ML20049A273

Urges Opening of Facility as Necessary Enterprise in Area. Newspaper Articles Encl

ML20049A273
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Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	08/05/1980
From:	Bradbury V AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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To the Editor:

One' of the top news stories this summer was the heat wave in the

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Southwest, which claimed several hundred human lives. Essential-ly nothing has been said, however, n.w r

Nuclear ploym<~cer of the many more lives which were,

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temperatures. down. Nuclear.

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power P ants throughout these l

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regions played a signi5 cant role in j. ' Wake up. San Luis Obispo supplying this vital electncaty.

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o h is not the first time nuclear County! P.G.&E. has r=e==tly power has helped a' vert 'a crisis,or.

applied for a nuclear reactor staat ',"

is it the first time media acknowl.

up license. This means that the edgement has been absent. In the plant can be operated at alevelof 5 '

winters of 1976-77 and 1977-78, for percent capacity. It also means that it will contain all the fuel it example, coal supplies were needs for full operation. This is virtually halted in many parts of the North and Northeast because simply a ploy on P.G.&E.'s part to of thwarted coal barge movement get their foot in the back door.

in frozen rivers, coal piles frozen From a nudear reactor start up solid by sub-zero temperatures, or license it will be fairly easy to stnkmg miners. Had it not been for artsin a full operating license. It -

nuclear power, oblivious to the also mean's that the plant will be t elements, supplying in some contaminated, making it much I

regions 90 percent of the electncity more difficult to convert or consumed at that time, the situa-deactivate.

tion could have been fatal to.a What this signifies to us is that j

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x we will have to live in fear of a nuclear accident for the next thirty' I

great many of our fellow-citizens.

. Nuclear power saves lives. It is a years which can possibly threaten our lives and render our property a

saple fact, yet it is one you hear useless. The television program little about in the press, on the "20-20" recently did a study on rad 2o or on TV. To be more general nuclear power plants and gave one as vitally a, energy saves lives, and it l portant that we have an I such as ours a one in two-hundred chance of a major accident during adequate supply of energy at all -

its thirty year life span.

tees. Nuclear power should be Can we afford to take this risk?

supported as an essential compo.

Write your congressmen today and e

nent of our energy supply, send a copy to the Nuclear Certainly, there are risks associat-Regulatory Commi=sion.

ed with the generation of energy l

by any of the technologies. But Nuclear Regulatory Commission nuclear power has the best safety 1717 H. St., N.W.

record m the mdustry. In the 20 Washington, D.C. 20555 l

years that nuclear plants have been produemg commercial power 4

Nancy WIIlison there has not been a single i

San Luis Obispo nuclear-related death or injury to

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any member of the public or plant workers. The benefits from having sufficient energy far outweigh the minor nsks. The heat wave this summer was ju'st one more dramatic example of the necessity of energy in sustaining our lives.

/F J-Glen Wade Montecito

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