ML19305C816

Opposition to TMI-1 Restart.People Who Live in Vicinity of TMI Live in Constant Dread.Nrc Personnel Do Not Have to Share Danger of Living Close to Plant.Chances of Nuclear Accident Greatly Underestimated by Util & NRC

ML19305C816
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	04/09/1980
From:	Kaufmann D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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I wish to have this statement entered as part of the Pre (NRC) hearings () Nov 1979 Hershey /Hbg) record. I believe you have probably heard a enough of statements about anxiety, loss of sleep fear, negligence etc. which I do not dispute in fact I wholeheartedly support such statements but, I wish to approach from a different angle. This statement was originally composed for oral delivery so please excuse.

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My question-and I do not expect, or want, averbal answer-I would just ask that you reconsider or atleast give serious con-sideration. Morally, what makes you more qualified than me/us--

to decide if we should continue to be served by this menace? and if I am indeed suffering pscycological duress or unneeded stressY Should this plant be reopened-for my own good-emminent domain-whatever. Please do not hide behind law books, executive order or "that just the way it is buddy"--Without any protection- just as a fellow human being-1 would not want that burden but you should think about it if you indeed.are going to make the choice.

I am afraid a fair amount of the statements you have heard-you may decide-were about the first (and oncoing) accident and therefore no reason to not open a " healthy" lvery loose term) reactor. I hope you will be able to at least partially under-stand what a social / emotional / economic albatross that plant is -

EVEN UNUPENED. I have decided that the feeling in the pit of your gut will not match ours, until you're living and working in seeing/ driving distance-your panel falls short at this toint--

you are not: probably were never; and I would venture to say will never live in this area. If you allow this action to con-tinue to go forward because you feel this area should suffer for the rest of the nation, because this would serve some public good which you feel somehow qualified to judge, then you are telling me that my life is worth less, than that of a resident of wueens+

Philly4D.C. (as covereo by an earlier speaxer) and my vote does not matter. Please try to walk a mile in our shoes: tnisenot a yt,s charts,or formulas decision. To me opressive taxation ano apalling governmental defict spenuing taxe a bacx seat to this type issue, that i believe is one of " Life Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness" at least for the resioents of Central Pa and that is the cornerstone of this great country:s constition. I ao not Icel any or you are in a better position than i to decide my fate.

I also don t believe you can give me specific p'e'rsdns to vote in or out of office to affect your decision and if you could it woula not be in time. I don t need to asK-where is " Gov. by and of the people." I can see Gov. for the people all through these proceecings whac 1 would 11r.e to see is Gov. hv and of the people not Gov. for tne people, by Met-Ea, Uf the Nn67 - just so nRC, big business and big geW. can save face and make and keep the "bettom line" growing.

1 dread the cay-and this comes from aeeper than anything else I may say-When my son. (who is 11 mos. old) gets older and puts e and 'd togecher and asxs me-if and why we stayeo,put during this nigntmare. (You are correct in interpreting this as another source of stress). To be honest I will have to tell hime that I was to stubborn, till it was to late. To stubborn to leave an area I love and, at that time, naieve enough to accept the lack of information and the misinformation. In our position we becoge laboratory animals who have chose'the wrong door (of punishment /

torture) and have no direct effect-and can see no relationship between esil legal actions we could possibly take and the even- ,

tual outcome of this situation. This a classic textbook example of stress! ,

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On one hand we have Met. Ed. & NRC telling U.S. - Nuclear accidents of this class are once in millions. In reality we seem to have it at least once in 25 yrs. roughly-but using only TMI-base your odds on 2 reactors (operating for 10 yrs till first accidents) with 20 yrs each left of useful life, and you most agree the odds call for 2 more accidents-now if the odds were ,

only 1/2 right (and you are the lovers of figures & statistics) there should be at least one more nuclear accident and that's if only 1/2 right and there are no whole new problems discovered and if the odds err on the side of " good".

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Further more if this argument is to be addressed to the " healthy" reacter-and your, comment is that"there are differences, they are not the same. I submit that all those differences are different det-

, erimental possibilitvs and experience has shown vividly that backup systems cannot be relied on untfil tested under crisis /

stress type situations with human actors. We have had enough tests. We have seen the irresponsible way NRC & Met. Ed & it's employees have reacted all during the recent emergency situation.

I am not saying that I am one bit better. I am saying we are t all human and no other human has the right to gamble with me or (assuming the unthinkable) my life or my liberty & pursuit of happiness assuming even normal operations.

And if you also believe in life, liberty, and the jpursuit of happiness and in Majority Rule, What do you use for justification for not allowing a popular vote? If you and your boss ?on the hill believe nuclear power isrb,ver rides these concepts then set up a plant on the Potomac and a couple more in Plains.

The only argument in favor of openning that I have heard that made any warped kind of sense is a monetary one. Closing TMI will mean additional cost. C'est La Vie-what will we have lost? <

Look at the cost we have now because of it's operation I will also countsay)with of that many of my though neighbors I consider (whose myself a God number fearing, I have lostabiding law j citzens If you allow that plant to be opened you will have kicked o,ver the scales of common sense, law and order and you ,

may as well have raped the statue of liberty and appointed Leonid .

Brezhnev, cheir of DOE. When the plant opens I believe it will l take something close to marshall law to control the people of l this area because these people will try to get the decision they  !

want, one way or another. I will be among those willing to do  !

what I feel necessary beyond this prehearing to help make that decision.  !

I need (what ever small justification it maybe) to be able to i tell my son that I took all action available to me and then hope and pray he understands accepts that and forgives past failures  !

in this area / I also pray that if these actions achieve no good-  !

that our faith in America & democracy will not be so crushed-that we will not be standing up, and pointing out, the shamefull slavery to big business and big government that we are enduring.

I believe both, are truly in an era of " Blind Ambition".

But' I believe the pepple are not fooled, and Lf given the chance to decide the issue. All political partys, generations, and races of this area-with one voice and much sincerity-will be heard above the rest, and that voice will be saying- Close TMI to Nuclear Folly FOREVER.

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