ML19224D276
| ML19224D276 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/30/1979 |
| From: | Mckinley J Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| To: | Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
| References | |
| ACRS-SM-0126, ACRS-SM-126, NUDOCS 7907110248 | |
| Download: ML19224D276 (4) | |
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j May 30, 1979 i e I ACRS Members l 4 TMI-2 Attached for your infomation is a copy of a letter sent to "The Commercial Appeal" newspaper in Memphis, TN. This letter suggests that the TMI-2 accident may have been the result of sabotage. All of the " experts" that I have talked to (including Michelson) conclude that it was not sabotage. i i i J. C. McKinley, Chief Project Review Branch No. I j l
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( 1 f{ foll l>W ,4 I resd in "The Review of the News" a tMugh t promking article..... I,
- too, h:2 ve been wondering..... Don ' t you wonder........."Could the "huun error" at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant actually have been deliberate sa bo '.a ge ?"
Officials of the Nuclear Regula tory Commission are indeed investigating the pass.:bility that the Three Mile Island nuclear facility was sabotaged by opponents of atomic energy -- an hypothesis shared by many nuclear experts. The tietropolitan Edison Company is known to have received a sabotage warning just a week before the incident at its Pennsylvania nuclear plant. And colut nist Paul Scott has revealed tha t: " Government securi ty agents, a t about the same tirne as 1:he threa t, learned of a report cirr~ulated among anti-nuclear prottst groups that there soon would be an incident at a nuclear pla-' that would grea tly help the movement." The a nti-nuclear a tmosphere had been primd with publicity about the late atom c energy opponent Karen Silkwood and with the release of The China Synd2ame, Hanoi Jane Fonda's pzopaganda film which refers absurdly to a nacit ar accident destroying an area abrut the site of Pennsylvania. In addition, in another remarkable "colncidence," an anti-nuke article appeared i ! year in a radical mgazine called Harrisburg which evisioned an accident last at the nearby Three Mile Island Facility on Mart.% 28th, the very da te on wk.h }. it occured this year! The managing editor of the magazine (which has received I thousands of federal dollars under the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act) clairs his story was intended to show the alleged danger of nuclear-powh plants. lf}} } h () We h ve so dismantled our internal securi ty agencies tMt even being a member of t ie terrorist wea ther Underground would not prevent a person from employment in sinsitive governmen t posi tions. And, as Sena tor Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) has poir$ted out: "In the private sector, too, effective background checks have be-1
7-;; w. corv impossible in every sphere, from hospitals to nuclear power plants." Effective use of nuclear power would cut down almost half of our present the Oil b mports, last year 25 new reactors were in operation throughout according to the " Manchester Union Leader", "were in the wori c. "Onl y s ix," The Uni ted Sta tes upped i ts nuclear generating capacity by Un2 ted Sta tes. it was whereas in the rest of the world. excluding Russia, only.11 percent, Other na tions, being note realistic about the oil situa tion. have 25 pe rcen t. In South Korea they have a program to build tw recctors a year don e Tore. Taiwan has six reactors und3r from sow on until the end of the century. const 2rction, and a program for 10 or 12 more new ones." nn ti-nuclear people in the United S ta tes, with their scare tactics, "The would rather see the United States dependent on a very risky source of foreign oil than to be independent". Look for the Soviet Anti-Nuke Lobby in Western atomic installations to do every-Word has gone out thing they can to terrify the public against atomic energy. from :1oscow to follow propaganda instructions and concentrate on power stations built or being planned by close Western nations threatened with imminent fuel shot tages. More than 40 pressure groups are campaigning against the " nuclear menace" in i in line Britain alone. Many of our misled college students have fallen tight i b wi th :this scare propoganda and began denonstrating against nuclear energy right on schedule. As reported in "The Spo tligh t" Rep. Robert K. 5 Dornah (R-Calif) said "The safety features built into nuclear plants nuke it F the cluin of events that occurred did so without hurun design
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and is demanding the FBI investigate The Three Mile Island incident for sabotage. "This was sabo tage," declared Pennsylvania.s ta te Rep. Joseph :eller, who wrked E for 1 years for a firm which constructed nuclear plants. 261 150
va?,L 7 Isfe)' l i l d tha t plan t," Zeller said. t "Somebody or some team delibera te y cr pp e "This jus t couldn' t happen wi thout ta mpering." to be sabotage," said "Too many things have happened here for this not vete an nuc: ear engineer Jon Gilbertson. Rep. John Anderson (R-Ill.), charged that the public was misled about the so-cclied "a ccident." fc:mer director of re- "It vas a phonprisis," declared L. Marning crantzing, quia tion for the fecerul Atomic Encrgy Commission. "It was a hoax pure and simple -- and the American people were the victims," professor of nuclear engineering at Georgia Tech. said Dr. James Rust, Aren' t you tte least bit curious as to why the statements of these nuclear experts were ignored by the so called " Free Press"? e within 48 hours of the March 28 sabotage tha t I t ha s been revealed, moreover, the si tua tion was completely under control-which began the " nuclear acciden t," i 2deral bureaucrats withheld vital information on the incident's resolut on, but letting panic spread. a wide ranging conspiracy to destroy the nuclear There is, pure and simple, NW k f a.. power industry in the U.S. For God, Family and Country, 1 O k 1 o t--- 1 1 s 2 -79 1 i \\ 261 151 .}}