ML19210B538
| ML19210B538 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 06/16/1975 |
| From: | Murphy G CONGRESS (JOINT & ROTATING COMMITTEES, ETC.) |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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w ASHINGTON. D.C. 20510 June 16, 1975 Mr. Carlton Kammerer Director Office of Congressional Affairs Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Dear Carl:
Attached is a recent article from the Washington Star which is self-explanatory.
It would be appreciated if you would provide a report from NRC on the statement that two former security guards from the Three Mile Island
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nuclear plant expressed concern about security at the plant, but got laid off for their trouble.
Sincerely yours, G
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Executive Director
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By Hal Willard WHEN I ANSWERED my phone, The fact is that I have met Ralph a woman gave her name and then research and investigation Nader on several occasions said:
"Please hold for Ralph was and once hired him to write a', story done by Nader personally in the Nader, and went off the line.
Now, who in the world is not going for The Washington Post. Ut was early days, and now it is done in.
for a special section on automo-large part by underlings who make to hold for Ralph Nader? I held.
Ralph Nader probably is the only biles, and scarc.1 hell out of the reports to Ralph that he then issues
- person who can send out letters
. advertising desprtment).;
Some formerly ardent Nader or announcements without a let..
So Ralph is entitled to call me-terhead and sign just his name; Hal without the risk of being con-fans now are merely fans, because they aren't 'as sure as they used sidered pattonizing or over.fa-to be about the firmness of
- no identification. In fact, the name is typed - Ralph Nader - and he.
miliar, or without being categorized merely signs "RNader" with the legions of politicians and "Nader" facts.
The opinion seems to be that a (That signature could bear ana-public reladons people who call Nader fact is more factual than a lyzing, by the way. There is a big newspaper people by their first "Nader" fact.
"RN" run together, and then down names as a matter of principle, whether or not they've ever met or f't'ot"Hal," Ralph was saying, "I'v even heard of them before.
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ower plant in Pennsylvania who
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I hope you can make it."
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! plant, reported laxness and got laid Of course I could make it.
I i off for their trouble."
knew somebody was bound to get f spectacular, the sort of thing thatIt t below, like a blasted and chemical formula, newspaper people comes a quick "ader" with a long always are willing to go hear some-America has become used to in the body get blasted, as long as it years since most citizens finally stroke for the top of the "d.")
And now Ralph Nader comes on isn't them. For a long time, any became condneed. that Nader the line. "Hal,"le starts off. Well, attack by Nader was a cinch to Ralph Nader is no back-slapping, get newspaper space. But in~ the really was about as selfless as it hail-fellow-well met type - but last couple of years he has spread is possible to be and meant it when neither is he rigidly formal with himself thinner and been less dis-he said he was fighting for the ordinary consumer against those the criminating with his attacks. R e-personality of cold cream-of-sult: 1e:s press.
who would make a buck off us any wheat (worse than cold oatmeal),
as General Motors and a large While increasing the number of way they could whenever they bunch of Congressmen would have his targets, he has not lowered his could.
he still goes after the big-Like the work of anyone some sights:
us believe.
The only thing is that the Ralph Nader causes are mo,re im-gles.
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m volved nuclear power' plants. It lease of large amounts of radiation
' over nucidar power' plants compara-was important.
and the death of hundreds and ~ tively late, but did so -full steam For perhaps the first time in the thousands of people.. '. and con-ahead and has become the chief history of communications, let's -
tamination of th_e area and damage '
spokesman of the opponents! 'As get the denial on the record before to subsequent generations."-
such, he asked'the' NRC for a' na-the char'ge? the Three 31ile Island '-
'The Nuclear Regulatory Commis-tionwide investigation of nuclear nuclear power plant administra-sion has security regulations which plant security.
tion and.the Burns In'.ernational' -
nuclear plants are supposed to 101-An NRC spokesman said the specific charges of.the guards Security Service, former employers - ' low, and an NRS spokesman said would be automatically investi-of the guards, emphatically insist after h Nader press conference gated, but the request for a full-that the guards' charges are in-that there are " frequent inspec-scale investigation would have to accurate, a'id further sta.e that the guards were not laid off, but quit tions". to ensure compliance. How-be taken under consideration by of their own volition.
ever, Darcy and Shapiro claimed the commissioners.
Following Nader's jammed press Nader's concern was that if there the regulations are being. violated,
-_. conference, I was approached by at Three Mile sland...
I was in fact a lack of security at Three Mile Island there very likely Whatever the security situation
_a man who identified himself as a was a-lack of security at. other-now, the Three Mile Island, plant, representative of a utility company nuclear plants-including the 'two' was fined $3.500 by the NRC lasti
' who had attended the conference September when an unescorted in. - ' "just' to see what a Nader press
. nuclear plants in Virginia and one.. spector passed into a security area,,' conference was like.".
in Maryland, and the :everal others in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
of the plant without being checked.
"How did Nader get so many The two guards, John Darcy and Security at nuclear plants has people there?" l'e asked. "By call-Joseph Shapiro,' of Camp Hill and worried some scientists, legislators ing them up and asking them to
. Mechanicsburg respectively, cited and environmentalists for years.
come," I rep!Ied.
a series of specific examples to Physicist Theodore Taylor has
."He seems to know what he is support their charge of lax secur-claimed that a person with the doing," the man said, referring to
- ity: unwatched gates, issuance of right knowledge could pilfer the Nader's dealings with the press.
unauthorized keys, untrained makings of a nuclear bomb from -
"Yes," I said, "he certainly does guards, malfunctioning electronic nuclear power plants and Sen.
inow how to-get reporters out and Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) has ex.
present information."
systems, etc.
Nader said all this meant that pressed fears about persons gain,
But, the next day, only one major there could be " terrorist intrusion ing entrance to plants and sabo-newspaper, the Philadelphia In-and massive extortion demands.
taging them.
quirer, carried the story, so far as Sabotage could result in the re-Nader entered khe controversy I could determine.
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