ML19309A461
| ML19309A461 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/08/1980 |
| From: | Roehrig C USX CORP. (FORMERLY UNITED STATES STEEL) |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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I, CN A TNG ANaGER p c c 5gc CHARLES A. AOEHRIG wousfaN. 7ExAS 77001 Ass,STANT CONNCT;NG W4 NAGER 7:3/751 5095 January 8, 1980 Mr. Harold R. Denton
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Director Nuclear Reactor Regulation Office
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1717 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20555 Re:
NRC Freeze
Dear Mr. Denton:
I would like to appeal to your sense of pride in the American tradition which has so often vaulted this country into the prominence of greatness.
Those that still believe in this tradition and expect the light of excellence to keep on shining are seemingly loosing faith in our system.
A system that once rewarded excellence, encouraged technolo-gical development and actively pursued a progress in all aspects of our society has now developed a rapport with the vocal minorities of our nation and made political rhetoric the answer to all of our nation's problems.
That one problem which seems tantamount to all others today is the energy problem.
We are a society, a nation which has an insatiable appetite for energy from which we enjoy a tremendous life-style and maintain a productive economy.
However, we presently are siphoning off the last of the cheap sources of this energy without developing alternates, and there are alternates.
Or at least there were, until the NRC decided to add more crippling regulations to an already overburdened, overregulated industrial society.
The latest NRC freeze of November 5, 1979, stopping the issuing of construction permits and operating licenses for nuclear power plants is just another stab in the back to our once great nation.
Do we really want a society which is protected against everything that a few bureaucrats have determined harmful?
Do we want to backpedal into the " dark ages" and not take any chances which might lead us to even greater heights?
After all, it was the chances that were taken by our forefathers which provided a foundation for our present day society.
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Mr. Harold R. Denton American January 8, 1980 s-Bridg8 9 age 2
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I believe that the federal bureaucracy has once again overreacted and has blown the TMI incident totally out of its true perspective.
The NRC freeze ignores the many initiatives taken by the nuclear power industry since TMI.
Although no one was killed or injured in that mishap, the industry has taken steps that will make nuclear energy safer.
These lessons can be, and are being, applied without a licensina moratorium.
Please do not destroy the dreams that America is based on, for without the energies at hand to sustain the present lifestyles of our country, there will be no dreams, and then there will be no " United" States of America, only an infinite number of self-interest groups vying for the rights to rhetoric via the microphone and press.
Very truly yours, A0J\\b Charles R.
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