ML19339D046
| ML19339D046 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/05/1981 |
| From: | Perkins J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8102170147 | |
| Download: ML19339D046 (1) | |
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Teaterday in the Harrisburg Patriot y ay i p t&gj ew York Times I rea of the rather outlandish proposal of Jktfuntlhtte that Unit 1 of Three Mile Island be allowed to operate at 5% power % fore completion of the hearings on restart are completed. Motivation aside, for the moment, this proposal reeks of business-not-only-as-usual, but-worse-than-ever-before. This transparent ploy to get Unit I restarted so that the Pennsylvania PUC will or may lift its restriction on Met Ed's accesh to its rstepayerd pockets for cash is right in line with the worst of the Staff's past tricks. It ranks up there with neglecting to tell the original Intervenor at T'.II-2 that the license had been g inted. It ranks with neglecting to tell would-be Intervenor Jane Lee that she would not be permitted to intervene in the restart. It ranks with negiscting to complete the appeal on the license of TMI-2 even now, three years later. All the public relations effort of the industry and the profeased efforts of the NRC to properly oversee nuclear power pale in the light of this irresponsible suggestion of your Staff's counsel.
As to motive, Mr. Arnold of Metropolitan Edison was quoted as saying he felt that TMI-l could be put back into service by October. Well, Mr. Arnold and Mr. Tourtelotte should have talked things over first to get their stories straight. The PJM grid, of which all the GPU companies are members, pecks in the summer. Of all the companies in the grid, there is only one that peaks in the winter, Pennsylvania Power and Light, and that com:any has far and away the greatest excess capacity of ady member of the grid. Thus the proposal for an expedited start-up by October is three =onths too late to be of any help to the members and customers of the PJM grid. It will not be before summer of 1982, at the earliest,that TMI-l could possible help out with the grid's peaking difficulties.
And by that ti=e the NRC and its Staff could have properly completed their hearings, maintained the image of due process at t.%
least, and ruled one way or another on Ih6 fate of TMI-1.
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i Mr. Ahearne, it should be beneath the digreA;r of the Nuclear. Regulatory Co=sission to adopt the industry's red herring of "31ackouts,.. blackouts, beooo!!!"
without at least checking up on the facts. Some may say it is be. neath the dignity and, in fact, not even the role of the NRC to adopt the industry's red herring at all. And that =ay be.
s In either case, I urge you to dismiss This~ frivolous and false sug'gestion of Mr. Tourtelotte. It is not the NRC's ole to help prop up Met Ed., and may I suggest that any evidence that the NRC--ia-trying to do so will not sit very well with the Court as it tries to. decide whether the NRC haerJconsidered properly the stress of the proposed restart _on the residents of the Middletown and Newberry Township areas.
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