ML20215K839
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| Site: | Seabrook, 05000000 |
| Issue date: | 04/22/1987 |
| From: | Gondek J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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April 22, 1987 Commissioner Kenneth Carr Nuclear, Regulatory Commission Washington, D.
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Dear Commissioner Carr.
I don't write many letters, butLI feel compelled to do so now because you folks down there at the NRC seem to be on the verge of making a. serious mistake by allowing the Seabrook nuclear power plant to open.
How can you possibly choose to expose millions of people.to nuclear disaster while contaminating another part of the earth with radioactive poisons that will endure for hundreds of centuries?.No thinking, moral human being who looks at all the facts concerning nuclear power would' ever want a nuclear plant situated anywhere, let alone at a major human l
population area.
And it's total lunacy to consider opening one on a l
popular seacoast, crowded with human beings, and next to the oni-i interstate highway that reaches into Maine, where countless millions-drive by each year.
Can you not see that horrible accidents.are inevitable with nuclear I
power, that such a complicated technology is easily defeated by mechanical and electrical failure as well as. human error?
9'ere your eyes not open when the Three Mile Island accident occurred in 1979, or the Chernobyl disaster last year?
Must the ultimate accident occur
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before you admit that nuclear power was a mistake from the beginning?
i Do you not understand that-the use of nuclear power must come to an and, that your p inary responsibility is to protect the people of this country, and not 5.he investments of those who chose to ignore all the warning signs over the years?
Why do you persist in pushing such a deadly system on us, especially when you, as-experts who have studied the facts.'should realize the great dangers involved?
How shall you explain to the crippled survivors, and the relatives of the dead, that you saw no harm in what you were permitting?
How do you know that you will not be treated as nuclear criminals, no different than the war criminals who have been hunted down and prosecuted for their great crimes against humanity?
f FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE, PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES!
SEE THE. TRUTH!
STOP THESE PLANTS!
DON'T WAIT UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE!
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You must understand the magnitude of what you are.doing._ The lives and'wel1-being of millions.of people are.far more imoortant-tham any i
amount of money poured into these ill-conceived projects.
Those utilities who stand to lose financially from backing nuclear power s
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and not'in terms of< human suffering and death.
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spent billions.-they think.that gives them a right to.open.
Well. this-is America!
You invest your money in the hopes _of a big return and
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~ :=a s-Congress can easily lift the liability limits from a nuclear power accident, and there probably isn't a olant out there that would be able to buy all the insurance they would need.
This industry can't even stand on,its own feet economically, so why should the mis-guided souls who invested in it be supported by the. taxpayers?
Even the electric utilities themselves recognize that nuclear power is a very bad choices it's no coincidence that dozens of nuclear plants have been cancelled and no new ones started in nearly a decade.
j Nuclear energy has never lived up to any of its promises.
Too cheap to meter, they said in promoting it.
Safe _and reliable was the, cry in succeeding years.
We can't live without it, they now say.
All wrong, every last bit of it.
For you people at the NRC to favor'the opening of these plants, you '
are creating the appearence that you have been bought off--a charge you will have to defend yourselves against when the day of recriminations is at hand.
How can you bet your future's on more than LOO aging nuclear reactors--time-bombs, every one of them?
Surely one of them is going to go off sooner or later, especially the way you've allowed them to keep running despite all their problems.
What possibly can you be thinking of that can outweigh'the enormous inherent dangers in this technology?
Why count yourselves among the-last foolhardy supporters of a bankrupt system whose horrible' legacy is only beginning to unfold?
Real human lives are at stake here, lives.just as'your own.
Never has the evidence been so clear.
No man of any conscience can ignore it, and those of you with important decisions to make shall be-held fully i
responsible.
If you cannot face up to the nuclear industry now, then i
how will you be able to face yourselves in the mirror in the years to come?
Let's stop playing games with the rules.
When state and local governments say there's no way to evacuate ~ the people in the event of an j
accident, believe them--they know what they're talking about.
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concoct regulation changes to exclude their approval of evacuation plans is pure stupidity.
To suggest that the evacuation zones can be shrunk to one mile, when all the evidence from Chernobyl dictates that they d
should be expanded to hundreds, is criminal.
jj Did just 31 people die in the Soviet Union as its government says, or was it more than 15,000 as claimed by Soviet physicist Igor Gerashchenko in a recent hearing of the Helsinki Commission?
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figure was just for the two biggest hospitals in Kiev--what about:all the other hospitale in the region?
What about those who never made it
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What about all those who only recently have begun to U
feel ill from the accumulated' effects?,
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world over who will sicken and die in the years to come fron'the i
radiation released?
The actual death-. toll from Chernobyl OR ANY NUCLEAR POWER PLANT could easily be in the hundreds of thousands-with millions of other lives ruined by sickness and grief, a' fact'so horrifying in its j,
dimensions that no sane person could ever support' opening'any new f ;,
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Everything man has ever built breaks down, and the more powerful the forces we try to harness, the more likely things will go wrong in a big way.
Witness the Challenger disaster as well as the catastrophe at Ch e rno b y,1.
As someone who makes a living from software design and implementation, I know quite well that countless unforseeable possibilities exist in any complex system.
Have you forgotten the hydrogen bubb1 3 that threatened to blow open the Three Mile Island reactor?
We s.iould never have tried to use so complicated and dangerous a technology to do something as simple and safe as boiling water.
1 You have it in 9our power to prevent Seabrook and other nuclear boondoggles like Shoreham from ever opening.
Do your Job and turn back these plants.
Stand up at lest for a sane nuclear policy.
In addition to preventing the opening of any more nuclear reactors, you should immediately shut down all those with any questions whatsoever about their safety.
If we can get these plants closed before the next big accident, then we can all breathe more easily.
There is enough non-nuclear electrical generating capacity to meet all our national needs, particularly if conservation, including load leveling, is maximized.
The only short term problem is getting the electicity from those areas with an excess to those without enough through new transmission lines..
Somehow, as a society, we must come to grips with the deadly remains of all the nuclear power plants, and keep them insulated from the surrounding environment for the next 300 centuries.
What a mark against us in this nuclear age that we should be leaving behind poisonous legacies many times worse than all the ages before.
Governments often fail in their actions like children, but historically, they have been gradually learning the lessons of moral understand 3ng.
The nuclear lesson is surely one of the biggest and most costly, but the sooner it is learned, the batter the world will be.
Please find the courage to do what's right.
Sincerely, ohn ondek
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