ML19326B029
| ML19326B029 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Davis Besse  |
| Issue date: | 08/26/1970 |
| From: | Metzenbaum H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| 780826, NUDOCS 8003060807 | |
| Download: ML19326B029 (3) | |
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Dear Dr. Seaborg:
I am alarmed at published reports that two utilities may be given Atomic Energy Commission permission to lay concrete at the proposed Davis-Besse anclear power plant even before public hearings on the project have been scheduled.
A nuclear plant cannot be built legally without AEC permission and a hearing. Excavation at the Besse-Davis site is already underway, and to allow foundation work would be tantamount in the public mind to giving a go-ahead to the full $270 million project.
The AEC argument that there is a difference between foundation work and actual construction is highly invalid. It just does not make sense.
Foundation work cannot be isolated from work on the rest of a proposed structure. Once foundations are completed, the plant will be well dovm the road toward completion.
If subsequent testimony at public hearings prompts AEC to withold a construction permit, the immediate losers will be every customer of CEI and Toledo Edison, the citizens whose bills pay for capital expenditures. An enormous calculated waste of money will have occured, because two utilities--aided by the AEC--
rushed into construction.
There is no such urgency that necessitates us moving before public hearings.
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