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| Issue date: | 09/21/1979 |
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3 yt Department of Energy Washington, D.C. 20585 SEP 211979 derpANDUM FOR: Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission l
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Correspondence Referral The attached correspondence has been misdirec*ad to this Department for reply.
Inasmuch as it appears to fall within the purview of your agency, we are referring this corm:unication herewith for your reply. We have inferred the writer of this action.
Thank you for your attention.
Mrs. Carol Whitney 34 Lewis Street Binghamton, N.Y.
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Mary Martha Seal Referral Date:
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THE WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON AUG 2 21979 MEMORANDUM:
The attached letter (s) addressed to the President is referred to your office for suitable acknowledgment or other appropriate handling at the earliest opportunity.
Should you receive mail that has been misdirected, please forward to the appropriate agency.
I would also appreciate knowing when you are forwarding such mail.
My phone number is 456-2717.
Thank you.
ry Martha Seal Director Correspondence Agency Liaison
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3-Scientist: Shut 3-Mile Island
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t By LOIS /ECTEAU television audiences during the crisis.
tla) cancers are just unbellerable. I say,let the utility officials l
gom tobesosafe,, drink the water if it's De Bree Mile Island nuclear power "They are humbled by Three Mile Island he said.
plant should be " shut down forever and and I was surp,rised at just how damaged they admitted tDe core to be " Kaku said.
halu suggests th" concrete should be as a
,M About 90 percent of the reactor core was mixed with the wate. tad the slabs stored g"" hYej s
the first anti-nuclear se'ientist al.
damaged and about 75 percem of it was un-en site. He said the utility is hesitant to con-d Kaku' by Metropolitan Edison Co. to tour covered during the accident, Kaku said he sidersuchaplan becauseof thecost.
lowed the "' pied Middletown, Pa", plant'said was told. (De core is where fissionable
'The key thmg I want to get across is fuel reacts to produce heat that turns water that reactors are built for profit. Bilhons ester afnnounced this week to vent what into steam to power electrical generators.)
have been sunk into this industry and they Plans util.ity officials called safe levels of radio-want to geh monepahaueador actJve air into the atmosphere this fall are was rushed into commission to qualify for a ludicruous, Kaku, a nuclear physicist at
$40 million tax break and they want to get it
, the City College of New York, r, aid in an The key thing I want to get across back the li Andi "Kak sai[if it kill' might interview.
Is that reactors are built for profit.
Peop5e should pro' test loud!y and' vigor-ve htile f
es. There b n
... That reactor was rushed into ously against utilities' {u said.,Com-roposals and peofation in a situation like this. It's like commission to qualify for a $40 s
agamst nuclear power, Ka rad saying someone is a little pregnant," he million tax break and they want to sa$.he tpowerl ss,n Gla h
e 33),d-get it back on the line, even if it Utility companies are misleading the at
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kills us. Andit might... '
public "when they say that without nuclear that y
to ven th gases,inel g Krypton 85, with no filtra-ts 'P Ka u d l
tion. Now. Krypton 85 has a biological life Michio Koku
" Nuclear power lants are such lemons nucleorphysicist that they are shut down regularly anyway e
ti t acts e I s a ery vy an
't suffer ary of these gas which hugs the earth and there will be e
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a very real danger of it getting into As an example, Kaku cited the Indian n
People slungs.
"Those are the official figures now. What Point plant operated by Con Edison outside
.t People in Binghamton aho could be af.
fected by these releases, Kaku said, partic-is incredible is that the uncovering hap-New York City. "This summer that plant i
pened just two and one half hours into the was shut down twice in 10 days and New f
ularlyif the wmds are blowing north.
accident and the transcripts show that Met-York City had enough excess capacity elec-
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During the March 28 accident, the Ed officials waited three hours before re-tricity to operate without any disaster. The
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winds were blowing north, not southeaster-porting theaccident."Kaku said, nucle'ar industry is like a wounded tiger ly as is usual. I hue seen the meteorology The damage is even more extensive than and I say we should put it out of its k
charts. The same thing could happen this Kaku said he ima z
fall.Youareonly120m esaway.
close to a mc!tdown.gined. "It came very misery."
They were verylucky.
Also, many viable alternative forms of Kaku, who was in Binghamton yesterday We were verylucky,"he said.
enargy to nuclear power exist, Kaku nid.
for a lecture and slide show sponsored by Kaku,32, who taught at Princeton and "We have en~'gh oil and coal to last 20 the Susquehanna Safe Energy Alliance, Harvard before movmg to City College of years," he explained. "They should be toured the plant facility a week and a half New York six years ago, also was critical stressed during a transition period while /
ago. During his tour, he said. he was ac-of utility plans to attempt to purify 226,000 we develop alternative sources' ga' ons of contaminated water and dis-solar, wind and geothermal. The more I companied by Robeit Long, a General Pub.
J lic Utilities physicist and Jack Herbine, the charge them into the Susquehanna River.
know about nuclear power plants, the more Met Ed vice president who as a utility
" People depend on that river for their I think they should be shut down. The dan-spokesman became,a familiar figure to drinking supplies. The prospects for poten. gets - ]ust too great."
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