ML18019B021

Urges Reconsideration of Bringing Facility Into Svc

ML18019B021
Person / Time
Site:	Harris
Issue date:	06/11/1986
From:	Michaeli I FOLKKAMPANJEN MOT KARNKRAFT (SWEDEN)-NATIONAL CAMPAIG
To:	Harold Denton NRC
References
NUDOCS 8606190022
Download: ML18019B021 (4)

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ACCESSION NBR 8606190022 DQC. DATE: 86/06/11 NOTARIZED: NO DOCKET FAC IL: 50-400 Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant> Unit ii Carolina 05000400 AUTH. MANE AUTHOR AFFILIATION Nl C HAPL I I. Affiliation Not Assigned REC IP. NAl'1E RECIPIENT AFFILIATION DENTQNi H. NRC No Detailed Affiliation Q iven

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Urges reconsideration of bringing facility into svc.

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"~3M i=olkkarnpien 4~ mot karnkr af t 1986-06-11 Mr Harold Denton, Dir of NRC USNRC Washington, W.C.

20555 USA

Dear Sir,

, We -have heard, from radio reports by Gunilla Luboff in North Carolina that a newly-built nuclear reactor, Shearon Harris near Raleigh N.C, is shortly to be brought into service.

We urge you to reconsider this decision. The catastrophe in Chernobyl has closely demonstrated that nuclear energy is not a purely national matter. An accident can have disastrous consequences for the whole world.

We have experience of this in Sweden, 1500 km from Chernobyl.

Farmers have been especially hard. hit. In some areas their dairy herds still must be kept indoors. Those farmers who cannot obtain hay now in short supply and hence are forced to let their cows out to graze must pour the milk away. Problems now arise concerning how to dispose of polluted milk and. radioactive grass.

Large amounts of'esium have now also been found in wild anima1s.

Concern here is very great, especially for the future health of children. We still know very little about the long-term consequences af radiation.

A referendum in Sweden has resulted, in the decision to abolish nuclear energy before 2010, but there is a strong move now to abolish it earlier. No technology is 100 fo safe. But it is insufficient that we here in Sweden abolish nuclear energy nuclear energy in all countries must be abolished. We cannot poisin planet earth with more radioactivity especially as our decisions may have fatal consequences for future generations.

We see it as a major tragedy 'gf new nuclear reactors are put into operation. We therefore urge you in the name of humanity to reconsider the decision to bring the reactor at Shearon Harris into operation.

Yours Sincerely 3~(a Hit ~A Inga Michaeli Chairman of The National Campaign against Nuclear Power

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