ML20077K170
| ML20077K170 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 12/01/1982 |
| From: | Holt J, Ondrasik M PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, NEW YORK |
| To: | Ahearne J, Gilinsky V, Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 8212080280 | |
| Download: ML20077K170 (2) | |
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Commissioners:
" @!G & SERVICE Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman John F. Ahearne Victor Gilinsky James Asselstine Thomas M. Roberts U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission h'
Washington, D.C.
20006 Gentlemen:
As an organization deeply concerned about the possibility of an accident at New York's Indian Point nuclear power station, the New York Public Interest Research Group (NYPIRG) awaits with trepidation the Commission's imminent decision regarding the re-start of TMI Unit 1.
It was the accident at Three Mile Island in 1979 tnat brought home to us in New York the grave danger to our region posed by the operation of the Indian Point plants.
It was the accident at TMI that motivated NYPIRG to establish its Indian Point Proj ect to monitor operations at the Buchanan plants, to educate the public about the risks they pose to our lives and homes, and finally to intervene in the ASLB's Special Investigation.
We have followed the TMI-l re-start hearings with concern all these many months, always incredulous that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission would even consider permitting further nuclear power generation on the very site of the nation's worst reactor accident. We cannot believe that the Three Mile Island site, with its damaged TMI-2 core, waste products, and contami-nated equipment, can be a safe place to operate another reactor.
Furthermore, from what we have read about the condition of its steam
N generators, TMI-l is by no means an " undamaged" plant.
It seems to us insane that this plant, of all others, should be made the testing ground for new repair techniques for a new type of steam generator tube damage.
The New York press has of late been covering the arguments in court of the owners and the manufacturers of TMI-2.
Each party blames the other for the accident, and the substance of their accusations against one another seem reason enough to deny permission to operate TMI-1.
Additionally, the revelations about cheating of TMI operators on their exams and the implication in this scandal of GPU officials deserve punishment, not reward.
9212090290 PDRADOCKOhohh9 PDR The New York Pubhc Interest Research Grow, Inc. (NYPIRG) is a not-for-rc'* nonpartrsan research and advocacy organization established, directed and supported by New York State college and unrversity students. NYPtM c staff of lawyers, researchers, scentists and organizers works with students and other ottrons, developing cettronship sans and shaping pubhc Awacy. Consumer f4M.un, higher educatiors, energy, fiscal responsibility, political reform and sooal justace are NYPIRG's pnnopal areas of concem
NYPIRG - page 2 Our sympathics are with the people who live near Three Mile Island, who voted as citizens of a democracy against the re-start. We wonder that the Commission can even contemplate ignoring their votes and their pleas.
It is just plain wrong that chose people may be asked to bear the emotional trauma of having to confront the daily fear they will live with if TMI-1 is allowed to operate. They have had enough.
Finally, it frightens us to think that were an accident to occur at Indian Point 2 or 3, the Commission might permit the other plant to go on operating.
We urge the Commission to make the only sane and humane decision possible and to order the permanent closing of Three Mile Island Unit 1.
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Respectfully yours,
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