ML19276F553

Expresses Concern Re Impact of Earthquakes on Public Safety in Reactor Community,Evacuation Plans & Nuclear Waste

ML19276F553
Person / Time
Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	03/14/1979
From:	Rogers P AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Bradford P NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
NUDOCS 7904060003
Download: ML19276F553 (2)

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My heartfelt thanks to you for halting oper-ations on five nuclear plants. My husband (now deceased) and I have fought for eight years against continuance of Seabrook for cany reasons,but not the least of which is the fact that Seabrook hm-is located squarely on the Boston-Ottawa earth fault.

List sunser there was an earthquake at Seabrook severe'enough

to send the citizens of the town into the streets to see what happened.'Their housss were shaking. How does anyone know -

that the so-called earthquake security system they p91n to include in the building will

', be enough? How does anyone know HOW severe a quake might be?

I have just finished reading a new history of

!! orth Hampton--so close to deabro6k! If you get a chance,do read it-(The Wav It Was In North Ham.nton, written by Mr. and PJs.

Stillman Hobos).In it thete is a vivid de- .

scription of the frightful datage done to this very area in the 1700's when this some earth fault produced a severdquake. (There was no Richter Scale at the time. Only by reading this book's description can you know the . -- -

amount of danage that followed. )

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Yes, this was indeed two hundred years ago , [;' d-'Y"  ?#5 but what is two hundred years when one realizes that the earth fault is still thers7, Gratefully, W+ 9-b e'F (OM ) ,'j,lid ,.((

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the P.S.Though we have begged them to do so, Public Service Co. of N.H. refuses to give us I

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an evacuation plan--even though ther#,"as many jj : l e ,'t as 110,000 persons on Hampton Beach and 40,000 on Seabrook Beach on a fair summer weekend. 7 l{ gg l

j} ~q (By police count, not mine.) PSC knows no a ' c. a .

escape plan is possible here.

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Where will nuclear waste be du= ped? Surely until this is known no more of these lethal materials)hould be manufactured. Don't you agree? This seems so basic to me.

As I understood ft, PSC was given only a con-ditional permisston to build at Seabrook. I believe two conditions had to be met :l', That PSB~ had the means to bui ki it without CNIP (And now we know they are very nearly broke, even though we,the customers,have been paying cany C'. IIP charges ). And

+ millions of doll /ars in Dear Cod!

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2. That the site was suitable.

How could any site be less suitable--here in this fastest growin@ rea of the U.S. with the exceptid of lo'{er California. And it is alreedy thickly -

populated compared with u>.st it was only a feu F years ago.

Why then, isn t the per=ission given to PSC of N.H. withdraws,since they have not lived up to

~ their pr32.ises on which they gained that permis- -

sion?

In the local Town Beetin63, in those towns over which the PSC wants to run its power lines--ceetings held only ~

yesterdayr. town after town voted against i

overhead lines. PSC says it will cost then g. ..

countless @dllions to bury these lines, y$*j ' ' { , ~

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of funds!) {.

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