ML19351A226

Forwards M Glasgow Limited Appearance Statement for 810622 Licensing Hearing

ML19351A226
Person / Time
Site:	South Texas
Issue date:	06/17/1981
From:	Snyder D AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
To:	Bechhoefer C Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
References
NUDOCS 8106260321
Download: ML19351A226 (3)

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Dear Mr. Bechhoefer:

(o I would appreciate your preregistering Mr. Mike Glasgow to present

. . a statement at the 9:30 a.m. session of the June 22, 1981 hearing in San Antonio, Texas on the South Texas Project's application for an Operating License. Mr. Glasgow is the recently elected Vice-Chairman of the San Antonio Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

A copy of the statement is enclosed. Your consideration of this >

statement and my request for the opportunity for Mr. Glasgow to address ghe Atomic Safety and Licensing Board w'ould be appreciated. ,

Sincerely,

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Don R. Snyder Fellowship Chaiman San Antonio Section, ASME DRS:bir , e,en cc: Mr. Mike Glasgow ec I n. d Officers and Committee Chaimen ._ $

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,. l STATEMENT FOR ASLB HEARING, June 22, 1981 Di sti nguis hed j udges . . . . . . . . . . . . . - . . . . . . . . . . .

I am Mike Glasgow, representing a majority of the Officers and Committee Chairmen of the San Antonio Section of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. I'm here this morning to urge the expeditious licensing of the South Texas Project nuclear power plant.

As professional engineers who are aware of our nation's energy situation, we conclude that nuclear energy must play an important role if our nation is to break the stranglehold of. inported oil and regain energy independence.

In the early 1970's, our city was faced with critical shortages of natural gas because the supplier could not make good on his contract. Meanwhfie, the scarcity of gas became more acute, and the price shot upward. In response to this situacion, City Public Service embarked on a massive generation fuels i diversification program away from complete dependence on natural gas and

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toward less-expensive, more-abundant domestic energy sources. They completed a coal-fired power plant in 1978, which has provided approximately 60.per cent of our comunity's electrical energy at a fuel cost far below natural gas and I fuel oil.

Coal has come a long way toward improving San Antonio's energy picture, but it's only part of the solution. City Public Service chose to participate in the South Texas Project because nuclear energy is a safe, economical, and reliable source of energy for the future. We support CPS' decision for precisely the same reasons.

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i In April,1981 the Regional. Administrative Conference of ASME. Region X representing sec51ons and subsections throughout Oklahoma Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Mexico City was held. A majority of the delegates to that meeting voted for the proposal "that ASE should be an active, enlightened voice in support of nuclear power as a safe and indispensible element of future United States energy supplies".

ASME has developed codes, many of which have been applied towards the safe construction of numerous power plants over the years. Wi;en these codes, and the codes of other responsible professional organizations are followed, the result is a safe plant, whether it is fossil, hydro, solar, or nuclear.

We have confidence that the South Texas Project or any other nuclear power facility, if designed and constructed in accordance with appropriate codes and standards, can be operated in a rilanner consistent with public health and safety. As long as-compliance with applicable codes and standards can be demonstrated, it is time to cut through the red tape and get ths: plant operating for the benefit of the citizens of San Antonio.

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