ML20244B001
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| Site: | Millstone, Hatch, Monticello, Dresden, Peach Bottom, Browns Ferry, Nine Mile Point, Perry, Fermi, Oyster Creek, Hope Creek, Grand Gulf, Cooper, Susquehanna, Columbia, Brunswick, Limerick, River Bend, Vermont Yankee, Duane Arnold, Clinton, Quad Cities, Big Rock Point, FitzPatrick, LaSalle, 05000000, Shoreham |
| Issue date: | 03/08/1989 |
| From: | Harlowe A ECOLOGY CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA |
| To: | Zech L NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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ECOLOGY CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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- TELEPHONE 213/559 9160 i
March 8, 1989 l
Nuclear RegulatoryCommission Chairman Lando Zech i
U.S.N.R.C.
Dear Chairman Zech,
l The statewide members of the Ecology Center of Southern California join with concerned citizens world-wide in urging you to fix or close General Electric reactors once and for all.
Consider these facts:
- 1. IN 1972, a Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff member recommended that General Electric type reactors by banned in the United States.
- 2. In 1221, General Electric engineers wrote an internal report highly critical of their 2ED company's nuclear reactors. This Reed Report was kept secret by both General
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Electric and the Nuclear Regulatory Commissi~on until 1282, when it was released under pressure by state and local d
governments in cooperation with safe energy organizations.
The General Electric engineers detailed dozens of safety and economics problems with all the reactors, concluding that General Electric reactors are "n'ot a quality product" In fact the engineers recommend that General Electric stop selling their reactors.
- 3. In early 1986, a top Nuclear Regulatory Commission official admitted that the containment vessels, the last barrier to radiation release, - on 24 General Electric reactors have a 90% chance of failure in a nuclear accident.
- 4. In late 1987, a Nuclear Regulatory Commission task force confirmed the failure rate of these 24 " mark I ' reactors, saying that their containments are " virtually certain" to l
fail in an accident.
- 5. The Mark II reactors (there are 8 in use) supposedly an improved model, still have many possible scenarios for early l
containment failure, according to Nuclear Regulatory Commission safety studies.
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- 6. The Mark II reactors, on which the 1975 General Electric Reed Report was primarily focussed, have the aforementioned
" dozens of safety and economic problems", and have suffered massive cost overruns during construction as a result of design problems.
Now General Electric is asking Congress to pass pro-nuclear legislation that would limit the rights of citizens to oppose nuclear plants. At the sa:ne time they are pushing its new Advanced Boiling Water Reactor design, asking that it be accepted as a " standardized" design, exempt from public challenge. However this design fails to address many of the shortcomings identified by General Electric's own engineers as far back as the 1975 Reed Report.
General Electric reactors pose an unnecessary threat to the health and safety of the American people as well as the world In good conscience you must not allow this to continue.
Sincerely, 4
Anna Harlowe Issues Coordinator Ecology Center of Southern California l
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