ML19330A267

Forwards Nd Brown Opposing Facility Const for Review & Comment.Discusses Lack of Water Supply,Radwaste Disposal & Other Governmental Schemes for State of Mi

ML19330A267
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Site:	Midland
Issue date:	09/08/1976
From:	Griffin R SENATE
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Resp:cifully referred to Congressional Liaison Nuclear Regr.latory Com.

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cxplosion at a nuclear fuel reprocessing. infancy, the industry has a good safety radiation, some experts fearularger f;cility In Richland Wash., Js likely to <rrecord, with few cases of exposure and. doses could cause birth defects and can-b:rJ up the debate over the safety of no fatalities in commerical operations, cer..'-

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. ths U.S. nuclear powerindustry..- a;le-pders7 per cent of. the nation's, efec. ' leases of radiation at any step during Eight workers at the Hanford Nuc

~ tion efter the explosion Ibtonda~y Inside%tricity. It.ls expected to grow to 28 per.the long fuel-han Er Reservation were' exposed to'radl i cent of the produced electricity by 1985.

c After uranium. is., mined from-the co "glovebox." a small, sealed com.. 'The U.S. Nuclear. Regulatory Com. earth, it is packdd in fuel rods, usually as a mixture with ceramic. materials partment through which, workers.,usey mission and.. environmental groups rubber gloves to handle radioactive ena? rdiffer over.thd potential hazards from, covered with ' steel..They ace trans-i M.-

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/ terials. T decontaminated' '* Critics and ' supporters. generally plants..They travel the highways again

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remtve radioactivity an official said. nuclear explosion, which requires the The Hanford facility. operated by At.

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thaissue is notwhether the wastes go here or [ lated regions such as Michigan an ts Ohio, NewYork or anywhere else. It's no ~ near, cities that, besides their own resident ry it?

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storage of radioact2ve materials in salt beds.. ronn' ental. impact statement on any pro-es is proposeti for Michigan, or;under grea.

posed Michigan site could be the catalyst for-

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