ML19270H582

Forwards Statement by Former Guards at TMI W/Request That NRC Investigate Alleged Security Problem.W/O Encl

ML19270H582
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Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	06/06/1975
From:	Schweiker R SENATE
To:	Anders W NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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WASHINGTCN. Q.C. U31g June 6, lo75 Mr. Willian Anders, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission

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Dear Mr. Anders:

I understand you have been notified of a -

statement delivered on June 4 in a Washington n'ews ccnference by two former security guards a.t the Three Mile Island nuclear cover Plan: .

located Pennsylvania.

en the Susouchanna ?.iver near Harrisburg, These two gentle =en, Mr. John Darcy and Mr.

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and elaborated upon it in their dtscussion.

j i' The former guards' crate =ent contains several charges, alleging in sum that security for the Three Mile Island plant is extremely lax, and concluding that, based upon personal experience, it is their

opinion that an intruder or saboteur could con-1 ceivably enter the plant and cause serious dacage.

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The Three Mile Island plant, as you know, is

. located in a highly populated section of Pennsylvania.

- More than a million Pennsylvanians live wi:hin a 50-mile radius of the plan , including residents of i '

such population centers as lancaster, Lebanon, York, harrisburg, and Carlisle. "oreover, Three Mile .

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I'sland lies caly 30 miles fro = down own Philadelphia.

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As a "nitei S:a:es Senator frca Pennsylvania, !

as very concerned over the possibility :na: this .

nuclear reactor may be 1 prcperly prcrectad frc:

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statement by !!essrs. Darcy and Shapiro, with a reques y

that the ticcicar Regulatory Commission fully investigate i

the alleged s e curi:-f problem at Three .!ile '

Island.

Please advise me of further developments in this car:er, 1

and whether NRC regulations are being adhered to in the plant's security sys:es.

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