ML19224C113
| ML19224C113 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/27/1979 |
| From: | WASHINGTON POST |
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| References | |
| PR-790527, NUDOCS 7906290029 | |
| Download: ML19224C113 (1) | |
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. HARRISBURG, Pa. May :',5 (AP)-The Nuclear 31egulatory Commission ruled. today that highly "hdioactive - wastewater could, not -be discharged
' icm the Three Mlle Island nuclear-plant into the quehanna River unts? ate 6vironmental study ti made.
"'The NRC order, Issued in Washington;rcame in '
response to public. clamor over, plans to purify hundreds of thousands of gallons of contaminated water, then dump them into the river.
- Two suits dem.tnding an immediate-halt to.such
- lans were filed in federal court by the. city of Lan-caster and a citisens group' representing the 110,000 pople who get their drinkmg water downriver.
.h The NRC staff said it did.not know how long It iWil 3*S!Ncoc2pleta theanYtronmental m, w nf;'*Md tilf *be*maded.n tmarts.
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';. "he first will examine the potential risks to pub-
,4fc Sealth and safety. The second will look at ~ alter-I nat!ves to discharging the radioactive wastes into g Qgd dgn
@e river, such'as storing it li tanks and lettingf' d
=> s 4Jwly evaporate.
2 7he NRC said it w111 pertrit Metropolitan Edison j 430. the plant's operator, to discharge wastewater J if there are no potential risks and no public -
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- h. leanwhile, the NRC said it' will still allow low-li
' et discharges of routine wastewater-from two
.'o arces-water from,an andamaged reactor acci-
'de itally centaminated in the March :8 accident anc from water thal leaked.-from -a. secondary
,plarc into service support systems.
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