ML19322B449
| ML19322B449 | |
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| Site: | Oconee  |
| Issue date: | 02/16/1977 |
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DON ALD J. WATT, M. D.
February 160 1977
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To Nhom It :iay Conc 9rn:
- netc56 A The, copy of en article in today's N.Y.
Times speaks for it-self.
I am writing because my wife and I are planning a trip t:
vicit cur daughter and granddcughter in CLIMSCN, Scuch Cerclina.
le are disquiated by what we hear " om cur dauchter and son-in-law s
(cur c>randdau~hter is onls. two.vears old) about what has ha.cened te v
the Clemson atar supply from Lake MARTlELL.
It has ccme cut that due to an unfortunate "inadvartencv" Iodine 131 has been found to hava centaminated the Clemsen water s u.c.c i v.
The situation aas a parently initiallv. " hushed u.t."
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t sinca come cut in the local newspapers including the Greenville x
pap:r and th+ Seneca JCUR:AL, and the role of the LUKE FC159 CC.V7 ' lY.
ie vill not be leaving until later in March sc that there should be ample time for us to hear frcm v.cu r ec. ard inc. this macter.
In view of the Fresidert's cc'ncern aith ti.e problem of nuclear fuel scurcas,.sculd it be a ;ocd idou to get in touch Nith
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him?
Flaase advise.
Cf course, in case ve do not hear frca you,
de aill appeal to him as a next step.
..nans you r_or g.4ving this matter ' jour attention.
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I t Panel Asserts Radiation Hazards-E and Perilof Sabotage May Have
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Been Understated in Studies l
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N Three Plants in State L
By IAWRENCE FELLOWS i
Connecticut has thrae noctear powe't t"
. im... we n placts:
Connecticut Yankee in Haddam,i tiMTFORD. Feb 1%An eight. member;-
on tne Connecticut River; and Mdistone l twici that v sited na! car installations in l I and Millstone II at Waterford, en Long rce -tate says that the la ent hazards 1sland Sound. Mii!aone III at Waterford -
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./ radiat.on posed by such plants may -
15 excected to oe in service in 1982.
More than half the electric:tv used in, Me seen understated by studies on the Connecticut is generated in the three -
abject. And it called for the establish.
operational nuclear plants. About 12 per,
cf an agency independent of the, cert of Connecticut's power ricads is sup '
men:
utdities to check the plants regularly for; b h e nuc(ar p as 3
7 p,
pc<< biy hazardous operations.
In a repor+, to the state s Genaal As-capacity that can be expected in the fu-s<.nbN. the panel, whrch was appo:nted ture. and the widered hazards the starei should pursue energy conserv,ation and
, a ;jear ago, also sa:d that the dangers j look for other sources of energy as alter-;
t.-f sabotage and of the malfunction of rathes to expanding nuclear power, the
, scal safety systems in nuclear power council suggested.
i" Nant, m ght ah,o have been understited. :
He couned memhus arer -
The Reactor Safety Study the standard Co ha nan.
1 work on t e < abject, whien was published }
Barbara P. Bass of the Connecticut gll iia:e in l');..) oy the Nurlear pegu!atory.
I.u ssociation,
[ Con :r.ssicn. ccncruded that the dangersi j
'nnerent in the operation of nuclear l
. as F. D'Muhala, president of the
, power p'ints w ere iets than those in most g Nu_ t aar Technology Corporation.
i hartan actmtres-Richard H. Goodwin, professor emeritus I
Ba' having fnand the Federal study!
of botany at Connecticut College, End! Haake, a chemistry professor atI l
weax m the s;ectrics it brougnt to the' WeWeyan.
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.usembe's noti:e. the Connect: cut panel.
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.aaed the Terrporary Nuclear Power Tfford B. Pincnot, a physician and for I "tes.htology professor at.fohns Hopkinsl Luluation Ccancd suggested that the Uneversity.
F. deral Gos ernment might be unde esti.
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mting accident probabilities based oni Carlos Stern, associate professor of en**dnmental econcmics at the Universi-traterial m the Reactcr Safety Study.
ty }f Connecticut.
t Differing Reports Cited Gate Van Winkle. a lawyee and vice!
Dcubts spread among the eight mem-I Prydent of United Technologies hers of the counct! when they were givenI
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wide!y differing reports on trietr own ex ;
posure to radiation.
j Four of the eight members added toe **
own misgivings' esen about the report l thev were submitting to the General As-l sen;bly, for some cf the shortcuts in thor-t oughness or logic they thought they per '
cawed. One of these points arose in a discussion that compared radiation ef-fects en workeni in nuclear plants and, det.ths attnbutar<e to coal mining, with-l or also. ment:on:na the people who lost :
thret ji.es "t!ning uranium.
Thr p! ants are sudited now by the Nu-daar Re::uletorf-Ccmmission although
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tha; Federal agency normal!v does not
.., ig t hase tne people to do more than rettew b
1 ty - whtv s nwn inspection of its nuclear
' i:n :a H4tions, die council reported.
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t b long as the industry acts as its
' om n policeman, there will always remain,
' a questron re!ating to the ade Jacy ofi 19 ouality of plan: des gn ana compo '
1 nen: " the rewar i ms D
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