ML20071G924

Opines That Decision Re Continued Plant Operation Must Weigh Health Effects of Replacement by Coal Burning Plants

ML20071G924
Person / Time
Site:	Indian Point
Issue date:	05/16/1983
From:	Jaffe H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Ahearne J Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel
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NUDOCS 8305240441
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A Mernbership Not-for Profit New York Corp .

P.O. Box 12423. Albany. N.Y. 12212 (518) 765-2223 --y' lay' 16, s1983 @

Commissioner John F. Ahearn A Q' Atomic Safety and Licensing Board $)i, CMi0:h[y'Ib?:...e f Nuclear Regulatory Commission W/

Washington D.C. 20555 OFACERS g j g /, U Pr;sj ntorn J Hearings re emergency planning .

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-e Schenectady. N Y.12309 (518)372-8976

Dear Sir:

Executive Vice-President Jonnso iev Your commission is about to take actions on the '

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,n ,,s matter of emergency planning in the event of accident at m43 sn 5439 the Indian Point nuclear complv;x that will affect the Vice. Presidents entire nuclear power industry. I am sure your commission

$5lll,, g"l,]***' understands that emergency planning was suggested to give Amany N Y 12203 mai 4asaacs the public confidence in a new technology. This worthwhile

~ purpose has been perverted by some groups whose interest 5s'$i uSn'Iow stree, Buffalo. N Y 14202 men % h cndhg he ad Msuda emg wr ddzus.

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I believe that any decision regarding danger to the 7',5",'

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of replacement by coal burning plants.

Secretary Glenn N Ourban ACCording to a 1979 study of the Biological Effects

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o of N Y.12186 the Ionizing Radiation Committee of the National Academy (518) 765-2223 of Sciences, the probability of death from a 1000 megawatt DIRECTORS nuclear plant is one person per year per reactor; for a

<Tne overs and) coal burning plant the probability is 30 per year. A Kennern Beckerman

" Conclusion of the same order of magnitude was reached by te$"2"DIsrson a study done at the University of Pittsburgh. (copy of Watertown. N Y Ed*aed M Griest Conclusions enclosed)

Painted Post N Y s.reert aana If the Indian Point nuclear complex is forced to Hl,;j%",j,"o!ac, close as a result of actions of this committee, the danger Green cn conn.

to the public health will be multiplied by a very substantial

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Henry Menter Y

T U'n"*Elu'p"ny l enclosure Sincerely, Gien cove. N Y A catalogue cuent n Regens'*a New Canaan. Conn of risks us urnt R.cnter Herbert Jaffe, director pn!TO,'fi"' 57 Elinor Place Forest Hdis. N f Russen A. Sciey Freeport N.Y. 11520 Rochester. N Y Wilham R Trautman East Aurora. N Y 8305240441 830516 PDR ADOCK 05000247 #

H PDR Dedicated to the financialintegrity of tam. paying investor. owned New York utilities.

0 ASSOCIATION OF INVESTORS IN NEW YORK UTILITIES, INC.

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P.O. Box 12423. Albany, N.Y. 12212 (518) 765-2223 A CATALCGUE OF RISKS by Bernard Introduction to a study called L. Cohen and I-Sing Lee of the Dept."A Catalogue of Risks" prepared of the University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Pa. 15620 of Physics and Astronomy "The public is constantly harrangued about all sorts of risks, and its perception of risks plays an important role in governmental decision making. The risks of radiation have expecially been emphasized in the popular press. This creates a very serious prob]em since the public does not understand risk.

It gets highly excited about radiation rjsks which are almost never fatal, whereas it largely ignores other risks which claim thousands of lives every year."

THE CHART BELO'il WAS TAKEN FRCM THIS STUDY Table 26. Loss of life espectancy (AE) due to oarious causes C.use days Beies unmamedd 3%0

• Cisareite smokies -male 2150 Heart diseaw 2l00 Beins unmained- female 1600 Being 3(73 overweight 1300 Beins a coal mener 1100 Cancer 900 2ty% Overweight 900

< seh Grade education 350 Cisarette smokmademale 800 Low socconomec status Lawins in unfavorable state 500 Army in Viemam 400 Cigar weting 330 Dangerc us pidents 300 Pipe smokins 2.N Increasins food intake 100 cal / day 2to Mosor veh cle accidents 207 Pneumonie-enauenza 141 Alcohol (U.S average) 130 Accidents n home 95 Suicide 95 Dabetes 95 Beins murdered (honucide) 90 Lessa drus masuse '90 Average Mcidents 74 Drowning 41 Job with radiation esposure 40 Falls 39 Accedents to pedestrians 37 Safest jobo- accidents 30 Fi,e- . burns 27 Generation of energy 24 Ill. cit drugs (U.S. ever.) la Poison (solid. Iaqueda 17 Sunocation 13 Firearms accidents Il N atural radiation (B EIR) 8 Medical X-ra y 6 Poisonous gases 7 CoRee 6 Orni contraceptives 5 Accidents to pedaleychas 3 Alicatastrophes combined 3.3 Det Jreaki 2 Reactor accidents-UCS 2*

Reactor accidents-Rasmusses 0.02*

Radiaison from auc. industry 0.02*

PAP sest -4 Smnke alarmin home - 10 Air bass en car - 50 Mohele coronary care unit: - 125 Safety improvements 19476 - 110

'These items asaw thaa all U.S. power is nuclear.

UCS is Union of Concerned Scientists, the most prom.

inent aroup of nuclear critics.

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