ML20003B277
| ML20003B277 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/29/1981 |
| From: | AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8102100585 | |
| Download: ML20003B277 (1) | |
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January 29, 1981 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Refer: Docket 50-289sp TMI-Unit i 1717 H.
Street N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20555 Middletown, PA Attn:
James F. Ahearna, Chairman Dear.__
Ahearne:
I understand that the U.S. Nuclear Reculatory Commission has begun hearings to decide whether Three Mile Island-1 should be restarted.
I can not understand why a power source as beneficial to the future of our country as nucler.r energy promises to be, is constantly squelched by excessive government reculations.
These excessive regulations seem to be broucht about by a loud voiced and visibility I
seeking' minority of lobbyists and environmentalists, who constan':1y fight progress of any kind by exaggerating the risks involved.
i Consider the following statistics of agents in our everyday li,ying l
which pose more of a threat on a constant basis than nuclear The source of these statistics is the National Council on i
power.
Radiation Protection & Measurements (NCRPl Reports #45 8, and Interagency Task Force en the Health Effects of Ionizing Radiation, June, 1979.
Average Millirem
- Some sources of Radiation Exposure per year Natural, In human body 30.
Brick walls, masonry, indoor 3.5 Color TV 0.5 Smoke detector 002.05 l
Nuclear Power
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- Millirem = 1/1,000 of a rem, a standard of measurement of l
Radiation By comparison, :auclear plants release very little radiation.
Even during the accident at Three Mile Island-which nuclear opponents have called the worst nuclear " disaster" in history-the averaga person living nithin a fifty-mile radius of the plant was exposed to only 1.5 units of radiation-less-than a person receives from living for one year in a house made of brick.
A person receives twice as much radiation in one round-trip flicht from New York to San Francisco then if he lived next door to a nuclear power plant for one year.
The use of diagnostic X-Rays is another-common source.
Yet you do not hear lobbyists or envi,r p en sts try to ban X-Rays, air travel, or living in brick houses.fr..;-
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