ML19262C659

Forwards Fund for Secure Energy,Inc 791120 Ltr Expressing Concern Re Proposed Reactor.Requests Comment.Us Should Not Export Technology W/O Full Precautions Against Harmful Results

ML19262C659
Person / Time
Site:	Marble Hill
Issue date:	01/23/1980
From:	Bradley B SENATE
To:	NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA)
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NUDOCS 8002150239
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21 Charles St. O 6 Westport, CT 06880 y ,p E proposed Phillipine Nuclear Plant No. 1 I forward the attached for your consideration and would appreciate receiving information in regard to Lais inquiry as soon as possible.

Please return with the original correspondence.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance in this matter.

Sincerely,

!!ill Bradley /

United States Senator Please direct reply to:

Senator Dill Bradley 4104 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. 20510 Attention: Mary Hutchison 8002150

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Dear Senator Bradley:

Having examined several reports on the proposed Phillipine Nuclear Plant No. 1 (PNPP-1) , for which Westinghouse Electric Corporation has submitted an export license application, I am most concerned about the handling of this matter.

While there are extensive legal and technical questions associated with the reactor, the basic question right now is whether the NRC will deal with health and safety issues re-lating to this and other foreign reactor sales. Despite evi-dence that Congress intended the NRC to do reviews of this kind on nuclear plant exports, NRC is questioning whether it has the authority to conduct such a study on the Phillipine reactor.

I ask you not only to inform NRC that they certainly do have congressional authorization to look into these important environmental, health and safety concerns, but to join with other members of Congress in mandating such reviews on all ex-ports of nuclear technology.

This reactor is of particular concern because of the serious earthqaake potential of the site, and the proximity of an active volcano. There have also been allegations that when research was done by the consulting firm Ebasco for Westinghouse, evidence that the site and reactor design are unsafe may have been covered up. I hope you will study all material relating to this reactor, including the IAEA report of September, 1978 and September, 1979, and information avail-able from the Center for Development Policy, intervenors with the URC on the case.

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P In addition, I believe that it should be United States  ;

policy not to export nuclear technology without the fullest precautions against harmful results from use of such tech-  !

nology. We live in a world in which what happens in all {

the farthest tc2shSs of the globe can have immense reper- l cussions fer the Ameuican people. Even if we did not have a moral re 3ponsibility for the dangers entailed as we spread ,

this technology throughout the earth, it is to our own best I interests to be vigilant in determining its potential effects in each instance. Those effects must include environmental, health and safety concerns as well as the political and mili-  !

i tary aspects of nuclear proliferation. If it cannot be done !

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