ML19242B802
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 06/06/1979 |
| From: | Pevear R NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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CONCORD COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE G A E ENE. ELIZABETH A.. Cha.rman SC AMMAN. W. COUGLAs JR Vee Chairman Drinkwater Road RGGERS. MYRTLE B., Cem BLAK:NEY GORDON R. JR.
Ha=pton Falls, N. H.
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03844 CAMPBELL, MARILYN B.
CATE GEORGE H.
cATE. JOHN O.
June 6, 1979 CORSER. JOHN B.
CONOVAN, FRANCIS X.
s iSHER. M ARK G1B BONS. PAUL A.
H A MES. BR AREY The Honorable Joseph Hendrie, Chair =an
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KC:ACKA. FR ANK J.
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Co d ssion L :AitLAc E. MARG ARET Washington, D. C. 20555 d R ANCO. J ACK N E LSON, R A LP H E.
PivE AR. RCBERTA C.
Sir:
TF OM8 LY. RICKY A.
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Enclosed is Copy of a telegran which I sent to President Carter, Senators Durkin and Hu=phrey, Representativen D' Anours and Cleve-land, and Gov. Hugh Gallen. Also enclosed are copies of two public statements I have made.
All of these nessages were conveyed at the request of a =ajority of =y constituents.
I have also been asked to advise you that the people of Ha=pton Falls and Ha=pton DEMAND a =oratoriu= on nuclear power stations, INCLUDING HALTINE. THE SEA 3R00K NUCLEAR PLANT NOW UNDER CONSTRUC-TION!!
My fa=ily and I live TWO.ELES FROM EE PROPOSED SEA 3R00K PLANT, which is situated directly on the Atlantic Ocean.
'I'here has NEVER 3EEN AN EVACUATION PLAN sub=itted to any of the residents in the five =ile " DEAD" ene (of which we are a part), or any of the citi-ens of the other :enes" surrounding this proposed plant.
Since we are backed up to the ocean, and a wind coming off the water would blow any centa=inatic. toward any " escape" routes, it appears there would be no way we could be evacuated during =uch of the cine.
It is =y understanding that the reason the residents in Pennsylvania were not evacuated was tha: the wind had shif ted, and they "DID NOT KNOW *.EICH WAT TO RLT", as shewn in the transcripts during the crisis.
I cannot cc. prehend hev you can allow censtruction cf this p'~ t ::
continue, when you know the dangers not cnly te.:h e thousands of area residents frc= Portland, Maine, :c Bes:en, Mass., s.nd beycnd, and west to Cencord, N. H., and beycnd, but also to the 100,000 people who gather on the beaches in the su=ner.
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_2-It is unbelievable that you continue to allow the ' uilding of o
these plants even in areas of less population with no evacua-tion plans, and no means of disposing of the vastes.
If, as it appears, you care nothing for hu 'nity, perhaps the dollar value of the loss of r.aterial things is important to you.
If that is the case, I am sure you are aware the costs could be trew ndous.
I as enclosing a copy of an article by Jack Ander-son on this subject.
Again, my constituents DE%ND that you i= mediately discontinue the building of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant. Just one of these units vill be the largest in the world, and they propose to build two of them. We also ask for a moratorium on ALL Nuclear Plants.
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03844 May 22,1979 Senator Gordon h-h ey-U. S. Senate Office Building Washington, D. C.
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Dear Senator Humphrey,
%cinsed is a copy of my letter to Harold Denton, to-gether with copy of my letter addressed to John Narne, with attar-hmants, at the NEC.
This sa=e letter has been sent to each me=ber of the NRC and to the EPA Director.
The people of the Seacoast have censistently voted against the Seabrook Nuclear Plant in the past, and are now de-
-and4 g that action be taken to protect them and their homes and children from the possibility of a TheMile-Island-accident.
I trust nhat those who have been elected to act in their behalf will see tl: ult they are protected.
Si=cerely yours, Rep. Scberta C. Pevear Rockingha= District. 412 enc.
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':'he Honorable Harold Denton Director of Nuclear Reactor Regn1ation U.S. Nuclear' Regulatory ?'md asion Washington, D.C. 20555 Sir:
P-elosed is a copy of a letter which I have sent to the EPA and Hac, together with attachmn="ts.
I am also ser'4"g copics to Pres ident Carter, Senators Dn*4n and M_my, Representatives D' Amours and Clavain"d, and Gov. Engh Gallen.
I have been asked by my constituen*a te advise you and each of the above that we suppo% the Seacoast Anti-Pollution League's Show Cause Request to re--
quire an evacuation plan for the ten-mile area around the Seabrook plant.
It is also interesting to note that the population in this area exceeds the HRC's evn gn4 r'ai 4 nas f== the niting of nurlar plants.
As stated in the enclosed letter, it is inc==p.w.
hensible to me how the construction of the Seabrock plant continues when there is no evacuatien plan in sight, particularly after the T'..ree Mile Island evaccation fiasco.
Please, please do what you can to protect usI Sincerely, Rep. Robert.a C. Pe rear Rockingh Dis M #12 Enc.
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g COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND AGRICULTURE GR E EN E. ELIZABETH A. Chairman SCAMMAN. W. DOUGLAS JR Vaca Chanmaa Drinkwater Road ROGERS. MYRTLE B., oork BLAKENEY. GOROoN R. JR.
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BOWLER BARBARA S.
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PEVEAR,ROBERTA c 20500 TR CMB LY. RICKY A.
WHEELER. EMM A B.
Sir:
Enclosed is copy of a telegram which I sent to Presi-dent Carter, Senators Darkin and Eu=phrey, Representa-tives D'A=ours and Cleveland, and Gov. Hugh Gallen.
Also enclosed are copies of two public statements I have =ade.
All of these messages were conveyed at the regaest of a =ajority of =y constituents.
I have also been asked to advise you that the people of Ea=pton Falls and Hampton DErnND a moratoriu= on nuclear power staticns, INCLUDING EALTING TEE SEASROOK NUCLEAR PIA.NT NCW UNDER CONSTRUCTION! !
My family and I live TWO MILES FROM TEE PROPOSED SEA-BROCK PIANT, which is situated directly on the At' etic
. Ocean.
There has NE7ER 37"N AN ETnCUATION PLAN st "d t-ted to any of the residents in the five mile " DIAD"
=cne (of which we are a part), or any of the citizens of the other "=enes" surrounding this proposed plant.
Since we are backed up to the ocean, and a wind cc-4 :g off the water would bicw any centamination toward any
" escape" routes, it appears there wculd be no way we could be evacuated during much of the time.
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as' shown in the transcripts during the cris is..
I cannot comprehend how you can allow construction of this plant to continue, when you know the dangers not only to the thousands of area residents from PorH and, Maine, to Boston, Mass., and beyond, and west to Con-
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and heyond, but also to the 100,000 people who. gather.on the beaches. in the sumr r... -
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It is unbelievable that you continue to allow. the build-ing of these plants even in areas of less population with no evacuation plans, and no means of disposing of the wastes.
If, as it appears, you care nothing for humanity, per-haps the dollar value of the loss of material things is i=portant to you.
If that is the case, I am sure you are aware the costs could be tremendous.
I am enclos-ing a copy of an article by Jack Anderson on this sub-ject.
Again, my constituents DEMAND that you i==ediately dis-continue the building of the Seabrook Nuclear Plant.
Just one of these units will be the largest in the world, and they propose to bus.d two of them.
We also ask for a moratorium on ALL Nuclear Plants.
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MAILGRAM - 4/1/79
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PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER, THE. WHITE EOUSE, WASHINGTON 20500-SEN. GORDON EUMPEREY, U. S. SENATE, 20510 SEN. JOHN DURKDi, REP. NORMAN D' AMOURS, U. S. CONGRESS, 20515 REP. JAMES CLEVEIAhT, GOV. EUGH GAILEN, STATE HOUSE, CONCORD, N. H. 03301 AS A REPRESCITATIVE ELECTED TO REPRESENT THE PEOPLE OF HAMPTON
. A2D BJGTON FALLS r N. E.y-IN THE N. - E. LEGISIATURE', *AND A"RESI-DEC OF HAMPTON FALLS, RESIDING TWO FlLES FROM TEE PROPOSED SEABROCK NUCLEAR POWER PIAliT, I DEEND THAT CONSTRUCTION OF TEE SIABROOK PIANT BE STOPPED IF6IATELY.
IT IS TEE FEELING OF A MAJORITY OF MY CONST.TIUENTS THAT THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUICRY SHOULD NOT BE SUBJECTED TO TEE DANGERS NOW BEING EXPERIENCED D! PENNSYLVANIA.
ROBERTA C.
PM, REPRESEICATIVE DRINKHATER ROAD, EAMPTON FALLS, N. E.
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Roc.> d,g'-,- District 91.2 I' d like to read the following Mailgran dated 4/1/79, s ent to Pres.
Jd - y Carter, Sens.. Gordon-Eu=phrey and. John Durk.in, Zeps. Ho==an.
D' Amours and' Janes Clevcland, and Goir. Eugh Gallen...
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In addition, I'd like to state that in 1977 the Town of Earpton Falls voted by ballot vote of more than 2/3's to " req =est the selectmen to
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. a.,n..e.va.cuat.. ion plan for th.e.. Town.+of, n. u
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As of this date, no such plan has been received.
On the front page of today's ENCEFSTER UNION, an area resident is quoted:
(Lee Sr::ith, an Internal Revenue Service gicyee)
" I don' t think we are talking about X-rays here or a coal =ine cave-in that kills a few people.
You can' t draw those analogies.
We ' re ta.lking about hundreds of thousands of people being affected, =aybe years from now."
The Article goes on to say:
Anong those who could be affected if a sd-ilar disaster struck Seabrook, a-e the est -'ted i
100,000 people who visit local beaches en s" e-wee' tend.s.
No evacn-ation plan has been designed for the= because of the few roads ' serv-ing beach areas.
Another a_ icle in that sane paper, datelined =' :-ish rg, Pa.,
states:
" Defense officials were drafting centingency p12.ns to ge tens of thousands cut of the area..."
There was no evacuation plan in place pric: := the accident, and, if what could have happened had happened, there wc:1d be no t'~
to.ake up their -d-ds which way to run.
We in the Seacer._st OZr.ND a halt to Nuclear Power Plants, including the propcsed Sae cek plant:1 L q s:,
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I' d like to read the following Mailgram dated 4/1/79, sent to Pres.
Ji-~y Carter, Sens. Gordon Humphrey and John Durkin, Reps. Norman D' Amours and James rieveland..and. Cov. Hugh Gallen.....
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In addition, I' d like to state that in 1977 the Town of Hampton Falls voted by ballot vote of more than 2/3's to "recuest the selectmen to obtain from Public Service Co. an. evacuation plan for the Town of
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On page 8 of yesterday's PORTSMOUTE M LD, an article entitled, "TEF" MILE TRASSCRIPTS SECrd OFFICIALS ' IN THE a m'n ' FOR DAYS",
states:
"in a neeting March 31, Roger J. Mattson, liRC Pector of systems safety, told the co-4 =sioners bluntly:
'No plant has ever been in this condition, no plant has ever been tested in this condition, no plant has ever been a.nalyzed in this condition in the histo..y of this progra3...'
Mattson was one of at least three staff members who, on March 30, were crging a precautionary evacuation of the area downwind from Three Mile 31and, some 10 miles south of Ea.risburg, Pa..
But the ec==ission did not recc= mend it, partly because the wind was shifting er: atically and nobody could be sure which way ' downwind' would be when people =cved out".
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'My question is this.
If we on the'N. H. Seacoast should happen to have a North East wind a+ the time an evacuation should become necessary, is there anyone who can guarantee us that the waters will open and let us pass?
Although those who have assured us that nuclear power is safe give the impresrion..tha,t.,they.. are. sods
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4 - PCrtsincuth Herald (N.H.) Fri., May 11, 1979 Jack Anderson Three.MileIslancIdebate.
WASHINGTON he expens are stH1 in effect reduce" the amountlf coverage that argu=g, over the long range beath effects of.could te " purchased by a fac:lity owner."
- be *hree Mile Island nuclear a::nide=t and it will be years beforether *<hrsted guessesare But the insurance purchased by facility owner proven nght or wrmg.
, would ikely be tsed to cover his owa losses first.
But one-th=g ts already clear. If the ne system appears to be designed, therefore.
Harriscurg area, cr any other e-r -mtrity near a more to pmtect the industry than the nuclear power plant, had been expcnai to a bomeowner.
full blown caclear disaster, it would have.
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m cant financud rum ior thousa:xis of resxiems.
. ne rewrc Federal law sets a li=it cza in-surance ecx=pesatico f:r muclear accide=r.s, l and the lic2it is r*<'irmie ty low.
The Price-Anderson Act of 1957 sets the i o,
compensatannlimit. fora:ry.cne nce Ari alDNL. '. 2,w..,...
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--m-mGlion. Azzi' ba. ruse the 4.aw req.nres the tuc3 ear ia'my to purchase r!! available in.
surance czrvera ge-indmdual hc=eowners ca noot buy any toucar t=surance to suppleme=1 the $560 mihn mav-mum Trtmded t y the 1957 act.
Here's how this inegunable msurance c:xn-pensatico might have wcrxed cut m the tree i
Mile Island s:tuaton, actnrtiing to an inte=al study prepared by the Feceral Its:xrance Ar'm i~ttrancxz:
Ass 1=mg that senous radiation is cocfined to a 20.mde radius, 200,000 dweil=gs worth an average of $50,000. each would be rendend pmne=th unnt to live in. Adding in an !
eshmated $5,000 in reiccaticx2 expe=ses and 512.500 in persccal properry loss for escMa=ily, !
12us damage to area txzsmesses, the totalIcss i would amount to 15.8 bulicus.
De s:: dy also ammed that people w' culd be evac./.ated and no medical expe=ses or damages would beine ~Ted. - _
j The average family, losing a teta'. of 557,500, I would get Just 3:.W out of the 1560 milion ki:7. j nts would accunt tn f.Ist ever 3 re--t.3 d
. compensaucx2 for every dCar loss.
Assu=mg a less severe r'mer*, the fedeal,
actu. aries est:=sted a " moderate Icas d 37.6 i bdlion. In that scenaric, the residents would get i aoout 7 and one-h.alf et=ts for esca demar of Icas, I cr 54.995 fcr t*:ett home, its erx: tents a:xi extra living e=p-In adc: tact, the federal snxty notes: Ucder tim P :ce-Anderscu Act, "an absolute limit fcr flhng cial=s of 20 yea.s apolies. Canc:tr mc:derre wnica dewlops beyocc 20 years :s not covered."
R's -not u if the pa:5ctac inadecuacy of.
nucles.wdert insurance coverage hasn't !
been known :o, govment occals and i Cons;rms. St::dv after s=dy bas stewn tant
%~s potential precety damage wou!c be wen up :n !
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Even bdore.sm ge ef P :ce-Anderso5, a l~f7. -
Ato=2c Fner;;y C~-"- won smey est:mned p,._,
- ama.ge at 57 n*Nn in 4 full-ecale ::uclear ac-
.acec: Seven vears late, anot2er government repe:". set :he ngure a t anywt ere irem 517 balian to *30 C212cr A =cre ecx:. e* vat.tve feceral stucy = 1T5 :c:1 predacted a kiss cf $14 5211cc.
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- ye.ars ago, an ins;.'.ance mdustry task force coccitzsec it was tec5ca!!y feas:b e to set c a "ncmeowters =surance ;ooi." Ecweve,
- e e=ce-s occ:dec a gair.n ree:=mer.:=g tt:s move Decause, ameng otne reasons, it "m!d t
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