ML19308B351
| ML19308B351 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 11/30/1979 |
| From: | Baumann C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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Can the world survive without nuclear power plants? In my opinion we can.
There are much safer sourt:es of cnergy..The harrisburg, Pa., accident wasn't the first nuclear accident. It was just the first one to get so much public attention. A muelear plant near Detroit, in 1966, partially melted down due to mechanical failure and the whole city had to be evacuated. The Brcwn Ferry reactor in Alabass in 1975, was ignit(d due to a workman's candle. Half a million gallons of lethal high level radioactive waste leaked out of the Hanford, Pashington nuclear reservation tanks for a month before it was dis.
covend in June 1973. Radioactive poisons contaminate soil, water and food causing cancer
- if not imrediately than eventually.
"The basic purpose of a nuclear reacter is simply to create heat. The heat is the result of a controlled chain reaction. Fater is then esssed through this heat endis transfomed into steam. Tne steam is used to turn turbines, andthe turbines then make electricity. "
That's all. Nuclear energy is mot a mystery. It is not a joke. It is not some goal.VIt is a tool.' A tool made by humna handsf Now the citizens of the vorld must ask themselves a very imoortent: is the muelear energy worth the trouble and risk of life end death? A second ouestion they r.ust ask themselves is: are their other tocle that can be used with a less risk for the same purpose? In answer to this question,there is solar energy, coal, and garbage.
Muclear plants can be operated safely pzuvided it is inspected thorourhly and efficiently.Nuflear experts say the radiation, from the reactok, is safely encased behind four foot thick walls.
Txcessive amounts of radiation pose great hazards because they tend to destroy tissues of the body. An exposure of the entire body to several roentrens at one time will cause death withis a few days. Pregnant women that recieve ex h cessive amounts of radiation may produce deformed childmn.
Babock and Mleox has built nine nuclear plants, such as, that of the Three Mile Island plant in Harrisburg, Pa. The virginia based firm is building 10 other plants.
Over in Germany, there are h plants in effect, 5 plants Juct needing manpower and 2 are being planned to be built. The peoole of Gemony are protesting to this because of the Tneee Mile Island accident and I think we should give them our suport and help them out.
Energy secretary, Janes Schlesinger 's' aid tnat despite the failure at the Three File Island, the administration still vants a bill that will make it cosier to build power plaats.'/
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Despite a potential loss of $177 million, the state of New York appears likely to pull the plug on pland to build a nuclear power plant h0 miles south of the Capital. This is probably due to the incident at Harrisburg, Pa.
The location of these plants can be serios to the populatien of its area. It can effect the air, food and water that are vitally necessary to the people. The radiatica can be strong enough to cause an increase in thecancer death rato in the area. Nuclear plants pose a tnreat of possible hydrogen gas explosions that could rupture the thick walls around it, Nuclear energy is a complex and dar.gerous technology whose full ir.plications v
an unknown to the world.
- Ch i n;u, B G n m lCt n a,
/*b Cathy Baumann
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