ML20052H509
| ML20052H509 | |
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| Site: | Zion File:ZionSolutions icon.png |
| Issue date: | 03/16/1982 |
| From: | Alicia Dixon SENATE |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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| NUDOCS 8205210154 | |
| Download: ML20052H509 (2) | |
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March 16, 1982 j
MnilCD MInICS MCnnle RE: David E.
Buchner 188 Wildwood Lane Wheeling, Illinois 60090 R:spectfully referred to:
Congressional Liaison Office Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
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l Because of the desire of this office to be responsive to all inquiries and co=munications, your consideration of the attached is f
Your findings and views, in requested.
duplicate form, along with return of the
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U.S.S.
mr Form #2 PG 1991 0 237
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Itchruary 12,1982 Senator Alan Dhon 4205 I)irksen Illdg.
Washington. DC 20510 near. senator unon:
On Monday, January 27th,a steam-tube rupture.mtomatically shut down the Ginna nuclear power plant in Ontario. Ne v York. and sent clouds of radioactive sicam into the atmosphere. The Zion nuclear plant, forty miles north of Chicago's Loop,is at the same design as the Ginna plant (both are pressurized-water reactors).
I live within 25 miles of Zion, and I am worried about my personal safety as well as the safety of my children and grandchildren. Ilow can the Nuclear Regulatory Commission or Commonwealth Edison be eerrain that an accident of similar or greater proportions will not happen at Zion? The fact is they can't!
According to a spokesman for the Nitc there are 3.620 steam tubes in each of the PWR nuclear generators. Multiply this number by the two nuclear reactors at Zion. and we get 7,240 steam tubes. Does this mean that there are 7.240 potential accidents waiting to happen? Add to this human error, and Zion, along with much of the surrounding area. could be rendered uninhabitable. Isn't this a serious threat to the very public health the government is supposed to proteet? Of course it is.
The Zion nuclear plant is set among the highest population densn> of any operating plant in the count ry. There are 240,000 people living within a ten mile radin3 of Zion and greater than ten million people within a Ofty-mile radius. What will happen in the even: of an m.cident at Zion? Will it be possible to evacuate these people,or will we be left to fend for oursches? Of course we will be! It is hard enough to travel on our local highways during rush hours. let alone dunr,r a full-scale nuclear accident!
liach day Zion operates, the chance of a major accident increases due to the wear, aging, and corrosion that every part of the plant is subjected to. Alreads Zion has hail the highest number of "rcrortable oscurrences"ot any nuclear plant in !!!inois. My only hope is that Zion will be shut down before it h too late!
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