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| Issue date: | 12/20/1979 |
| From: | Thereault J ENERGY, DEPT. OF |
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L DEC 2 01979 Mr. Martin F. Littman i
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Dear Mr. Littman:
U Your letter to President Carter regarding anclear power has been
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and operation of commercial nuclear power plants are under the cogni-I i
j zance of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, we are fomarding your letter to them for appropriate action by copy of this letter.
i Sincerely, Original signed by:
T. A. 'Jerner John P. Thereault, Deputy Director Plans and Analysis Division lasclear Reactor Programs i
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M ARTIN F. LITTM ANN S O S O IC N O LL LA N E MICOLETOWN. OHlO 4 S04 3 Nov. 4, 1979 President Jimmy Carter White House Washington, D. C.
Dear Mr. President,
At a time when we want to increase the production of energy while conser-ving oil it is extrosly distressing tc see the conti.Tes barrassment.of
__a utilities and the petroleum industry by government and consumer groups.
In particular, while the government should be expediting the construction and licensing of nuclear power plants, the NRC is playing games that confuse sad mislead the public. The problem alleged to exist by Darrell Eisenhut of the NRC didn't simply " go away", it never existed except in the minds i
of those who want to destroy nuclear power and with it the economic strength l
of this nation. Mr. President, you have appointed four of the five NRC cox.issioners. I_ urge you to review these appointments and obtain a staff that will promote nuclear power while at the same time maintaining reasonable standards of safety.
By far nuclear power is the safest and most environmentally sound method of generating electrical power. Compared to coal, for exanple th j
from coal effluents from combustion are greater than for nuclear generation.
Finally, the problen of waste disposal and pollution is less for nuclear il government will "get off the can" and decide on present adequate technolog-for handling nuclear wasta.
Once ag;ain I urSe you to go ahead with the breeder reactor ire.Eediately.
Long Island Lighting, for example, is burning precious oil for electricity while struggling to get past all the opposition and red tape to begin oper-j ation of the Shoreham nuclear fac{lity. Every day of delay means enormous extra cost and waste of oil. How can you tolerate this?
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'Ihree Mile showed, if anything, Me safety of nuclear power. We dare not compound the losses to the utility and the public by sensless new restrictions to " protect" against imagined chicken little hazards that do not acount to the risk of a tobacco smoke filled room or driving an autonbile.
Why not let industry and the responsible free enterprise system that we t
once had keep their profits so that they can solve the energy " crisis" for you and for all of us? In a few years fou could be a hero!
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,said it does not make substantiai improvement LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP)-Federal geologists an the agency's regulatory performance impossi-have con!!rmed that an earthquake fault runs bie.
near two nuclear weapons laboratories in the
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"THERE IS no question that this agency is a Livermore Valley about 40 miles east of San i
h8{ h8" poor example of collegiality in government,"
Francisco.
Spokesmen for the nuclear factittles say the NRC Commissioner Peter Bradford said. "All 1 fault poses no public hazard. But Alameda Coun-y can tell you is that we'll do the beat we can... ty Supervisor John George says a board of super-
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We will take the Kemeny report, go through it, visors hearing should be held to discuss the dis-WASHINGTON-The Nuclear Regul ry and adopt its recommendations as fast as we can covery,and called for investigations by the state mission (NRC) has decided to dismiss its execu-er explain why not
. and the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The President's Commission on the Three Live director for operations, Lee V. Oossick, but The U.S. Geological Survey says the Las Post.
the five NRC commtssioners have been unable to Mlle Island accident, headed by Dartmouth Col-tas Fault was discovered Wednesday to run east-agree among themselves on how to replace him.
lege President John O. Kemeny, released its re-west along a stream bed that passes through the Oossick,59,is the senior administrative offt-port Wednesday with 44 recommendations for re-grounds of the Sandla Livermore Laboratory, clat responsible for day to-day management of form, including abolition of the NRC and its which is across the street from the Lawrence the NRC's 2 Tio staff members across the country.
replacement with a new agency headed by one Livermore Labor tory.
He has held the position since January,1975, administrator.
The fault e was confirmed by trenches when the NRC was created from the regulatory Many of the recommendations pertained to dug n the te on.
divisionof the old Atomic EnergyCommission.
internal management reforms, such as improv-Oossick apparently will keep his job untJI the Ing internal communications on safety matters said that environmental organization will urge and the establishment of an Office of Ilearing the U.S. Department of Energy to order the stale mate is resolved.
Sources f amiliar with the dectston to dismiss Counsel to serve as an in-house devil's advocate removal of radioactive material f rom the two Gossick said that the agency's inability to agree on licensing issues, would require majority ap- - labs in the quake-prone valley.
l on an approach to replacing him was sympto-. proval by the five commissioners.
"If an active fault has been found a mile or matic of an intense polarization among the five is agency is spilt 2% to 2%, Commission. less from the plutonium stockplie, and from the NRC commissioners on a wide variety of admin-they've just got to get it out of Astrative and policy ma ters.
er Victor Onlinsky said, referring to a voting pat-tern in which the chairman. Joseph M. Ifendrie, aj THE RESULTING stalemate in the commis.
and Commissioner Richard T. Kennedy often are ston, some sources suggested, would make lg aligned against Gilinsky and Bradford, with the Early last' summer, Friends of the Earth i.
difficult to institute many of the major manage.
fifth commissioner, John Ahearne, vacillating urged the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, run i
ment reforms recommended earlier this week by between the factions,or suggesting that votes be by the University of California, to remove up to 496 pounds of radioactive plutonium which the f'
the President's Commission on the Three Mlle postponed.
factitty islicensed to store, Island accident.
Reached by telephone, Oossick said,"I really President Carter appointed four of the five Sandia, a non-profit corporation operated by can't comment. I really don't know e. bout that.
present commissioners. The lack of a working Bell Laboratories, reported the only radioactive I
But 1*ve probably been here too long, and there majority on the commission, Ollinsky said, has material on the site is one ounce of tritium in s.
NRC commissioners declined to discuss what made 11 hard to communicate a clear and con.
building which was strengthened in 1976 "and j
are other challenges to look to?
! they said was a private personnel matter. How-sistent policy line on safety issues to the NRC will withstand any likely earthquake?
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kever,In a series of interviews in recent days, they
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