ML19350B399

Requests Permission to Make Limited Appearance Statement at 810305 Restart Hearing in Harrisburg,Pa.If Permission Denied,Requests That Ltr Be Accepted as Opposition Statement

ML19350B399
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	02/28/1981
From:	Ferra A AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8103200441
Download: ML19350B399 (2)

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Re Unit I Restart 4 to O'

Three Mile Island Cear Mr. Smiths It is my understanding that a soecial meeting of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Scard will take place March 5, 1981 at 7:00 PM at the W1111a= Penn Museu=, Harrisburg. I would aopreciate bein: c_rdisader,ed s a,s_.a ma'mJ_.nJup_por1_ __ s of the riiiMnit I as a private citizen presenting

=y own personal views only.

If selected as a speaker, =y ec==ents would be gen-erally along the following lines. If I am not selected to speak or cannot be present due to reasons beyond =y centrol, please accept this letter as =y posicion concerning the re-start of Unit I. '

I have lived in the Harrisburg area all =y life with the exception of serving in the Air Force during World War II and the Korean conflict. For the past six (6) years I have worked in lower Swatara Township at a distance of approxi=ately three (3) miles frc= Three Mile Island. During the incident I did not =iss a day of work nor did =y wife and I evacuate the area, it appeared to me and =y wife that the news =edia was not reporting factual infor=ation. We paid particular at-tention to cc==ents of representatives of Med-Ed Co. and Gov-l ernor Thornburg and acted accordingly.

l l Unit I was shut down at the ti=e of the incident for re-l fueling, it previously was operating properly providing clean l low cost energy. .

l At the present time A= erica is experiencing higher energy costs than ever in our history. The de-regulatien of oil and the recent increases by CPEC have driven prices higher and we understand the end is not in sight. The price of heating oil has increased 300 per cent in four years per 2/27/81 Patrict News article.

I find it =ost difficult to understand how the elderly widows on fixed incc=es, who are forced to choose between feed, heat er lights can be forgotten. These individuals cannot afford to join groups or travel to the =any =eetings u they a=e the Peal --

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i victims of stress. Their stress is increasing from the monthly bills for heat and electric service versus food, housing, =ed-ical care and prescription costs. I have first hand knowledge of such an individual, not drawing Social Security or Welfare and not affluent, how many thousands must there be? These are' the unrepresented that should be remembered when considering stress and economical production of electrical energy.

The cost of electric service to industry in Pennsylvania should also be considered. If we are to encourage industry to not relocate to warmer climates Unit I should be restored to service. Certain industries served by Med Ed Co. have exper-1enced increases of hundreds and even thousands of dollars per month versus monthly charges prior to the incident at TMI. When industry moves from Pennsylvania, jobs are lost, other businesses suffer and revenues important to state and local governments are lost.

America cannot continue to be held back from progress, the great American genius that placed man on the moon, invented the telephone, cured polio and many other great achievements will de-velop a method to dispose of nuclear waste in a reasonable time.

We cannot continue to hold back progress while our friends and enemies develop breeder reactors and move ahead in technology.

Shortly after the incident at TMI the airline industry suf-fered one of the worst aircraft accidents in American airline ,

history, the DC-10 accident in California. In the case of the DC-10 accident, taking over 200 lives there were no demonstrations, no demands to discontinue airline trqvel, not even to permanently ground the DC-10. It is not my intention to infer this should have been done rather, I agree and support the action- taken after the DC-10 accident. Continued pro,gress in the Airlina industry is im-portant to America.

The point I am trying to make is we'should expect to accept a certain amount of risk when making technological progress. There were no lives lost during the TMI incident. Progress in producing energy without dependence on foreign oil is extremely important to the future of America.

Therefore, I support the prompt restart of Unit I at Three Mile Island.

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