ML18058B671
| ML18058B671 | |
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| Site: | Calvert Cliffs, Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 02/02/1993 |
| From: | Hunt A CITIZENS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION |
| To: | Selin I, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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-.CITIZENS FOR ALTgRNATIVES TO
. * * 'CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION Worl<ing to Protect the Environment Since 1978 II 8735 Maple Grove Road* Lake, MI 48632-9511
- 517-5~3318 *Fax: 544-2828 II Chapter Organizations:
- Huron Environmentalists Action League TriCounty Residents for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination February 2, 1993 Ivan Selin; Chairman U.S. Nuclear.Regulatory Cominission Washington, DC 20555-0001
Dear Dr. Selin,
I am writing to you regarding'the proposal to site, construct and load
- casks -at the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant with spent fuel rods within 150 yards of the sh6res of L~ke Michigan.
I join my voice with those of citizens throughou*t the Basin in calling for a public hearing on this issue in the Covert area. This proposal has such a potential impact on the Great Lakes Basin that if cannot be *permitted to _go ahead without a full public hearing.
In your presentation before the American Nuclear Society and the European Nuclear Society in Chicago, November 17, 1992; you stated, "The nuclear industry, and perhaps nuclear regulators as well, have sometimes acted as though public partiscipation were a necessary evil rather than a*positive force in NRC processes... First, the interested.public often does have a valuable substantive contribution to make.
Moreover, a process from which
- the public is shut out is a proce*ss ih which the public will have no confi-'
dence... public credibility cannot be achieved without public participation, and without public credibility, nuclear power'in the United States will never see a renew a 1. n Please remember and heed these words and open this process to the public.
Without a public hearing, with its impact and weight, the public will have no faith in the decisions by the regulators to allow*the siting of these casks. Furthermore, a public hearing has the added weight of requiring the NRC to respond to the issues of merit that are raised durigg the process.
Because the casks are likely to remain on site for the foreseeable future, a delay of two or three months to al low a hearing to be held wi 11 not be*
significant.
I look.forwardto your response.
Sincerely,
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