ML20037C771

Opposes Facility Restart Before Hearings Completed

ML20037C771
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	02/13/1981
From:	Greene C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8102200594
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'n profess to believe that "we snould work through the syste=".

Such counsel en their part - and yours - would carry =uch

ore weight with the public if they - and you - would just accept it for yourselves.

Instead you vented the Erypton gas without cablic hearings and in direct re jection of advice by nuclear scientists of world repute and you are planning to dump s ne tPJee cuarters of a sillion gallens of radio-active water into the drinking-water source of millions of pe ople.

In further violation of your vaunted principle Of

" working withir the syster" you are about ready tc permit t he reactivstier Of Three.411e :sland Unit 1 bercre the investigation and evaluation of it is cc pleted.

I wonder if any" system" which you counsel us Of you realize what ycu are doing when you prostitute t he to work within?

You are destroying the public faith in that "systen".

The cynical public then divides into two classes:

Class 1 is the " Ch, w ha t in hell is the use ?" class and the Claes 2 or " We ' 11 make 'en listen" class.

It is difficult to argue with their success; the Iranian students got what they wanted didn't they?

That wasn't in the U.S?

True, but a group of Icwa far ers leading a Federal Judge down the

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road with a hangman's noose around his M9sil%hkToo:4mpAger e

suitable tree was right in the middle of t'906ctit@2 stiv 4"g heartland of A= erica.

From this same cons N h @ !Ma'iG anc ca e the group of Peace Corps workers, frust b h ii D e9r altruistic efforts by two govern =ents (one the-ir. own) and the Catholic Church, who turned to making terrorist bc bs.

Most never were apprehended (one turnsd-.herself in years later),;

neither were most of the hundred 'or so_ bank robbers in this was frared),'.

area in the past two years or the kidnappera (cne

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because of the large Class 1,

tho se MTo say, "w ha t 's t he u s e " "

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'e '"e creat t r a iL: - " ^f A erica and vcu are cc:peunding it a, Three Sile I s la:d....'

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