ML20052E991

Comments on Des.Plant Operation Opposed

ML20052E991
Person / Time
Site:	Perry
Issue date:	05/04/1982
From:	Schlemmer D WESTERN RESERVE ALLIANCE
To:	Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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NUDOCS 8205110602
Download: ML20052E991 (2)

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4 May 1982

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231-4245 gj,,M' Director, Division of Lcensing  ; . s Nuclear Regulatory Commission H p 5 -j d Washington, D. C. 20555 \a v 'cva3 .Q p

Dear Sir:

A Please accept our comments on the Draft Environmental Statement due in epartment 10 May. Though for obvious reasons, the following comments are brief, they can be sub-stantiated in greater detail.

Western Reserve Alliance is opposed to % operation of the two-unit nuclear power plant at Perry, Ohio, for the following reasons:

1. Wall Street financiers emphatically state that there should be no nuclear power plants for commercial use. They give several reasons, one of which is the un-controllable, rapidly escalating cost in their construction and operation.

2. Water scarcity, both in quantity and quality, is rapidly becoming a national hazard. Our existing water supply should be treated with caution and respect.

Wells in the area of the Perry Power plants under construction are already drying up and the water table is lowered. Erosion of the Lake Erie shore line I

is increasing steadily, relentlessly and consistently each year;

3. Water from the cooling plants will come from a fragile Lake Eric which is already recovering from a dying condition. Water from the cooling plants with its chemicals from routine clean-ups and radioactive particulants, even in tiny quantities will gradually build up to an intolerable toxic load from which the lake can never recover. This will affect the marine life so necessary for its own symbiotic environment, food supply and potability I for people living in the area;

4. The Perry units are located on an old post glacial lake beach witn shifting sands. The depth of bed rock below the surface of the earth to which the pilings must descend and the nature of the bed rock should be carefully examined. Specifically, is the Chagrin shale and its thickness at this CC b locale sufficiently strong? 8

5. It is very wrong to assume that this whole region, the snow belt, will /O inevitably become a " ghost" area and written off as such. The area has a great potential for a booming comeback and should be so considered.

I l A poisoned lake and poisoned salt are no assets in the process of recovery.

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i into the situation years ago by the government without the public's awareness and consent. Great governments make mistakes. This was one. Now the government and the people should get together to do away with nuclear power plants and solve the financial quagmire into which the utilities are sinking more and more.

besdd SJGnm Donald Schlemmer, President WESTERN RESERVE ALLIANCE 4

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