ML19220C830

Presents Views as Followup to 770610 Limited Appearance. Regrets ASLB Failure to Take Holistic Approach to Plant Siting or to Consider Impact of Lost City of Ebla

ML19220C830
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	06/13/1977
From:	Arnold L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Linenberger G Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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Dcor Mr Linenberger:

Perhaps this connunication is irappropriato as far as nor al relicy is concerned, but cur views and the reaction to them at the lialted appearance on 10 June 1977 require that we mke this effort, Ac Chain-an Luton notcd, we had " patiently" atterded the Procecdings, Cur cencem about TP.I Unit 2 deranded that we mke observations, scrutinice testimony ard collect facts, de repeatedly tock time frca cur inccae-producin6 work to be infermed, scrething that can be said of very few others there.

There were blatant untruths (to be polite) entered into the Recon 1 by pro-licensing witnesses that were nc,t called to task.

We scught to correct these errors so that the Scani could arrive at a scre just decision taccd cn evalta-tion cf facts, not falsehecds and exaggeraticns, For this effort we were surprised and shceked to be reprcached by Chair-an

Luton, Je never wish to impese urduly en anycne, and so expected to rake the last limitel appearance of ',he day ard finish cur presentation by 5: 00pm, Hcw-ever, it seens we still raraged to off erd the Ecard, Yet, depencing en hcw the Bcani rules on Unit 2 licensing. ramificatiens could exterd for hurdreds of thousards of years -- ard we, in tum, are severely chasticed fc-attemptin6 to utilice 20 ninub of that tine, We observed several times what we interpreted to be a favorable respense to our statements fres ycu; a reccgnitici

.at a holistic perspective is neces-sary when dealirs with the ragnitude cf the consequences that nuclcar energy in its present state crcates.

4hile we do not kncu your perseml views en the inforratien relayed by Edt;2r Cayce and others on these mtters, the ranner in which you nontiened his work leads us to feel ycu are synpachetic (at lea st open-mindcd) to the guidance which catorials such as his impart, However, when one respords to a request for 90 secords of gcup neditatica as if it were a physical denenstration borderin.; en ar ed insurrecticn there seen-little hepo to expect a philesophical/ psychic /hclistic apprcach to make an impact.

This was, ard is regrettable, we feel, Metropolitan Ediscn has tricd to nect der.'.nds for encrcy in the best way it known,

'We de not, cannot fault then for that, Eut they h ve not chosen the test my t'nt 1_n.

• Therein lies the fundamental distincticn between these who support nuclear-genented electricity for a shcrt-tem mteri: listic gain, and those whose brcader integmtive viewpoints reccgnice the ir.nensely incardous ani lethal nmificaticas of these facilitics to mny levels of lifo.

If we my digress for just a moment.

'4e,ard colleaCues on the West Ccast, have been collecting evidence for 'invisiblo' life organic =s that live in the 116 3M e q n,( j~

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atnesphere of this planet.

They can, ard have been photographed using IR film ani special filters.

The inpact of radic-isotcpes frca nuclear plants has in no way been censidered -- simply because ".he ' experts' dcn't know anything about these unsusrected denizens of the air.

Dr. Gotchey mde the anusing cc=ent on June d er 9 that in 76 C00 years we'd be in ancther Ice A6e ard wouldn't have to werry about nuclear wastes anyway.

Well, by then this Earth night well have ex:crienced sevel sc-called ice ages (there is excellent dccu-mentation to support a mini-ice age 3,0C0 years ago; ard alacst all clinatologists agree a rajcr ice age cccurred 12,000 EF).

Yet on this planet are ancient civi-11 cations about which orthcdox archaeolcrints knew ( or adnit) nothing.

The Na::ca Plain cannot be exphined in conventicral histcrical development; the dis-covery of tha city cf Ebla has shaken the sequence of civilicatien in Mesopotania; and within 3 weeks we shall percomlly be involved in a =jer expedition ancng the ruins of a lest and unkncun civill.atien off the ccast of 31nini. in the Paharas (see Cayce, by the way).

Every iten above is facutal - yet none of it has entered the consideration of anv nuc1 car licensing hcaring, to our knowledge!

We are reninded of a statement by Sinon Newccab, ef the US Naval Observatory, nado 22 Cet 1903: "y.ay not our nechanicians... be ultimately forced to adnit tht t aerial flight is ene of that great class of problems with which ran can never cepe, and give up all attempts to grapple with it?" Cf ceurce, the Wright brothers shcwcd the fallacy of such deg atic prcnouncenents 2 ncnths hter!

Tho clains by pro-nuclear advecate abcut the infallibility of these facilities retirds us of Newccab's 'incontrevertible' assertion --

Hcw long will it be befcre we all are told that there's teen another error by the purdits? Ecw nany will have died?

We've ceno acrcss this fact yesterday: "Earthqt:ake effects en nuclear phnt structure will be the objective of a research prcgran to be conducted by the University of New Mexico's Civil Engineering Research Facility... The project will stt:dy the interacticn between soil and nuclear plant structures during earth-qraker.

Transnission of forces thru the greurd to nuclear power phnts c rurures will be studied using ncdels... " [IA, Industrial Research, yarch iW7,13]

ISU'T IT A 3IT IATE TO BEGIN TO STUDY SUCH A REIATICNSHIF/?.A"ARD, AFTER MCRE T.-:AN O NUCLEAR FiAUT STRUCTURES ALREALY ARE CF.=._ ATING?

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1. 50-320, ani cur own testinony )

We have written the above in the still-hopeful expectation that yaur brmder awareness gives you a perspective that so obvicusly is missing in nest of these involved in naking critical decisions en nuclear plant operatien, an:1 that you are willing and able to raise the censciousness of others en the Atenic Safety and Licensing Scird.

If you with to inquire about forthecning carth changes and how they will affect nuclear sites, we will be pleased to respend (there's so incredibly nuch data that cannot be conveyed thrcus;h a brief letter such as this).

In the neantine we continue rorking tcwaris -aking the next 30 years of this phnet's history a safer place for this generation, and future ones, to live, We hope you will help by voting against licensing of TMI Unit 2 Renainire Most sincernly yours, k

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• Cf. Planetary Assoc. for Clean Energy (Porcupine, Cntario): American College of C

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-s UNITED STATES OF A> ERICA NUCLEAR RECULATORY CO:r':ISSIO::

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METROPOLITAN EDISO'? CO3!PA::Y,

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Docket No. (s) 50-320 ET AL.

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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document (s) upon each person designated on the off':ial service list compiled by the Of fice of the Secretary of the Ccamission in this proceeding in accordance uith the requirements of Section 2.712 of 10 CFR Part 2-Rules of Practice, of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Rules and Regulations.

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SERVICE LlST Dr. Chauncey R. Kepford Edward Luton, Esq.

Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Citizens for a Safe Environment G U. S. Iuclear Regulatory Co==icsion York Cor.ittce for a Safe Environment Washington, D. C. 20555

'2586 Broad St7 et York, Pennsylvania 17404

!!r. Custave A. Linenberger Atomic Sa f ety snd Licensing Board I!anorable Karin W. Carter U. S. ?!uclear Regulatory Conniosien Assistant Attorney General Washington, D. C.

20555 Office of Enforcement Department of Enviren.antal Eesourcer.

I 709 I!calth and Welf are Building Dr. Ernest O. Salo I!arrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120 Professor Fisheries Research Institute, Ull-10 College of Fisheries

>tiss Flary V. Southard University of Washington Citizens for a Sa fe Environment Seattle, Wash in gten 98195 p.o. nox 405 liarrisburg, Pennsylvania 17103 George F. Trowbridge, Esq.

Shaw, Pittman, Potts, Trowbridge Government Publication Section State Library of Pennsylvania 910 17th Street, !!. U.

Education Building, Box 1601 Washington, D. C.

20006 1!ar risb urg, Pennsylvania 17126 Stuart Treby, Esq.

Counsel for I;RC Staff U.S. 1;uc. car Regulatory Cornisc ion Washington, D. C. 20555 116 353 O 'e sMt,(\\t)-

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