ML20003E190
| ML20003E190 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/04/1981 |
| From: | Grimm H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8104020459 | |
| Download: ML20003E190 (1) | |
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Subj ec t: Comments offered for the hearing at
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Penn Museum March 5, 1981. or March 11, 1981.
To: The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Prepared March 4, 1981.
I have attended a small number of your hearing sessionA at the meeting place near Court and Walnut Streets in Earrisburg. I am a retired Physicist (non-nuclear) and electronics scientist ani engineer. During the 1970's, as I became more familiar with the commercial nuclear electrical power supply and our overall energy supply problems, I became strongly pro-energy, including pre-nuclear and pro-solar. I see no real reason to accept an energy starved future without militant protest.
When you exclude deliberate fright tactics, nuclear electric power is already the lowest risk method of generating electric power.
The activities of your board are contributing to make it uniquely outstanding i terms of the low number of deaths and serious injuries.
Id'd'ompany all methods of generating electric power.
I applaud such activities when they are leading to improved safety i
for everyone, including miners, transportens, fuel processo;s and operators as well as consumers.
The electrical power generation industry has been a model for l
achieving increasing reliable energy for the consuming public.
l Electric power is available at the receptacles in my home 99 9%
of the time via Metropolitan-Edi$on. This cannot be done by an incompetent organization. Much of the present furor about the accident at Thrse Mile Island is pure unadulterated harassment has greatly intek"gnized as such. In fact, my sampling of your hearings and should be reco thitt conviction.
My experience in participating in large electronics systa=
design tells me that increasing safety and reliability requires increased effort for which the user of the system must pay. Since nuclear electric power generation is already the lowest risk method, and has long term capability, which hydrocarbon and ' carbon fuel sources do not have, deliberate harassment must be turned off by some legal means. I call upon you to work in this direction.
Some great nation or nations will perfect the entire technology of generating nuclear electric power. Iheir achievement in this activity will make them a dominant nation. I hope the United States of America will be the first one of these nations. If we permit ourselves to be excluded from this process, we will be a third rate nation. The
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world. takes.a supreme risk if it permits a tyrannical nation to be first in thAs achievement. The way we are proceeding now this is l
very likely to happen.
gp So my request to you is to authorize turning IMI i back on as soon as it meets the safety requirements now in use for our comme
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