who recently filed for rato increases) - is'alco heavily committed. , On behalf of the class of residents of New Jersey legally qualified to receive Public Assistance, I urge that you secure assistance for nate Counsel in the investigation i and.pross for exa'mination and control of nuclear plant con-struction before the subject becomes unmanageable and a cost crisis develops in the delivery of power. Very truly yours,
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Dear Dr. Seaborg:
I am extremely and deeply concerned, as are the thousands of my constituents in Wyoming County, with l regard-to the proposed development of a fast breeder nuclear power plant in that county. l 1 As I understand, General Public Utilities would build such a plant if its proposal to AEC were selected. While all citizens recognize the need to develop future power sources, I want to register my strong opposition to the construction of any reactor in Pennsylvania if there is the al ghtest chance that the health and safety i of the public would be endangered. I would like to solicit assurances that the AEC, during the application process, will place great weight on environmental con-siderations, even to the extent of denying the required '- licenses. 1 1 I understand that the present facility being planned for construction by the Pennsylvania Electric Ccmpany in Meshoppen would be six to eight times larger than pre-sently existing breecher reactors, and might greatly in-crease radiation levels. I should like the AEC to as-sure me and-the citizens of Wyoming County that no con-struction. shall occur until it can be determined that there will be no harmful ef fccts to the environment and the citizens. I Rec'd Off. irYof Date 9 'I ! Reg. ? h t DO $$^ -- [
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Further, I am most' hopeful that the AEC will enforce all the stringent provisions of the Price-Anderson Act to assure financial responsibility on the part of the utility. Certainly this company must assure the residents of Wyoming County that the corporation will be financially responsible for the results of any accidents. On behalf of the citizens of Wyoming County, and particularly the group of citizens known as
" Citizens Committee for Environmental Concern," 71 Warren Street, Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania, I should like you to follow carefully each step in the pending application proceso, giving the greatest weight to the environmental considerations. In addition to hear-ing from you shortly, I certainly want to be kept aware of future developments, including the filing of.
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r l Since our initial studies on the siting of a fast breeder demonstration ' plant with General Public Utilities, oeginning in 1967, and more recently l in the course of the on-going AEC Project Definition Phase, we have recognized the importance of the public acceptance aspects associated j with the location of this first plant and the potential impact on the success of this program. For this reason we believe it desirabic to consider an .- i alternate or fall-back site in addition to our primary site at Tunkhannock, ! Pennsylvania, on the Pennsylvania Electric Company system. l Very preliminary examination of the land and existing facilities at Savannah River, including a brief discuscion with Mr. Stetson and his staff on September 2, indicate that this could be an attractive alternate site location for the first FBR demonstration plant. The public acceptance problem should be minimal there. The available cooling water and heat
, rejection facilities appear to be attractive features of this site and could have a desirable impact on the overall program costs.
While it is our plan to retain the Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania site as our primary FBR demonstration plant site, we would like to investigate further, with the cooperation of the engineering staff at Savannah River,
*'the feasibility of a fall-back site location in that area. Obviously many considerations must be examined, including such things as: the physical and environmental features of the site, the capability for distribution of the FBR-gen.erated power, the operational arrangements under which a utility ,or group of utilities would function, identification of cost factors associated with the use of existing SR facilitics, and the impact of the potential program on the Coinmission's ' activities at Savannah River.-
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Dear Dr. Seaborg:
I understand that your agency is among those which must be dealt with by General Public Utilities Corporation or j Atomics International in connection with the proposed fast- s breeder nuclear power plant to be constructed near Meshoppen, i Pennsylvania. 's If you have been contacted in this matter, I would be pleased to know the present status of any application or request which may have been made. , I would also appreciate knowing your views concerning the proposed facility as it would affect matters under your
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As always, you have my warmest personal regards.
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Bear Dr. Scaborg: 845-850 of the We have reviewed the Idaho Nuclear Safety Reports on Tests Semiscale Blowdown and ECC Project, and have compared them with the Water
. Reactor Safety Progr un Plan and other AEC documents. i Warnings that ECC water might bypass the core and be blown out the primary system break appear explicitly at pagethe Moreover, 90Leiden{rost of the Ergen effectreport, is a well- page 40 of N and pages 2, ID and 20 of IN-13S4.
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. In view of the fact that the tests verified the accuracy of those test objectives, we l feel that the Commission if wrong in regarding the test results as " surprising" or,."tmexpocled. "
28, .1971, We are particularly disturbed by an AEC press release, dated May - which attempts to denigrate Vhe tests by saying: , The recent small mock-up tests at NRTS were not designed t.o represent the response of an actual operating nuclear power plant to.a loss of . There were significant differences in tIEe experi-coolant accident. montal system which was tested as compared to an operating reactor. In vic{v of the fact that the blowdown test data from that same facility has been used to support liccuse applications, we do not see how the Commission can have its cake and cat it too. Either the facility does " closely model commercial plant ,
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In view of the crucial nature of this problem, we believe the only prudent course for the Commission to follow, in addition f o its exprecsod intention to hold up licensing new plants, would be to suspend the licenses, until the ECC system has been experirnentally verified, of f.he 1;cactors named on the attached list. N . Wo ask Ihe Commission to suspend these licenses on the grounds that the assur-ance of no undue risk to the public health and safety demands 1. hat no other l course be followed by the Commission.
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