ML20052H315

Statement Opposing Plant Licensing Since Facility Operation Would Pose Unprecedented Hazard to Lives & Health of People of Long Island

ML20052H315
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Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	04/14/1982
From:	Goodman M NORTH SHORE COALITION FOR SAFE ENERGY
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NUDOCS 8205200208
Download: ML20052H315 (2)

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7 North Shore Coalition for Safe Energy P.O. Box 18, Great Neck, N.Y.11022 April 14, 1982 STATDIEN* TO NUCLEAR REGULATORY CO'CIISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING 30ARD My name is Miriam Goodnan and I represent the North Shore Coalition for Safe Energy, which is composed of con = unity organizations and individuals in Nassau County, Long Island. We oppose the licensing of the Shoreham Nuclear Power Station because we beliers that operation of that plant would pose an unprecedented hazard to the lives and health of all the people of Long Island, as well as to L. I. 's environment, in this and future generations.

Inasmuch as there is responsible, authoritative scientific evidence that even avutine, planned releases of radiation from nuclear power plants, under non-accident conditions, are already causing cancers, leukemias and genetio injuries (and I refer you to Dr. John W. Gofman's work RADIATION AND hTMAN HEALTH), it is a travesty for the Nuclear Regulatory Conmission to initiate the Shoreham licensing proceeding before a thorough physical inspection of this plant is carried out. This is especially urgent in light of the documented record of design defects and poor construction practices at Shoreham.

Your refusal to hear evidence at the upcoming licensing hearing with regard to crueial safety issues constitutes a severe limitation of public participation.

In attempting to speed up the licensing of Shoreham, you are turning your back on the injunctions of the Kemeny Co=nission and the N.R.C. 's own Special M O3 Inquiry aroup after the Three Mile Island accident and addicating your respensi-5 bility to protect the public health and safety.

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.* .' 's Statement to NRC by North Shora Coalition for Safo Entrgy 2.

l We in Nassau County, well within a 50-mile radius of the Shoreham plant, are i concerned, as are the people who live and work and enjoy their leisure in Suffolk County, about the potential for a serious accident at Shoreham, as well as about gradual leaks of radioactive poisons, planned or unplanned.

We consider it essential that the Long Island Lighting Company be required to submit an environmental impact statement which takes into account the potentiality of a Class 9 accident. Any evacuation planning that does not include people within a minimum 50-mile radius of Shoreham is meaningless.

The N.R.C. 's 10-mile limitation to evacuation planning requirements is a callous admission of the realistie impossibility of any successful evacuation of people on Long Island in the event of a catastrophic accident.

Nuclear power on Long Island is unacceptable. The Shoreham Nuclear Fower Station must not be licensed. Wa join our Suffolk neighbors in saying we refuse to be L11:0 s and the NRC's guinea pigs.

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