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ML19296D436
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Site: Seabrook  NextEra Energy icon.png
Issue date: 01/22/1980
From: Rathkopf C
ENERGY, DEPT. OF
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NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8003040585
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Department of Energy Washington, D.C. 20585 g2 g MCCPMII"4 FCR: Nuclear Regulatory Commission f

FPCM: ( C' ist.tna L. W t*mcpf ative Secretary SLL M : Cc & p .dence Faferral The attached corresi:cndence has been rhmed to this Depaw.t for reply. Inasmuch as it ea w to fall within the purview of ycur agency, we are refedng this exxamicatien herewith for ycur reply. Ne have informed the writer of this acticn.

Thank you for your attenticn.

Mrs. Percy C. Rogers 41 Atlantic avenue North Hampton, New Hampshire 03862

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THE WHITE HOUSE wrsa:soro.s ,

OCT1L'1979 MEMORANDUM:

The attached letter (s) addressed to the President is referred to your office for suitable acknowledgment or other appropriate handling at the earliest opportunity. Should you receive mail that has been misdirected, please forward to the appropriate agency. I would also appreciate knowing when you are forwarding such mail. My phone number is 456-2717.

Thank you.

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/ Martha Seal Director Correspondence Agency Liaison

cp o!(u. 9esey d. dogeu 41 Atlanua desnue sVostA Sampton, <Vew c4amphze 03862 September 22, 1979

Dear Mr. President:

Yesterday there was a 5.6 eatthquake in Hawaii.

Earlier this week there was an 8+ eda:rthquake in Italy, with devastating results.

r Last April we had two ea:hquakes here in south-eastern N.H., strong enough to move pictures on walls, and sounding like a sonic boom, which they were not.

The Seabrockauclear Enerr> ulant is beine built squarely on _ ten of the Ecston-Cttawa earcn fault.

Along this fault there were two severe quakes in the 18th century--causing houses to fall and other danage. This may be ascertain"by reading the book, The Way It ilas In North Enmoton, by Mr/ and Mrs.

Stillman Hobos, of Hampton, N.:i.

The fact that th ge_were_tuo relative-mild ouakes aliTng this sane faulj;JnJhe,,pasu n EEYb7571a.

ene ' that'thsfsnifis still active.

I have reported this to all the agencies involved in inveatigating the safety of this Seabrook site.

Nothing h s *e p done to stop the building of this plant. I s Voted Town in two formal meetingd in Seabrook and in ten abutting towns. We ICICW the danger. This is the fastest growing area in popula-tion of any region in the country with the single exception of southern California. On any fine weekeni a these are as many as 250,000 persons on Hamaton

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Beach and Seabrdk Beach which ABUT the Seabr6ck ,

Reacter site. There is no least possibility-of evacuation as there are only two roads, nacrow roads, leading from the area. The Public Service' Cc of N.H. will give us no evacuation routes because they, too, know none is possible.

Public Service Co. of N.H. was given permission to build Seabrook with two conditions: that RIkmO' site was suitable (!!) and that they could afford to build a safe installation. It is obvious that no site could be wocse, and, second, that the Public Service Co. of N.H. is tobbring on the verge of bankruptcy in this project. They had counted on continufing to make us power users pay for their wild scheme throuRg CWIP (contruction work in progress) but our fine new Gov. Gallen put a stop to that.

Therefore, Mr. President, I ask you to carry out what you said when you were campaigning in N.H.

in 1976 : _t; hat nuclear ener g pla)3ts_should_be.

a cn_17_in gemote areas and then undergro.undithat and__bu Qt they should never, never,be pla. cad _in_.an_ area.whe.re the_ residents _objec_ted_to suhh an installation.

We have this on tape, Mr. President, and if you expect to get many votes in N.H. in 1980 I suggest, respectfully, that you put an end at once to this threat to our safety. I live only 3 miles across the marsh from this Seabrook menace, and I don $t want my children and grandchildren to be ex-posed to it.

Yours most hopefully,

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