ML18022A416

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Opposes Startup of Plant Due to Possible Accident of Nuclear Waste in Transit & Urges Conversion to Safer Source of Energy
ML18022A416
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Site: Harris Duke Energy icon.png
Issue date: 06/05/1986
From: Murdock H
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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Route 1, Box 182K Chapel Hill, NC 27514 June 5, 1986 Dear Mr. Dentons As a resident of Bingham Township in Orange County, North Carolina, and a member of the Bingham Township Advisory Council to the Orange County Planning Board, I urge the revokation of the permit for the Shearon Harris nuclear power plant to begin operation.

Bingham Township is an agricultural area (chiefly dairy-farming), and approximately half of area for Chapel Hill and UNC res'dents.

it is(critical) watershed Much of it it is within fifteen to twenty miles of Shearon Harris, and all of within approximately twenty five miles . The Chernobyl disaster contaminated forage drops necessitating the slaughter of thousands of cattle 750 miles from the accident site. Contamination of water supplies (Cane Creek Reservoir and University Lake) would necessitate evacuation of an area far larger than the planned ten-mile radius, and should include Bingham Township.

Chapel Hill and Furthermore, since the temporary or permanent storage of nuclear waste, before and after the inevitable dismantling of II .. 1 transit through Bingham owns zp o site, would pact o tesaeyoe z.n esM e

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-roun/ er su 1 a hood, 'I oppose thestart-up of Shearon Harris as a nuc their a rzcu ura ~eli-power plant, and urge its conversion to a safer source of energy.

Very truly yours, (Mrs. Harold R. MurdockJr.)

" Though perhaps not technically "critical" according to the Orange County zoning regulations, half of Bingham Township is designated as "water-supply watershed" being drained into two drinking-water supply reservoirs. Technically"critical" areas are only areas close to stream-banks and the reservoirs themselves, but ALL water-supply watershed areas are critical as far as atomic fall-out is concerned.

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