ML20134C516
| ML20134C516 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 08/11/1985 |
| From: | Rowland B AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Thompson H Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8508160338 | |
| Download: ML20134C516 (2) | |
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fo-NO August 11, 1985 Betty Rowland 3113 Woodlark Fort Worth, Texas 76123 Hugh Thompson,.Jr.
Director of Licensing USNRC Washington, D.C.
20555
Dear Mr. Thompson:
I am extremely concerned about the Comanche Peak-nuclear power. plant and totally committed to its never even being stocked with fuel, much less its ever going into operation.
The enclosed news article, which appeared in the August 9, 1985 Star-Telegram, expresses my opinions thoroughly.
No matter what av' int of money it costs to scrap the plant, I am completely la favor of all work on it being stopped immediately. We can not afford to take such a serious risk-with the health and safety of our part of the State, our Nation and the World!!
I beg you to refuse to ever license Comanche. Peak nuclear plant under any conditions whatsoever.
Most sincerely, Betty Rowland Attachments
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23A StarTelegram FRIDAY MORMNG, AUGUST 9,1985.
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Despitethe timeand moneyspent tripped. Others followed. Fission the Nuclear Regulatory Commis-heat now was being generated fast-sion. But according to the NitC, it on building the Comanche Peak nu j '
' Ann er ihan it could be removed. The faiisiodemonstrateiheniant ssare.
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system automatically tripped the ty. The company has repeatedly a halt. It is not safe.
}VM CHAMBERS turbinesothatthesteamgenerators changeditsdesignsandregulations.
wouldn't run dry. Primary system Whenaparticularconstructioncon-you think other, wise.The company, g,jfj water began to heat up and expand, flicted with blueprints, the designs d
tth tri o pany.o course, says that there is nothing to worty causing a gradual rise in system were changed instead of the con-about. So does Dr. it.M. ftubin. pub-When radiation attacks a body pressure. When it reached 2,255 struction.
pounds per square inch (psi)- 100 Only recently has a 1973 report lic information chairman of the North Texas Sec, tion of the Amers cell, it may pass through with nodamage.Second.it may damage the psi above r.ormal-a valve opened critical of this practice, by the inde-can Nuclear Society.They say that cell but the cell can repair itself. torelievepressure.Thiswasa4a.m., pendent Management Analysis Co.
of San Diego, emerged. Executive plus 40 seconds.Then, what was supposed to hap vicepresidentofTexasUtilitie the plant will be safe and that the Third,it may damage thecellsothat waste can be disposed of.
it is irreparable but reproduces in pen, didn't. The valve should have Fikar, who blocked the release of A nuclear power plant is not safe damaged form. Fourth,it may kill closed itself. The pressure would this report, has resigned from the even before work is performed the cell. lt may kill so many cells that there. Nuclear power requires ura-Ihe entire organ is damaged.
have leveled off, the temperature company.
would havedropped,and thesystem The Atomic Safety and i,icensing nium. Uranium miners and their Genetic damage happens when would have returned to normal.
Board refused to license Comanche families have a much higher rate of radiation damages sperm or egg Butthevalvestuck.Otheralarms Peak in December 1983. Further cancer than the generalpopulation. cells that subsequently join in con, sounded.But becauseaconsolelight public hearings on the plant are ney also have higher rates of still-ception'rry the genetic distortion. It showed the valve to beclosed,mont-beheduled i All cells of the developing birth and birth defects.
haby ca tors responded mcorrectly.
both night and daytime meetings.
may besolethat that the baby diesin They expertenced a LOCA-loss -
Citizens who wish to speak piay Constant leakage from even a, the womb. If the infant hves, he or of-coolant accident. Without cool-contact the NItC, Itegion IV, Ull
" safe" operating plant emits stronti. individual may experience noillef-ant, the core is uncovered. Its tem-Ryan Plaza Dr., Ar she becomes a carrier as well.The um 90 which causes bone. cancer. It fects.Or it may alter metabolism so perature soars and it may melt. 76010,at81741s6100 emits radioactive iodine which at-through the containment building izens anable to attend the hearit)gs tacks fetuses and causes, thyroid as to affeet disease immunization
- meltdown. Ilighly radiocative' maywritecithertoilughThompson cancer.This leakage is inevitable no Comanche Peak is being built in gaseous fission products are re-Jr., Director of Licensing, USNitC, matter how safely the plant is built.
the same way as all nuclear power leased into the atmosphere. TMI' Washington, D.C., 20555, or Peter Then,whendecommissioningofthe l
plantisduein30yearsorso,thereis plants, as Three Mile Island was missed a complete meltdown by no Block, Chairman, Atom the problem of disposal.The plan is built.
more than one hour.
censing lloard, USNitC, Washing-Some Comanche Peak plant in-ton, D.C.20555.
to bury waste underground. But Nuclear proponents are fond of 8pectors have been fired.They are Acrossthe country 90 p!.mts have non kage there cannot be guar-saying, No one was hurt at Three suing to, recover their jobs, saying been scrapped, even some which
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Mile Island."They were lucky-in.
that their reporting of safety flaw were nearly finished. People have I
caused their dismissals. Texas,Utih,s-Whatdoesthismeantous,Coman credibly lucky, according to Boyd acknowledged the need to pr.t safe-l che Peak's neighbors? Af ter all,the Norton, former nulcear physicist. ties offacials deny that this is the ty first.It is to be hoped that Coman-human body receives radiation Potentialbreakdownin any nuclear reason. Former and present plant che Peak will join those 00.
from different sources every day.
reactor is possible in any of thou. employees have charged the plant Small, recurring radiation doses sands of valves, pumps, relays, with hundreds of mechanical fail-over a long period can cause minor transistors, circuits and people' ures, substandard testing and quali,f an
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health prob! cms. They can lead to OnThreeMilelsland,at 4a.m.plus ty-assurance flaws.
s,n i.i.rcu.muecanopteung degrees sa major ones. Large single doses can 36 seconds, a pump supplying feed-The utility company submitted a Eszthh and Journanzas.
l cause death.
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