ML20041B527
| ML20041B527 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Clinch River |
| Issue date: | 02/16/1982 |
| From: | Mitchell P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8202240193 | |
| Download: ML20041B527 (1) | |
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Dear Secretary Fanuel J. Chilk,
Thank you for notificatic.n of opportunity for oral presentation,, Locket ::o. 50-537.
Insufficient notice and, in perticulsr, cost consideraticns prohibit my presence.
I respectfully reauest that tv concerns and observatiens expr:ssed in ny letter of 1/11/c2 be incorporated into tne recort.
~.'he esscnce of ny letter was ens ; tion should be. denied since spending funds i:. Edv-nce of t?.e decision to ;rc.nt or dcny construction license vould interfere with objectice snslysis.
I noted that slow denand gro.:th and large excess capacity in electrical generation has crested a situation in which the IT.C snculd be giving careful, deliberate considertt-ion to the nany problens that currently plague the concercial nuclecr reector industry.
Jurrent reserve targins provide a unique o....ortunity for reflection on future energy co:121.itt cats.
.ithin this content, I centioned FtA studies that indicated the visbility of solar end wind technologies, listed a nu..:ber of the unresolved safety problems with nuclear technolecy, the problens of controling weapon grade naterial, the open-ended corts of decor.::issioning over 1500 facilities connectec :ith c::.n.ercial renctor operntien, ion to the fact thst the bre:derand the problems of w ste s
.inally, I cr11ed attent resctor is a far more dangerous technology than the 3 '.. end p.3 because of the greater volune of radios.ctive isotoces. ;he licuid sodium coolnnt can burn cnd enplode on cent'ct'.ith air a
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thef t rr.a proliferation, and. in a LOC accident, an explcsien c:-n 6nsue.
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