ML18022A397

Opposes Opening of Facility Due to Belief That Nuclear Power Unsafe

ML18022A397
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Site:	Harris
Issue date:	09/01/1986
From:	Halperin D, Shalom R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8609160093
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ACCESSION NBR: 8609160093 DOC. DATE: 86/09/01 NOTARIZED: NO Planti Unit i. Carolina DOCKET I FACIL: 50-400 Shearon Harris Nuclear Power 05000400 AUTH. NAt'fE AUTHOR AFFILIATION SHALONi R. Affiliation Not Assigned HALPERINi D. J. Affiliation Not Assigned REC IP. NANE RECIPIENT AFFILIATION DENTON> H. Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulationi Director (post 851125

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Box 89, Polks Landing Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27514 September 1, 1986 Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reaction Regulation Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washing'Con, D.C. 20555

Dear Mr. Denton:

We are writing to express our opposition .to the opening of the Shearon Harris nuclear plant.

We do not blame Carolina .Power and Light for having built the plant.

In the 1970's, we too were among those who believed that nuclear power was a reasonable alternative to fossil fuels. But the episode at Three Mile Island, reinforced by what we gather (through the fog of Soviet censorship) about the Chernobyl horror, has persuaded us that we were wrong.

Nuclear power, we now know, is unsafe.

We do not question the honorable intention, of .the staff at C. P. 6'L.

who assure us that nothing can go wrong. But we do question their ability to deliver on such a promise. We have all had too much experience with computer errors to trust technology to be absolutely foolproof. This would-,not matter, if as on our MasterCard bill ,

a foul-up now and then were acceptable. But, when radiation, is involved, foul-ups are not acceptable. The slightest error could let loose horrors whose full extent we can barely imagine.

We must stop while there is time. It would not be fair to leave C.P'.&L.

holding the bag, for making a mistake which so many of us shared.

Certainly we must help them recoup their losses. But we should not authorize them to keep on mak'ing this mistake, which could prove a terrible one indeed.

We are citizens, of North Carolina, and,hope to remain so for the rest of our, lives. We do not.wnat to live our lives next to a time bomb. We beg you to do whatever you can to stop that .bomb from being put in place.

Sincerel ,

4.ILkil I 14 0 Rose Shalom, M.D.

David J. Halperin, Ph.'D.

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