ML19254F060
| ML19254F060 | |
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| Site: | 05000392, 05000558 |
| Issue date: | 10/23/1979 |
| From: | Peterson M NRC OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS (OIP) |
| To: | Eysymontt G, Hassell D, Stephens F NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 7911050533 | |
| Download: ML19254F060 (4) | |
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i:EMORA;lDU;t FOR:
' Don $1dllassell George Eysynontt John Stephens Tom Gibbon Vickie Harding FR0il:
f'Erhin R. Pcterson, Acting Assistant Director Office of International Programs SUOJECT:
PROTEST AGAIllST !!UCLEAR REACTORS Off TAIUAt!
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Attached for your information is a copy of a circular sent to IP by the
'.' Chinese Information Service" protesting the construction of nuclear power reactor, on Taiwan.
,3 Original signed by.Y.arvinR. ?qtersop Ilarhin R. Peter. son, Acting Assistant Director Export /Irport and International Safeguards Office of International Programs Attachnent:
As stated cc: TReba, EDO JDevine, OPE TRethschild, OGC J0ccher, OELD EMcGregor, SECY l
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Taiwan Syndrome VIASS KILLINGS in TAlWAN Sis 161 nuclear reactors are being installed in a tiny island of Taiwan with a population of 17 millions !
- Within 50 miles.4 reactors for oser 10 millions of people !
- Canstant c. ural disasters (earthquake, typhoon, flood.etc.) are already enough all the year round :
- No room for burying dead bodies:certaSly no room for nuclear wastes ! - Shittest of all!!!
- Pay many billions of dollars to kill many millionsof people and destroy the beautifulisland ?"
Biggest cheat on earth !!!!!
- To kill few (Chiang dynasty) to save millions of people and the island '
STOP Construction and Remove All Reactors fo/untan/p !!!
or BLOW ( P Cornpletely !!!
II00 % guarantred !)
Speak Out!
Speak Out!
Speak Out!
humanities!
humanities!
car:hquake!
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six nuclear reactors may prove to be too much for taiwan k,,
s B.S. YEH The power usage in Taiwan has increased a'n the universe are the nuclear reactor and average of 13.3 percent annually since the Chiang Ching-k uo, Premier of the regim e.
regime on Taiwan decided to attract foreign People have been brainwashed into believing capital to exploit Taiwanese laborers. Even that to accommodate the investment of foreign in recession-plagued 1975, it went up 12 capital to p rovide jobs for the huge percent.
Taiwan Power company predicts an population on Taiwan, the nuclear energy average annual growth rate of 9.2 percent project is a life saver.
People may be during the next f ew ycars : that is to say that trading th eir lives for
" current needs*
the power usage will be dor. bled in the next without knowing it.
To the Chiang regime,
ten years. Hydro-electric power production is anything which has a longer life than the in a
saturated state.
In order to regime itself becomes meaningless. Whethe r continuously attract f ore ign capital and to th ere is anything on Taiwan after the keep those interests whi ch have been in survivtl of the regime is not of interest or Taiwan, Taiwan needs to expand its power concern to the regire, producing capacity either by the construction of standard thermal plants or nuclear plants.
Taiwan Power states that the development of The technology of thermal power production is nuclear industry will reduce production costs, rather old.
To build thermal power plants stabilize the selling price, benefit from the will not increase the prestige of ths regime distribution of energy types and sources, and which it despera tely needs for survival.
reduce or even elim*.nate air pollution. Those Especially since Cocw"nist China has become a
are the benefits which Taiwan Power can rember of the Nuclear Wzapons Club, the regime expound after the complete exhaustion of their needs some propaganda such as "we are capable brains.
Still.
it is doubtful that those of making atomic bombs, but we don't intend to benefits claimed by Taiwan Power can stand a build one," to boast to the Taiwanese people, test.
Therefore, Taiwan is in the nuclear energy business.
Nuclear power generation, to many people, is a most economical process to produce power.
Taiwan decided to build thre e nuclear Ecwever, to a non-uranium producing nation plants with six reactors, four in the north such as Taiw an, the future will prove that and two in the south. The total expenditure nuclear power production will be more is estimated at $2.5 tillion and the final expensive than many other production cost may turn out to be much higher.
The processes.
According to the ori.ginal first nuclear plant is scheduled to generate estimation, the production cost of the first electricity in the middle of 1977 and the entire nuclear-energy production project will nue' lear pcwer plant on Taiwan was $240 per kw be completed by March 198 4.
It has been inflated to $390 per kw.
Thi tendene,. is going to be more severe in the Building the plants is largely an American future. Experts f recast that the price of undertaking. General Electric will supply two uranium can g up to $100 or possibly as high 636,000 kw reactors and two 985,000 kw as $300 per pound from tne current figure of 5
reactors. Westinghouse will furnish the other ye near futuro. As uranium mining two reactors of 951,000 kw capacity each.
costs' ras become scarcer and mining
..ch run higher.
Faced with nuclear fuel sho rtage s, the Ford Administration has When three veteran nuclear engineers frem unveiled a plan that will allow private General Electric and a safety inspector from corperations, with government the Nuclear Regulatory Commission recently develop a new guarantees. to
$6.8 billion uranium enrichment cha rged th at the nuclear reactor is a
plant. Without the government guarantees, the technologies 1 monster that threatens all private corporations just will not do it.
future generations and resigned frem their It is fair to say that the futur9 nuclear fuel posts; when the Nuclear Regulstory shortage may be more serious than the Commission's director of the division of oil crunch.
current Today, the high price of oil does sa fegu ards,
Mr. Carl H. Builder, acknowledges not come frem the cost to produce oil but frem in an internal memorandum that "some or even the maneuvering of OPEC.
In the future, the many" U.S.
nuclear facilities may not be able high uranium cost will emerge from both high to withstand an attack by as few as three cost in mining and maneuvering.
armed intruders; when people all over the world are debating on the nuclear power As to the minimization of air pollution, we producticn issuer the endeaver of the nuclear cannot ses how a
process which emits energy project on Taiwan has smoothly been radioactive isotopes to rglace sulpher and pushed f orward without any cbjection.
In nitrogen ccmpounds, which are emitted by
- fact, all the noise which has been made in conventional ther al plants, minim ues air Taiwan is nothing but the glories of nuclear pollution.
Besides, the nuclear process is energy.
The Taiwanese people are forced to going to pollute water with radioactive believe that the only two perfect things in isotopes.
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e Benefits from the distribution of eners/
steel tanks.
The U.S.
is waiting for the types and sources are also questionable, in develo pme nt of new technologies to solee the ge ne r a l, to depend on more types and sources problem.
Laaks of isotopes from steel tanks is beneficial. However, the case of adding have been found in many locations. Decause of nuclear power generation to the conventional the huge land available in the U.S., the leaks ones is different. It is expected that the do not have much effect on the population on uranium production countries will tightly a short term basis.
Ilowe ve r, in a small area control uranium in the future. Uranium is not such as Taiwan, we do not have such l ux u ry.
only important for its power generating The Taiwanese regime has not decided where the
- nature, it is also important for use as a wasts will go.
A ru nor says that the waste wea pon.
Unless a country itself produces will be stored in tanks on Green Island, which uranium, no benefit can be derived from the is located not too far to the east of Taiwan.
distribution of energy types and sources.
Transportation will be a problem.
What will happen if the waste transportation trucks are The information which the regime supplies involved in accidents or if isotopes leak to the Taiwanese people is very limited. All from the trucks? Since plants will be built the inf ormation revealed to the public is for at both ends of Taiwan, no one will p rob ably the purpose of brainwashing. The regime has be free f rom the threat of the waste.
never touched the saf ety problems associated with nuclear reactors, nor discussed the In the development of nuclear energy for treatment of nuclear reactor waste.
These two peaceful purposes, the production of atomic V 4sns also becomes a serious problem. When subjects will briefly be commented on here.
a antion owns a nuclear reactor, she certainly has the potential of making nuclear weapons.
When a so-called reltdown occurs, the death Chiang Ching-kuo has repe atedly stated th at toll will undoubtedly be many thous ands or Taiwan does not nave a processing plant to pos s ibly many tens of thousands.
It will remcVe bomb-grade plutonium from expended contaminate an area as big as the State of nuclear
- fuel, and does not intend to build Pe nnsy lvania.
The damage will affect many one.
However, his words can hardly be generations to come.
Many people Justify trusted.
We certainly hope he will not be nuclear power generation using MIT Professor crazy enough to engage Taiwan in the Norngn Rasmussen L figure of a 5 billion-to-1 odds of a disaster. However, one of Murphy's production of atomic weapons.
It is estimated Laws states that in any field of scientific th a t Taiwan will have a potential of producing endeavor, anything that can go wrong will go 123 Nagasaki A-bembs annually in 1984.
Any wrong.
It should, in addition, be pointed out accident or any atomic war involving Taiw an that Profs ssor Rasmussen did not include tne will likely eliminate Taiwaa from the map pastakes (ue to human errors and the acts of entirely.
God in his calculation. Human errors include de s ig n,
f abrication, installation, and in answer to newspaper corres pondents in operation. The acts of God are f actors which the G.S.,
Paul Chien, a vice president of are very crucial to Taiwan. Taiwan is located Taiwan Power Ccepany, argued that the nation within the Earthquake Belt.
has little, choice but to accept nuclear power production. We believe th at the people should The treatment of nuclear waste has not been be the ones to decide whether they want to solved.
In the U.S.,
the wastes have been build nuclear reactors or not.
That right tamporarily stored in steel tanks undergrbund.
should nct belong to the regime or its The lives o f mar.y isotopes are longer than officials.
Repnntedfrom INDEPENDENT TAIWAN No. 52, June 1976 1267 332