ML20041E692

Supports Nuclear Power

ML20041E692
Person / Time
Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	03/08/1982
From:	Baum J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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ISSUANCES-E, NUDOCS 8203110250
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Mr. Nunzio Palladino, Chairman Muclear Regulatory Cc= mission r-ET HUMDER 1717 H St NW Fi.C D. f. UTIL FAC..kh.~. ..

Washington, DC 20555

Dear Sir,

I am deeply disappointed with the action taken by the Nuclear Regulatory Co:cnission regarding the Clinch River breeder reactor. In fact many of the recent actions of the NRC appear to have serious adverse effect on the future of nuclear power. I'm sure this is coincident with well meant directien.

However, it is possible that concern for caution has conditioned the Nnc much too far. The enviable safety record of nuclear power shows that additional investment in safety is hardly necessary. Unreasonably accelerated costs show that safety may have been carried beyond econanic justification. Very few Americans expect to live without risk. If they did, they would not use auto =obiles, certainly not tobacco.

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We ha/o ~n^eErl " exhausted the world's.readily accessible natural re-sources and we have used,them for good purposes. As things stand, about all that'sileft for us.to pass on to future generations is an adequate power base.with which they can extract' basic raw materials from previously uneconcraical sources. - If we fail th'em, they will find themselves inter-national p,aupers. No other modern nation accepts any delays in con-structing nuclear power facilities. All of the facts point to nuclear power as the. fuel.for the next 20 to 40 years and it deserves every encouragem'ent.. .With fair reasonable regulation no other fuel can compete.

i I hope the policies of the NPK take these thoughts into account.

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