ML20111B113
| ML20111B113 | |
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| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 11/27/1984 |
| From: | SOCIETY OF FRIENDS (QUAKERS) |
| To: | Palladino N NRC |
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| NUDOCS 8503120754 | |
| Download: ML20111B113 (1) | |
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MarydeIoisMcCartyEye, Convener Working Group on Stewardship of the Enviroreent Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends Rt. h, Church School Road
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Doylestown, PA 18901 MINITfE of Meeting of Tuesday, November 27,198h Nunzio J. Palladino To: Nuclear Regulatory Consnission,1717 H Street, NW, Washington, I)0 20555 Inasmuch as stewardship of the environment and quality of human life are moral concerns of enormous importance, we, the Working Group on Stewardship of the Environment of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends are concerned that " increasing power over nature should be used not irresponsibly but with reverence for life"* and' hence that every stage of the nuclear cycle be safe for living creatures.
Therefore we appeal to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to declare a moratorium on the operation and further licensing of nuclear reactors until questions of safety in all the following aspects of the handling of radioactive materials have been solved to the satisfaction of the entire scientific corununity, the medical community and the public:
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The mining of uranium, including the disposal of mill tailings The transportation to, and enrichment of, uranium in gasification plants 2.
3 The transportation of uranium to factories that make fuel rods, and the manufacture of the rods h.
The transportation of fuel rods and their loading into reactors i'
The routine emission of low-level radiation during testing and operation of power plants 6.
The remote but ever-present possibility of a nu: lear catastrophe
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The evacuation plans 8.
Nuclear waste disposal 9
The decontamination of old nuclear plants
- 10. Human fallibility and computer malfunction l
- Faith and Practice l
of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends l
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