ML19318B600
| ML19318B600 | |
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| Site: | Peach Bottom  |
| Issue date: | 05/06/1980 |
| From: | Long C HOUSE OF REP., APPROPRIATIONS |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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s Hcnorable John F. Ahearne Nuclear Regulatory Ccmissicn Washington, D.C.
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Cn April 22 the Nuclear Pegulatory Ccmissicn conducted a hearing to solicit public coments cn the Philadelphia Electric Ccrpany's revised emergency respcese plan for its Peachbottcm Nuclear Plan based cn criteria established by the Ccmissian after tre 'Ihree Mile Island disaster.
Despite the inportance of this meetJng, few people attenced tN meeting. hhy? 'Ihe answer is single. 'Ihe Ccrmiission d'd not widely advertise the meeting either at:eng residents of the area, the press corp, interested envircmental group 3 Jr elected offical'i. As an Lhited States Congressran, I did not re ive any notifi'ation frcm the Ccmissien about this inEcrtant meeting.
In view of this situation,1 strcrigly urge the Nix lear Regulatory Ccmission to schedule another meeting, which is widely publicized, to cbtain further public acments ard analyses on the Pearibettcm Nuclear Power Plant's energency response plan.
The lesscn fran 'Ihree Mile Island is clear. Nuclaar ener;;y is an eccocmic add envircrental Mnd.
Enclosed is a mailing that I sent to all of my ct netituents in which I cutline my argtments agairst nuclear energy. The response I received was cwrwhelming c5 posed to using nuclear en.trgy.
I lock forward to hearing frcm ycu cn this ratter.
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Your taxes, going to hidden subsidi*s of the nuclear energy complex, are diverting usfrom safer, speedier and, above all, cheaper energy.
Why is the President asking Congress for another $1.843 bilhon to subsidize nuclear energy?
My anicle, "The Trouble with Nuclest Energy." was published m the Baltimore Sun i n years before the l
I Three Mile Island accident.
Read it and weep! Better, write me and your Senators shether you want Congress to approp-iate more money next year on nuclear energy than on all other kinds - solar, oil and oil shale, coal, gasohol, geother-mal, hydroelectric - combiner.;. This $1.843 billion doesn't begin to account for all the subsidies, including tax breaks, waste disposal, dismatting plants saturated after 30 years with radioactivity. Price.Ar.derson Act i
ceiling on claims for damages if a " melt.down" should eser destroy thousands of lives and billions of dollars l
of property, including yours.
Whom is the government trying to "elp - you, the consumer, or the big firms fattening on government subsidies?
The garbage problem: The U.S. has dumped drums of nuc! car waste off the Atlantic coast, including Maryland's. This *aste will remam radioactive for thousands of centuries. Thousands of centur:es! And *ith less than one century passed, some of these drums are ! caking!
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The Trouble with Nuclear Energy
$5r My October 8 letter to the eds-damages exceeding the $544 milhos company from invesur.g a a nucls4r tar posted out that naciear energy is limit a not fasciful but feat Nt is planL*
as econonue dead end. Rebuttals tram net the hind of nat whict responsible No matter the costs
- Noclear psJ-three distingtshed representauves of government or business pla:es upon er is needed. Its s pporters say, to fill the onclear todustrial-intellectual bystanders.*
the energy dehesency "here and now."
corrplet are summanzed in the words Despite vast sums from se pubhc But the dores years at takes to corre of Vernon Strnin. public relations purse, the noclear mdustry is :s tros-p;ete a nuclear plant udl hardjy g:ve erector for Ba:ti:: tore Gas and Dec-b!e. An esecuuve of Ato*nic General as energy "here and now -
tne Compaav tia his November l let-noted. on ns wicdrawal from the te Mcg-range nucler.t prospects are Let to the editor ", melear genera-clear faeid in November.19*5, that equauy unpromaamg The cours free-taos remams...the most economical, 40 major anchar cotrpany has made world supply of uracrum a the sert safest and most environmentally ac-a profit in 20 years' The major prod-two decaoes would produce. in the m>
ceptable means of erpanding our do-acers-Wesun. house and General possible event that we had the capital asesue energy supply
- Wow!
Doctnc-have not had any new or-to do so, only a sixth to a fifth d our If, as Mr. Stnchun claims. the av-ders since 1975. A senior aide to Ener-energy needt Extendag uranium re-erste residenttal user of eketncity a gy Secretary James Schlesinger has sources try biulding breeder reactors the Baltunore area pays less for elec-said "The great nuclear boom is nev-is qmte ngstly opposed by (Be adme-tncity as a result of Cajvert Chffs nn-er going to happen.*
tstrauce as putung further strain ce clear power,it is os!y teca:pe of vast Foreign nuclear vendors are a no limited capital supphes, causing even government subsidies and hidden costs better shape Entain,Japaa and Cana-greater poducon and, througn the out-for which the average tarpeyer has al-da have histones of losses, dechning put of plutonium, multiplymg the al-ready paid and mil ecounce to pay.
orders and grow:ng pubbe opposinon, ready difficult problems of conta ning Mr. Stnetha and Robert Deutsch and stemming from womes about radio-the prohfaration of soc 6 ear weepeat my old inend Dean Roy. pdg:ng by acuve waste espcsal problemt The By contrast, convenuonal energy sources-oil, oil shale. and coal, am-their November 19 and *2 letters to recent Canaian government an-the editor, may be as unaware u the nouncement of a " major step to mde mal wastes. wood and oder vegeta-average taxpayer of these hadden and use of soclear power," narnely a huge tions, the sun, the mnd, beat mthin pcstponed subvenuons' anderground radioacuve waste ca.
the earta-range to adequacy from Setsi&es runneg to scores of bil-pcsal project, as an attempt to disarm generabons to forever aad, in the case lions of douars for reactor develop-
"pabbe concern
- and revive pnvate of the sun and wind present no poDo-cent, researca ato biological med-Interest.
Uce ;eoclem because they are there cal, environmental and materials be-The project is anocer government whether ased or not subsidy, necessary for deahng mth ai-Messrv Stnetha, Deutsee and Roy mor.
Subsices by the bdllons of dcCars ready accumulated waste, but since it argue tha research brealtaronshs la goventment sale of uranium to pn-would not reduce the other costs of eu-have not been forthcoming to Aarnres wate adustry at pnces far below tas-clear power, and would not be to oper-the renewabie resources or get energy es. interest or cost of nsks incurred.
auce anut 1995. 6t can hardly do much out of oil shale and stt:p cuned coal Subsadles for dispcsal of radioae-to revive pnvate investment wahout damagteg the enviror. ment uve waste awhich v2 be around for Mr. Stnetha and others of the no-On the contrary, the beanags this thousands of yearsi, the true cost of clear"comples* p6t the blame for the year before my latenor Appropria-which. as the General Accounung Off-Icuses and cancellations on environ-tions Subcommittee eheited that the ice points out, a act re!!ected in the mentahsts and legislators thke Coo-envirammaJtal problems associated cost to the consumer.
grammas leng') But of 68 nuclear with coal and od shale, of whact we Sus *aa for dismasthet obsolete plaats delayed or cancelled in 197*,
L e generataans of supply, are at soi-auclear plaats at the end of their 304o only 14 were attnbuted to beensing suce or close to it-witbat sehsidy 40 vear 'ife. Costs for dispN1 of this and hugauon, and delays for tbsse and despite d.stneenuve domestae dangenus wreckage could equal that reasocs averaged only about five pnce cethegs of outiding the or'g.nal plant. Since months of the 12 years reqmred to So far as solar energy is concerned, st.litsea ao sot post boeds to pay fcr complete a nuclear plant not only has oct governmect given it this future cost, t en1 fad as the taz.
A key factor behad the suetear no researca ertpaasis, bus progress in paye* sr Je c:stsume' slump has been nsing costs Cocstrue-the pr-vate sector has actaally bene Sebedars ;a the for:n of tan breah.L tioe costs frsm 1967 to 1974 meressed kindered by :he tnlhons af panuegue.
Eac seg domesuc power etauon re.
500 per cent Constrocuos cost over.
adt:ed $ohars utes the seclest in-cetves a it per coes las suresdy. talf rtms are raag:ng frans 100 per cent to destry pays in mmpeuten for braim
- 3,WatmeSt tat credits and ';alf la Ig7 per cent The cost of erteant 5 has and canstai and 3? Je St*Aic tastJae-arte.e's.ed eemauce a,1ceance.
gone op 1early 300 per cent smee e, of vested route fear *m of los6sg istsces.e tne !ce-n of hmited ac-1972, compared to the six per cent r se their meestrvsta. tacir tg%salaned cleerrt Mbity.121er tDe hee-AD-for lotg4erm coal contract 1 $ ass the y/S and 'nelt 'at cocsaft:ng leet cerw: n.ha ecestatstacants of Icea State Commerce Ccmmissen-CaaaortD Long, esta has 2.+1:na'entee sv Ir*ieral "There are hteralty no answars.
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..Ge ind.!!ai '"he 3r1Gabsty of Until we get these, aca* commissioO tets a tisg*ct Marytafsi i
4 Ta?Jt 3CC'e f ALSCent pear.actr4 will do that P can te preven. any Wasmrg= =L b