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~~ ~ Cr ~~ 4 <br />~' '~~ <br />?e <br />Rr y~. <br />h CAKO <br />TOWN OF CHAPEL HILL <br />306 NORTH COLUMBIA STREET <br />CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA 27516 <br />OFFICE OF TH8 1NAYOR <br />October 7, 1998 <br />Wayne McDevitt <br />Secretary <br />NC Department of Environment and Natural Resources <br />512 N. Salisbury Street <br />Raleigh, NC 27604 <br />Dear Secretary McDevitt: <br />(9(9)968-2714 <br />FAX (919) 967-8406 <br />The Members of the Town Council and I are concerned about the application by Carolina <br />Power and L:~ Company to ~~ rTL_?.L; R~~;~to,- C~,..,,,,issiaa~:~:rii+wru,g al,l,luvai co open <br />two additional fuel pools at the Shazon Harris Nucleaz Power Plant in Wake County. <br />My understanding is that these pools are planned primarily for storage of activated fuel <br />rods from CP&L's Robinson Plant in South Carolina and Brunswick Plant in Wilmington, and <br />that already fuel has been shipped in for storage in the two existing pools at the Harris plant. <br />I request that the Department of Environment and Natural Resources try to prevent <br />CP&L's application from being granted. We have a lazge population concentrated within fifty <br />miles of the Han is Plant, and the possibility of an accident exists as these rods aze being <br />transported there, and again when they are sent elsewhere. In addition, I think that the Hams <br />Plant should store only its own spent fuel because of the increased risk whenever fuel is <br />transported. <br />If the application to add additional pools is granted, I request the fullest possible <br />involvement by the state government of North Cazolina both in the transportation and unloading <br />of the fuel, and during the period it is stored, to protect citizens from the possibility of a disaster. <br />It is my understanding that if the application is approved by the NRC, the Harris site <br />would hold one of the two largest concentrations of high-level waste from nuclear power plants in <br />the U.S. for an i.~definite period until a penriar_ent aisposal site i; ppc:jaa. Don't w~ ~~ant t~ <br />avoid being in that position? Isn't there some place to which these rods can be shipped where the <br />