ML19323B997
| ML19323B997 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/08/1979 |
| From: | Crumley J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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pp;). & UTit, FAC. <& - M P.O.Hox 189 Su==erdale, PA 17C93 9
August 8, 1979 U.S..!!uclear Regylatory Co==ission
'4ashington, D.C.. 20555 Gentlemens As an interested and personally concerned citizen, I have been an evid reader of all the infor=ational articles in newspapers and
=agazines that I have been able to acquire, as welll as a number of bookson nuclear power generation. 'dhen the Ke=eny C~o= mission on the Accident at Three Mile Island opened its public hearings at Middletown,Pa. I attendedthem. Later I listened to these portions in 'dashington, D.C.. that were carried by our local public radio, and have since read =)st of the transcripts of the testimony of the numerous involved persons, as well as I;RC records available at the state Library. I have indeed been very busy this su=mer, and it is all too true that the more you know, the less you like!
There are several points that I would like to uke in regard to determinations of damages caused by the March 28 1979 accident, one of which is that it is not really over, and will not be for some unknown period of time, when the Unit Tdo reactor is fina 11y cleaned up, and hopefull, decc=missioned, no easy feat from =y stud-ies. Meanwhile residents of the neighboring communities are coping l
i as best they can with their worries and frustrations over losse of i
l value intheir real estate, anxiety over the possibility of Met-Ed's i
possitfly being able, bysome =eans,to re-open Unit 013, worries about i
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their cwn and their children's health for now and in the future, with no possible way to knew just how =uch of a radiatien dose an' given person =ight have eceived.. To say that the 3RC. was poorly prepared for a nuclear plant accident is putting it =ildly.
It see=s to =e that the fact that so =any of the radiation-cor. Atoring devices at TMI went off-sea le, were saturated, pinned the meters, or whatever the term used should have L=:ediately been the cause for aprecaution-ary evacuation of the Ls=ediate area. From the testi=eny of several federal officials this would indeed have been worthwhile. The levels of radiati:a doses required for deter =ining the occurrence of a so-called S30 are woefully outdated and inadequate for determining health effects since there is no safe level of radiation, and there is no doubt a cu=ulative effect frem thercutine emissiens of the two plants atTMI.. With theNRC acting as judge and jury, and be-ing to a debatable degree responsible for the occurrence on March 28 because of policies governing safety equipment, procedurey, andthe installation and use of radiation monitoring devices, it's hard for us citizens to accept the apparently foregene conclusion that there was no " Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence" at ihree Mile Island.
l As a property-owner en nearby Beech Island, a very pleasnt su=mer
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cottage built new after the '72 Agnes flood with every opportunity-r<
for exposure, all unknowingly, from the start-up testing, routine s
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emissions, and water pollution by TMI ' I can assure' there has been at least $5000 da ago (in value) to our and =any other cottages, not to =ention the loss o,f peaceful enjoy =ent cf river activities.
Theat has indeed beengrave da= age done to Gentral PA. citizens, in personal health and well-being, in centinuing risk to life and prop-r' l
erty, and inless of faith in our govern =ent agencies, like -the NRC.
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