ML20095B903

Urges That Commission Not Consider Issue of Restart Unless & Until All Steps Completed to Ensure Complete Cleanup of TMI-2 & Health & Safety of Public.Served on 840821

ML20095B903
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	08/15/1984
From:	Heinz J SENATE
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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SP, NUDOCS 8408220296
Download: ML20095B903 (2)

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Dear Chairman Palladino and Members of the Commission:

As the Nuclear Regulatory Conciss. ion centinues delibera-

..Q tions concerning the status of Three Mile Island Unit 1, I repeat my strong support for the positions taken by Governor Dick Thornburgh in his letter of June 14,1984 to the Commission on behalf of the Ccmmonwealth.of P.ennsylvania.

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More than five years after the ac<ident, progress on

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the clean up of TMI Unit 2 has been too long delayed.

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... fact, there still are no assurances that funding for the

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Under these circumstances, any decision on the ' future of Unit 1 must be dependent on resolving the present potential health and safety hazard existing in' Unit 2.

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progress in the clean up of Unit 2 would simply be an unacceptable risk which the Co= mission must address in any M.;

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conducted in the Harrisburg area. With the serious pot'ential safety hazard existing in Unit 2, vour Commission must resolve

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. August-15,-1984 Page:2 For all the above reasons, I urge in strongest terns that Commission consideration of any restart of nuclear power generation at Three Mile Island is not appropriate at this time and should not occur unless and until all steps have been completed-to ensure the complete clean up of the damaged E.

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