ML19337A609
| ML19337A609 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 09/12/1980 |
| From: | Arehart T AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Laroche G Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8009290331 | |
| Download: ML19337A609 (3) | |
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Mr. Germain LaRoche De, P-234 United States Nuclear Regula*ory Commission ashington, D.C.
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Mr. LaRoche, In regards to our telephone conservation of September 9, 1980 I have acquired the address of +he person 'o whom our 15 page proposal was theoretically set.
The address is as follows:
Mr. Joseph Hendries N.R.C.
1717 H. S t. ; N:W.
Washington, D.C.
20555 As I have not recieved word to the contrary, I assume the above address is not only operative but also correct.
I deeply ragret thet your interest in our project comes too late but I cannot be held responsible for a possible lack of communications $nside your commission.
I will try and send you a copy of the proposal within the next few days.
Your address and your concern have been sent to the head supervisor of the study in regards to the mu' ant plants.
As I am not involved in 'he actual on-going program by my request, i' will rest solely upon this supervisors' decision as to whether or not you will be allowed to see the plots for yourself. You will be contacted when a decision has been reached.
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- er 'o Goverror Thornburgh I have sta'ed that +hese plants when proven to be mutants as a direct vic*1m of T.M.I. will be 'he ftst solid proof e f what most 'ovnspeople have suspected for a long 'ime.
I also furtur etated *hnt an indirect factor of *his s'udy will be to prove hat ins *ruments may be able to detect radiation but not genetic damage.
I do not approve of the entire situation.
Respectfully submitting,
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Section 1, Page 16-THE PRESS ANDJOURNALWednesday, August 6,1980 F
7 NaturalistTo Address Question Of TMI's
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Environmentallmpact ByMartha AnaCostik Has the Three Mile Island nuclear accident effected the wildlife and flora within the power plant's im-mediate area? The answer to that question may literal-ly be years in the answering.
A number of studies, some preliminary, some con-clusive'have been undertaken in the vicinity of TMI.
Officials contend that it is a fact that some plants have been subjected to greater than normal amounts of radiation and will show physical changes. The exact level of radiation needed to produce these results is not, at this time, known.
Immediately following the TMI mishap, public con-cern for the environment was evident. Today, more than one' year later, the concern has not dwindled.
Plant structure changes and disorders have been men-r tioned at various levels, though studies have claimed no impact was withstood by the environment because of the nuclear accident..
Thomas Archart, a Londonderry Twp. resident cur-rently serving as president of the Euell Gibbons En-vironmental Foundation, has a keen interest in TMI-locality plants. A practiced outdoorsman and naturalist, Archart " suspects there is much controver-s'y in regard to effects the TMI accident has had on plants."
For this reason he is volunteering his time and iden-tification skills to. locals who may have noticed a change in native plants and foliage.
Archart developed a brief checklist that may suggest a change in a plant species: plants and/or their flowers are a different color than usual; five or more plants are different; the plants are never deformed.
If you feel a change may have occurred in a species you are familiar with, you may wnte Archart at Box 215, Middletown, Pa.17057.,
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{6imestouc THE WEED A ND ME Tom ArehartGives L.S.G.
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,, _ m Big Mac? Fries? A large coke to go? This Mr. Archart is only 25 and yet in this short may sound like an enjoyable meal to yout but time, he had found and catalogued over three to Tom Archart, who recently visited with thousand different edible plants. Of these, he some members of the Lower Dauphin has actually eaten over two thousand and Longitudinal Studies Group and Archeology invented innumerable recipes. lie is in the class, a normal meal could consist of anything process of writing a book entitled, " Tile from wild buckwheat bread to tea made from COMPLETE FORANGER," expected to be simple catnip plants. Mr. Archart, an expert
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published this spring. Also in the spring, Mr.
in medicinal and edible plants, spent several Archart will be starting a class of foragmg.
class periods analyzing and explaining the 1
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3 many plants, ranging from wild carrots and of foraging and the study of plists.
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onions to wild mustard and spearmint. Mr.
naming and analyzing of trees. The history of Archart explained that most of the weeds plants and trees is also an aspect of his vast around the Mumma site were originally
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studied science and agri:ulture at Pennsyl-g vania State University, and for a brief time 6J and plant nomenclature. lie explained that t
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of edible plants in the wilderness.
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