ML19317H309
| ML19317H309 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/28/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Curran J, Fahy A AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8005220080 | |
| Download: ML19317H309 (2) | |
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- e Mr. John Curran and Ms. Anne Fahy 243 Dearing Street Atnens, Georgia 30605
Dear Mr. Curran and Ms. Fahy:
This is in reply to your letter of March 3,1980, to President Carter about nuclear power plants.
Enclosed is a copy of a statement of December 7,1979, by the President on the Kemeny Commission Report on Three Mile Island.
He said in part: "Every domestic energy source, including nuclear power, is critical if we are to be free as a country from our present over-dependence on unstable and uncertain sources of high priced foreign oil."
After the accident at Three Mile Island, the Nuclear Regulatory Comission decided not to license new nuclear power plants until criteria for improved safety had been developed.
The TMI accident resulted in a need for changes in the approach to safety.
The Nuclear Regulatory Comission has found that actions recommended by its own staff and by the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island in the areas of human factors, operational safety, emergency planning, nuclear power plant design and siting, health effects, and public information are necessary and feasible.
Interim measures have been taken, and under review is an Action Plan that will include new or improved safety objectives, detailed criteria for their implementation, and various implementation dead-lines.
Meanwhile, in order to avoid unnecessary delays, the Commissioners have approved the issuance of NRC licenses for three nuclear power units to load fuel and, under specified conditions, to operate at low power levels for testing.
Every effort is being made to ensure the public health and safety at all nuclear power plants that are currently in operation or that may start operating in the future. Any plants that are fou.id to be unsafe will not be allowed to operate.
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Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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- ' d 243 Dearing Street Athens Georgia 30605 Erch 3 1980 President of the United States Jimmy Carter The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
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Dear Mr. President The recent Nuclear mishap.at the Crystal Alver_ power facility in Florida and,the, beginning.of. testing,a,t_the. Sequoia, I nuclear power plant in Tennessee has agitated us into writing ~you.-
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Gambling with the world's health and safety for the sake of maintain-ing unnecessarily high levels of available electrical energy is in-tolerable. This isn't only an issue of economics, ecology and poll-tics.
It is a matter of survival for the people of the United States.
We beg you and your administration to stop the resumption of licencing ljnewnuclearplantsandtophaseoutallpresentlyoperatingfacilities fassoonaspossible. As concerned and patriotic Americans, we will be proud and willing to accept and adapt to any power cuts, slight er
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Although we find ycsu to be one of the' finest candidctes presently running for the office of President of the United States, we.cannot support a candidate that will not take a strong stand against com-mercial nucle ar power production. Our feelir:gs are obviously not unique.
Eny voters feel this desperation and are anxious to compromise on other issues to support a candidate, from whatever party, who will deal intellegently with the issue of splitting atoms.' Afganistan, balanc-ing the budget, streamlirdaghths federal.bereaucracy, and inflation become irrelevant lumps of dung in a far off field if we are faced with watching our children and ourselves suffer the effects of an obvious-ly quite possible nuclear disaster.
We don't want to argue the questionabic effects of milirems to the
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value of kilowatts. We don't want assurances that Three Mile Island taught the industry so much that it will never happen again. As more and more information comes to light of the obvious foolishness la seek-ing our future energy in nuclear fission, the faith of the American people in politicians who make no action to stop the fiasco becomes increasingly marginal. What we want, Mr. President, is for you to be the anti-nuclear power candidate that so many people are lookit.g for.
With Si cere Respect (M
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Anne Fahy I
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