ML20040A568

Forwards Tx Dept of Water Resources Transmitting Citizen Re Possible Effect on Public of Facility Radioactive Releases.Requests That Encl Ltrs Be Placed Into Docket,Pdr & Lpdr

ML20040A568
Person / Time
Site:	Comanche Peak
Issue date:	01/19/1982
From:	Burwell S NRC
To:	Collins M NRC
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NUDOCS 8201210250
Download: ML20040A568 (5)

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I onr.:e A "I'.o" Pilgr un December 15, 1981 Mr. Alvin J. Cook Route 1, Box 308 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 Dear Mr. Cook i.e :

Nuclear Pov.er Plant in Glen Rose. Texas We received your letter of December 3, 1981 expressing your concern over the effect a nuclear power plant would have in the Glen Rose Area.

Since the regulation of nuclear poner plants is the responsibility of the Nuclear Regulatcr, Co,nmission, we are forwarding your letter to that agency.

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The one industry that Glen Rose, Texas, and other cities, does not need is a Nuclear Power Plant. Out of greed for profits, it will contaminate your potable drinking wa_-

ter and food by radioactive releases.

Dilute radioactive minerals from power plants are taken up by algae. The algae is then consumed by zooplankton and the zooplankton by small fish in turn, being further concentrated g each step. The chain continues through larger fish, to binis and their eggs, to soil, to groundwater, to ve6etables, to meat animals, an1 to man. The greatest of hazani being to our children and future i

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Normal routine effluent includes all releases (6ases, coolant water leakage and blow-down waters into the Brazos River) from routine continuous and intermittent purging I

operations to6 ether with the non-planned releases from minor incidents.

In an extreme accident, the oxide and metallic fuels now in use would release mainly volatile fis-sion products, with iodine inhalation the predominant hazani.

Iodine-131 hazani to children is the most extensive. Strontium-90 is readily accepted as calcium in the bones causin6 leukemia.

By what right, legal or moral, do the Nuclear Power Companies destroy the property and health of innocent neighbors, and jeopan11zc the resources that our generation holds in trust for future generations?

The Southwest has a serious water shortage and yet the electric power companies are

" gung-ho" for nuclear power.

A source that requires over three million gallons of underground water a day for one reactor and millions of gallons of surface water for cooling and generating electricity. Their propaganda is "less expensive to operate' than conventional", but at whose expense?

The utilities take the benefits in terms of extra profits and the public takes the risks in terms of extra cancers. The power firms love nuclear energy because it is a fast way of sinkin6 billions into new plants because their rate of return is based i

on invested capital.

Each plant adds to profits which are already the highest in American industry.

i Dr. Henry Kendall, a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology says:

"As a nuclear power reactor operates, it accumulates enormous quantities of radioactive fission products.

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lates pourds of plutonium which is an extremely lethal material, aid each reactor also contains enough strontium to contaminate thousards of cubic miles of arable lard.

"The release of a fraction of the fission prcduct inventory of a modern power reactor could bring death to persons 60 to 100 miles away.

Ard the accidental release of this mterial frca a modern nuclear reactor could 61ve rise to a catastrophe of scale utterly unknown to any peacetime nation."

To save the cities ard townships so located in the outer cone ard in perimeter of the huard zcne of this nuclear power plant, the people nust have the true facts to make real choices about the conditions which affect their lives ard 6 ven an opportunity 1

to desard of the legislature a mandate to phase out nuclear pcwer ard develope hydro-electric or other conventional pcwer plants at the Squaw Creek Reservoir on the Erazos River or the future reservoir on the Paluxy water shed.

Cnce Comanche Feak St'am Electric consences operation, the fair wirds will become ill winds to direct odorless and tasteless radicactive waste ard to concentrate, saturate and perneate air, lard ard water irdefinitely to destroy all.

3 The three major issues of contention that remain in licensing this plant is the anti-cipated lowering of crourd water in the towns of Cranbury ard Glen Rose. The pcssible effect on the public of radioactive releases and the cost benefit talance.

There are other concerr.s such as perpetual cue of nuclear waste, its transportation f

through neighborin6 towns and cities to reprocessing plants or stora6e ard the hor-rendous devastation of life, property ard the environment in a catastrophe.

It is our r1 ht ard rcspor.sibility to provide for our future security.

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pressure should be brou5ht upon the corporations to change their mirds.

There may be a substitute for g ard oil but there is no substitute for potable drinkirg water.

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