ML20084M638

Contends That Intervenors Govt Accountability Project,Lone Tree Council,B Stamaris & M Sinclair Do Not Represent Midland County Community,As Intervenors Claim

ML20084M638
Person / Time
Site:	Midland
Issue date:	04/30/1984
From:	Chatterton R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Dircks W NRC
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OL, OM, NUDOCS 8405150462
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Dear Mr. Dirck:

On April 27, 1984 there was a meeting held between Consumers Power Company and the Nuclear Regulatory Comission. Also in Attendance, as indicated in the paper, were persons specifically representing GAP, Lone Tree Council.

Barbara Stemaris, and Mary Sinclair, all of whom oppose the Nuclear Power Plant Project. Further this group alleges to be " representing the comunity" while in fact they represent very few in the community.

Was the meeting held on April 27, 1984 open to the public? Or, in other words, could we have had representatives attend this meeting who would have truly represented the majority of the people in the comunity? If there are future meetings of this nature may we have a representative attend?

The groups I mentioned above are self-appointed or appointed by a very small group, and for the most part are not from the comunity that they allegedly represent. They should not be in any way considered as represntatives or spokepersons for the Midland County comunity, for they DO NOT.

Their concerns on safety has already been addressed and their statements on economics are short ranged, inaccurate and in some cases absurd. ,

The County of Midland, the State of Michighn,$nd.in fact, the bnited States .

cannot afford to allow a small but vocal group to continue to interfere with the well being of their great Country.

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'elsctridty. Ten more plan to do so by the end of.the ' on vast amounts of cata, technioues and expenence. and .r < e .+. .

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to lose if it faits Denind.in nudear energy development.

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. ., , America helDed Dioneer the technology of the wond's' tne ODlnlons Of journallSts."--Miroedy.a's.rL.* w

• U g inudear plants. Nudear generated e6ectricity in the U.S . "Are the esumated dangers Of'r10!adon larger now . %..

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, t . across the Country, and 56 more are betrig built. In terms ' witn,no.r00ngfor political considerations,",conen said.. t* ^..-

. of total nudear electric generatin0 capacity, Amer 1Ca re * ' . In conddsson/ Cohen said that these failures.cf jour.. *. ' g-

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• nalism are costing our nation thousands of unnecessary .s .%...W.T

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4 donal nesltadon. For flVe years now, no new nudear Moreover, tney nave QuadruDied the inflatlerKorrected . -- '

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t. Dower Diants nave been Ordered in the U.S. During tnis cost of new electr1C Dower in the U.S. making it twice as '., Wnat do

' ~ same Derlod, there have been Orders for at least 20 such exoensive as in Europe or Japan. "We can only Surmisc , a use for? {

plants in other Darts of the wond. even with the global what economic HAVOC tnis will wreak in the next few . Ing to get

' economic slumD. France, the Soviet Union, and JaDan are decades," he added. ."'f Ic s NSPEIPEIJ

' among tne many Countries Committed to nuclear eleC*

, Will we have to play a Costly game of CatenUD in the Cessful In

1. tncity as an economic, secure attemative to oil fired and comDeutlen ahead? America runs the rtsE of doing just. committe f Coalfired Dower, as reDorted by tne U.S. Committee for tnat -If tney ignore tne growing International fellance ConGCt tf1

" Energy Awareness. ~~ %"C/ M *' 'T' - #~ on nudear energy, and the reason behind tne growtn. .. dinate the

'* ' The national nes!tation that Dresency exists 15 due ac- The National Academy of Sciences has stated tnat coal Theidea

,. cordlng to,Bemard L Cohen. Dr0fessor of DnYsics at the and nudear Dower are the Only economlC attemauven .. Board of C University of Pittsburgh and author of 9efore It's Tpo for large. scale application in the remainder of this cen. ' .and attrac)

,LJft: A $dencst's. Case for Nudear EnerW. to an tury. Nudear ger,erated electndty is a secure, deDend. ;being forj aDie," economic energy sourtt, for militons of DeoDie in

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.r "As a consecuence of tnis misinformation," Cohen. many Countries. And tney plan to use more of it in tne ment < -

states,"We are sDending hundreds of mill 60ns of dollars ' years to come. . * * .,

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it has been found that more than 80 Dercent of tne lem is the Nudear Waste Policy Act of 1982 whicn directs , Vantages a Dublic believes tnat nudear Dower is more dangerous the Federal govemment to begin the Drocess leading to . The cod tnan its DrinctDal comDetitor, coal burning, wnlen is the Dermanent disDosal of higfHevel nuclear waste, in before tni tyDica!!y estimated to idfl 10.000 Americans each year deep geologic formations that have been staole for cnalrman with its air Dollutton - some studies estimate 50,000. millions of years. These Dermanent reDositories will be Dut from i Cohen finds this a tragic situadon, unnecessarily killing almost twlte as deed as the Empire State Building is high, tion, con 1 thousands of peoDie and wasting blillons of dollars every The geologic disposal method has been judged the safest Seckley. V year and is pnmartly brought about due to overtoverage by many govemments and scientific bodies. They agree

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. material tne Dast few decades, but have received the rad!adon f[,them combined has less than a one percent cnance nadonal exposure in all of

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This country has a lot more oltnatural gas, and coal ,

e coverage of tne Tnroe Mile taland (Two accident althouen ' tnan eltner France or Japan, put oil suDpties are uncer. .

, cl Investigacons have concluded tnat there was never taln. Natural gas is more valuable for otner uses than for",',#,,CW7O 1 any signincant danger to.the Dublic.-- tne media sell bumipg in Dower Diants. And coal, tnough essentsal...-e As Dart t haven't transmitted tnat message and condnue to imply can't be expected to do the job'. An many countries * *during trH

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' 6 Anotner joumalistse falling, according to Cohen, is in suestantial snare of tne electricity that peoDie consume. vemon, .

not trying to neID tne public understand the dangers of 8y 1985, over hatt of France's electncity will be nudear.f '*of Mondu radiation.."The best way to do tnts, always used by scien. .

generated. The cost of Droducing a nudear kilowatt hour Busses csts in trying to entienten the Dublic," he said, "Is to com- In France is 25 Dercent cheaper tnan with coat and 55 Der. ADO D.m ,

pare tne raciauen being reported with the mucn higher cent cheaDer tnan witn oII. it takes only six years or so to non at 5:

radiation doses we all receive trom natural sources of get a nuclear Dia it bulit there united 10ngdom, and cruise in -

. medicar X.rsys." Tne radiacon due to a.1 accioent in a West Cermany all generate a greater share of their elec. . deDart tnd Rochester, New York nuclear Diant last year was a leading tncity from nuclear Dower Diants than tne U.S. .

ner and d national news story for two days, but witn all tnat Tne view of a scienust and tne U.S. Commtttee for retum trt

, coverage the Dublic never was told tnat no one got as Energy Awareness raise the oue: tion, due to misinforma., Cnannel o mucn raatation as he gets every day from natural sources. con and nationat nesitation: "wnat does America stand about 9-0(

.. v Cohen teHeves that Journalism I,s consutung only a, to lose lf it f alls. behind in nuclear energy developmen..tr't . .'.. . trto .*back I

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