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Opposes Licensing of Plant & Urges Negative Vote.Paper Entitled, Infant Mortality Changes Following TMI Accident Encl
ML20153G777
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Site: Diablo Canyon  Pacific Gas & Electric icon.png
Issue date: 01/12/1984
From: Andersen A, Andersen D
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To: Gilinsky V
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Dear Mr. Calinsky sst for hw or.c. Dt meora of p.t.

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On Friday, January 13, there will be rituals v

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re i u. is % u,. re,,c en re held in San 1,uis Obispo, Ukiah, and =any other places in von re one,t. rec.ni.itorie.

California all expressing the hope and the prayer that artra.c<i..

.No i [2[v,*.*[. 'e'*"-,' "[j you will envision accurately the ettects of a decision not

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to license operation of the Diablo Canjon nuclear power r

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Plant and the ef fects if the plant is licensed, s us.<u cm pe... er+ st so. v. no exei e.t mai., r.,

This letter has much the sa=e purpose. We hope you re ie rs.cr.s er re, i:,:..no will teel, in very personal ways, the ef f ects of a decision re err.:.. ' e s t,...

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We realize that you f ace genuine dile::ast for instance,

".'de *aI N c*.'i I c m# 2iki tha t there are sincere individuals in govern =ent and private a: o-or,s.cn cars" industry who have worked for years to get the plant to its T*. crcen tensii,as o cr. e..

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present state for who= a negative vote would see:n a personal Tn s i.ar e.,ro c.t c.o rr.-rt tragedy and that energy sources other t.han fossil fuels must 9, NGee mom-govra-. toi or:sm.

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be found. However, to us the hazards et nuclear radiation is's.-e n a:i. io"o. ;

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are so great that, it there were no other argt=ents against com em+, te s 'vos D, a ; cts: a s m es e;::: es:n. sc* e n e s:te the plant, they would be sutticient. Therefore, in this t

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to", t. ece eme. :c a ;e o letter we concentrate on them.

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It you were to vote for licensing, you would be adcing to ta.-.c era re nv.e r e m...

m e.e. ~... i the unsolved problea et how to cope with the radioactive waste Tr.

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and you would be approving et a nuclear reactor in an area IE,')2 *!*.Y.((. l r'c[i ccj' j

very likely to oe struck vy su eartn%2ae.

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We all know that radioactive c.atertals do get back into

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r the environ =ent with present methods et waste storage, tha t w e c..e..:. m,- r. cre c,.i there is a danger et this happening every time they are trans.

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ported, and that there could be cassive contamination f ro weie e cc+s:.mc. m form +g e

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g canc'er including leukemia, birth def ects of all kinds including mental retardation, f

and death.

You hold the awesome power of deciding whether to increase or, decrease these sangers.

Please imagane the results of your decision in personal terms. Vould you offer one of your own children or grandchildren to become a leukemia victim or to be born mentally retarded? Then realize that it you vote to increase the hazards of nuclear radiation, you are deciding that some people, who care as much as you do, will suf fer these unnecessary tragedies.

To turn to the hopetul visi.on--if you say "no" to the license then, first, money that would have gone to Diablo can go to wind; solar, and other saf e renew-able energy projects and to energy conservation, and, secondly, people throughout California and the world will feel a great sense of gratitude and relief that this threat et nuclear radiation has been lessened, and third and most important, indi-viduals in the future will be whole and healthy because et your decision. Whe ther they will realize their debt to you, who can sayt We feel sure that God will know--

and you will know.

Sincerely.

M.~ J.~, M. 3 : V( dhea, Dorothy Norvell Andersen M/W s

,w Alfred T. Andersen

f. S. We're enclosing an article with which you may or c.ay not be f amiliar, a su:: nary of Dr. Ernest Sternglass' paper "Infant Mortality Changes Following i

the Three Mile Island Accident". It is one of c.any sources which have convinced,us of the seriousness of radiation hasards f ro= nuclear power plants.

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Ae:1 dent 'ut TM,.'a t:1l e ILland Last Tridcy r:arked the.first c.:iniverthry of the accident at l

Three ::ile Island.

One year later, the 03:I contcinment 1s still filled with radioactive wator rir.d pases.

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Edison, the plant oviner, nas propocod "cacanup" procedures which amount to little more then relec:ing the trapped wastes into the environnon'..

Rocently the.?C has succosted that they may permit thuce releaser veithout waiting for cc=;1etion of an environmenu.1 impcet statec.ent.

>:ot surprisin517, these plans have been angrily :riticized by area residents.

Tne recent anniversary and 1.,r.cndin ne. reltcsca ma'te thic i

s cond.::e to revits the hnnr. ht.elLn effects of tnn 9:1 accident.

The Keccny Cotu ission cuggested that there were n; immediate huath effects cttributchle to the radioactive raioc:es lact etring.

T; icy concluded that the accident-rcleto; increast in latca+. tancero veoul be undetectab2.c and t h:.t paveholo.i:a1 !.treca s ens workers ar.d thoce livinc in 3

the area tac the on.y uignifice.nt effect.

/ A recent study by Dr. Ernrist J. fatern;16:,s of the University i

of Pitt:. burgh Schoe.' of !!edicine calls this con:lusien cer.:.

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Storngines focute: his cttention en irif t.nt nortolity rr. cord: collceted fr,e aroc hospitals cnd th e U. ';. ::en t hly 'h.e...l 'itatistien...w.,"f.c & c N i~M-*12 tc

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In the Lutter of 1979 hocrever, the infant.ortality rcto in Pennsylvcnic rose l

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>igila in the rates of infant mortality were ot:ervea Tc.,r,increates tacting at-co. spheric nucicar wc:pon tcetc in the fifties and cixtios.

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