ML20126B543
| ML20126B543 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 05000574 |
| Issue date: | 02/20/1980 |
| From: | Hoover P, Manzanares C, Simpson C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 8003130634 | |
| Download: ML20126B543 (17) | |
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L. . PETITIOT TO STOP NUCLEAR EXPORTS to the PHILIPPINES
,* To the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and men bers of the Executive Branch Review ~
Group for U.S. Reactor Exports: We, the undersigned urge the NRC to deny all Westinghouse applications for license exports of a nuclear plant, its components and fuel to the Philippines for the following reasons: i
- 1. The fact that the Philippine nuclear plant is situated 5 miles from Mt. Natib, a potentially explosive volcano, according
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- 2. The fact that the Philippine nuclear plant is plagued with siting, reactor design, environmental, human rights]and socio-economic problems. Especially alarming is the NRC staff finding that:
a) the plant is located near an active volcano AU b) the plant site has a long history of intense seismic activity f 4\ ( c) the orientation of the plant's turbine generator presents unacceptable risks d) the plant is only 10 miles away from U.S. Subic Naval Base.
- 3. The fact that there are 45 million Filipinos and including at least 8,000 Americans (residing in Subic Na. val Base), who are potential victims of nuclear accidents.
- 4. The fact that more than 50,000 Filipinos have risked their lives in signing a petition to Marcos opposing the plant construction. The Philippine dictator is a universally acknowledged human rights violator, which the U.S. State Department is in concurrence with.
- 5. The fact that more than 6,000 Filipinos have urged the NRC to deny the export license to Westinghouse.
- 6. The fact that spent fuel from the Philippine plant is likely to be returned to the U.S., no full Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) nor a detailed health and safety analysis has yet been done as required by the amended Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
- 7. The fact that the Westinghouse pay-off scandal amounting to $35 million still remains unsettled by the U.S. Justice Department.
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% L CLEAR EXPORTS to t,e PHILIPPINES To the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and members of the Executive Branch Review Group for U.S. Reactor Exports:
We, the undersigned urge the NRC to deny all Westinghouse applications for license exports of a nuclear Pl ant, its components and fuel to the Philippines for the following reasons:
- 1. The fact that the Philippine nuclear plant is situated 5 miles from Mt. Natib, a potentially explosive so!cano, according to a study by the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA).
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- 4. The fact that more than 50.000 Filipinos have risked their lives in signing a petition to Marcos opposing the plant construction. The Philippine dietator is a universally acknowledged human rights violator, which the U.S. State Department is in concurrence with.
- 5. The fact that more than 6,000 Filipinos have urged the NRC to deny the export license to Westinghouse.
- 6. The fact that spent fuel from the Philippine plant is likely to be returned to the U.S., no full Environmental impact Statements (EIS) nor a detailed health and safety analysis has yet been done as required by the amended Atomic Energy Act of 1954.
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ibrnational Association of Filipino Patriots (IAFP) h ' in P.O. Bas 2M7 oawmt. cA. ons U 8' A' f, February 1, 1980 U.S . Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC , The Commissioners: We are appalled at your decision to grant the license to the Philippine reactor. We find it illogical that the NRC should find it has no. authority to investigate the environmental impact of a U.S. nuclear product on the Philippines. To say that' "it would.. interfere with the internal affairs" of the Philippines, if the NRC were to do so, is simply irresponsible. If indeed, the NRC were. concerned with interference on the sovereignty of another nation, then it should ask why the Carter Administration and the State Department allowed the sale and loan of $600 Million
'from Exim-Bank in the first place? The Filipino people have been opposed to the construction of the reactor, but it has been made possible courtesy of the U.S. government, is not that interfering with the sovereignty of another nation? Certainly, you must recognize that there is an internal conflict within the Philippines over the issue. The NRC has recognized all along that there are dangers posed by the nuclear plant construction, yet it is allowing itself to be used by a repressive and dictatorial regime in manipulat-ing the destiny of the Filipino nation.
The NRC 'should ask itself, what is it really supposed' to do? Yes, what what are you really supposed to represent? health and safety interest and environmental conerns? Perhaps you think you have fooled a lot of people. Well, we should let you know that we now see your interests coincide with the nuclear industry's and you are nothing but a buffer blinding the people's opposition to nuclear expansion. You pretend to be ne'utral and objective. The Philippine case is a, clear cut violation of that principle--the NRC policy evaluation of January 15 suggest' that all uncertainties about seismic volcanological and ceotechnic features of Napot Point site have not been completely resolved. Moreover, the report stated that a 3-Mile Island type ac6ident is definitely low but not nececsarily remote." The NRC is issuing the license is irresponsible, illogical and unreasonable. You have put the whole Philippine nation in a time-bomb, and any nuclear accidents in the near future, we will hold you responsible and accountable. The IAFP AckNwbd;3d by card..nb.., ....ni
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION Washington, D.C. 20555 FRIENDS OF THE FILIPINO PEOPLE O ANTI MARTIAL LAW COALITION (Philippines)
l l 1 TH E BATAAN NUKE: l A 'M 88TAlT? ; People hearing the story of the e! Tort to set up a nuclear plant dalous and most publicized product of a consistent policy of the ' in the province of Bataan, Philippines, think it's unbelievable. U.S. toward the Philippines. The Philippines is important to the And it is. The plan to construet a nuclear reactor with 200 U.S., first and foremost, as n dumping ground for U.S. industrial design defects on the slope of an active s olcano and beside three exports and an area for U.S. capital insestment. From the I earthqdake faults,in an area prey to tidal waves and typhoons, Payne-Aldrich Act of 1909 to the current investment policies of seems to spring right out of Rip!cy's "Believe It or Not." the U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship. U.S. policy has consis-But, belie ve it or not, the Philippine reactor is not an accident, l tently and consciously set out to keep the country as a captive ' a Frankenstein of poor planning. The dumping of this defective market for all sorts of superfluous, useless and dangerous product of a technology which is increasingly being rejected in commodities like those produced by Westinghouse, and pre-the U.S. is,in fact, part of a scheme-a conspiracy to save the l serve it as a paradise of cheap labor for U.S. capital. U.S. I troubled n,uclear monopolies by palming off their products to corporations and the U.S. government have consistently fru-repressive U.S. allies thdt can be corrupted or commanded to l strated the growth of a viable national industrial base which ; buy them; it is hardly surprising that 23 of the 33 reactors could produce the technology appropriate to the energy and ! operating 'under construction, or on order in the Third world are other needs of the Fi!ipino people. ; found in dictatorships, like South Korea, the Philippines, or "We now have the lowest wage rates in Southeast Asia " Brazil, which are closely allied to the United States, ; Marcos recently gloated beforc an assembly of foreign business- l men in Manila. It is entirely consistent with the mentality of this j A GIGANTIC CCN GAME
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The Bataan reactor is the result of a gigantie con game thoughts about placing Westinghouse's need for superprofits perpetrated on the Filipino people by the Marcos government, above the future of the Philippine environment and the very lives Westinghouse, the IL,. ort Import Bank, the State Department, of the Filipino people. the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. and Jimmy Carter. l First, Westinghouse pays the Marcos clique $35 million to RESISTANCE get the contract. Then the U.S. Export-Import Bank loans But the game cannot last very long. In spite of military rule
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Marcos $644 million to pay Westinghouse for the reactor. And financed to the tune of $500 million by the United States, the 1 the U.S. State Department plays the role of an enthusiastic Filipino people are speaking out openly and courageously not middleman to clinch the deal. only against the reactor export but against the sery system of Caught off-guard by Filipino and international opposition to U.S.-Marcos control that has spawned and will continue to the deal, thc U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission now tries to spawn social and ecological scandals such as the Bataan justify it by stating the pious concern that denying Westing- reactor. house a license to export the dangerous contraption "might be a in the last few months, increasing numbers of people through-violation of Philippine sovereignty." Dehind the scenes, Jimmy out the world have joined their voice to the opposition against Carter, a nuclear engineer by training and a proponent of the reactor export. Three International Days of Protest have nuclear power, assures Westinghouse that he is against "un- been held, drawing support in 33 cities throughout the world, necessary delays" in the granting of the export license. from Canberra. Australia, to Tokyo, Japan, to Washington, D.C. This opposition will have to be multiplied a hundredfold in A CONSISTENT POLICY the coming months. We all has e a role to play in w hat is now an The Westinghouse reactor export is merely the most scan- international elTort to stop the Bataan nuke.9 Local
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