ML20067C903
| ML20067C903 | |
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| Site: | Cooper  |
| Issue date: | 04/28/1971 |
| From: | Thone C HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| ML20067C396 | List: |
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| FOIA-90-173 NUDOCS 9102120243 | |
| Download: ML20067C903 (4) | |
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Gri!@ilig!cti,D.C. 20M5 April 28, 1971 Dr. Glenn T. Scaborn, Chairman Atomic T.ncrny Comair.uion
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Dear Dr. Scaborgi The nttached let ter f rom Mrs. Jef f Broady rniscs some interesting
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quer.tions concerning the Cooper Nucicar Power P1 cut.
I would appreciate informatien on which to hace a reply.
f For your inf ortwtion, during the pcst year Mrs. Broady has uritten to Presid:.nt Sixon, Sonntor 11rusha end Senator Curtin.
I had received a letter frou l'rs, trondy previously nnd based ray reply to her letter on the infornat.$ an your appncy hnd provided Senators 11ruska and Curtis.
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trownville, Nebratka April 24, 1971 Mr. Charl en Thone House of Representat'ves Kashington, D. C.
Dear Mr. Thone,
Thank you for your nnewer to my letter.
I am certainly aware ci the fact that construction on the Cooper Nuclear Pouer Plant vill continue, regardless of ray protestations.
i What I do not think yeu are avarc of is the fact that there is an extrem; dif ference between the estimates of the AEC and the Pablic 11ealth Evt.luation of the Cooper Station. The AEC rays 2.2 atem (fo-car cattic), and the Public Health ( based i
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.5 rem / year t o the one-year old child uho ingests mi'.k within a 15 - 20 mile radius around thic recctor plant.
Since. 5 rem ic 500 n. rem, this is quite a differer.cc.. Nothir n is said about radiation in the air, water, or food prode:t s apart from milk in the Public~Hecith Evaluntion.
Think a:eut this for a moment - the Public
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Health is saying here that our radiation will be - what 7 Mr, Thone, it could casily be over 2000 - all within normal operating procedures.
What I am so concerned about here is I
that'the AEC and HPPD intend to do their own monitoring, and they evidently have convinced our state government that they should go along with this.
Since there is so very much
' difference betucen their story and the Public Health - who I
is rit;ht '?
Deleive me, I don't want NPPD to monitor me -
if they said the weather was fine, I'd look for an umbrella.
You know, anc I knov, that if a sampic of air is co11ceted J.
when the vind is blowing towards the north, the sampic has j
-to be taken touards the north - not the south - see what I mean 7-
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l I'm suro uhat har happened is this. - the fuel cladding assemblies simp) cannot withctand the radiation and the corrocivencas of nuclear fission. They lenk.
Radiation leaks into the coolant of a BUR plant - and out the dispersal tower. They pl.~n no holdup of nases or particulants.
As I understand it, to withold thenc gar.es creates another situation, more dnngerous than the first. This was not i
planned by the AEC.
But they recognize that this fact exists - they plan on a fuel cladding failure of 1% in l
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ppg. 20 "Public licolth Evaluatien of the Cooper Nuclear
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Station" noximum ascemblics with de fective cladding - Dresden 1 - 57.,
Big Point Rock 15'/, ilumboldt Lay 25", Elk River 15% -
i-I don't hoow how many of the existing atomic plants are LWR's - in or out of operation, but I do think it would only he reasonable that every one of them should be examined for leaks and the vicinity should be surveyed ( by an independent surveyor) for radioac;;ve uptake of 131, 137 1
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and 90sr, in cattic, all livest ock, and corn etc.-
If you do not ti ink this is reaconable, study the " hazards of a
ionizing radiation" - FRC.
In tl.e serveliance studies of Dresden 1, prototype of Cooper, 1311 uns found in cattic thyroids, and 137 was found in h
cs corn kernels. We are much clocer tc Cooper than the, cattle
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tested ucre to Dresdun, and'Dresden is less than h the size e
of Cooper. What happens to the 3 - 4 million pounds of beef I
we feed out and the 30, - 60,000 bus'aels of corn we feed out, I
if Cooper leaks like, say 11umboldt 3cy?
i Mr. Thone, uc are too close to operate a feed yard under these conditionc. Ue'd Icave anyti=e, but we can't sell
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to another farmer. We're stuck.
l Talk to Mike Gravel, find out why he has introduced a bill j
calling foi a moratorium on the building of these plants.
j Let me kno. his answer.
Find out wl y the Illinois Pollution Control Board has 4
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s demanded a reduction by a factor of 50 ( below the AEC recommendation) to their Dresden 111 plant - cxactly like Cooper.
l Find out why the citizens of Michigan has won in Federal j.
Court a similar case, Explain what has happened to our Poblic 11calth in this area -
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1 I have asked rependedly for studies on all t'4R plants in the United States, to far, to no avail - will you help me?
These figures must include percentages of cledding failures in all LWR plants, whether or not they are now operational.
i Do you realize that NPPD and Iowa Power and Light jointly are building Cooper, do you know that Iowa Preer and Light has merged with Illinois Electric, and is the process of j
another merger with Iowa Cas and Electric?. Do you know that SS7 of the power generated at Cooper will go out of r'
state?. 127,will go to Lincoln, and Sam Schwartskopf has 1
told mc that NPPD would have to lower their prices to act
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Lincoln to buy - this docsn't sound as if Nebrcska needs this power.
q Are you acquainted with the tax subsidies of Public Power?
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This is not a remote area of no importance - this is potentially the greatest cattic feeding area in.the Midwest, we grow corn.
.rcal corn - 90,000 bushels on our farm alone, j:
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