ML20062A571
| ML20062A571 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Clinch River |
| Issue date: | 06/11/1982 |
| From: | Jenkins M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| References | |
| RTR-NUREG-0139, RTR-NUREG-139 NUDOCS 8208040041 | |
| Download: ML20062A571 (2) | |
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415 Ford Street Rockford, Illinois 61108 June 11, 1982 The Honorable Nunzio ralladino Chaiman, nuclear Regulatory Commission wasnington, D.C. 20555
Dear Cnairman Palladino:
Dr. Karl Z. Morgan, a man called tne father of health physics and a man wno has supported tne development of nuclear power, has recently 6cne on the record as opposing the development of breeder reactors. He has caid tnat the enormous health and safety hazards posed by cuch reactors does not approach justifying their minimal benefits, especially in lift of their massive economic costs.
Dr. Forcan has specifically denounced the Clinch River treeder Reactor project as extremely dangerous.
It is disheartening to me to learn that political pressures have been brought to bear in an attempt to rejuvinate what should be a moribund issue. While, as the lawyers say, reasonable minds can differ, it appears to me that any person with a sense of moral responsibility to the future Generations of the United States and who can objectively back away from the limted and short term political advantages of a few hundred jobs, should be able to say no to the overwhelming potential destruction that a breeder reactor can visit upon our future. At the minimum, the nuclear Regulatory Commission should be willing to pemit additional citizen comment on those aspects of the Clinch River Froject which nave si nificantly changed or 6
been affected by subsequent events and which are not reflected in the 1977 Final Environmental Impact Statement.
While I am cure that the pressure brought against the Nuclear Regulatory Commicsicn by President Reacan and Senator taker is intense, I am asking that the Commission please do its job. This is still, I hope and pray, a country by and for tne people. I understand tnat the issues are extremely technical, but an aroused citizenry will educate itself and respond to the issues affecting it if only it has the opportunity to do so.
It is only throu6h collusion and a "conspiricy of experts" that the public interest will not be met.
I am therefore formally requesting that the nuclear Regulatory Commission prepare and issue a draft supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Clinch River Iireeder Reactor project, and that the Commission solicit comments on that supplement. I am asking on my own behalf and on behalf of orcanizations of which I am a member:
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e Michael Jenkins, Attorney 415 Ford Street Rockford, Illinois 61108 Louisianians for a Safe invironment c/o James w. Fierce, Jr.
7062 seven Oaks Ave Eaton Rouge, Louisiana 70606 Sinnissippi Alliance for the Environment 326 nortn Avon Street Rockford, Illinois 61103 when completed, please circulate the draft supplement to the above three addresses for co:rr.ent.
Thank you for your consideration.
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