ML20245H677

From kanterella
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Objects to Util Appraisals of Local Radiological Emergency Planning Efforts
ML20245H677
Person / Time
Site: Pilgrim
Issue date: 06/26/1989
From: Thompson A
PLYMOUTH, MA
To: Carr K
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
Shared Package
ML19324C569 List:
References
NUDOCS 8908170239
Download: ML20245H677 (2)


Text

-

-- w 4, .- ,

TOWN OF PLYMOUTH

' OFFICE OF SELECTMEN f '

THE SELECTME.N ""

"n#ERs 11 Lincoln Staet GEORGE W CAMERON

.' wil,ElAM R GRIFFIN

  • DAVID F. MALAGUTi ALBA C mwm Nmn 1

ExEcUTnt SECRETARY (508) 747-1620 June ~26, 1989 Kenneth M. Carr, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1 White Flint-North-11555 Rockville. Pike Rockville, MD 20852

Dear Chairman Carr:

I believe' congratulations are in order now that President Bushhas. appointed you Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.. I'm not sure whether your new accolade is a fair return for all the additional work it entails but most surely your appointment is a vote of confidence.

I have admired your incisive questions and your probings during hearings. I should, however, wish for a larger measure of understanding of the problems posed for {

communities who are hosts of nuclear plants that have had a troubled history.

The future of nuclear plants in the USA will rest on the acceptance and confiaence of the citizens particularly of nearby towns and cities. That thought has not always been understood by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission which prides itself on the technicalities of individual situations. There is at. times a hubris that Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff knows better than locci officials the facts of radiological emergency planning. There have also been times when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission has asked the utilities to appraise lochi efforts, a path that often leads to the best scenario possible without relationship to the truth as utilities prese on toward their own economic objectives. That action would be particularly resented by communities where a tradition of local control ic time-honored. To mo such procedures verge on the incomprehensible, and the resulting frustrations are invariably aimed at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

8908170239 090007 y PDR COMMS NRCC G CORRESPONDENCE P, n

( .

Kenneth M. Carr, Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission June 26, 1989 Page 2 We stand at an interesting time for nuclear power plants in America.

Certainly your job will have enormous stresses and enormous significance.

wisely. May you find the strength to serve us

the days ahead.And may you be blessed with wisdom and serenity in Very truly yours, (id,i.J!vnh,s' Alba C. Thomps.on Chairman ACT/lt

__ .