ML20082B133
| ML20082B133 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 11/19/1981 |
| From: | Hollingworth B, Peaver R NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF |
| To: | NEW HAMPSHIRE, STATE OF |
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| ML20079F081 | List: |
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| FOIA-83-388 NUDOCS 8311210017 | |
| Download: ML20082B133 (2) | |
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Biate of Nem EampsI; ire HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES CONCORD November 19, 1981 6
i Public Utilities Commission Docket DE 81-304 Recent information concerning nuclear safety problems at reactors, such as at Indian Point, 24 miles north of Manhattan Island, is caus-ing concern in many States, such as Texas, Washington, Illinois and California.
The Bailly plant.... "30 miles from Chicago's Loop and 6h miles from Gary, Ind. (is) closer to major population centers than anyone now thinks wise.", states one report. (1)
Potassium iodide pills to fend off thyroid cancer are being distributed to the 7,000 families within 5 miles of the Secuoyah nuclear plant in Tennessee because they may not have su.fficient time to flee in case of.a nuclear accident, states another report.
(2) An NRC Commissioner has stated it may be necessary to "close the beaches", as 'was suggested in a Hearing in the Ecuse of Representatives in Washington in July, 1979.(3)
Since, in the original siting plan, the true population within the LPZ (I.cw Population Zone) was not counted, and the current Federal Policy calls for speeding up nuclear plant construction, responsibility for public safety now rests directly on elected local and State offi-cials.
This type of information stresses the great need for the three safety reruirements requested by representatives of the 17 Seacoast communities within a 10-mile radius of the Seabrook nuclear plant.
Recogniring their responsibilities for public safety, as well as t
the economic well-being of N.H.,
64 Legislators from all over the State have joined the 23 Legislators and 27 Selectmen (and the Coastal Chamber of Commerce) from the Seacoast communities to support their request that these evacuation standards be in place before any money is authorired for evacuation planning.
The legitimate safety concerns of the Seacoast, and State-wide, should not be construed as a position for or against nuclear power or the Seabrook nuclear plants.
l In view of the fact that the Public Utilities Com=ission has been er(trusted with the regulation of the utility, we request that:
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- 1. Time liinits within which those in the area surrounding the nuclear power plant can be safely evacuated be set;
- 2. A ' feasibility study be done using these time limits, in order to ascertain whether or not an evacuation could in fact be carried out within that time framer and s..3. Pr, ovis ion.. bemade for SYate'and' Seacoast ' area review and final approval of any evacuation plan before it is to be used by the utility in its application for an operating license from the
- NRC, prior to allocating those moneys.
Rep. Roberta C.
Pevear, and Rep. Severly A. Hollingworth Rockingham District #12 Hampton/Hampton Falls
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Radiation Sickn'ess", 5IME,' October 26, 1981
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" Nuclear Accident? Tennessee officials say take 14 pills",
THE BOSTON GLOBE, November 4, 1981 (3)
" Emergency Planning Around U.S. Nuclear Powerplants:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Oversight", Fourth Report by the Committee on Government Operations, House Report No.96-413.
Attachments:
Letter signed by Legislators and Elected Town Officials within 10 mile of Seabrook nuclear plant - 10/26/81, etc.
Letter signed by Legislators - State-wide - 11/17/81 Letter signed by Gov. Gallen to Nunzio Palladino, Chairman, NRC - 10/15/8.
Chamber of Commerce Resolution - 4/20/81
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