ML20077K452
| ML20077K452 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/11/1983 |
| From: | Pollard R, Weiss E HARMON & WEISS, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS |
| To: | Ahearne J, Asselstine J, Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8301130060 | |
| Download: ML20077K452 (2) | |
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Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C.
20555 RE:
Three Mlle Island Unit 1 Docket No. 50-289 (Restart)
Gentlemen:
UCS is astonished by the letter sent by Counsel for GPU to the Commissioners on January 4,
1983 GPU urges the Commission to make the Licensing Board's decision immediately effective, thereby lifting the NRC's 1979 orders requiring TMI-1 to remain shutdown, despite the fact that the Licensing Board's decision has been invalidated in important respects by the Appeal Board.
The sole grounds offered in support of this extraordinary plea is, in effect, that some other unidentified plants with safety deficiencies as serious as TMI-1 may be operating.
This is, of course, an assertion which has yet to be proven.
However, the I
reco.rd is
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evidence does not support a conclusion that TMI Unit 1 can withstand an accident of the type that occurred in Unit 2.
The inescapable conclusion of GPU's logic is that if one other plant could be found with equally serious safety problems.
TMI-1 should be permitted to restart.
It is unthinkable that NRC would seriously consider adopting a policy which would either explicitly or implicitly permit the tolerable level of risk to the public to be dictated by the l
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