ML19224A839
| ML19224A839 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/12/1979 |
| From: | Bradford P NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7906060167 | |
| Download: ML19224A839 (2) | |
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Thank you for your letter of :iarch 28 regarding Three Mile Island.
l-There P.re several points in it that are simply not correct.
Ho. lever, I am not sure that the corrections would necessarily alter your conclusicas.
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Fourth, all of the Commission's previous probability calculations would shovi the events at Three Nile Islar.d to be far nore unlikely than the chances of an earthquake at one of the fo;r sites.
There is simply not a sufficient data base ' lith regard to either the nuclear irJustry or the seismic history of different regions to state the possibi'.ity of failur2 v:ith meaningful precision.
It aey be true that in any cases t2 err on the side of caution, but I,think that the consequences of a nuclet.r accident are such that te cannot permit ourselves to ere the o th e r
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,5;95=4sasV Agair., thank you for writing, and let me close by urging that you keep in mind that the Commission does include tuo physicists and a nuclear engineer.
Its unanimous decision to close down five plants was not arrived at either casually or politically.
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