ML19309C889
| ML19309C889 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/31/1980 |
| From: | Snyder M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8004090357 | |
| Download: ML19309C889 (2) | |
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March 31, 1980 Harold R.
Denton Nuclear Regulatory Commission Bethesda, Md.
Dear Mr. Denton,
In any issue, such as the venting of Krypton from the TMI Unit 2 Containment Bldg., the clean-up of TMI Unit 2 facilities and the restart of TMI Unit 1, there must be a factual and in-depth assessment of the impact to be expected before any action is taken.
This assessment must look at the long term common good and resist the emotional pleas of those who would sway it one way or the other.
I have personally witnessed a great deal of emotionalism on the part of those who have identified themselves with the anti-nuclear movement in the Harrisburg area.
The majori ty of these people have not exhibited a realistic. concern for the problem as a whole.
Many of them have had nothing more than the stories from the media or the cries of anti-nuclear groups on which to base their feelings.
It is evident that the local published media, i.e.,
The Harrisburg Patriot News, The Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, The Guide and The Paxton Herald in particular, has anti-nuclear leanings.
These leanings (in some cases, down-right biased reporting and editing) have provided the basis of the many articles which have been the extent of the
" education" of the general public.
This has certainly not been ample or appropriate information on which to base a rational decision regarding nuclear power.
The NRC has been sorely lax in carrying out what should be one of their primary concerns, that is, educating the public through the providing of educational materials (available at no cost to interested citizens), press releases regarding radiation, course outlines for short courses to be offered at the high school and college level, etc.
This purpose needs to be pursued before the use of nuclear power is deemed an interim energy source by a hysterical mino'rity that makes the decision /or the majority.
Much of the emotionalism appears manufactured and rehearsed, but it still takes its toll on those who are eneducated on the subject of nuclear energy.
If the future of nuclear energy is to be decided by the populace, the copulace deserves to have the necessary in-C 0[(
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March 31, 1980 Page 2 The NRC should also acknowledge past shortcomings, so that it is prepared to accept some responsibility for the situation at TMI in which thus far Met-Ed has been the
" scapegoat."
Sincerely yours,
-Mt Melvin G. Snyder Met-Ed Employee at TMI and Resident of Elizabethtown