ML19268B990
| ML19268B990 | |
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| Site: | 05000574 |
| Issue date: | 11/06/1979 |
| From: | Velasquez M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| Download: ML19268B990 (3) | |
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I, Sr. V.a. Aida Velas queg, 052, with titress at c/c Oc u n of Senedictime S sters, ;!60 leon Guitto St., 31:;aler.g, :nila, i
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- 1. I atter.ded the hearings of the Octaissict et.~uclear leactor Tiants at the Phil. :cternational Conver. tier. Center from June 23 Aug 10 ud Sept 1} %,1979 l
The folloring are ey stservations of the said Octetssict and the conduct of the hearizg
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- 2. The commission
- a. ;te concission is corposed of Justice lic -do Futo, Chaittu, and Justices Oor.rado..'asques asd Jose 5autista, = esters. Itey are dl lawyers and did not have the assista ce of technical experts 1. ring the sessicac. Otey could not pursue questier.s v ich scuit require sore technied useers, in ; articular, d rits tte preset.tation of stat happened at IM. sore irres;otsitie statesents saat ur. cts.llected shesing that the Oommissioners could not adequately judge ts.eir edid-ity. Cne exseple of this sas when the nestinghouse ;a.mel brusted asite the TV.' accident, claiming it was "an overreaction" of faceral ud state officials "wto ;aaicted". In f airness to the Occ.missioners, ;
sodd like to add that the sessions started on the same day that the second aerher of the Ocamission saa usounced, ud optiously there oas not sufficient time for them to prepare sell er.cugh fer the ear 11 er sessior.s.
Lespite this technital hatdics; of to Ocamissics, it is sad to say that the Ocasission did not favoratly act on the:
l (1) offir of help of the Occcerned itize:s leacter Ir;crt j
1eries leard from California, nor ca the (2) recessociation of ;r. Truk vor. Ki;;e1 fer a"ctstical
..I review of the safety uslyses of the F::TP-1 t; a grou; cf it.de;ende:t j
scientists not affiliated eith nuclear industry
- in a letter _ dated
.uly 23, 19*9
- b. Ito sco;e of the tearies was ittited to the eight questic:a contained is a letter of instraction frc: Pres. :: artes. It is ince:-
l Pretensible that questier.s regarding the es:;eter.co of the ;ttli;;ir.e i
atetic '.:ergy Or.:ission asich is res;ct. sine fer t:e ss.foty cf sc.e i
constractics ud c;eastion of the nucles ;csst ;1ut were rd es cut j
by the Octristio:.
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- c. !to sessism of Je;t 1J A: $ ~4 attre$ ttti ste Ocr:tssicta ts detettite$ to e:d the tetring. Atty ;asczo !Litit sts tot give ti:e l
to ; resent the rest of tis velutiscus evidettes. : s t t::gli felt that even siticut the stikout cf the c;;caitcrs it ;rotest cf t e railictiitt by the 0:::iatet, the Oct:issict would ;ust 1 car the tetritt last Je;t ty instructing the ;tsties to suttit ehtteter additictal evidettes they have in the fcre of a motorttdu.
- 3. The Orpetiters Khile the e;;ositors had very limited resourcer a:6 stati:1;tte?
La the Letrings at their crL er;ette Ltd sacrificed their professiotti engagenetts, they sere tot given enough ti e ty the Octaisticts t.
to gotter scre infor:ation.
Their request for a two-scatt sus;enties of the betritss to afford them ti e to research was detied.
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- b. to gre;&re tetter for their testigeny i
Their request for a' ten day suspecsion of the tetrings to go I
over the ;roceedings tid the cateritis ;rese ted by tre ;ro.
potests of the tuclett ;tser plast 1: ;re;trttic: fcr their testitety saa deLied.
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- c. te present tactuer er;ert, Or. Ictert Polltrd.
l The er;tessed desire of the o;;ositcrs to ;tesett ;r. Teiltrd by the end of se;tector saa kiso detied.
- d. to present their testisoty.
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Itif of Or. Ot:11to Larril's testizoty ras cut and he Es asked to subsit the rest of his cateritis 1: eritic;. Atty.
Tatada was :et gives the c;;ortatity to ; resent the valuatie evidences to ;tinstakitgly gathered in the !. 3. thich were
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about three 1:ctes thick.
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- ing 'ht fppt 14, Atty. Joker Arrey: !?:isted his tes-timony. To the sur;rtse of til, not ene frem the yttitas.1 Peter ;;cr;.,
the ;AIO, or festinghouse iater;ellated Atty. arreyo. Itile atty.
Tkaada did not er;ect to testify that morti:g, nevertheless, se tock the stand and started his testiscty. At tround 1* 40 a.:., Otair:t Puto arrived and joined Justices Vasquet had Bautista.
Tkaada stated to cite a stort paragraph frem a tock. Puse j
interrupted and said it better te included in a setert dus. Otitis said rea11sg the ytragtt;h sen't take long, A&d asked again to read ititut, l
Puno insisted. 30 Talada ;roceeded to give the substt :e of the ;ttsg-rapt but Fuso cut ti: short ty saying that "the teck is a scre accurate I
scurce" but insisted again stat Ottaca su~ tit this it a :e:crtadu:.
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- Lista saw the futility of ;resosti
- g the rest :f the $2cu-tents te ;teptred because the 00 :issioners santed to e:d the tetriais that week. Ze tad Atty urr$ e were forced to stik ut, in ; retest :f 7
the a;;trett railroad 1:3 cf the b.eart:g by the Oct:ission.
tL As sect as Tkt.ata said te had to end his testitcny sicco te could act ; resent his focutetts, "tair:u Puso a.Ltouttedthe sessicts closed s.c4 isstructed tr.e partici;uts to suttit tteir res;e ctive to:c.
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- espite the statetest of ;res. ::s.r:cs ud the redia severage of 1
the hes. rings of the Oct:issier., the clizate of tattial las has ke;t f
others froz yarticipatics it this icvestigaticc. 7ery few scientists oculd volunteer to c;; tee c;er.17 the estat:1 street of the *>atau r.ucleer
- ceer plut ud testify'it the hes. rings. rcrkers from rcrcr.g. 2ata u sculd confidentially talk of defects in the eccetructice of the sis.nt
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tut.could act want to take the stard.
- hey sil fear reyercussions at a 1
later time.
Press coverage actrittstAr.ditg, the letter of the pec;1e of 1:o.
rong to the President sad their resciation to the Oettissien ud that of the provincial officials of !ataan. all asking for the scra;;ing of I
the ancitar project,have not been ;ut11sted it
- heir entirely. These were only briefly ser.tioned in sese news items.
$. Based on that have been stated, I teliste that the 08.'iRO should
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conduct a thorough investigation of the health, safety and environtactal j
ictacts of the PXPP-i, coveri:g the seven issues specified by the Jeti.
tiesers - 00P, Jesus !:icaaor Perlas, ni, and the PMIP.
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- 6. I would like to rococzend that the ;s :GO iock closely it.to the Papers submitted by Mr. Andres Eison, Or. Ersesto ter.ide, the Bureau of Mines, and Or.1,eeds. Also, to solicit cetser.ta frer Or. tutes ;:say,.
biology professor, ;aiv. of the Phil. (0111:u), on the 3:viror. er.tal y.o;crt preps. red by the ::Ic. I would like to recor.=end also that, if necessary, these perscr.s to asked to testify in the heari:g of the.'s ::20.
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