ML20041F412

Comments on Des,Radiation Risks,Evacuation,Economics, Decommissioning & Subsidizing Facilities

ML20041F412
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	03/11/1982
From:	Roth P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Hernan R NRC
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Ronald W. Hernan, L.P. Manager Office of Nuclear Reactor Reg.

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Dear Mr. Hernan:

C/7 I am writing you to comment en the above as was requested in -

order to advise you on how some of us feel about the Nuclear Plant in Midland, Michigan: -

The report states that the radiation risks are acceptable or that _

12 chances in 100 are acceptable. My comment on this issue is that many prominent health physisists and scientists report that no amounts of radiation is safe-how do you and "only engineers",

know what will happen in our body systems after 20 years exposure.

even in small amounts?

For reference, please read articles by Gorman, Bertell, Caldicott.

It is interesting that before the current administration in Washington, the N.R.C. was really watching things at the Midland site, I feel you have done an about face, are you really looking  :

out for the protection of the people, or are you a partner in i the utility business?

Evacuation: The plan is a joke. It is good only on paper, would $

you try just getting out Eastman, Saginaw or Route 10 at 4:30 daily?

The economic value of the community., certainly business men and tax base are aided, but the investors of the plant are to be the ones =

to gain most, we as ratepayers challenge you to prove to us that this plant will not cost us all more in the long run than coal. --

Decommissioning: Why build a plant that you have to put a fence around in 30 years and say, it's hot don' t go near it, and the =

cost again charged to the rate payers, of course we could be dead from cancer before the 30 years psss for me.

• Please N.R.C. stop subsidizing nuclear power plants, maybe )$

you can balance the budget then; when the utilities can go it alone V; then we will indeed have someone in Washington to represent us, the people of this country.

Thank you for your efforts and concern.

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