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Expresses Concern Re Frequency of Incidents & Discoveries at Facility.Newspaper Articles Re Recent Spill of Water, Discovery of Crack in Hydrogen Recombiner & Listing of Things Gone Awry at Plant Encl
ML20088A753
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Site: Susquehanna  Talen Energy icon.png
Issue date: 02/10/1984
From: Shortz R
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To: Asselstine J
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PRINCIPAL CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL i CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Robert Shartz NUMBER: 84-0220 LOGGING DATE: 2/27/84 0FFICE OF THE SECRETARY ACTION OFFICE: EDO AUTHOR: . Robert Shgrtz Dallas, PA AFFILIATION: ' LETTER DATE: 2/10/84 FILE CODE: l ADDRESSEE: Cmr. Asselstine P l

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would reaet. Itichard walking > the 7 streets, The bed gets added to a list of Shaver found that victim's head After rmylng "thank you" to oboeless gifts that includes a new sled had been placed upon two pillows, and cryingc in suhfreez' arms folded across her chest and the peopic from the Ilack Moun- ing temperatures. Pollce . subsc- and bfcycle. Pollec.were flooded trin PoIIce Association, he . with offers ' of everything from her body dovered by an afghan. quently charged' turned to attorney Ted Krohn year-old babysitter . Thomas J. toys to winter coats after a the boy's .20- Asked by Shlarosky whether Sha-and politely asked for permission Ravert of 28, O'Neil St...Wilkes- newspaper article described the gicy was crying. Shaver rep!!cd. 

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to turn the bed into a trampo-Darre,' with endangering the boy's harrowing ordeal. Police. bought the bed at Fafn-yes." Iine.

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L onxpayer, joins one filed by two m.t - urban water au thorities in Monteoney, at zero -- teans that the utility sikh ~ ~~~ County that is now pending. The uster subtract from each bill 0.162 cents for authorities have contracts with the "WRA each kilowatt-hour used. A residential for water from the pumping station once customer using 500 kilowatt-hours of elec-it is completed: their suits would demand tricity per conth would see a savings of 

         $40 uillion if the contracts are broken.                 about 81c monthly; a customer using 2000 PE claims that it would sue county                kilowatt-hours would save about $3.24 a month PP&L attributes the savings to better-than-BERWICK QUIZ:

1. Which of the following do you believe occurred at the 

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b. Radioactive water leaked into the vaste treat:ent building.
c. The reactor had to be shut down unexpectedly.

Radioactive water leaked onto the floor of the reactor building. d. i The reactor was shut down according to schedule, but i e. the shutdown had to be extended. [ f. Radicactive water leaked outside the reactor building. 

 '                             A crack was discovered in a pipe weld.
g. All of the above.

2. [ Which of the abcvs occur between almost any two p - conzecutive newsletters you pick? Af h,e c w 

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