ML20090H350

Package of Two Comments on Plant Licensing.Plants Should Not Be Licensed W/O Neighborhood Referendum

ML20090H350
Person / Time
Site:	Limerick
Issue date:	10/26/1983
From:	Dzedzy J, Miller W AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC
References
NUDOCS 8310280083
Download: ML20090H350 (2)

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Ocmments.cn the subject of' the Limerick nuclear rea'cY:is el g2. -

Enving a masters cegree in Ccamunity dealth from the University of s.ichigan, I am currently cf the Jane-Addams chair Feace of the NuclearWomen's Association-and Irg r y1 League Int forMnPcb42it:ee Peace and Freedom. My major interest in my cegree was maternal and child health. It is still my major. YFGLS); yJ-a..

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% LHCH Je'are very glad-that you have come to Limerick tc see for ycurselves

.The area of the plant being built and to hear from the resicents.

Ycurs is a.very serious responsibility to the people of Pennsylvania.

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A.public utility also has responsibility to the public it serves. In the long run a nuclear reactor on the small Schuylkill river poses a clear danger to the city of Philadelphia into which it runs, and does small service to the people of_Chester and Montgomery counties. A spill of radicactive materials into the river would flow straight to Phila-delphia. An accident would harm innumerable communities. The site should never have been allowed for the Limerick plant. Because construc-

-tion has been started is not a good reason to continue a mistake.

Even if no accident occurred, in these days of brittle metal.and emer-ging cracks, a normally operating reactor releases low levels of rad-iation'every day. This has been admitted. It has also been proven in England and confirmed at Harvard Inat low level radiation causes leu-kemia. Infants and children are particularly susceptible. There is an Elementary school within a mile of the Limerick plant. Are they will-ing to move the school to a. safe distance? Leukemia may begin to ap-pear five years after accumulating small exposures. Navy men on nuclear submarines have developed leukemia after four years. It is beginning to appear in Middletown, near Three Mile Island. The usual reaction has been cover-up, denial or failure to publicize.

We visited the information center.'of Limerick three years ago, at that

-time the cost-was to be 3 billion of which one billion was interest to be paid on borrowed money. Now the cost is over five billion - is one third still interest? Are we to support the banks or the public needs?

Pennsylvanians are refusing to pay for construction work in progress

'from which the public receives no benefit. Who pays for the harm done?

And who will be asked to pay for the decommissioning after 25 years, supposing it lasts that long? It may cost more than the construction.

Nuclear' waste is an unsolved problem that will last long after all the nuclear reactors are closed down. It can no longer be shipped out of state to Hanford, Washington or South Carolina. That means that FA.

must become_a nuclear waste dump. We say, "Enough already." The waste is~as' dangerous to health as the fuel and the plutonium more so.

In our_ opinion, it is an unacceptable location > at an unacceptable cost; on which to_ build an unacceptable health hazard that will outlive our

. grandchildren. There are acceptable alternatives and those who carry responsibility to the nation can afford to take the long view.

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. 'p~ ,g- Winnifred S. Miller 21 Dougherty Blvd I Glen Mills PA. 19342

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