ML19322C916
| ML19322C916 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/16/1979 |
| From: | Vizente H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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Au6ust 16, 1979 Mr. Hendrie, I recently became aware of the plan of dneral Public Utilities to " recover" Three Mile Island. The plan,which is severely underestimated in cost in the first place, is appaling in its' tacit indications that TMI can be cleahed up and eventually reopened. I can understand GPU's haste to avoid the notoriety of an abandoned nuclear matssoleum like West Valley, but I don't think that the NBC, supposed re6ulators of the nuclear industry,should be accomplicies in this.
I am especially upset about the plans to release radioactive gases into the environment, especially since such a release will be accompanied by so much propaganda from GPU tME' people will be told that small doses of radistion aren't harmful. I am also concernedd about the nuclear workers who will be exposed to excessive limits of radiation. What is especially enraging is the situation with the nuclear wasteg it will be carted to the other side of the coutry where it can sit in steel tanks while we wait another breathless fifteen years for the final solution to the nuclear vaste problem.
I fear that your subsequent regulating and handling of TMI will be r
on a par with that witnessed before and during the accident. I feel heartened when I realize that the nuclear industry is crumbling despite governmental supports it is enriching to know that the dictates of people can occassionally overrule the energy dictators of our nation. I can only promise you that if Three Mile Island is ever reopened or attempts are made to start it up, there will axist be a lot of bodies that will have to be felled along the way.
I forsee that GPU's " recovery plan" will be a point of mantextimax controversy for a long time. Add my letter to those who are really angry about TMI and even angrier about money 9 scheming utilities and pissed off about governmental promotion and support of the nuclear industry.
May you sleep well at night.
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%lan by Helen Vizente 5036 NE 16th Portland, OR 97211 l
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l l HIROSHIMA DAY Memorial Service i
Hiroshima the day af ter bombing On the morning of August 6th,1945, the first atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Hiroshima, Japan. Thousands of Japa-nese people died on that day. But they alone do not suffer the legacy of atomic weapons: hundreds of Marines who assisted with cleanup are dying from radiation some thirty years later. Here in Portland / the Trojan Nucledr Plant operates only 32 miles away with the same destructive power. No inore Hiroshimas; no more nuclear power.
August 6th 12 NOON P.G.E.
2nd & Salmon S.W.
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