ML19330A999
| ML19330A999 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 05/21/1980 |
| From: | Marshall E YORK, PA |
| To: | Elsasser T NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I) |
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Dear Mr. Elsasser:
I am attaching a copy of a ccmmunicanion received from Arthur Q. Boll, Sr., Mt. 1f011 which is self-explanatory.
I.would appreciate a brief note from you as to the truth of this article.
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MONDAY, MARC' H 24,1980 s
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- The staff of the Nuclear Regulatory Comm.
" Philadelphia Electric Co.. has purchased
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!ssion recommends that the krypton gas trap-cryogenic equipment - which liquifies gases
- ped in the damaged reactor at Three Mile through use of extremely low temperatures, l Island nuclear generating plant be released in-facilitating their containment and safe removal
'to the atmosphere as soon as possible. At hear- - for its Limerick reactors under construction
- Ings the commission held last week, the public in Montgomery County. After the accident (last
- gave its answer loud and clear. It was an angry, March 28 at Three Mile Island), the company
- impassioned "No.
offered to make that equipment available to
- The commission says the radioactive gas Metropolitan Edison officials, according to PE
- must be vented in small doses over a period of spokesmen."'
- time to prevent the far more terrible risk of un.-
- controlled massive leaks of the krypton later Almost a year later, the offer hasn't 'been
.on. The leaks, the commission says, would m, - accepted. Why?
- volve the leaks of highly radioactive water also Adapting the cryogenic equipment to the
- trapped in the reactor.
enormous clean-up operation at Three Mile
. Deppite the commission %assurdnces that Island would take time and money, but technic-the levels of krypton to be vented are within ally it is possible, experts say. Let it be done.,
federal safety limits, there are scientists who If Met-Ed can't pay.to do so, then let the assert that any and all exposure to radiation federal government ber 'he cost. That's not in poses potential harm to present and future the true capitalistic spirit, but certainly it is far generations. This is the fear, that grips more preferable than intentionally releasing residents of this region. Nothing the commiss-harmful radioactive gas at who knows what
~lon can say will allay that fear.
pricein human suffering.
The krypton gas can be removed safely.
Put the technology to work so the people of
.There is technology to do so and it is available. the Three Mile Island regjon don't have to go
.The Philadelphia Inquirer reports editorially:
through another spring of discontent and fear.
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