ML20235J749

Comment Opposing Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Licensing of Plant W/O Local Govt Participation in Emergency Evacuation

ML20235J749
Person / Time
Site:	Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date:	06/04/1987
From:	Anton W ANTON, W.
To:	NRC
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-11528, NUDOCS 8710020078
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ppu i cut off time for public' input into the . permit the licensing of a nuclear .

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Shoreham, a plant opposed by the :at Shoreham, to' take over the police

' people of Suffolk County, county gov- ~ duties of the government. We all ernment and New York State, know that there will be chaos, and h The current rules wer'edeveloped that a safe evacuation from an area such as long Island will not be~poss-in the wake of the accident at Three ible. '

Mile Island. the accident the nuclear industry said could riot happen.When The NRCis playing a very danger-i that accident occurred, the NRC was ous game with our future. It is gam-

! cabght with its pants down, and it bling that the plan t is safe, despite all ,

the charges to.the contrary.;It is {

t h etfeet at that time were not suffi-was gambling that painfully clear state and county gov-that the rules in cient to protect the safety of the ernment will participate and, some-i public how. make anunworkableplan work,

It is gambling with your future, the At the insistence of congress, the

, j future of yourloved ones. It is gam-NRC strengthened its rules. man.

} dating that evacuation plans had to bling with our' lives.

be put into effect within a ten mile The NRC's proposed rule changes area of a nuclear plant. are a travesty of justice. It is ar-Even with those changes the NRC rogance, pure and simple. It should has only concerned itself with the ten not be allowed to happen,. A huge '

mile radius and has refused to ac- outcry from Suffolk Countyresidents knowledge the shadow effect of who are the potential' victims of an

• people evacuating from outside the accident at Shoreham wou J

ten mile zone. This is ridiculous, for strate our deep' concern.ld demon-It would they have the actual experience of illustrate that'we will not simply sit *

! back and allow this to happen. That Three Mile Island to draw upon. The ',

Governor of Pennsylvania ree- we will fight for what is right, and ommended ht prcgnant wonien against what is wrong.

leave t he Three Stile Island area, and We cncourage every family, as a P80,000 residents fled in response. family and individually, to write to s

His announcement was not a full4the United States Nuclear Regu-latory Conirhission in vehement F

- scale alert, it was just a recommen wpotest of this proposal. It may be dation, Imagine the impact alert! $ of a full' ' your last chance per- to have any The NRC. In its' quest to open the sonal input 41nto the decision of a Shoreham nuclear power plant at all whether Shoreham opens or closes.

whether you will hgve to live under

$E cost. is attempting to ignore the facts ,

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- of history. It is ignoring the shadow the threat of radiation poisoning.

Address your correspondence to 1$N

! effect evacuation which occurredthe at.NRC < Commissioners, ~ United f ,

Three Mile Island. It is ignoring, as StatesiNuclear Regulatory Com-gg well, the lessons'of Chernobyl where ec a zone of 18 miles was, and still is, missiont Washington, D.C. 20555. If -

evacuated. And worst of all, the NRC you do not have time to write, just Q' O

"' '*a wants to authorize LILCO, the sign your name at the bottom of this editorial and s ' q[L' '

g profit-making corporation which the message. end it offiThey'll get / r -

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