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Subject: app july 13 Scarpelli , Danger at Oyster Creek could spell disaster

Danger at Oyster Creek plant could bring disaster

Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 07/13/06

BY JOSEPH C. SCARPELLI

Two dangerous conditions at the Oyster Creek nuclear plant in Lacey,
combined with an unworkable evacuation plan, could spell disaster not only
for the Jersey Shore but the entire state.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission officials have recently acknowledged what
former Department of Environmental Commissioner Bradley Campbell had said
for years: Some areas around the reactor are inaccessible, making it
impossible to test for safety or corrosion.

The metal container around the reactor has rusted since Oyster Creek began
operations in 1969. That much we know. If corrosion eats through enough of
the liner, NRC officials have acknowledged that it can buckle and collapse
on itself, destroying a complex system of pipes, valves and electrical
circuits that protect the atomic reactor from a meltdown.

How much of a risk should we ask the public to tolerate?

Add to the accident probability equation terrorism. A recent federal court
decision gave a boost to the DEP's insistence that radioactive waste stored
in pools 70 feet high are a terrorist risk that needs serious consideration
before the NRC approves Oyster Creek's relicensing application.

In light of these two disturbing conditions - the probability of an accident
and the terrorism issue - the unworkable evacuation plan becomes a recipe
for disaster.

In the three years in which I've been involved in the relicensing battle, I
have yet to meet a local law enforcement or elected official who can say
confidently that, in the event of a nuclear meltdown or terrorist attack,
the evacuation plan will work and there will be no catastrophic loss of
life.

Think of the difficulty in moving the population out of harm's way before a
hurricane when emergency workers have the advantage of advance notification
and a public that is not panic-stricken.

It's a given that intelligent and well-meaning professionals devised the
radiological evacuation plan that was the focus of a public hearing Tuesday
night in Toms River. The professionals, however, were given a task that was
unrealistic and unworkable from the start given our system of roads and
swelling population.

And confining an evacuation to a 10-mile radius around the plant is
ludicrous.

Last month, I attended a meeting with state officials that included Robert
Alvarez, senior policy adviser to the Secretary of Energy under President
Clinton. Alvarez's expertise was used by the scientists who wrote the
National Academy of Sciences study concluding that nuclear power plants with
Oyster Creek's design are vulnerable terrorist targets. They concluded that
an accident would have catastrophic effects for the Eastern Seaboard, far
worse than the consequences of Chernobyl.

Alvarez warned that much of New Jersey could become uninhabitable from
radiation contamination, and the loss of life could be catastrophic.

Alvarez implored state officials to guard public safety in the absence of
strong leadership from Washington. He called the operation of plants with
elevated fuel pools horribly irresponsible in a post-9/11 world because an
attack would result in fire that would send plumes of radioactive steam
throughout the state.

There simply is no escape.

DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson has shown strong leadership in regard to
Oyster Creek. She is pushing plant owner Exelon to clean up its
environmental messes with state-of-the-art technology. And she is going head
to head with the NRC on the terrorism issue.

It is painfully evident that the NRC consistently puts the interests of the
nuclear industry before public safety. For example, test results used by
Exelon to prove the safety of the corroding metal liner around the reactor
are wrong calculations. These faulty results, which showed a scientifically
impossible occurrence - that metal had spontaneously grown in areas where
rusting and corroding occurred - had been kept out of the public domain for
more than 10 years.

It is the determination of a coalition of citizen activists and
environmental groups that has brought this scenario to light. But what's
most disturbing is that the NRC had those questionable results in hand for
10 years and not one inspector ever raised an eyebrow.

That is why we need Jackson now more than ever. She is our radiation
barrier. Let's admit what we all know. The evacuation plan will not work.
The state must not certify it.

Joseph C. Scarpelli is mayor of Brick.

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