ML19262B917
| ML19262B917 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Marble Hill |
| Issue date: | 11/06/1979 |
| From: | William Ford SENATE, COMMERCE, SCIENCE & TRANSPORTATION |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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certain nuclear plants near pcpulatica centers because evacu-aticn of such areas, in the event of a serious accident, right s
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Farble Hill Facility, new under ccnstrue.ica at Madisen,
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Indiana, be included areng these plants ycu will censidar shut-I ting dcwn.
Icuisville, the largest retropolitan area in Fentucky, If a nuclear disaster is located just 30 riles frcm Madisen.
were to occur, the lives of a millica people in the city and I
its vicinity would be jecpardized. Wenty-five percent of the Since even during populatica of my state would be affected.
the nest non al circurstances the reads and high.eays of Icuis-l I
ville are congested, I can assure you that urder conditiens of I
panic, a rassive evacuation would be absciutely Lpessible to I
i achieve.
l You are all too fariliar with the track record of Marble Hill 2.o.
It has been a disaster---a c:redy of er crs that is not so far.
I have no confidence whatscever that the ht=creus, but. tragic.
i defects already brought to light involving safety-related cen-
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Tnerefore, in strc.c.ica can evar be satisfactorily ccrrected.
lina with the reasening effered yesterday, I strengly re w...rnd that F*le Hill, with the advantage of being in the early stages of careccicn, be cens!da-ed as a pri:e candidate for any closures
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your agency ray urdae.ake.
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