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Comment Supporting Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Consideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans.Urges That Emergency Planning Regulation Be Amended to Require Availability of Potassium Iodide for Public in Event of Nuclear Accident
ML20216F446
Person / Time
Site: Millstone  Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 09/12/1999
From: Walker L
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:
NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY)
References
FRN-64FR31737, RULE-PR-50, RULE-PRM-50-63A 64FR31737-00064, NUDOCS 9909220047
Download: ML20216F446 (1)


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Secretary, U.S. Nuclear Regulitory Commission Rulemaking and Adjudications Staff Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Comment PRM-50-63A Con;ideration of Potassium Iodide in Emergency Plans, Proposed Rule

Dear Madame Secretary,

Since Sag Harbor is less than 20 miles from the Millstone Nuclear Plant in Waterford, Conn., and since the NRC has refused to extend the 10 mile emergency zone to include Jong Island emergency planning is of extreme interest to the residents of the East End.

I want to urge that the emergency planning regulation be amended tc REQUIRE the availability of potassium iodide (KI) for the public in the event of nuclear accidents. The regulation as it is new worded... " the proposed rule would require that CONSIDERATION shall be given to include potassium iodide.." has no teeth and must be changed.

The nuclear industry should bear the cost; government agencies should hase the responsibility of seeing that potentially effected communities have local stockpiles of potassium iodide. NRC's arinounced. plan for regional stockpiling should be arnended; local stockpiling is necessary to make the distribution of KI possible in an emergency; KI is not effective after six

' ' hours it must be stockpiled in schocls, hospitals,6re, police and other municipt.1 centers.

There is no reason why the NRC should not make these changes. You mission is to protect the public's health and safety. Please consider the people of long Island who are not protected and who canr.ot, given our topography and highway system, evacuate in the case of an accident at Millstone.

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