ML20151B888

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

ML20151B888
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island, 05000000, Shoreham
Issue date:	03/07/1987
From:	Barnes J, Barnes J, Barnes M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-00205, 52FR6980-205, NUDOCS 8807210149
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tism, all $4.6 billion worth, sits idle, its fate uncertain. 1 I

HE NRC IS SCRAMBLING TO RECOUP. It has ten.

Ttatively adopted a new rule allowing it to waive thelocal-coo the door for Shoreham, plus a reactor in New Harnpshire.

..The rule change, if it is given final approval this spring, i would serve the economic interests of just about every. i body, since it would save Shoreham from being the biggest i white elephant of all time. But it would be wrong in terms  ;

of public trust in safety. i No situation short of war would panic the populace like a nuclear accident. even a tiny one. Thr ee Mile Isla.:d proved

• that If nukes are to operate, a workable evacuation plan must be ready, with trained personnel on the scene to carry it out. Even then, the potential for mass disarray exists.

Licensing Shoreham without a valid plan is, therefore, unthinkable. And pay no attention to the folks who argue that the NRC's issuing such a license would force Suf7olk and state oiTicials into coooerating on an evacuation plan.--

That's an irresponsible game of chicken, with people's deepest fears-perhaps even their. lives-as the stakes.

All this leav as Shoreham and similarly perplexed reac.

ton in limbo-an unhappy, e.tpensive fate. But the NRC was right the llrst time when it laid down its locally based .~,

evecu'ation plan nild, Reve.k!ng it would be an blunder

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