ML20125B300

Forwards from Representative C Macgregor of Mn & Reply from Commissioner Jt Ramey ,for Info of Joint Committee on Atomic Energy

ML20125B300
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Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	05/09/1969
From:	Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Bauser E CONGRESS, JOINT COMMITTEE ON ATOMIC ENERGY
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D' ny 3 1969 OCR (2) f HLPrice WGDooly PAMorris Mr. Edward J. Bauser. Executive Director Mill, DIP Joint Ccrrnittee on Atmic Enerry DR Reading Corrmas of the United States GErtter (re DR-2110)

Dear Mr. Bauner:

I am enclosinr, for the informtion of the Joint Ccmittee en Atctnic Encivy, conies of a letter frm Representative Clark MacGremr of Minnesota, dated April 2,1969, are a reply frmi Comissioner James T. Ramy dated May 5,1969 Cor:rtissioner Ramey's letter enclosen AE coments in resocnse to questiorn cencerning radioactivity mleases frm the Monticello Nuclear Generatinr, Plant and other nuclear enercy mtters which were raised in a letter to Representative thcGrerar frm Mrs. David R.

Carlson, Minneanolis, Minnesota.

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Dear Mr. Ramey:

Enclosed is a letter I recently roccived~from a constituent.

.I would appreciato receiving answers to'the questions asked in Mrs. Carlson's letter.

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Sir I am very concerned by report: I nnvo toen reeding in Tno Minne-apolin Star an rosard to tne probablo collution of our drin.dng unter//

tae NSP nucionr-povered pinnt being built at Ibnticello, Minnocota._

by2nclosed in a photoctot copy of two of the artfcica unicn oppocred re-ce nt ly.

bny qaostiono novo cens to mind and poruopa you cro in a poc-l' ion to find the casworn for to and tako oction, if possible, to pro-vent USP from diocnorging redicoctivo wcates into tne river.

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study and havo tnere boca any similar studac.c cud

,this a governm:n L/ uhat conclusions navo been drcwn frem tnom? If tto statements cado in tuiu orticle in'roscrd to tno nigner concer roto-cro true. it in hord to understond how :no Atomic-Energy Commission can clakn thero 1 is no dangor to tne populneo.

On a recont televlaiou prodrem entitled "'.inet ere we doing to our Worida, tne problems of dispocol of redioactivo wantea from nuclear plants ves discuscad.

In' edditica to tno westes put in tne river,-

cvidently soce also has te bo buried and will rc= sin radioentive for 1,000 years. In lignt of tn:co facta, it' ic hord to undcr tend.uny core of these plants cre being planned. I recline therc-is a ncod.for -

ore electricity t'o c ot tne dosseds of c growing population, but wnnt is wrong with the conventional power plants. Wnct arsuront is:tnero in n

-favor of nuclecr plants?

I assu=c perciccion for tne'co planto end supervision of-then is controlled by the Atomic Energy Co=nienion. Ooen anyone or group havof[ J "

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i eny control over One Atemic Encrgy Cc= iscion?

1 In onotner articlo I reed it statoc, 'According to 1:vyors for both the federal co=niccion nrd the stete ccency, con;roccional cetion has,insul-ergy Cc.; mission from c y catcldo interference on policy:

\\=utedtuoAtomicEnThin' is in reference to tne Minacaota Pollution Control A a

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ichollan3 ng the A20 in roscrd to dicpocal cf radioactive ucatos et :tanti-i

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jeallo.. Pernr.ps tnoco cffected directly should be the onec to.docido utotnor :

itney went to drink radioce'tivo unter or. not cc I nm not convinced ~tnc ;

Atomic Energy Cor.ruosica is idicllibic. There vero a lot of docd ctecp out West bocause somsono or group mndo cn errer in testing servo.ccc.

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celle,and I understand I;S? do ;)lann$rg tuo more planto north of R:d Vin; //

in tne 1970's.. !i, cecem the combin:d rcdionctivo unotes fro:n theco plcnta uculd be bot.nd to rnico the lovol of radiation in the river conoidorably de nctreat.

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In view of all tno concern in our lend todcy for cicaning up !.cor-ice ccd procorving ot.: natural rosources..I do not believe NSP cnould to allowed to pollute.the Mpcicoippi Rivoi* particulcrly witn r:dioactive wettes.

Any inforr.ation you can secure for to in regard to q questions vould be r.ost approciated. Thank you for your help in tnio entter.

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