ML20097K091
| ML20097K091 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Oyster Creek |
| Issue date: | 06/06/1995 |
| From: | Dekok D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| References | |
| FOIA-95-258 NUDOCS 9509180040 | |
| Download: ML20097K091 (3) | |
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David Dekok 113 Conoy St.
Harrisbury.Pa 17104 June 6.19-e BSDOM OF iR.;u...
Utvision of Freedom of Irdormation hdACT R:QUEsr and Publications Services
% cA - 9E-15 8 Office of Administration and Resources Management t g, 4_ g _g.5 Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Freedom of Information request Dear Sir or Madam-Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I would like copies of the following.
-All correspondence in your files between the former Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric pertaining to GE s work on the m' ster Creek nuclear plant between the years 1963 and 1975,
--Any documents in your files such as memos. reports. etc.. directiv relating to the above correspondence during the same time period Neither of these requests pertains to documents that are alread) in the Public Document Room in the Ovster Creek i file or released in previous FOI A requests. I am looking for documents pertaining to GE s work as the Ovster Creek reactor / plant builder. especially those pertaining to GE s efforts to resolve AEC concerns about problems discovered in the Os ster Creek plant around 1969.
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. I also request Representative of the News Media ' status. which entitles me to a waiver of search fees and 100 pages of free copying. These documents will be used in preparation of a book I am writing on the history of General Public Utilities Corp. owner of the Ovster Creek nuclear plant l
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- I am the author of one previous book, Unseen Danger A TrageJV of People, Government and the Centralia Mine Fire. It was published in 1986 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. A copy of a revie'v o!
my first book in the New York Times is enclosed.
Thank you for your attention to this request.
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_By now, all but atmut e9 of Centraha's Sopwid impassable by amog A fdhrig station's gasolme tanka fortes of nature, streamns against your ef water ran hot troen the cold fauteta Roads were made fort to estract this coal So you are e a con smuel struggle Nature is out to pruiect ett houses have been rased More than 900 peuple have were pumped dry to keep them from espkuhng. And un twen rehm ated at Government empense m a program resources and you a,re there, orestims the tmoets out of met cem far more man she errorss, nu* stwirted, to fight lean the ground gave way beneath a la yearend tioy, in remseem anna *r m a enal mea * "
who was sostlowed mte the mane pit As he dangled Many urtwan Amerwans may vive the cual fields of the hre in the 1970 s Rekxation memey was wrung from from a handr a 1on a tree res, his red cap was spurted me mang so yeen er w phmstun only through me peokstaged agony of grass-through the. nes and steam He was yanked bact Appalachsa as lethal and remote The riska of msnma rmwa poh<nal achvtam And other Pennsylvania sowns esaal underground are well ennugh amown gut what from hell Centraha was not wem unsand m the eloquent sentimony ateve, given by a may tw nest hroughout the regism. Mr DPKok orties Using unpubhshed ducemefde oinaaned under the einer to a Congressional committee a generetam ago m " Unseen Danger " "the pmentaal for new mme fires F reedom of informalma Act. Mr DeKok accuses offs-
- esed what these angry tunes demonstrate anew tha' is as great as ever "
in the 1960's, when Centraha's houses tegen filhng coats vi paeavis the buck and of cynwat indifferenice to Governmens still imas ways to overham - es that the with lethat fumes, the intersor Department supphed the people of t'entratta Former Secretary of the In-terkw James G Watt is quoted as sayms in 1981, the perds of the sutnerrancase bettw for ctual between man momtors that detected them The underground mme 19th year of the Centraks mine fire, "There is mit a and nature estand upward to the surface fire spread Some residems were kamlied unrunarsous theest to health and safety lThe firel gues down deep.
The Usuted Staten Burosu of Mmes reported in 1979 (and kas said httle an the subpect strate) that Riore than by the noascus games that rose to the surf ace Wmdows f
3 mdhon peuple m 19 stases 80 percent of them in had to be kept open during the =mier, and snow melted the deeper et burns, the less risk there is to safety Eventually it will burn out."
l Pennsytvania - were suffering daninge to health and on the eiesmmg graurut in kerchens and bashrewsms.
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eased underground cast mares and sudace culm froel fill a Dickens novel Mr DeKok descrees RKhard L l
pruperty from some 130 uncontrolled fires m aban-sylvema, es bemt evasive etssut the Cemrahe fire De Thornbutth. the former Republican Governor of Penn-waste) banks. a numtwr of which have been burmns for 7
l Governor's predecessors. Wahem Scrsman and Msitan years "Partrularly during the first half of this cen-
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Shepp. share the blame. the author says, along with a tury," tfw bureau said men, cual msnmg was "arcom-j phahed without today's technological, sucent and enyt-A large cast of lesser state and F ederal off rials - parts-g utarly Mr Scranton's Secretary of Mmes and Minerst rotunentalinsight
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Pengress Admmistralsun, style photographs by Renee Jacobs pnftrays with pmanency a Welsh, tant-e photographer, pesvede postmortems on the neow death of the httle Petinsylvansa town of Centraha.123 g-trian and $lavic Roman Cathohc commumty on at 5
e once was, pulsed up stuttorn bewilderment Drurribing mnee snarthwest of Phdadelphes This wonage of f 000 smule un the depreened, largely mmeden.4 bard coal at the hundreds of deep bore holes, drdled during me years of fulde efforts to track the course of the fire, gian known to mmers as "the anthracite" was smeted sbanenned mane tunnels beneam it The fire a origin is Margaret O Kark, a freelance writer. en a brief este and chueied for 24 years by a ru.iaway enferno an the ductawn to the tund, writes that the test holes = dug m
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,.g that et may have tieen tansted when the town act fire to a sections, and topped at ground level with man high g
smokestacks for the steam exhaust.- seemed stuck an landfd4 me ground 9ee Wshh M cigames" See A. F r..aiian a currespimdent in the Washmg On Menioridi Duy 8984. Wrownse Troop No f 75 pusses What " Unseen Danger" and 54pw Surn" have to soninsteauof The New York Times who has covered the e horM mot vesde stenesi and see hesi me tell va as that smokmg cost mines are dangerous to your J
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