ML19336A373
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| Site: | West Valley Demonstration Project, 05000564, 07001327, 07001821, Barnwell, 07001432 |
| Issue date: | 09/17/1980 |
| From: | Deya R CITIZENS UNITED FOR RESPONSIBLE ENERGY |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| FRN-45FR53933, RULE-RM-50-5-45FR53933 45FR53933-17, NUDOCS 8010220663 | |
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fu In reference to Federal Register notice of August 13, 1980 (p 53933) regarding possible NRC reopening GESMO proceedings, I have the following recommendation: open them.
There has been,in my opinion, one article (and one which has been submitte6) which should have some input in forming policy On recyling of pluton _am.
Both have appeared since I1ECE has finished its review of reprocessing.
The first appeared in the July 1980 issue of Scientific American and is entitled "A ban on the production of fissionable materail".
The second, is as I said earlier has been submitted-and is still in somewhat of a draft form-for publication; but if all goes well would be published sometime early next year.
Despite the draft form, I am enclosing a photocopy of it.
Thank you for your attention.
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I hope that you can understa - though, that I feel like I have been pissed on duly.
To repeat, pl se forgive me if my langua e becomes to offensive as I try anc resent good, st ng, well thought out reasons as to why we shou s
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Now, I realize that a go6dly number of you will say:
"Yes, it is all good and well that we should stop building our bombs-but if we did that the Soviets, the Chinese, the Iranians, the Viet Cong, or the little green men on Mars would take advantage of us.
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First let me say that I know for a fact that this is not what the Soviets,
. Chinese, Iranians, or the little green men on Mars would do.
I know for a fact that they would almost immediately stop building their bombs.
I know for a fact that even if they did not do this it wouldn't make one bit of difference anyway.
This country has enough nuclear warheads to kill everyone on the planet God knows how many times over (or at least to the. point where the surviors will " envy the dead").
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to Rocky Flats, Colorado, or Portsmouth, Ohio, off the T fef> ruojj,5sp.di,..,, w face of the planet.
The Soviets ain' t going to be building any more nuclear warheads then.
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Well suppose you tell me couldn't they do all these things now-and if that is true-how is our building any more bombs going to be able to stop them for one second from being able to kill us?
Yes, they could kill us.
hW-But they could M 1 kill us eveu nfl u e build more bombs.
But you say that such an act would provoke the Soviets, the Chinese or those little green men on Mars.
Us building any more nuclear warheads doesn't provoke the Soviets at all:
The Soviets just love to see us build four times the number of bombs a year they do.
They are overjoyed at the prospect that a bunch of ennemy scientists would calmly sit down and decide at what chances they will pass up the opportunity to burn the world's atmosphere off the face of the planet.
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Nevada and Utah " restricted for official use only".
The Soviets will be just exhilarated when the U.S.
installs its launch on warning system by the end of next year-wont they?
I could also point out that the Soviets, the Chinese, the Iranians, or those little green men on Pars-at least according to your orders-could not be able to launch their nuclear arsenal against us.
I realize that might sound a bit farfetched to some of you-but it's true.
And do you know whu it is true?
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nuclear arsenal of the United States today is satisfactory for dtering the Soviet Union at the present time-this country's present strategic nuclear arsenal is_ satisfactory for detering the Soviet Union at the present time.
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I wouldn't know where to b_eain to list the almost amusings if it were not so dangerous-cvents that besiege the nuclear powers!
Let me try to make a small list, though.
I know that it simply would be impossible to in any way approach listing one ten thousandth of the wreckless occurances that have happened-there simply is so much of it-but let me begin.
We assembio our bonics in a place that has been-leveled by a hai:. storm; they are transported in vehicles
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r problems; their radar has failed to be able to tell the difference between the moon coming over the horizon and a Soviet missile attack; etc; etc;etc; etc.
i Secondly, it would be to our advantage to stop building nuclear warheads is that it energy to build those things.
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'D wMt we imported from Iran efore the That has got to be the biggest waste of energy in this country!
No ifs. No ands. No buts. The biggest waste of energy in this country:
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Fourthly, it creates several of the world's most deadly poisons-which must be contained and isolated from the human enviroment perfectly for hundreds of thousands of years.
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we do with those bombs is a completely unacceptable health hazard to the general public.
Finally, it could never keep the Soviets, the Chinese, the Viet Cong, or those little green men on Mars from being able "rr tney so cTGnN to kill us.
Sure.
Yeah.
I hear a lot of you saying.
But us military experts-we know all this.
We agree with you.
It would be nice to suppose we could have faith in the sanity of those big bad boggy menon the other side of the planet-but we don't.
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And besides, Rockwell International, General Dynamics, Lockheed, (tc. has got a lot of money to make in the business.
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let Rockwell lose any money-that simply isn't the American 1
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What's good for LockFeed is most certainly good for America-isn't it?
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