ML20033C491

Expresses Concern Re Facility Cleanup & Restart

ML20033C491
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Site:	Crane
Issue date:	11/19/1981
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To:	Gilinsky V NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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The Case.0f The Unidentified yy wom

-By Mary Jane Hornung a

Why would a helicopter on the morning ofOctober their for for that time ally FAAthis representative of land on local farmer's 9th. Then, that afternoon, period.

the felt that this tield without his knowl. at 3:IS p.m. five witnesses The Department of En.

landmg was trespassing a sample of observed a blue and white edson'.e. sco uIf...all within heincopter landmg on a vironmental Resources and as such was an illegal and o

and the Environmental act. The State requires a period less than five neighbor's freshly plowed Protection Agency denied any field that is used for mmutes?

field. A man jumped out, any knowledgeof any test-aircraft landings exceget No one seems to know, scooped up a sample of ing being done by ficensM.

emergencies, to acd what makes this story "I., jumped back mto the helicopters.

all the more strange is'the behco ter and took off

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fact that the field is lo-mm iately, Since it was a blue and-Gents aroundN4.11 white helicopter. the State cated on the Western Curious to what was shore of theSusquehanna. gome on, the ;esidents Police were contacted and are getting jittery. There W than ihrw c.inics from mada vanouz As.

thev assured us they had have been at least eight,

no helicooters doing any f sightings of black smokeur

. Three Atile Island!

Everyboor Cenies testing. Bruce Smith, the large steam emissions bil.

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To add to the mysteh Knowm About The IC**jnce June. And now, from Three Ele Is-local re esentative wa:

ry-.in the wee hours of the i Het opteri land contact but he couldnq morning (3:00 a.m.i. the

. Slet Ed denied having find any informatior after a penod o.f approxi j night before the helicopter any helicopters in the air.

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either' FAA told the Pax-

. incident, the sirens were The Nuclear Re D' DI'$s with heard oin full blast on Commission cou$.ilatory h farm,

retry'reIeds, t g#5am The Three.gtile sland.

d pro-ton Herald they felt it vide no information. The couldn't have been a U '

the The story began with Federal Aviation Author-versity or a Government hroblems that the Paxton local residents heanng the sty at the afiddletown Air-erald r in the f sirens wailing at &OU a.m.

rt said they showed no Agency. since they always February brted asK permission to land

h. I W iss elicooters entered in onor to the mission. Actu-are returning.

L Animal Problems Begin

% Again-Since He-Entry Releases Sirs. Fisher's cows are beginaing to again have birthing problems. One cow last month delivered a 1.'k) pound calf unable to walk an_d just barely brea-

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thmg. The mother was in viving after treatment ot no condition to take care vitamms, selenium and of her weak offspnng. antibiotics. but the left After a stepped-up treat-rear jeg appears to be ment o.f shots of vitamin deformed.

C X ry T-Q and selenium, the calt is The next da* another

'F j now able to. walk.

calf was bom full term.

Two days later, a heifer but was unableto walk.its went into labor. A pelvic head was twisted. and it examination confirmed a seemed to be suffering

'M E' 3(l P318 possible breach birth and from severe nerve dam-the veterinarian was age. The calf's condition called. Dr. Weber tried un. gradually deteriorated successfully for over an until it died last week.

- C RE~/.F' hour to turn the calf After Not only have the anim.

it was determined that als have been affected. but Vi& S.E h CE N.,T h there no longer was a residents say they have pulse in the calf delivery was no. and the been suffering from ex-further treme fatigue nausea.

along dissec. it was decided to vomiting, and diarrhea.

t the calfin order to save the valuable mother.

Is it possible that all these incidents could be After ternble efforts the related?

calf had to be sacnf$ced and removed. The cow ap-

. Andifnohelicootersare entered in the FAA long peared to be suffennF book, where did this helic-Irom a constricted birtr.

channel, which.some vete optst come flum.

ranarian physicians feel And what was its rea-son for performing an ill. -

$$o evelraYat. Iti gal act of trespass to get i felt that this could be one soil sampk of thereasons forso many And wfiat is cau' sing the caesarian births in th, return of the animal's bir-last few years in the TSII thing problems?

area. Six days later the. These are questions that mother cow died.

residents would like ans-Two days later another wered, but, they say that, heifer went into labor six because of the run around weeks prematurely. - The over the real calf was unable to walk Nuclear Power. problem of they have and had respiratory prob. little hopes left of ever re-lema. The calf is now sur, explanntion.

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the loss if Met d makes another from pnvate Insurante Ccmpar nS CeSSS Nh' mistake. No other busmess in the ies. This maximum is current!-

world would be allowed such lati- $116 Million.

tude to control the destmy of so Perha the most telling quot e

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r But did you know. that you teet yourself from losses incured illnesses,even20yearsisseemedto to encorage their employees to i an not buy Inscrance forlosses as a result ofNuciear blery.If be asinappropriate and unrealistic more cautious _otherwise the Insurance Policy could be car hat you might sustatn as a result Met Ed makes mista e, yoy:' t s

cutoff time.

,f Nuclear Reaction, Nuclear not buy Insurance to penw Who would pay for the dam-celled and coverage suspende.

Fortunate 1y for Me

,ontamination, or losses su f-yourself, your family, your h3in" h* Met Ed,mista5ke? feh, tsere i no inceNi ered by any type,of a Nucacar vo'ur business, or any of ye

$8 "Mh suc In event of a major Nuclear Acci-for safe operations in theNucle:

.isaster. The simpte fact is that rw. * -

t dent, Congres could not possibly Industry.SinceinsuranceCove pay the damages that would be in-age is impossible to get. and ti amount that Met Ed would be r cured by Central Pennsylvania sponsible for is limited and se.t Raiden:s. In the case of Three lly be It e-Mile Island, the r own was ad-y,7,7euld b o rmttedly only 3t to GT minutes to help insure safe operation away from haffenml'The?E not resent in the Nucelar indt evInsurance Administration try. t is certainly not present i Three Mile Island. Congressmi esti estimated that the average family Ted Weiss calls the limits of 5 in the Harrisburg Area would have clear Insurance,an mvitation incuted $67,500 m evacuation ex. irresponsibility.,

The Public Can Help Witb ipenses, property and business

%/P Nuclear Insurance losses. For this $67.500 bas they The public can dosomethin

S would receive onh $2.247. rom the Price Andersen Control affect the change in Nucigar Federal Su'

,' Pool No medicalorpersonalinjury 8"y"#'have homes

'81 NOV 30 P3:18 I expenses were incluJed m this nesses... families and properti

$67.500 estimate near a Nuclear Plants shot.

Met.Ed would not be have the option of purchasi:

N uclear Insurance.

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• • N$, Central Penna. d People of another mistake they would not be responsible for ycur losses or the T

what people can josses of ypur family oryour neign*

do. read The pAXTON bors. The limit of lmses; under the' HERALD next week!!

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ORC'tHhuce' s.v. g av ency about TMI 'not publicizeci' tw

'e w.s By MARY O.BR uon of TM12. period." Minnich said.

Start Writer Meanwhi!e. Atomic Safety and U-The chairman of the Neacwsr Reguta-censing Snard p=* tags on te Ur.at * * *.

tory Commissaoa's Adv*sory Panel 90 the tart continue at the Harmtown 2 But4-Decontamination of T?ree Mile Is.and Ing. Gary P. Miller, director of Ilmat '

says the chief stumbling block in gett:ng startup and test, was cross-eaame wa federal funds for she cleanup haa bee 1 the Tuesday aoout as tacident tavolv'e4 NRC's failure to stress the conunutsg Unat 2 employee who submitted answe s hazardocs.stuat;on at TMI.

prepared by a colleague on a trake%J "t*ve b*eq aoralkd at the lack cf un-test.

derstandmg* In Congress "of the reality MWer was station manager.t *Ni of wnat w e have here

• at TMI. sasd Dau-when the cneatang incident was are phart County Cor.taussioner John E. Man-ered in Jury 197 He said the Ut* I nach. Congressmes " treat it as a iocal er ptoyee turned in the other man s hate-issue only. with no importance to the rest wntten a tswe s es complete man-v:'

of the co6atry.

tests ou exam questions he had fa9ec. -

"I feel very strong y it's partly dae to A;. gust i977 and Feoruary 1978.

the failure cf tae NiiC to impart to Coc-Miller saad the employee's espiana-gress clearly ans articatate!y the real tion was that he "was p.esused fc f f: *

• dcaser we face af Us:t 2is not clearied tap because he was going on vacation a%

safety." M!'insch to.d *he Evening News.

that the employee believed that !! he :-

Mansich has seen citaarman of the 12 derstood the material, he fulflued ?e

-a-member NRC adytcory panet since.ts quirements of the trainsag prograra +

formation la Octooer.980. The group didn1 cor.ader the haadwnung as s:

.t-has made recornmendamons to the NRC icant." Miller mmmer.ted.

on the technical aspec s W several 'acets

"'be employee to question was der -'-

of the cleanup. In r= cent seess, it has ed to nos-;icenaed dut.es at TMI atte-"

• been wrestftne wi*h arafuas a comt'on taed t v t aac-e--d wPo * *,

on how tBe 11 bHttoa effot saouA be codesgue wto prepared the answers fuad d.

tendedTe did not know they were g3 $

Mineich said the panel pians several to be used for a make.up test. Maller 2.. ;

more pebhc ptef*'ags tJ wtaan add.tior.a!

No discichnar** action was casen.da. cat input before :t maaes a re:orrir.endatkun.

ham. M1;ier said.

He sa.d the adv.sorv body has "au-thortzed me" to w=tte to the NRC to en-courage tre comas:saoners to '7ake ac-tion whatever act$oe 18 Decessary to stress to Coegress w' tat too probierra are at TML is my opinion, tae NRC nas not done taat with TML Hence, a me of t.w reluctance

• regardias federal funding, he said.

11te government's role in the fuaving la somewhat eloeded.The Reagan aemin-istranon piadded in Octoser to seest $123 sulltoe in c.eanup funds. but congree-moeal opponents castead that that moe.

ey is tacinded ta two research and devel-opment programs already dadertakes at TM1 by the US. Department of Earrgy.

Tae advisory peseJ also voted to sever the restart of the nadamaged Unit I reactor frors any cost-saaring pias to pay for the cleanup of Uaft 2. "We will not a

conalder the restart of Unit I la conjunc-thos with any funding plas." M1atuch mL ta the cost-startog Wuepr'at pro-paned by Gov. Dick Thorstmargh in Juiy.

the restart of Unit I was seen as a method of hetping General Puo46c Unlines Corp, TMI's owner, to raise 1245 m:lhoo.a cleesup funds. But the panel. MJa:uch enad. bebeves restart shouid be consd-ered solely on the healta, astety ans, ^ ac +

oscal Lasues.

By adopting this postion. "uf al-firuned the fact that TMI I is not our jitriedletloa. Our Joe is the decontamina-e geee

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