ML053180106
| ML053180106 | |
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| Site: | Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 04/29/2004 |
| From: | Skay D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Office of Public Affairs |
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| FOIA/PA-2004-0369 | |
| Download: ML053180106 (7) | |
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.o I think we should a thank you email in the near term but indicate that we will reply with complete answers in separate correspondence. The questions he raises are a little sensitive and we should spend a little time to phrase the answers carefully or we may be criticized. I recommend we add this to the list to develop a response.
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- Donna, Can we include this with coorespondence for VY? I'm not sure it requires more than a thank you for your email." and a restatement of our statements.
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-ac Walker - Re: Fwd: re Vt. Yankee spent fuel?
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Diane Screnci To:
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Diane Screnci Public Affairs Officer USNRC, RI 610/337-5330
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"Tom Clements' <tom.clements@wdc.greenpeace.org>
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Date:
4/25104 2:03PM
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re Vt. Yankee spent fuel?
To Whom It May Concern, I noticed in your April 22 news release entitled NNRC TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL INSPECTION AT VERMONT YANKEE TO LOOK INTO POTENTIALLY MISSING SPENT FUEL SEGMENTS" that you assert:
"This situation does not pose a threat to public health and safety as it is highly unlikely that the material is in the public domain. Given the extensive array of radiation detectors at the site, it is very probable that the potentially missing fuel fragments are in a location designed to deal with radioactive waste. If they were removed from the site, this could only have occurred in heavily shielded, sealed containers directed to other controlled, safe locations."
Given this statement, could you please inform about what licensed facilities would constitute "controlled, safe locations" for this spent fuel?
In the event it was sent to a low-level facility such as Bamwell, are you claiming that disposal of spent fuel in such a facility is safe and that such a facility was designed and licensed to deal with such high-level waste? Also, do you know that the spent fuel was actually packaged in heavily shielded containers? Given oversight by the NRC and regulators at such sites as Bamwell, how could it possibly be unknown where such containers went?
Thanks very much for clarifying your statement.
Tom Clements Senior Adviser Nuclear Campaign Greenpeace International tel. 202-319-2411 tom.clements @ wdc.greenpeace.org CC:
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-Alt-Boundary-23533.1129634 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body To Whom It May Concern, I noticed in your April 22 news release entitled 'NRC TO CONDUCT A SPECIAL INSPECTION AT VERMONT YANKEE TO LOOK INTO POTENTIALLY MISSING SPENT FUEL SEGMENTS" that you assert:
'This situation does not pose a threat to public health and safety as it is highly unlikely that the material is in the public domain. Given the extensive array of radiation detectors at the site, It is very probable that the potentially missing fuel fragments are In a location designed to deal with radioactive waste. If they were removed from the site, this could only have occurred in heavily shielded, sealed containers directed to other controlled, safe locations."
Given this statement, could you please Inform about what licensed facilities would constitute 'controlled, safe locations' for this spent fuel?
In the event it was sent to a low-level facility such as Barnwell, are you claiming that disposal of spent fuel in such a facility is safe and that such a facility was designed and licensed to deal with such high-level waste? Also, do you know that the spent fuel was actually packaged in heavily shielded containers? Given oversight by the NRC and regulators at such sites as Barnwell, how could it possibly be unknown where such containers went?
Thanks very much for clarifying your statement.
Tom Clements
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Senior Adviser Nuclear Campaign Greenpeace International tel. 202-319-2411 tom.clements3wdc.greenpeace.org
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