ML19208C425
| ML19208C425 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 09/20/1979 |
| From: | Searer A, Searer G, Searer T AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| NUDOCS 7909260394 | |
| Download: ML19208C425 (2) | |
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m 866 Sand Hill Road Hershey, Penna., 17033 September 20, 1979 Mr. Harold Denton U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C., 20555
Dear Mr. Denton:
I am writing to you on behalf of myself and my family to strongly urge you to do everything within your power to keep Three Mile Island permanently closed as a nuclear facility. We live in Hershey, Penna.
Our home is about seven miles from MI.
The people in this area for the past six months have suffered (and will con-tinue to suffer for another three or four years, until the clean-up is complete), grave psychological, emotional and physical concerns.
Unless you lived here during our nightmare, unless you experienced the inner conflicts of the decision to stay or evacuate, unless you took your children and fled from your home, possibly forever, anless you had been forced to listen to daily news broadcasts ol' the htest plan of Met Ed to further release radioactive particles into y our atmosphere for the past six menths, (and presumably for another three or four years), you could not possibly understand how intensely those who live in the immediate area feel about that nuclear plant resuming operat. tons.a a nuclear facility.
mI was an experience that somehow we are lea. ming to live with even though it is far from over.
I will never again fee? safe in my home until TMI is closed, dismantled, buried and guarded agttnst all forms of terrorism.
Are we Americans so blind to the limits of ent rgy supply tnat we are willing to inflict such a holocaust ca our fellow mer.? There will be another accident if MI is allowed to reopen. h one will ever be able to convince us that TMI can be made safe.
Please Gn't make us live with the threat of this horrible experience happening again.
We realize that there are numerous commissions currently studying our accident. And perhaps when all the results are in, the recommendation will be to close MI.
We sincerely hope so.
But we, whose lives have been irreversibly altered by the events of the spring have already reached our dicision.
Three Mile Island cannot reopen. We don't want bare safeguards. We don't want NRC inspectors stationed at the site. We don't want more safety checks.
We don't want more back-up systems.
It isn't that we don't want Met Ed.
We don't want MI at all. We don't want to be subjected again to the threat of annihilation. We don't want to live in the shadow of terror. We have endured an unprecidented threat to our lives and our freedom. We want to be free to choose our own destiny. We want to be liberated from the tyrant which has consumed our lives, thoughts and actions for the past six months.
Three Mile Island cannot reopen.
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'IMI, then there is more tyranny in this land than one wouJi dare think possible. We will not be subjected to a life of constanc stress and anxiety.
We hope someday soon to be able again to feel safe in car own homes. No amount of reassurances from either the government or the industry will ever convince us that we are safe until 'IMI is dismantled, buried and guarded.
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