ML20064L771

Requests Explanation of NRC Actions Portrayed in Ucs 820329 Testimony Before House of Representatives Committee on Interior & Insular Affairs Re ASLB Hearing Concerning Restart of TMI-1

ML20064L771
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	08/03/1982
From:	Huber M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML20064L773	List: ML20064L771 ML20064L775
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NUDOCS 8208030506
Download: ML20064L771 (2)

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TMI Restart In the Ashes of an Accident It is possible to separate The sy tem has failed to -

IF'THE CALIBER of in- the technical connections be,- come to grips with this nucle-vestigation, analysis and tween the two reactors at ar stepchild. No one wants to thought applied to a given. TMI - as is being done - but admit paternity, so the easi-problem could be measured it is even beyond the power est thing to do is to ignore it, by the time consumed in of the NRC to alter their let it sit there. The govern-doing it and the weight of the physical proximity or to ex- l ment licenses them, the utili-final report, then the accom- tinguish the trauma inflicted ,

ties operate them and the plishment of the Atomic from there on a public trust-- i Good Lord cleans them up.

Safety and Licensing Board ing of the judgment, integrity The system never was pre-looking into the restart of the and technical competence of pared to de i with a S1 billion Unit I nuclear reactor at the utility and its nuclear nuclear' accident and it is no Three Mile Island merits a overseer. The licensing board i more prepared today, yet it high ranking. After spending could deal with the myriad of proceeds 'with licensing of many months taking testimo- technical questions, it could nuclear plants as if TMI nev-ny on the fitness of the un- not - it would not - address er happened,as if it didn't ex-damaged nuclear. plant and the psychological result ist, as if there wasn't an all the competency of the man- when a nuclear accident ren- .

too real risk of radioactive agement of General Public dered volumes of self-assured' contamination of down-Utilities to operate it, the technological reviews into '

stream community water

, three-member board has re- gibberish and a reactor into systems and the irreplaceable l

leased its findings in an 800- radioactive mush. We have a Chesapeake Bay fishery.

page report. Its predictable right to ask why thelicensing } Only ~a system that is conclusion: The Nuclear Reg- board's judgment will be j morally bankrupt would car-ulatory Commission should right this time when it was ry on its ritual of attesting to grant GPU permission to wrong the last time. the innocuousness of nuclear commence operation of the power plants across the ashes l reactor. THERE IS MORE to the of one that says it isn't. The j But if the licensing board issue of restarting Unit 1 than final decision on the recom-was " exhaustive" in its in-a technological evaluation mendations of the licensing quiry it surely was not thor- made by a panel dedicated to board rests with the full com-ough; if it asked many ques- isolating nuclear power deci- mission of the NRC and it tions,it failed to ask the right sion-making from the influ- will be less of a judgment on questions: if it looked at eve- ence of the ho'st community. Unit I than it is a judgment ry screw, it could not grasp It is an indication of how de-

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on itself and the morality of the entirety of the problem. It void the process is of sensitiv- the policies it pursues.

did, essentially, what a previ- ity to its mistakes and a mea-ous licensing board had done sure of its lack of social in certifying the safety and accountability that the opera-soundness of Unit 2, which, tion of Unit 1 can be consid-Jn a shorter time than it took ered while only yards away to pass tiie NRC's rigorous its sister plant sits in ruin.

review, became a world sym- contaminated by radioactivi-bol of a technology that not . ty, an acknowledged health only failed, but threatened and safety hazard which con-the' lives and fortunes of tinues unresolved.

thousands of people.

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