ML19322D986
| ML19322D986 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/28/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Myers D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8003130639 | |
| Download: ML19322D986 (2) | |
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FEBRUAPY 9 8 1980 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS Mrs. Delores Myers RD #4 P00R QUAllTY PAGES York, Pennsylvania 17404
Dear Mrs. Myers:
Thank you for your coments about nuclear energy.
I regret that this letter has been delayed. The accident and its consequences have created a substan-tial increase in the agency's workload, which has prevented us from responding to you as promptly as we would have liked.
In a policy statement of November 21, 1979, the Commission stated that the staff woulc prepare a programatic environmental impact statement on the decontamination and disposal of radioactive wastes resulting from the Three Mile Island, Unit 2, accident. The statement emphasizes the Commission's intention to (1) coordinate its actions on this matter with the President's Council on Environmental Quality, and (2). provide the opportunity for public coments. The programatic environmental impact statement will focus on the environmental issues and alternative methods associated with the performance of these clean up activities.
Public meetings will also be held in tne Harrisburg, Middletown area during preparation of the environmental impact sta:ement.
We appreciate your concerns and assure you that every effort is being made to
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ensure the protection of the health and safety of the public, not only at Three Mile Island, but also at all nuclear power plants.
Sincerely, A
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There are a few facts most people around the country now Nuclear radiations know, especially central Pennsylvanians.
and how the nuclear plants function are no longer unknown.
It is no longer a " fear of the unknown" but a " fear of the known".
In the event of another mishap I do not feel the average citizen will be any better prepared to handle it than the last time.
We all now know what a rem is, what a hydrogen gas bubble I believe is, what a meltdown is and how close we came to one.
it was only through God's wisdom and grace for this country and I also believe it's people that saved us from a terrible disaster.
it was like a person who survives a heart attack.
This has been a " warning signal for us to do all that we can to prevent it from happening again".
I would like to ask, why we spend so much money on our armed def enses and on weapons like MX Mobile Missle only to build a that can be highly dangerous and even take lives nuclear plant to human error, malfunction, sabbatoge, RIGHT in our own back due We do not need to accept more plants and radiation emission
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in the use as a utill:7 know of a fa=117 that live about three miles.from T.M.I.
When small children and pregnant women were told to leave, this While the family qualified since they have three small children.
father was at work, the mother prepared to leave.
One of the chi'_dren decided to help mommie.
As the child was carrying the five week old baby, he dropped her.
At first the baby seemed fine.
When the mother reached her destination, she discovered a lump Af ter going to the hospital for X-rays and on the baby's head.
she was told that the baby had a fractured skull and treatnent, she should watch to see how the baby develops in crawling, that walking and talking.
Who can say how many hours or months these How many others pirents are suff ering anguish from this incident?
have suffered unknown incidents?
If we had just ene astronaut "in trouble" in outer space, a shipwreck, a plane crash where we could save just one hu=an life should be), we would bear any expense to save that (and so it persen.
Why is it any less important to save hundreds and maybe tnonsands of lives and spare them the agony of living in anguish and fear?
We have been lead to believe that nuclear power is saf e for energy when it in fact is not.
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r can't see__why.he_.ad w ntam nuclear _e_nargy.
l human rie.ts, tha-if Y.r. Eerman Dieckarp of G.P.U. made the statement that we find opening T.M.I. unacceptable then we have the freedom to I would like to ask ---MOVE WHERE7
=cre, to change something.
If ycu look at a nuclear map of the U.S., you will find at least Also 72 nuclear plants with about 128 more in the planning.
c:her ccantries such as Japan, France, Germany and Holland are t
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already using or planning to use nulcear energy.
I love. where to play hide and seek with nuclear power plants.
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These are some :f ny thoughts and my action to speak out against nuclear energy and to send le;ters to whom I can :c s;and up for cur lives, our state and our country. xCEc/
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