ML19350C393

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Requests Opening of Facility to Prevent Dependence on Foreign Oil
ML19350C393
Person / Time
Site: Three Mile Island Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 01/27/1981
From: Lankes J
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To: Warner J
SENATE
References
NUDOCS 8104010384
Download: ML19350C393 (1)


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h D y,-  % J/J: ^ 7 1981 Dea- Senator Warner: .s I have your flyer which tells =e h13 !N . ow a =e=ber cf the Inergy and Natural P3 sources Committee. This opens the way as an excuse for me to bother .you on the following.

On Decenber 15, I asked the Department of Inergy what they we re doing about getting TMI One back on line, which has been idle ever since the TMI Two accident. They did not bother to answer, but sent the letter to NRC. NRC's Clare Kills advises me ( December 19) that the D of E has no jurisdiction over the licensing of nuclear unita - which is hardly any news to me, knowing as I do of the dictatorial status of the NRC. I am told further that "the Commission deter =ined by orders (their own orders, no doubt)" a year and a half ago that a public hearing would be held before a decision would be made to allow the restart of TMI One. And I suppose another year and a half must pass before action is taken on the hearing.. . ..

3ut to get to the point. Will YOU ask D of E what they are doing about TMI One back on line? 3y my figures, that unit can displace a quarter of a billion dollars of foreign oil-per year. Worth a little trouble to get behind NRC and shove, l I would think. If D of I takes two pages to explain why they l are doing nothing, give them hell. The least they can do is L

to build a constituency - an activity at which bureaucrats are adept, I believe - to support nuclear energy.

Ierewith is a Ieror of the New England Ilectric System quart-erly report. Note the part about " negotiating *' for a coal plant for 4 years.(3rayton ?oint at Somerset, just north of Fall River. ) I wonder if administrative Washington takes the energy crisis seriously. Maybe they view it as an oppor-tunity - like some National Guard non-coms saw WII as a chance to become staff Colonels.

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