ML19199A463
| ML19199A463 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/27/1979 |
| From: | Simon H External Citizen/Individual/Media (Affiliation Not Assigned) |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7905020447 | |
| Download: ML19199A463 (1) | |
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Saginaw, Michigan April 27,1979 Mr. Harold Denton, Director, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C.
Lear Sir:
I am probably sticking my nose into something that is nonc or my business, but I am curious about the problems that we seem to be having in our Nuclear power plants! I had the pleasure and opportunity to work with the Atomic Energy Con.
mission of Canada on their CANDU Reactors. I believe that the evidence will show that they are the most Reliable and Safest Reactors in the world to-day!! Why do we continue to build the Westinghouse, G.E., Babcox & Wilcox and Combustion Reactors??
The BIG _ ROCK nuclear Reactor has been down for six weeks to refuel, The Candu Reactor is refuelled as needed and ON-Stream!
It is not shut down to refuel. They have built a four Beactor powerhouse just out side of Toronto and are building an addition of four more at that site, they have four built at Bruce and I am told that they plan to build four more there!! They must feel that they are SAFE or they would not build them so close to a city. Maybe it is because they use Uranium 235 instead of enrich-ed plutonium?? I am sure that I don't know the reasons but I am sure that their Reactors have a better record than ours(as far as I have been able to learn)
I would also like to know why the Reactors in the USA don't have a steam turbine driven cooling water stand-by pump?
It seems to me that they could design a pump that would bleed off the high pressure steam line from the turbine-generator to s
1 operate automatically in the event of a loss of electric power-lb) and pump cooling water through the Reactor until it could be eq shut down!!
I know that you are a busy man and I apologize for
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my intrusion, but I was just curious, especially since we have
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