ML20151A690

Comment Supporting Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants Where State &/Or Local Govts Decline to Cooperate in Offsite Emergency Planning

ML20151A690
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	02/25/1987
From:	Drum D AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-00066, 52FR6980-66, OL, OL-3, NUDOCS 8807200090
Download: ML20151A690 (2)

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February 25, 1987 Mr. Lando Zech, Chairman US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555 Sir:

As a citizen of Massachusetts, a parent, physician and radiation health professional, I wish to communicate my strongest objections to the statements made before you by Governor Michael Dukakis, as reported on television news last night.

Having been a resident of Massachusetts for 25 years, I can say that Governor Dukakis,by his actions and words during his M periods of office here, has been thoroughly antinuclear in every way long before Seabrook was planned. In addition, his administrations have failed to act on or implement recommenda-tions of at least two legislative committees on the maragement of low level radioactive waste, and during the past year his administration generated a large measure of unwarranted fear in the population by claiming to have linked leukemia deaths in the area of Plymouth to the admittedly unmeasurable quan-tities of radioactive materials released to the atmosphere. During the past year I have tried repeatedly to discern from him and from his staff the source of his concerns about Seabrook evaluation, and in my opinion there is not in existence any carefully developed scientific document warranting his judgments about the safety of Seabrook to humansi neither do I have any evidence that he has consulted seriously with any currently active radiation health profes-sional in this regard.

It is difficult for me to avoid the conclusion that Mr. Dukakis is using the issue of health care for our citizens purely to consummate his own political opportunism. Were he seriously interested in the public health, there are many other areas, as I have pointed out to him and to his Commissioner of Public Health, where his efforts would be far more productive immediately in the reduction of mortality, morbidity and dollar cost.

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p. s Mr. Lando Zech February 25, 1987 Page Two These: comments are my own and do no't necessarily reflect the positions ot' the institutions with which I am affiliated.

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