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Comment Opposing Proposed Rule 10CFR50 Re Licensing of Nuclear Power Plants Where State & Local Govts Decline to Cooperate in Emergency Planning
ML20235K455
Person / Time
Site: Shoreham File:Long Island Lighting Company icon.png
Issue date: 06/04/1987
From: Sutor D
SUTOR, D.B.
To:
NRC
References
FRN-52FR6980, RULE-PR-50 52FR6980-11530, NUDOCS 8710050097
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a Al simply to make it possible tolicense l at'Shoreham;To take over the police Shoreham, a plant opposed bp the

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people of Suffolk County, county' gov-know that:there.will.be chaos and s

ernment and New York State.

s that a safe evacuation from'an area The current rules were developed such as Iongisland will not be' post-p in the wake of the accident at Three ible.

l Mile Island, the accident the nuclear The NRCis playing a very danger-u ' Industry said could not happen.When ous game with our, future.it is gam-that accident occurred, the NRC was bling that the plant is safe, despite all

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c@ght with its pants down, and it the charges ~ to the contrary;, It is b

was painfully clear that the rules in gambling that state and county gov-effect at that time were not suffi-ernment willliarticipate:andisome-i cient to protect the safety of the how. make a'n unwotkable plan work.

I public It is gambling with your future, the At the insistence of congress, the future of your loved ones. It is gam-NRC strengthened its rules, man.

bling with our lives.

dating that evacuation plans had to The NRC's proposed rule changes be put into effect within a ten mile are a travesty of justice. It is ar-

'. area of a nuclear plant, rogance, pure and simple. It should Even with those changes the NRC not be allowed to. happen. A huge has only concerned itself with the ten outcry frQm Suffolk County residents mile radius and has refused to ac-who are the potenth! victims of an knowledge the shadow ef(get of accident at Shoreham would demon-people evacuating from outside the

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ten mile zone. This is ridiculous, for illustrate that'we will not simply sit they have the actual experience of back and allow this to happen. That Three Mile Island to draw upon. The we will fight for what is right, and in d AiGovernor of Perinsylvania rec-d' against what is wrong.

8E i s ommended that pregnant women,iWEencourag.! every family, as a Te

[ n leave the Three MileIsland area, and. r i family'and individually,'to write to 5$

i. 280,000 residents fled in response,

. the United States Nuclear Regu-f;.

p scale alert, it was just a recommen-His announcement was not a full latory Commission in vehement gg protest of this proposal, It may be 3j F dation. Imagine the impact of a full your last chance to have any per-t alert!

sonal. input into the decision of QD o: n The NRC, in its' quest to open the whether Shoreham opens or closes.

Shoreham nuclear power plant at all whether.you will hgve to live under S

cost, is a ttempting to lgnore the facts the threat of radiation poisoning, g f of history. It is ignoring the shadow Address your' correspondence to

. effect evacuation which occurred at.

the NRC. Commissioners, United Three Mile Island. It is ignoring, as States Nticleari Regulatory Co'm-well. the lessons'of Chernobyl where mission,' Washington, D.C. 20555. If

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+ evacuated. Andworstof all,theNRC sign your name at the bottom of this

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. wants to authorize LILCO, the editorial and send it off. They'll get f

g profit making corporation which the message.

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