ML19325C811
| ML19325C811 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 09/19/1989 |
| From: | Bentsen L SENATE |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC |
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| NUDOCS 8910170292 | |
| Download: ML19325C811 (3) | |
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LLOYO SENTSEN COMt4NCL SCE TfuMSPORTAT@N j
J0mit ICON 0tNC JONIT COMMff788 ON TAM,ATON i
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Mr. Carlton C. Kammerer, Director Office.of Congressional Affairs
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The United. States Nuclear Regulatory Commission i
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Dear Mr. Kammerer:
Enclosed.for your review is a copy of a letter I have received i
J from Mr. and Mrs. Kendall McCook of Tolar, Texas.
I would certainly appreciate your sending me any pertinent information that you might-have in this regard.
Thank you for your assistance.
Sincerely,
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Lloyd Bentsen United States Senator Enclosure PLEASE REPLY TO:
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Senator Lloyd Bentson U.S.' Senate p.
Washington, D.C.
Dear Senator Bentson:
We-live four miles from Comanche Peak Nucler.r Power Plant, and
-we have been forced to put our home and land up for sale because of our' fears about continuing unsolved safety problems at the plant, on April 23rd, and on May.Sth, Borg-Warner check valves failed l
in " hat functional testing."
A call to Joe Gilliland, Public Affairs g
Officer of the U.S.
Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the valves are not being replaced but only re-worked.
The next test of their workability' will apparently be after nuclear reactions have been generated.
So many problems have come to our attention in the last year since
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the license hearings were suspended, yet Comanche Peak and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission insist they will hurry to license the plant and begin loading fuel October 2nd.
This newspaper account appeared in a Dallas Times Herald front page article on August 20, 1989.
Many of the details of Comanche Peak's difficulties are carefully presented.
Please read the article y.
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I am also enclosing an August 5th Fort Worth Star Telegram editorial that calls for all safety problems
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to be resolved before the plant is licensed.
We are also including a auary 4th, 1987 star Telearam article that. captures the plant's long history of mismanagement and poor con-
'We believe that.new license hearings must be held before struction.
an-Atomic Safety Licensing Board so that the many dangerous problems can be addressed.
Please have a staff member carefully examine the enclosed materia.'
We love our home and do not want to be forced to leave.
We desperate 1:
.need help.
We include copies of petitions we circulated to convert Comanche Peak to natural gas, an abundant (in Texas) and safe fuel without the waste problems of nuclear fuel.
The licensing process should not continue until after a thorough investigation into the many problems at Comanche Peak.
Only this past week the accompanying allegations were reported to me by a man named
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Clifford. Jackson (see. document #7).
I called Phillip McKee on Friday, 25 August, 1989,-and I asked if the questions (as shown in document #7) would be resolved before a license was issued.
He could not guarantee that these problems would be resolved.
Mr. McKee is the Deputy Director of_ Comanche Peak Project Division, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulations (phone 301-492-7000).
~At the request of Betty Brink, we are sending the entire July 10th Nuclear Regulator Commission report.
The conclusions about Comanche t-Peak's attitude toward safety is stated on p.52 of that report.
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management."
These documents are many.
We trust you'il be able to review them carefully and assist us vith these concerns.
Thank You,-
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