ML19249B460
| ML19249B460 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 05000463, 05000464 |
| Issue date: | 08/13/1979 |
| From: | Regan W Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Hess R PENNSYLVANIA, COMMONWEALTH OF |
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| NUDOCS 7909040424 | |
| Download: ML19249B460 (2) | |
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WRegan Docket Hos. 50-463 RBallard and 50-464 SKirslis TERA V MSlater JGray, OELD The Honorable Ralph U. Hess Senate of Pennsylvania f
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Daar !!r. Hess:
Your letter of April 30, 1979 to Ifr. R. Denise regarding the proposed Fulton Generating Station has been referred to ne for reply.
Let ne first apologize for our delay in responding. We wished to have more information on the conse-t.
quences of the Three Mile Island accident before we replied to your comments.
We appreciate very much the clear perception indicated in your letter of some of the principal reasons why seven power generating facilities have been con-structed in your area of south central Pennsylvania.
He agree that considerable f
environmental costs are borne by your constituents as a result of these operations. However, we wish to point out that the impact of a nuclear plant i
on the physical environment is less than that of a coal-fired plant of the same size. The statistical record shows that, when the complete fuel cycle is con-sidered, the costs in deaths and injuries are higher for coal-fired plants than for nuclear plants.
u You nention also the psychological inpact of the accident at the Three Mile Island plant wnich is located in your constituency. The seriousness of the URC's concern is indicated by the sizable staff which has been assigned to study in depth the safety implications of the accident.
In addition, the President's Couaission and two Congressional connittees are conducting separate investigations. The results of these investigations will provide a basis for actions which will reduce the likelihood of future accidents of the type that occurred at Three tiile Island. These actions to iuprove safety will include changes in plant design, operator training and operating procedures.
In the event that the Fulton application is accepted for early site review, your concern about increasing the concentration of nuclear plants in this area will be given full consideration.
In recent reviews, the staff and the a-n, hearing boards have been placing increased enphasis on socio-economic effects
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and on thorough examinations of alternate sites to be sure that superior sites 1
for a nuclear plant have not been overlooked.
In the past, however, we have i
not found the nunber of nuclear facilities in a region to be a sufficient j
basis for rejecting an application for a nuclear plant, We trust that these cos'nents are responsive to your concerns.
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'tr. Richard Denise Assistant Director for Special Projects Divisicr of Project Management Of fice of ? uclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Regalatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 Dear Ir.
Dcnise:
As a State Senator, I represent 235,000 people along both sides of the The river waters and our Susquehanna River in southcentral Pennsylvania.
this area the electric prc.cmity to Philadelphia and Baltimore have made Included within or immediately ad-power generating heart of the region.
are seven power facilities -- Three Mile Island jacent to my district (nuclear), Brunner's Island (coal), Safe Harbor (hydro), Conowingo (hydro),
Haltwood (hyd ro), Muddy Run (hydro) and Peach Bottom (nuclear).
In addition the.se seven facilities the Philadelphia Electric Ccmpany has proposed the toconstruction of a nuclear facility to be known as the Fulton Generating Station.
can appreciate your need to generate electricity in order to assure the Ieconom_c health of our country; however, I hope you will understand my con-for the health of my friends and neighbors. No power facility is built cern without some sacrifice by the locality. Whether it is the loss of shad no sacrifice has been as fisheries, scenery or local economic disruption, that associated with the nuc1 car facilities.
great as live with Thrce Mile Island in our front yard and Peach Bottom in our back-We incident at Three Mile Island will live a long yard.
The nightmare of the time in local memories. To quote Governor Thornburgh, "I'm not about to forget 9.,,
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20555 April 30, 1979 that r. ce tery brave and tired women and children fled thcir homes and lived on a st: ilum floor.
I'm not about to forget countryside have been put that our people and our lovely nomic and environmental strains that might never bethrough the kinds of emot fully corprehended by anybody."
For these reasons I oppose a third nuclear facility in this have made many sacrifices over the years and should not area.
Our people shoulder the psychological burden of now be asked to the proposed Fulton Generating Station.
Warmest good wishes.
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