ML19248D125
| ML19248D125 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Beaver Valley, Surry, Maine Yankee, FitzPatrick  |
| Issue date: | 03/21/1979 |
| From: | Zinn P PRESIDENT OF U.S. & EXECUTIVE OFFICES |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 7908020241 | |
| Download: ML19248D125 (2) | |
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The attached letter (s) addressed to the President is referred to your office for suitable acknowledg=ent or other appropriate bandling at the earliest opportunity.
Should you receive call that has been cisdirected, please forward to the appropriate agency.
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'le are writing to.rotest the recent decision of the :uc le cc-T.c;ulatory Con =ission to close a series of nuclear.c.;ered : rera-
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e their cooling syste-have ceen earthqua':c roofed.
'.le thirJ: that the decision epiton.ccs the kind of partially thought-through fadoral decision that 1.ur:s citizens,. core than it helps ther.
'?e t hin'- it is a decision that contradicts the referns of the fe'eral covernrant that you pledged yourself to bring about.
1.nd we thin's that a reason-able rodification of this decision is lithin your pouer Clearly, IGC thinks that it _s carrying out ics andated responsi-bilities.
Earlier regulations :ere inadeq ue.e uhen the plants -; c r e constructed.
Technically, IGC uas neglicent in protecting our inter-ests.
Eut now, uhen it sets out to correct past cistakes, it cust also keep all of our interests in =ind.
2;;itude hittinc The likelihood of an earthcuake of sufficient ~
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- s. u..e nuclear r.ac111 tics in c.uch a way as no nrojects is extrenely low.
If such a trecor hits. sco.olT Ui'Il die
.in far larger nucbers from collapsed buildings and bridges and fro:
the after ath of the disaster.
Put in perspective, IaC's uorries cover only a scall part of the prospective disaster.
If the unlie:ely earthquake nissas the nuclear plants, the rest of the disastar will still occur.
In chcrt, if the govern:en'. is in the business of pro-tecting us against carthquakes, the liEC action is totally inadequate, that your adcinistration has no plan to earthquake-proof ile presure all the other facilities li'cely to be affected, closing ther doun in the ceantine.
For all its good intentions, the IeC decision finds no reasonable rationale in a responsility to ch.e nuclear pouer units safe froc earthquakes.
The proble: is that the 13C has not thought through the other consequences of its decision because they are outside of its field of responsibility.
'.Th a t happens to the cost of electric f
pouer for unars that cust now rely on scarce and costly petroleu fuels for an ind* finite period?
Should other agencies interpret their responsibilities to protect citizens from recote disasters?
Will ue halt all driving until the highways are safe?
Frohibit all sco'ing?
Surely these activities will result in core deaths than any earthqua'ces
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In short, please 6:aw the ???': into c c=2m'OL jit h t he rest of the governcent and get the to put the proble: int o a b'a'rt r-2'rs F 3 0 t i -.
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