ML20003C840

Ltr Authored by Take Action,Urging Shareholders to Support Restart of TMI-1.Nuclear Power Is Safe,Inexpensive & Needed

ML20003C840
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	03/04/1981
From:	Boris W AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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NUDOCS 8103180558
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gg@ Either we can be elegant like John Donne: "Ask not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee," or we can be inelegant like Lyndon Johnson: " Don't spit in the soup. We all have to eat from the same bowl." The point is our sister utility at Three Mile Island is in trouble and needs all the support we can give. It is a fact that Three Mile Island Unit 1, now closed by the Nuclear Regula-tory Commission, was not involved or damaged in the accident at TMI Unit 2 in March 1979. Moreover, a poll taken last spring in cities near TMI indicated that 58 percent of the residents favored restarting the undamaged reactor. Unfortunately, the US government has decided to stop the ' operation of TMI-1, the undamaged unit, during modification. Yet similar nuclear plants elsewhere are operating while being modified! For this raason, we believe the government decision to keep TMI closed is discriminatory and irrational. i Since the incident, the US electric power industry has responded quickly and l forcefully to correct inadequacies indicated by the accident. Those correc-  ; l tions have been and are now being made at he undamaged unit. As a result, j this unit, like plants elsewhere, is even safer than it was before it closed  ; i for routine inspection and refueling way back in 1979. l The government's decision to keep the undamaged unit closed, then, is not only discriminatory and irrational but unjustified as well. 1 l And it's costing both Metropolitan Edison and its customers nearly $500,000 a l l day! That is, $500,000 daily to purchase more expensive coal and oil instead of uranium for use as fuel. h I The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has begun hearings to decide whether TMI-1 should be restarted. A tremendous show of support for TMI-1 in [f I I 81081805% g

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2 particular and nuclear energy in general would enable our elected officials and the NRC to view TMI-1 in realistic perspective. They need to be told that . o nuclear power is safe, inexpensive and needed; o TMI-l is different from TMI-2; o TMI-1 has been modified; . 1 o the NRC has waited too long to decide the fate of TMI-1; o TMI-1 needs to be restarted without further delay. If you agree and want to-TAKE ACTION, contact the NRC and members of Congress, referrina_ to Docket 50-289SP, TMI-Unit 1, Middletown, PA. And, send a copy of your letter to Friends and Family of TMI, a group that supports TMI and all forms of energy. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

                        ~ James F. Ahearne Chairman US Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, NW Washington, DC.20555 Friends and Family of TMI Ms. Lori Dubiel

. President Friends and Family of TMI

                        ^PO Box 82 Highspire, PA 17034 Sincerely, W. R. Boris

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