ML20153C707
| ML20153C707 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Fermi  |
| Issue date: | 02/17/1988 |
| From: | Bentsen L SENATE |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF GOVERNMENTAL & PUBLIC AFFAIRS (GPA) |
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| NUDOCS 8805060284 | |
| Download: ML20153C707 (3) | |
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Mr. Carlton C. Kammerer, Director Office of Congressional Affairs The United States Nuclear Regulatory Comtrission 1717 H Street, N.W.
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Representative Lloyd Bentsen i
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Dear Lloyd Bentsen I am concerned about the tssue of the Fermi 2 and the fifteen other nuclear power plants in Michigan.
A report released in December 1985 claims that a
the primary containment structure at the sixteen plants vould fail within forty to 120 minutes if a reactor core meltdown occurred.
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developed by thirty-nine scientists working for the federal Nuclear Re ula-w tory Commission.
The primary containment structure, called the Mark 1, designed by General Electric Co.,
is said to be unsafe for a nuclear l
operation.
The concrete and steel containment structure is designed to stoe :
the release of radioactive material into the atmosphere.
If lar,e amounts of the radioactivity escapes from the Mark 1, some of it could leak outsice j
of the plant.
Using the Mark i design near the Great Laxes could easily i
be an enviromental threat.
j The studies conducted by the NRC worked to find ways to improve the Marx 1 containment structure.
Yet the people who run the plants say the Mark A is adequate.
However, the risk of enviromental problems and the exposure i
of human lives to the raciation remains a problem.
Either a new containmenc structure without problems must be developed, or the Mark i should oe improve l until it tests out one-hundred percent safe.
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