ML070570480

E-mail from Epstein to Mullins Regarding Snow Storm and Nuclear Emergency Plan Article

ML070570480
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Site:	Susquehanna
Issue date:	02/25/2007
From:	Epstein E Three Mile Island Alert
To:	Alicia Mullins NRC/NRR/ADRO/DLR/REBB
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cal u Mi]ns Fwd: O-ed: Snow storm and nuclear emer-plIan Page 1 From:

Eric Epstein <ericepstei n@com cast. net>

To:

Alicia Mullins <AXM7@nrc.gov>

Date:

02/25/2007 11:20:50 AM

Subject:

Fwd: Op-ed: Snow storm and nuclear emergency plan

Subject:

Op-ed: Snow storm and nuclear emergency plan February 24, 2007

Dear Editor:

As we thaw out from winter's icy grip, it has became apparent how

>> much

>> work needs to be done to prepare for sudden disasters. What happened

>> last week on 1-78 was the latest example of how ill prepared

>> Pennsylvania is

>> to handle an unannounced emergency. People were stranded for more

>> than

>> 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> in sub-freezing temperatures. How could Pennsylvania

>> have been

>> caught so off guard? Where was the Governor? Where was PEMA? Where

>> was the Lt. Governor who chairs the Pennsylvania Emergency

>> Management

>> Council?

The state has had 28 years to prepare for emergencies since pre-

>>> school

>> children and pregnant women were evacuated from the Three Mile

>> Island-area

>> on March 30, 1979. While improvements have been made, these kids

>> remain unaccounted for in the event of another meltdown.

Katrina, this summer's flooding, and the most recent snow emergency

>> demonstrate that we are ill equipped to evacuate large populations

>> in the

>> event of a radiological emergency. If we can't get people off a

>> highway for

>> more than 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> due to snow and ice, how are we going to

>> evacuate an

>> entire population living in the 10 mile Emergency Planning Zone

>> around

>> a nuclear power plant?

After 9/11, TM I-Alert reviewed Pennsylvania's emergency plan and

>> found day care centers and nursery schools had been left out even

>> though

>> a 1984 federal law required their inclusion. TMIA filed suit at

>> the NRC. The

>> author of the 1984 NRC law, agreed with TMIA, and filed a formal

>> complaint.

>> This 40 year nuclear veteran recommended that the NRC compel the

>> Commonwealth to include preschool children and nursery schoolers in

>> the nuclear emergency plan, or risk losing their license.

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- Fwdf-.:-op-ed: Snow staffi-iiAd nuc§ýaý6rn -rgency p an age Alicia Mullins - Fwd:tp-ed: Snow storm and nuclear emergency plan Pape 211 The NRC denied TM IA's request that the NRC enforce its own law.

>> Governor Rendell, PEMA, and the nuclear industry continue to

>> argue that it

>> is not their responsibility to help these kids get out of harm's way.

Playing a nuclear shell game wi th children is not emergency

>> planning.

>> Sincerely,

>> Eric Epstein,

>> Chairman, TMI-Alert

>> 4100 Hillsdale Road

>> Harrisburg, PA 17112

>> (717)-541 -1 101 or ericepstein@comcast.net Three Mile Island Alert, Inc., is a safe-energy organization

>> based in Harrisburg,

>> Pennsylvania and founded in 1977. TMIA monitors Peach Bottom,

>> Susquehanna,

>> and Three Mile Island nuclear generating stations.

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