ML20003E164
| ML20003E164 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 02/28/1981 |
| From: | Fischer T AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Smith I Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
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| NUDOCS 8104020408 | |
| Download: ML20003E164 (3) | |
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.D Chairman Ivan S=ith Ata=1; $afety and Licensing Board TMI-1 ( Docket 50-289)
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 Chair =an Smith, I understand there is to be a hearing of public Opinion regarding startup of TMI-1, Thursday March 5 Please do not allow TMI-1 to be restarted until T'!I-2 has been cleansed and recertified by NRC specialists.
The " York Dispatch" today reported the finding of rodent dro c!.ings that are radioactive.
The droppings were found in a building next to Unit 2.
Amusing, yes, however, I think these are the wr:ng kind o f pellets to be using for generation of electricity.
Maybe y:u could provide some guidance when you visit Thursday.
All kidding aside I won't go into the serious ramifications of the rodent droppings since a person of your position rould be familiar rich consequences should harmful radioactive particles be introduced int: Our environment.
In addition to my opinion about not starting TMI-1 I woul:1 also li'te to provide y u with a few thoughta of mine and other.t concerning the entter at hand:
Residents of the 1 =ediate area of TMI were led to believe there wouldn't, couldn' t be any sort o f nuclear incident due to safety syste=s at the plant, hence the misstrust of local residents, fearing the startup of TMI-1 will cask the scings-on at TMI-2.
Met-Id consu=ers' electricity bills are unduly in-creasing because Met-Ed =ust buy replacement power.
Met-Id/GPU are constantly petitioning the PUC for increases.
It appears the corporate laws do not have th9 :onsu=ers welfare under consideration when Met-Ed is allowed to pass-on the cost of replacement p0:er fres GPU to consu=ers.
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Public Utilities are, for the =ost part, one of the best investments a person can put money in 0.
In Met-Id's situation, however, investors =ay have to take a loss. There are tro other utility c =panies that serve the i==ediate area which provide less expensive electricity new and prior to the insident at TMI-2.
Thy the higher rates? Couldn' t Met-Id be absorbed by the other c:=panies?
Sure, the laws rouldn't allow that; the investors eculd take a beating, but isn't there some risk involved in any investment? Neighbors are referring to the situation as the GPU syndrc=e, acquired frc: big 011 and auto indust rie s; Scene: Oinner at my h:use-
"Please pass the bread Joe" Joe says "OK" and hands bread to
!bther who tells ce "I'll pass you the bread, but you'll have to give me 70ur ha burger if you want it."
Scunds like s =ething for Saturdny Hight Live; =aybe salaries and wages at Met-Id sh:uld be scrutinized; I recently read of a Chrysler auto worker who was laid-of f, was =aking 57 8.C0 ;er hour plus benefits, and now the Federal govern =ent is helping support him and the company; no wonder cars cost 30 such; try and keep us frc= that situati n.
I also read of a =eeting at-3ewberryt:en (local rill) where those at the meeting were cautioned about laws en civil unrest.. Right now we have a cale a:=0 sphere:
petitioning, picketing, bill =cney in escrow, trying to ' handle the situaticn in a legal and civil canner.
Unrarrented fears concerning ato=1: porer could surface thus creating an even verse situation. Please consider the fears of local residents before deciding to start IMI'-1 at this ti=e, the vaund' has no healed so to speak, and =ay not until TMI-2 has been cleaned up.
Maybe if electric bills were lowered when TMI-1 starts this culd ease the situation.
All the public sees is Met-Id/GPU asking the PUC for X amount of dollars, the FUC lawyers say that Met-Ed doesn't need that =uch, so it appears GPU is simply playing a legal price gouging gn=e, but who suffers?
Is there a =anagemen: pr:ble a: Me -Ed/GPU? Perhaps that-area cocid be investigated. 30: do these other two utilities provide less expensive power? Could Met-Id be overcharging? Te pay taxes on the power we use, yet Met-Ed gets tax breaks, vry isn't that given back to consu=ers?
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If there vras improper = nagemen*,.hy should consu=ers have to pay for that I can't provide you with any answers
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Please make your decision our decision.
Thanks for reading.
RadioactiveRats.
Exterminato'r Sa==a==ie tot 3EIBuilding MIDDLETOWN, pa.
(UPI) C Three Mile Island officials have hired an exterminator to eliminate rodents that have left radioactive droppings in the base-ment of a beliding adjoin-ing the contaminated Unit 2 nuclearreactor.
"We haven't seen any rodents. We've just seen the droppings "' plant spokesman Doug Bedell said.
Bedellsaid "we made a sweep Thursday night through the control and services building and we found more instances of the droppings. We had an exterminator -in Friday who baited the whole con-trol center and service building."
The basement of the crippled reactor rec;ains flooded with 80,000 gallons of radioactive water that spilled (Juring the-Marc'y 1973 3ecident at the pla&~
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