ML19322A423
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/02/1979 |
| From: | Arnold L PARASCIENCE INTERNATIONAL |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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August 2,1979 Joseph M. Hendrie, Chairman U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Vashington, D.C.
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As one who lives 16 miles north-northwest of Three Mile Island (in the direction of the most intense radioactive plume movement following the recent accident there) and who has'been challenging for several years Metro-politan Edison's ability to operate without serious incident their nuclear facility, we have to dato refrained from addressing you on the most recent (and sarious) accident at ThT-2 because we have seen no indication that our concerns would be received any differently than in the damnable and uncon-scionable way the Atomic Safety and Licensing Boani responded to the public (ourself included) in the licensing process for TMI-2 in 1977 - wherein Chairman Edwani Luton told us (and other members of the community-at-large) that our comments would not be entered as part of the permanent reconi (Docket No. 50-320) and, hence, were irrelevant to the decision-making process of the NRC, However, in reviewing the transcrSpt of the NRC Commissioners' July 24 closed-door meeting ostensibly to discuss personnel matters that turned into arguments for and against the introduction of mental health effects among the hundreds-of-thousands who were subjected to T12-2's novel and reprehen-sible form of terrorism as part of the decision to return Tf2-1 to critical-ity, we are finally moved to respond.
First, you who have refused to attend a public meeting with Newberrytown citizens in the THI five-mile radius area because such would prejudice your decision reganiing Three Mile Island - a position we can only interpret as an unwavering pro-nuclear commitment that cannot take into account the feel-ings and lives of those people most intimately affected by America's worst commercial reactor accident to date - should remove yourself from any decision-making responsibility in the matter of Three Mile Island.
(Afterall, a trustworthy judge removes himself from a case ts vards which he has a bias orconflict-of-interest} This policy should be adhered to by each NRC l
Commissioner who continues to isolate himself from direct personal contat.
with the people of this ara 4 cfterall, one's eyes can speak where words fail.
You can retain this disregard of southcentral Pennsylvanians' concerns and fears about "MI only so long as you maintain your isolation from such personal interchange.
We suggest you speak with Commissioner Gilinsky, who to his credit was willing to face the people in Middletown on June 29: he learned very quickly that there are peonio odt there beyond the sanctified j
walls of the NRC's Washington office, not faceless numbers in some Reactor
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You owe yourself, and A=ericans Perhaps then you won't place the same experience Mr. Gilinsky has had.
r Nuclear Industry's survival above the safety and survival of the citizens who pay your salary and expect protection, rather than disadvantages" in the General Electric reactor system.
Second, recarding Shief Council Leonard Bickwit's advisement that und atomic energy statutes'"pubIic health' and safety" The issue of public health and safety can be ly by exposure to radiation.
ignored, it was inplied, because no such short-term exposure pro surfaced from the TMI-2 acciden't.
Extensive and self-funded investigation conducted by ParaScience Interna-Chairman Hendrie.
tional, an organization, which exanines and documents unconventional as enced physiological discomfort or ill-health as th 28, 1979.
released from TIE-2 on and after MarchInterviews at length have bee varying combinations of the following symptoms:
9 Metallic taste in the air Metallic or Iodine-like odor Irritated and watery eyes Eodere.to or severe respiratory inflanmation Gastro-intestinal dysfunction and diarrhea Disruption cf menstral cycle in females (also repo southcentral Pennsylvania)
Skin rashes (often giving the appearance of radiation burn)
Sharp, abnormal pains in joints Before discounting these syrptoms as psychosomatic (as Met-Ed did, those few they knew of that is), it in si6nificant that several of those interviewed i
h echoed the statenent of a life-1:ng resident of southcentral Pennsylvan a w o "I grew up with pollution from coal and spoke of the days March 28-30 1979:
lived in Steelton for awhile (site of Bethlehem Steel's foundry], and I _ne had such severe burning in my threat or that awful me during this period has been TMI-2 and the Indionuclides it released.
Supporting the attribution of these maladies to TIE-2 activity,1) th reports from points up to 10 miles from the reactor coincide with t
l (and likely tnree) radioactive releases from n:I; 2) those suffering the l
symptoms recovered (in general) quickly once they evacuated the a than a decade ago a link between the presence of TMI:
taste in the atmosphere, Furthermore, PSI's pioneering research into the effects of ' low-level' i
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to a plume's radioactive contents that person'One ca on's physiolog health - are Iikewise being affected s bio-processes y is reacting
+ hat is, Host much radiation was released from THI?
I how much radiation can a person be exposed to befor'4 hat was its exposure problems?
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e exhibiting short-term As you know, the NRC and tie Nuclear Industry j
health physics experts who oppose the Nuclear Industr-- and even answer to any of these questions.
y - do not know the released from TMI has pro 6ressively risen in the official f
the so-cal Except that the amounts of radiation advances led safe icvels of exposure consistently decline a estinates, while However, one thing seems less nebulous to us mde during the July 24 meeting at no physical problThe response to th radioactive discharges is, la, sed on our research and iems resulted f "Beyond a reasonable shadow of doubt, not sol" n legal parlence, and certain medications, others seem highly vulner se reactions from pollens radionuclides from electricity-generating or m1functie to the presence o What percentage of the population falls into thi oning reactors.
as the susceptibility to radiation at extremely low ds latter group is unknow from southcentral Pennsylvania nuclear reactors ha oses (unless the releases officially released fi certainly unquantified)g;ures) has heretofore apparently been unrec ers' immediate attention. This is an area that should warrent The question for the moment, however
. surely others not contacted and surveyed by PSI be ignored an
, is this Can these persons, and to your attention?the NRC - esnecially now that their vulnerabl onzer by e susceptibility has been broucht t
of re-opening THI-i - and it our view it definitelvWhet ted in the consideration m
sioners will be violating their own operating directishould bel - the Comm U. S Congress if they fail to consider the ves as established by the
.so similarly.among southcentral Pennsylvanians and that coin too, we might add -radioactive releases fren Three Mile Island And from peach Botton's reacters We shall be pleased to share, in person unsuspected aspects cf Three Mile Island'.s accide ects and other population.
Commissioners cannot justifiably ignoreThe physical symptoms cit e surrounding off-site ent the
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and end its pattern of selectively excluding the mo difficult aspects of the. nuclear reactor cycle from public consideration a safety.
people more holistically, and is willing to examine t ventional as it may seem to you) of physical health effects of low-level radiation, we remain in anticipation of your response Most sincerely yours,
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nold, Director PazuSci ce. ternational ces Comissioner Victor Gilinsky, URC Comissioner Peter Bradford,180 Commissioner Richazt1 Kennody, NRC Commission' er John Ahearne, NRC President Jimmy Carter Dr. John Kemeny, the Presidential Commission on Three Mile Island Senator Richard Schweiker, Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz III, Pennsylvania Rep. Morris Udall, House Subcommittee on Three Mile 6
Rep Allen Ertel,17th District Rep, Bill Goodling,19th District Senator George Gekas,15th District Generaly Assembly Rep. Stephen Reed,103rd District General Assem Patricia Harris, Director HiM Robert Reid, Mayor of Middletown
- Drs, Chauncey Kepford and Judith Johnsrud, Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Pow?r and Interveno-s on TIE-2 THIA: Three Mile Island Alert l
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