ML19290E239
| ML19290E239 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Zion File:ZionSolutions icon.png |
| Issue date: | 02/28/1980 |
| From: | Morris B AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8003050526 | |
| Download: ML19290E239 (1) | |
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City of Waukegan Waukegan. Illinois 60085 (312)689 7500 February 28, 1980 g;ii yo,,,
yas o, Eva Stuck City Clerk Sam Filippo City Treasurer Fire Department 689-7505 Mr. Harold R.
Denton, Director police oepartment 689 7550 Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission saan g9','D4j Washington D.C. 20555 iMd.[
Dear Mr. Denton:
gg.fg 4p I am writing you on a matter of great urgency to the 65,000 persons who live in my community.
Even though the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board has authorized you to issue a license to increase by 150% the storage of spent fuel rods at the Zion Commonwealth Edison Nuclear Power Plant, I am asking you to reject that license.
The Zion Nuclear Plant looms ominously over my community.
It is also located immediately adj acent to Lake Michigan which is not only the water supply for my community, but for most cities in four states that abut Lake Michigan.
I am appealing to you as a human being to do the proper thing to protect the safety and security of our community.
While we have developed an evacuation program in the event of a nuclear acci. dent, any practical human being must recognize that it would be humanly impossible to evacuate 65,000 people.
The so-called danger area is the ten miles surrounding a nuclear facility.
My entire community falls within that zone.
Expansion of storage of spent fuel rods only compounds the original error of allowing the facility to be built in the first place.
Storage is necessary because there apparently is no way to dispose or recycle spent fuel rods.
We also have a great fear that shipping rods to and from the Zion facility presents a great danger to our community.
I sincerely hope you will take my appeal seriously.
It is not made as a radical who is opposed to nuclear power, but as Mayor of a community which has debated this issue and had a City Council vote in opposition to this expanded storage.
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