ML19257D489
| ML19257D489 | |
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| Site: | La Crosse File:Dairyland Power Cooperative icon.png |
| Issue date: | 01/26/1980 |
| From: | Prevenas P BADGER SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE, INC. |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8002040476 | |
| Download: ML19257D489 (3) | |
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BADGER SAFE ENERGY ALLIANCE BS POST OFFICE BOX 68 DURAND, WISCONSIN 54736
" Working for a safe cnergy future "
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January 26, 198 Member Graups t.
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Whitehait. WI 54773 enoEnIe.NE7si DEAR MR. DENTGN:
Ca iens r C ean e rgy The Badger Safe Energy Alliance is a coalition of twenty citizen action groups who are working together to promote Casiens for Safe Energy the rapid develognent of renewable energy resources in our Gays Mills, WI 54631 region, and to oppose unsafe and environmentally unsound C.tizens for the F uture energy projects proposed by the utilities.
Ourand. WI S4 736 Ue have earned a reputation for responsible citizen inter-n,cg F3 C [s4764 vention before both the Wisconsin.Public Service Coc: mission, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Our Coulee Reg n Ener alition adveral hundred individual members, primarily family farmers, share a deep concern for our environment, and for the Eau Galle Citizens for Safe Energy administration of justice through our American system of le.v.
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y e r8Ced decis NU by De F amilies f or Sate E nergy E lmwood. W I 54740 Atcznic Safety and Licensing Board chaired by Charles Beck-hoefer to allow the capacity of the spent fuel storage pool TenwSNty at the Genoa, Wisconsin nuclear pwer plant to be increased.
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One of our member groups, the Coulee Region Enere,y Coalition Ne.ghbors f or Saf e E nergy (CREC), intervened in that proceeding, and provided an ex-
"""" "' * ' 54 7 6 5 cellent case not only against the fuel pool expansion, but Northern Thunder against the continued operation of the marginal, aging, and Eau Claire. WI S4701 unreliable reactor as well.
Northern Thunder North Turtle Lake. WI M889 In approving the pool expansion, the Licensing Board gave Dairyland Power (who owns and operates the Genoa reactor)
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from obvious, even glaring problems associated with running Pecole f or Safe Enerqv this reactor, which is the smallest operating cowrcial sager C.tv. Wi 9 014 nuclear power plant in the Nation. Given the marginal nature Pepin Caunty C tizens f or Saf e Energy of the power produced at the Genos reactor, the decision to Ar kansaw. WI 54721 allow its continued operation by expanding the capacity of its spent fuel pool is a disservice to the citizens of our m m cav Ca uns or sate sergy o
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.e Harold Denton (page two) cancelled a scheduled meeting to discuss problems with the Genos reactor with the NRC after finding that members of CREC had driven to Washington to be present for the discussion.
The aura of secrecy surrounding the Genos reactor, and the contempt for responsible co-op member involvement shown by Dairyland Power, can no longer be tolerated. The members of the " cooperative", as well as the general public, deserve to be included in all decioions concerning the Genoa nuclear power plant.
The Badger Safe Energy Alliance therefore strongly requests that the NRC hold any and all meetings concerning the Genos reactor _in,the Lacrosse, Wisconsin area. This vill not only facilitate co-op member involvement, but vill afford a fair and reasonable opportunity for input from the intervenors.
We emind you that because Wisconsin law exempts electric cooperatives from the jurisdiction of the Public Service Commission in our State, the NRC is the ONLY regulatory agency that can adequately oversee the situation at the Genoa reactor. And it is ONLY before the NRC that the public can find any redress of grievances against the operators of the plant.
We believe that our request is quite reasonable, a*nd that the NRC'should travel to the Lacrosse area for any future meetings concerning the Genoa reactor, whether the meeting is requested by Dairyland Power or not.
If the NRC chooses to deny this request, it can only raise a serious doubt as to the Commission's impartiality in the Genoa power plant pro-ccedings.
VERY TRULY YOURS:
@JL&W-Paul Prevenas Board of Directors Badger Safe Energy Alliance ec Honorable William Pztzcnire, U.S. Senator Honorable Gaylord Nelson, U.S. Senator Honorable Al Baldus, U.S. Representative Mr. Stanley York, Chairperson, Wisconsin Public Service Ccrnmission 1866 155