ML19199A592
| ML19199A592 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/03/1979 |
| From: | Myers J CUMBERLAND COUNTY, PA |
| To: | Creitz W METROPOLITAN EDISON CO. |
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| NUDOCS 7905040285 | |
| Download: ML19199A592 (2) | |
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Commissioners of Cumircriann Cannin COURT HOUSE, C A, ' S L E. PA.
17013 Ap~ll 3, 1979 MattopcLLtan Edison Compary lit. L'altet Crelt:
?. C. Box 542 Reading, PA 19603 Deat President C.telt::
TIh morning's edLtoriat in tite Hattisbutg PATRIOT NEk'S states vety tecLL my sentinc>tts of Bie conduct of you and you,t company t!ttougitout the entite crisis.
As a ComnLssione,t teito itas had Bte a.cesome and painfal responsibility af
.ctuing to insure die hcattlt and welfate of tite citizens of Cumbe~1and Courly, the most anonizing aspect of titis entite af fait has been dealing with the disttaught rec.tions of the eltizens.
ConsLstcelly, Mettopot.Lian Edison's position hu been nauting more Bian to sty and presetve its own position insu, sing, tetongfully ana inaccura.tely, that utete was indeed notiting to be f e=tfut of; and, in genetal a ve,1y blatari posture pu tting you.t corpo.1-
=tz benafits and concetn for yout company fa,1 above you,1 concetn for xne publ<.c xcLfa,te.
Simpig said, yout company'.s actions make me feet, as a public offieial,.that your presence in this atea is no longet desited and you should think about evacuatag.
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THE DANGER at Three even before the fear of a melt-ble Island has a'pparently~. down had been reduced. gov-ubsided, but the. came of ernmest offic:. tis, nuclear in-
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, a werd whose meaning _. utility wer e tMkmg about put-I
.onveys one of those..t=g the plant back in opera-l vatershed events that rattles ~ tion after. it is repaired and J
he hu=an perception of r certified as safe. dever mind self. No one has died at Hare, that it.was certii ed safe be-nsburg but a world has beent fore the acci.Ient. Jever mind l
c fronted with the terrible 6 that Metropolitan; Edison is atential of its - unrelenti:2 ' " thin als te:hnicall.. talent ";
ash fora *e:hnocratic utopia + Never mind that next to no I
- the expen.se of caution, con- ~. oce around here has any con-.
ervation 2=d i:dividual con W~fidence that V 'Ed-knows -
rol over our own desanies.,
how to tell the truth,let alone.
The i=plications of the ae: - run a nuclear reactor. And ident atThre-W Isla:d are ~ ~ ost of all, never mind that m
.r-reach.cg. They involve - the people of this region have-
.t just the 100 million other ! just be-n faced with oce of the mericans who live in the { most. traumatic experiences nadows of nuclear powar that modern technology has to
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- ant cooli=g tower plumes offet.
ut~every American, because WHAT ANGERS us most n incident will have reper-c.. are those who are so willing ussions in every aspect of the-to once again risk our lives nergy ecuatict-and property for the sake of We cannot decide for. company profits and the nu-ther-Americans what they; clear option. They would put
- ould do about the nuclear us in the position of a convict-
- ants that loom so ominously ed murderer sitting on death their lives. Indeed. they will-row, praying for a reprieve, a ave to break new ground to pardon, anything, while the
- heard. to inEuence, be-prospect of execution stares 22se they were never asked him in the face, they wanted atomic power Central Pennsylvania
. ants as neighbors in the first doesn't have to put up with
' ace. The growth of nuclew that uncertainty and risk. All
.,wer was not a public deci-the rules of the game say oth-1 m-it was pri=arily a gov-erwise because they are l ment and industry deci-stacked in favor of nuclear j
- n,and the rules of the game - power. But when you have j
+re and are devised in their been forced to walk across a ve r.
hot bed of coals, when some-But for those of us in the body's rules are putting your -
- inity of Three Mile Island life in danger, those rules e dec!sion is much more per-have relinqunhed their legiti-nal. We have been lied to macy bacause cf their utter j
aut events that were vital. lack of morality. New rules cur security and well-are gong to have to be writ-ng. We havs been forced to ten and the paople of Pennsyl-lure a coiler-coaster of vania are going to have a lot aion and fear. We have to say about what those rules to Trave cur hor es and sho21d be. Acd for sure these ac< nc* '.mowir; y hen new ru!es will not put us in q
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