ML20006A226

Forwards Addl Ltr from K Mccook Re Plant Safety,For Review & Response

ML20006A226
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	12/28/1989
From:	Bentsen L SENATE
To:	Rathbun D NRC
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Gin (teh 6tateg 6 enate WASHINGTON, DC 20510 December 28, 1989 Mr. Dennis Rathbun, Director Office of Congressional Affairs -

The United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H Street, N.W.

Washington, D.C. 20555 Dear Mr. Rathbun With regard to our previous correspondence concerning the licensing of Comanche Peak in Texas, I am enclosing a copy of an additional letter I have received from Mr. and Mrs. Kendall McCook on this issue.

I would appreciate your thorough review of these additional con- =

cerns, and any pertinent information you could provide would be helpful.

Thank you for your assistance, and I look forward to hearing from you in the near future.

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961 Federal Building Austin, Texas 78701

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Kendall and Virginia McCook Rt. 1 Box 70 Tolar, TX 76476 15 December 1989 Senator Lloyd Bentsen U.S. Senate Washington, D.C. 20510-6200 Senator Bentsen, We appreciate your continued monitoring of the safety of Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant. We are responding specifically to your letter dated 29 November 1989, as well as the communication to your office from James M. Taylor, Acting Executive Officer of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (dated 9 November 1989).

We enclose a December 8, 1989 Fort Worth Star Telegram' article that discusses our December 7th meeting before Chris Grimes, Jim Lyons, Horace Livermore, and Bob Warnick. Citizens for Fair Utility Regulation spent the entire day detailing allegations ve believe make Comanche Peak unsuitable for safe load of nuclear fuel. A

• complete transcript of our meeting will soon be available..

Mr. Taylor's remhrks to your office gloss over serious problems that are probably impossible to solve with any certainty in a reasonable period of time. Kapton wiring remains throughout the plant. Over a million inadequate fasteners are in place in count-less, unknown places. Misapplied welds and falsification =of work performance records have been identified by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; however, the welding procedures and terrible safety attitudes of Flour-Daniels, the contractor, indicate that thousands of poorly performed welds exist everywhere in the plant. These problems and more are discussed in our December 7, 1989 meeting with the N.R.C. I am writi,ng to ask that you continue your efforts toward ensuring those of us who live near Comanche Peak wil1~not fall victim to the radioactive contaminations of this now nearly eleven-billion-dollar construction boondoggle .

Texas Utilities will soon request reinspection _in order-to obtain a license to load fuel.' We ask again that.the already admitted-and yet open allegations be thoroughlv-investigated and remedied before

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been contaminated, the only power plant remaining that has not had the opportunity'to' spoil the' surrounding"~ environment. 'A natural' '

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.o conversion is still possible, and our water and land and air would not be threatened with the disasters that have accomp- s anied so many other p,lant operations.

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