ML19224B773
| ML19224B773 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/16/1979 |
| From: | Henry T AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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'A Coure oainc. Men' H C M -- jp19 No wonder the Nuclear Regulatory Mr. Hendrie's imagery chinges Commission resisted congressional when he tries to humor himself and efforts to release transcripts of secret his colleagues by wondering aloud meetings on the crisis at Three Mile whether they should be cal:ed "a Island.
pride of commissioners" cr "a gaggle.
The regulators apparently wanted
- o. commissioners." All this, durmg a to protect themselves from embar-time when a me:tdown at the Three rassment, at best, and indications of Mile Island nuclear power plant was confeasance, at worst. They turned ennsidered a pcssibility, when radio-over the transcripts to a House sub-activity was being released in the at-commit'.ee only under threat.I a mosphere, when thousands of people inb mena.
were fleeing the area.
Portions of the NRC secret meet-The most revealing aspect of the ings eal with the problem of commu-transcripts is not the contempt shows nicating with.he pubile through the by Mr. Hendrie and his coileag ies fcr press. Joseph Hendtre comes through open meetings and for the need to in-as an extremely careles, er ama:ing-form people. It is the alarming igno-ly uninformed, commission chairman.
rance of what was happening at the "Which amendment is !t that guaran-plant site during the critical days.
tees the freedom of the press? Well, Something is tetribly wrong if the Nu,
I'm against it," he says at cne point.
clear Regulate:' Commission finds it-
, At another point, Mr. Hendrie self "almost totally in the blind" dur '
notes, "We'll probably enter - what Ing the most sene ts nuclear accident is it? - four or five months of over-ever reported.
regulation of the n": ear industry." In Mr. Hendrie talks about entering a l a more serious moment, the chairman period of "over regulation" of the at-admits,"It seems to me I have got to clear industry. There is no need for
...can the.gover::cr.We are operati:qE, aver-segulation; whateves thaug'-
. almost totaIly in tte-BIInd"IUs in - means-TEere-ts need fen @sie;
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formatian is ambiguous. Mine is non-regulation, so that the regulators do I existent and - I Con't know. !t's like not act like " blind men suariag a couple of blind men stau,ering around making decisions," in case of around making decisions."
another accident.
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