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Comments on Draft Supplemental Fes on Crbr.Analysis of Impact on Humans,Plants & Animals Made W/O Considering Cumulative Effects of Background Radiation.Addl Documentation Encl
ML20205L201
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Site: 05000000, Clinch River
Issue date: 09/08/1982
From: Sherbondy S
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Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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FRN-50FR20889, RULE-PR-9 NUDOCS 8604030318
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.(615) 239-5828 Septaber 8,1982 Director-Clinch River Breeder Reactor Program Office Office of !?uclear Reactor Regulations U. S. Yhiclear Regulatory Comission washington, D.C. 2o555 Dear Sir I wish to cors:est on the Draft Supplement to the Final Ettvironmental Statement on the Clinch River Breeder Reactor.

Analysis contained in the Draft Supplement of the impact on human beings, plants and ardmals contains limits of individual doses har

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an average exposure, in rens _per year, without considering the ctamalative effects of backgttund radiation, which is received

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along with radiation from the Breeder Plant.

Background radiation alone is believed to cause thousands of cancers per year. _ Additionally, your analysis seems to assume that bbi radiation released into the river will be fully diluted and radiation released in the atriosphere will be uniformly dispersed.

that is the basis for assuning this unifomity? Also, wty are releases assumed to occur during average meteorological conditions rather than during a storm or period of tetperature inversion? If noble gases and tritium are released, as planned, in the atmosphem, wouldn't a temperature inversion provent the unifom dispersal which you assune?

I tould litio to add that I an a victim of radiation exposure by the $3~3 medical profession in 1957. As a result of that exposure, I had a thyroidectocy in 1977 m20 years after the exposure. I now have the condition of hypothymidian which must be controlled by medication.

The danger of all fqms of radiation have been personally proven to

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r.o. Them is no safe level of radiation. The hazards of the Bmeder ,

technology are very real. No matter what infomation you attempt to use to mislead the public, you cannot fool me. I will not pemit you to waste funds on the Clinch River Breeder Reactor vhich will i- . poison all. of us.

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102 Oakmont Drive Kingsport, TN 37663 March 31, 1983 Itobert L. Morgan, Project DLrector Office of Qivilian Radioactive Waste U. S. Departament of Energy Washington, DC 20585 RE: DOE Proposed Guidelines for Nuclear Waste Repository Siting

Dear Sir:

Please refer to g letter to you of March 2, 1983, in which I requested.an extension for public caissent on the above captioned subject.

On March 17, 1983, Mike Kurgan, U.S. Dept. of Energy, phoned g home. I was -

not at h e e. Mr. Kurgan talked with g husband. Mr. Kurgan said the cossment period on waste disposal is extended for several months. I have since rooeived information frcst various organizations that the deadline for written ecsmients is April.7,1983.

Due to a very upsetting family crisis, I have been unable to ib13y concentrate on the proposed guidelines. Even at g best tMnHng, I would have extreme trouble understanding the guidelines. All govermet papers must be written in a manner for citizens to be able to understand.This has never been done.

I suggest an immediate change for the benefit of all citizens.

I wish to state that nuclear waste can never be contained. It will leak'no matter dat method is used. All our groundwater will soon be poisoned. An explosion at av nuclaiar waste storage site is a very real possibility.

Transportation of nuclear waste endangers the lives of all citizens. We l cannot afford the costs of ag part of the melear industry.

,- I wish to be put on record as strongly opposing the production of any nuclear I waste, therefore reducing the volme dich must be dealt with in a responsible mamer. I su a assger/ sponsor of margr anti-nuclear and environmental organisations. Mag of g organisations have presented comunents on your i

guidelines. I suggest that you seriously consider all coments of these highly I redible organizations and that you implertet their suggestions.

I Please respond.

Sincerely, 17m2. , ,de J O ti e -

Mrs. Suzanne Sherbon#

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Monday, November 21.1983 / Kingsport Times News 9A

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Letters tothe Ed.i tor WH_. l.'.

State, are former top officials of Bechtel things been going on. It is now time for a Corp ; former U.S. Secretary of State, change.

Praises to the Kingsport Times News I prop se a radical change for Sen.

Uni ed Techn g . and has r ed Sasser and all pohticians. To pay part of for publishmg the articles " Nuclear to that company; BechtelCorp is waste marking time." on the front page, the federal deficit. I propose all state

" View The Day After "on the and federal level candidates be required

[o s r e n; 'nied e h ologies to pay federalincome tax on all commentary page. " Waste methods manufacturers the engines for the temporary * " and "The nuclear dream e ntributions received by them or on AWACS planes. I consider these facts to their behalf in their campaigns.

- atomic cure-all for world problems." be a conflict of interest. Big money is on page IB on Nov. 13,1983. Praises also bemg made by companies associated Tax politicians fairly - 25 to 40 for your front.page series on nuclear with appointed government officials. percent - the same as most of the rest issues. Since 1977, I have become a of the taxpayers. This would give no I have been so upset with reports that member / sponsor of many anti nuclear unfair advantage to one candidate over do not tell the truth about the entire and environmental organizations. If you the other candidates because once the nuclear industry. The above mentioned want to take action agamst the nuclear percentage is set, it would be the same articles tell it like it is. On many .

industry, you can begin by becoming a for all candidates.

occasions. important articles concerning sponsor for the Umon of Concerned ?Iost congressmen are elected with nuclear issues have been published in Scientists (UCS),26 Church St.. someone else's money. It makes it easy the Times. News on inside pages in Cambridge, Mass. 02238. UCS is a non- g,sr them to lose the value of a dollar and sections where they are not so easily profit organization of scientists, easier for them to spend your tax dollars 5 "" - engineers and other professionals on worthless projects. Make pohticians c neerned about the impact of advanced responsible fcr their actions. Let them wor ng i st e uclea i d stry in techn 1977. I had a thyroidectomy in 1977 as a pay f r some of their own pet projects.

l suggest that peo e see the movie, result of receiving 750 rads of radiation Ssikwood when it is shown in Kingsport.

therapy on my shoulder for bursitis in Lester Arnold The movie is due for release sometime in Kin rt 1957. I have numerous copies of my December.

medical radiation reports and I have It has been most disturbing to me that m*aled them all over the United States for opinions and evidence. I intend t anyone who opposes the policies of our government concerning nuclear power Betting on 'The River' pursue investigating all radiation or nuclear weapons is labeled as a The recent filming off Center Street dangers. communist. I am definitely not a by Universal Studios was a real success My father died Nov. 31,1982, from commumst. I have personally suffered to all who saw this unique movie complications following cancer surgery. from the effects of medical radiation. production. To have been from a nearby J" he a ug There is no safe level of radiation. I county, and an observer, it was worth no N futsp te strongly oppose the policies of my the time spent. I compliment Mark cincer. Within one block of my parents,

~ g vernment. Rydell. Jodi Hummer, and all! The crew, residence,in Kingsport, there are 2t "

  • lerst three other people who have cancer Suzanne Sherbondv Job well done! Their names I 11 never or have died from cancer. Kingsport know' We, the taxpayers, are being taken for a ride over the unnecessary construction Now,it has got to be an Academy of Phipps Bend Nuclear Plant and the , , Award production! Sissy and Mel just Clinch River Breeder Reactor. Both Tax politicians don't produce any sess. The niver. we re betting on. Best wishes to them as they projects have now been cancelled after wisting millions of dollars at our '

In the opinion column of Thursday, finalize the filming and gee, how nice it expense. Nov.10,1983 U.S. Sen. Jim Sasser took was having them here in our East The following facts should be made the rcad so many politicians take Tennessee area.

known to the public: Caspar today.All politicians want the poor Weinberger, U.S. Secretary of Defense, taxpayer to foot the bill for all their pet Della Taylor and George Shultz U.S. Secretary of projects.Too long has these type of Jonesborough

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Sur. day, March 2,1986 / Kingsport Times-News 7A Manipulating nature On January 26,1986. an earthquake (measuring) 4.9 was felt at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Pirnt. This plant was 170 miles away from the epicenter in Hollister, Calif.

On Jan. 31 another earthquake occurred very near the new Perry Nuclear Plant in Ohio.

This writer's theory is that we are beginning to .

feel the repercussions from the hundreds of underground nuclear explosions. These nuclear particles are long. lived and are as acids. They have eaten through the earth's strata and some may have traveled to the innermost core of the earth. This would make the molten lava even hotter. Now it is pushing upward. This process has been enhanced by underground experimentation with laser beam technology.

How long can we keep on manipulating nature?

h the Nuclear RegDu Commission listemng?

Jean C. Lawhorn Church Hill L .