ML20246E165
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| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 06/09/1989 |
| From: | Bentsen L SENATE |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC |
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Dear Mr. Kammerer:
Enclosed for your review is a copy of a letter I have ll received from Mr. J.C. Dodson of Arlington, Texas.
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U.S. Senator Lloyd Bentsen Senate Office Building Washington, D.C.
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Dear Senator Bentsen:
I am enclosing a copy of an article that appeared in the Fort Worth Star Telegram on May 16, 1989, regarding the Comanche Peak Nuclear. Power Plant, near Glen Rose, Texas.
I hope that you will take the time to. read it.
I have always been opposed to this Nuclear Plant.
I own a ranch within four miles of it and have family members living on this rcnch. You can understand that any and all leakages are a major concern to me..
Along with the ' occurrence of leakages of possible radioactive water, there have been far too many mishaps and delays in scheduled timings, along with flaws in design and construction aral numerous other problems. All of these have increased the cost of the plant to unbelievable sums, end of course this cost is passed on to the taxpayers.
I would like to emphasize here that we, and many, many others that this has been discussed with, would much rather pay for the plant and it not open. There is no way to dispose of the waste and therein lies tiie greatest danger. We must have relief from all of this.
I request that this Nuclear Plant be shut down immediately.
. and I urge you to do whatever is in your power of jurisdiction to see that it is shut down and closed completely.
I appreciate your cooperation.
Yours very truly,
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rp confirmed by officials' BY MICHAEL WHITILEY ne accident occurred during a hot Fmweh star-Telegram fdoMI W id #'d a small For about 15 minutes on April 23, amount of electricity from convention-leaking check valves at Comanche Peak al power sources as utility oflicials nuclear power plant forced water from checked cooling and heating systems in the reactor's steam generators into a set an attempt to win a nuclear power li-i of back-up piping outside the plant's cense.
, containment building. federal officials The utility is still awaiting a license to confirmed yesterday.
load nuclear fuel. But a TU Electric Nuclear Regulatory Commission of-official said the accident could have licials and TU Electric, the plant's allowed water contrninated with a owner. said the accident blistered pipes small level of radioactivity to flow out-and peeled away paint from an auxili-side of the main system and into the ary system. But NRC spokesman Joe back-up piping heyond the walls of the Gilliland said there were no injuries containment building. had the reactor and no evidence of a failure of the been loaded with nuclear fuel.
piping system.
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A seven-member NRC inspection tank to the steam generators during team arrived at the plant, near Glen periods when the reactor is being start-Rose about 45 miles southwest of Fort ed up and shut down.
Worth, yesterday and began what is Fiorelli said plant operators opened a expected to be a monthlong review of check valve during the April 23 test and the potential damage and causes for the then closed it when they noticed that accident.
water levels in three of the plant's steam
Uf significance is going to be the genemtors had begun to drop.
actions necessary to find out exactly I think the total event was on the what happened and what will be re-order of magnitude of about 15 min-quired to prevent their reoccurrence, utes," Fiore!!i said. "It is possible for
- said TU Electric spokesman Dave very small amounts of radioactivity to '
Fiorelli. ',But we expect fuel loading-get into the secondary water. But it is whic is scheduled for October, to be-not what you would call highly radioae.
gin schedule.
tive water'"
Gilliland said the incident occurred
. when leaking check valves for three of Design and construction flaws have the four steam generators in the plant's delayed the licensing of the 59.1 billion Unit I reactor allowed water to flow plant for more than a decade.
But the plant's licensing woes bac[ into an auxiliary piping system used as a secondary to the plant's main appeared to be fading when it struck a
$4.5 million settlement with its chief reactor pipes.
The nuclearreactor is equipped with opp nent, Citizens for Sound Energy, a primary piping system that funnels last July.
water through the reactor. The water is The NRC later approved the settle-heated and turned to steam, which ment and has endorsed a mdtimillion-turns the plant's turbines.The auxiliary dollar plan produced by the utility to system moves water from a storage correct flaws at the plant.
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