ML20126E087

Objects to Extension of Deadline for Achieving Compliance from 740701 to 751115.Expresses Concern Re Util Liability Limits in Price-Anderson Act.Northern Mi Medical Society Resolution on Nuclear Facilities Encl

ML20126E087
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Site:	Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png
Issue date:	06/25/1974
From:	Drake G AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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NUDOCS 8101100832
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PETOSKEY. MICHIGAN 49770 TELEPHONE 347 8300 June 25,1974 Director of Licensing USaEC Washington, D.C. 20545

Dear Sir:

We objec t to the extension of the deadline for achieving compliance for Big Rock Point Nuclear Plant at Charlevoix Michigan from July 1, 1974 to November 15, 1975 Nothing in the his t6ry of the operating record of this plant or other nuclear plants is condusive to the comfort of those of us living near these plants. As you well know there haw. been many accidents in these plants. There have been times when the monitors were turned off and didn't pick up discharges.

We are especially concerned that the Price Anderson bill limits the utilities liability in case of accident and that at the same time our homeowners policies don't cover us.

In case of an accident, we are being asked to assume a completely unacceptable risk. We are further pot reassured by the f act that Price Anderson is being exterf)d for ten years.

We further find that the incidence of leukemia, cancer and brain tumors is up in the down wind area from this plant.

Until this is fully investigated' and we can be reassured that radioactive discharges from this plant are not causing it, we feel the plant should be under the strictest controls.

Enclosed is a copy of a resolution recently passed unanimously by the Northern Michigan Medical Society.

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Ge ald A. Drake, M.D.

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4 s THE NORIERN MICRIGAN MEDICAL SOCIET! RESCLUTION ON NUG, EAR POWER PLANTS WHEREAS radioactivity is known to cause leukemia, cancer, birth and genetic defoots and .c.

WHEREAS W ~one hundred thousand megawatte of nuclear electricity projected for this oountry before 1950 would generate as much long-lived radioactivity as the fissioning of about 100,000 Hiroshima bombs per year, plus 40,000 pounds of radioactive plutonium-239 annually and ...

WHEEAS on tabspoonful of plutoniue-239 re;'esents W official maximum permissa-ble body burden for 200,000,000 people and ...

WHEREAS radioactive waste from nuclear power plants, which includss plutonium-239, must be kept out of the environment for tons of husands of years or longer, socording to the Atonio Energy Commission and ... '

WBEAS more than 99 99% of this radioactivity must be kept isolated since the es-  ;

cape of 00.01% is the radioactive equivalent of 10 Hiroshima bombe per year and ...

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WEREAS nearly perfoot containment of radioactivity is not just a straightforward l engineering problem, but rather is a problem which requires fixes for carelena- .

ness, error and onroonfidence on h part of Wussnds of human beings and ... l WEREAS emergency core cooling safety systems in nuclear plants have not been suo- l oessfully tested, having f ailed six out of six times in minicture tests and ... 1 WHEREAS there is no safe disposal of high level fission wastes but rather perpetual l guardianship and ...  !

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WEREAS nuclear fission is the only method of making electricity which compromises l h future for essentially all generations to como and ...  !

l WHEREAS, by the Agge, e,wn estimates, a maximum intensity nooident could cause hu.  :

aands of deaths and billions of dollars of property damage and ... )

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WEREAS private insurance ($90,000,000) and Price-Anderson Act coverage ($450,000,000; an outright payment by the taxpayer) would oover only a fraction of losses and ..

. WEREAS thess plants, having taken over twenty years and over 20 billion dollars in govemment research and developent funds be.ve yet to produce a not balance of electricity and ...

WEEEAS only a ==a11 fraction of research and denlopout funds for electrical energy have gone to energy conservat$on and to sources owr than nuoloar; such as coal, solar, wind, tidos, geothemal, organic wastes, etc., therefore be it ...

RES1 VED: That the Northern Michigan Medical Society go on record as favoring a five year moratorium on nuclear power pl.+nt construct. ion coupled with intense research and development programs for other sources cf electrical energy and for conser-vation of electrical energy, and be it further ...

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BESQLVED: That this resolution be distributed to

1. The House of Delegates of the Michigan State Medical Society by the dele-gates from the Northern Michigan Mediosl Society, to ...

2. Each component medical society of the Michigan State Medical Society, to ..

3 Our state legislators, to ...

4. Mr. Mark Mason, Govemor Milliken's environmental advisor, and to ...

5 Senators Phillip Hart and Robert Griffin and Representative Phillip Ruppe.

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