ML20009G921
| ML20009G921 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 07/23/1981 |
| From: | Southard M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Mark J Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards |
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| NUDOCS 8108050243 | |
| Download: ML20009G921 (2) | |
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s 4 5 Waupelani Drive State College, Penna, 16801 July 23, 1981 J. Carson Mark, Chairman Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguanis U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington D. C.
Dear Mr. Mark:
After deading that you have recommended to Chairman Palladino that Unit 1 of Three Mile Islard Nuclear Station be permitted to re-start, I feel compelled to write to you.
As an intervenor in the operat.ing license proceedings for both Units 1 and 2 of Three Mile Island, I am quite aware of the facts abodt nuclear power and the sworn testimony of the witnesses in the hearings.
The probability of a class nine accident ever happening was consicer-ed to be so low that we could not even discuss the consequences in the hearings. We all know how much that testimeny meant ard just how assured the people of Harrisburg-Middletown are that an accident will not happen again.
Because of health reasons, I gave up my job, my home, and members of my family who are very dear to me, and moved to Centre county immedi-ately a.fter the accident. I am still not recovered from that experience.
I developed cancer the November following the accident and I know personally of at least twelve other people in the Harrisburg area who developed it within the same year. I canno: say that the accident causci the cancers but I feel that the releases during the four years that Unit 1 operated plus the releases during the first days of the accident contributed to them.
I know scores of people whose peace of mind has been absolutely p3 destroyed. My sister in narrisburg, who was a very productive woman and 3
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.ha. she can no longer function as before. This is not exceptional as you knew, if you took
/O the time to read the testimony of people who cried during their appear-ance before the Kemeny Commission. It seems that there should be some way, under our constitution, to propetgeople from this kind of terror in their own homes. It frightens' me fS:9 ph democratic process.
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The increase in infant mortality that followed the accident could only 'co attributed to the releases, by any intelligent person. As hard as Doctor Tokahata tried, the reasons he gave were not believable.
I recently travelled to a small town nearby to visit a woman who sells the prosthesis for women who have had a mastectomy. She told me that since January of this year she has sold them to 200 women in the area. Doesn't that seem like a lot of cancers to have developed from natural background radiation or from flying in an 'irpltino? I believe a
that any thinking person would credit the radiation from the bomb testing,
in large part, for the epidemic of cancer that we are seeing. Your actLvi. ties are indeed Icgal, but that does not make them moral.
The damage that you and the 3ther people who work for the Nuclear Regulatory Conmission have inflicted on other human beings is a tragedy of un-paralleled proportion. You must be aware of the cover-up that has been perpetrated on the population from the beginning, by the people who have released radioactivity into the environment.
l My hope is that in the cause of justice there will be a day.of ace-ounting. My further hope is that the human jury or the Creator will look
.upon all of you with more understanding than I can find in my heart.
A very close friend who lived in Harrisburg and died from leukemia was buri.ed today. I could not even attend his memorial service because they released krypton all day preliminary to entering the reactor.
Yours truly,
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N, M. Virginia Seuthard cc N. Palladino NRC Publi.: Documents Room Covernor Thornburgh Senator Heinz Senator Specter Congressman Clinger Congressman Ertel The Patriot a
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