ML20005B396

Opposes Facility Restart

ML20005B396
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	06/24/1981
From:	Mark King AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8107080171
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{{#Wiki_filter:8t l lD-o. o Pn9KET NUMBER b. W PRO D. & UTIL FAC. h.: M. g g i.s .49 m s ,,+\\ h ~/,- ^ d A ,4 5: = June 2h, 8 Mr. Joseph Hendrie e n\\ G-Cb31rman U. S. Nuclear Regulatcry ~ ~ " I ; p' p{. 3g * /p Commission Washington, D. C. Dear Sir [ Doyourememberthoseexcitingdaysat3-kileIsland(r.arMc8,19D) to be exact? I do. I remember the great fear I had of a radioactive wasteland in the heart of our country. (Shades of George 'dashingten!) I reme.mber the compassien I had and still have fer the people faced with an invisible fee which still threatens them and I read there has been a high infant mortality rate :rince then. I remember the disorganization, the conflicting recorts, on Governor Thornberg's face a 1cok of shock as though he's seen a ghost. - whether to evacuate er not--the hydrogen bubble --and surely it was through Divine intervention we were saved frcm cur own igncrance. No one has seen the reacter cors, perhaps it's heating up again. This accident is surely proof of Murphy's law that whatever can happen will hcppen. It really sounds just like a movie scenario where perhaps our movie actor president, Ronald Reagan is trying to win an 1.cademy Iward cver Robert Redford in the China Syndrome. I sometimes wonder if he can distinguish between fantasy and real life. What I can't understand is why you want to replay the same pert in this dismal scenario where everyone loses and no one wants to finance or insure the nuclear industry, least of all the customers! Is this fr_es.anterprise? No. Is it ce,Leit-effective? Emphatically no! e Ihe clean-up costs are phenomenal not to mention future la'r suits! Is it dangerous? DesdlyJangereus! Is it Govarmant interferema-with private industry? Yes, just what this administration is against. Is it putting industry on welfare? Yes, just what this administration is opposed to! Is it inflationary? Very! Do we need it? No, studies show that the need for electricity is going down nationwide. eIrective ferms of energy ~that will create mere jobs?Are there safer, cleaner more ceg' Yes. Th3re is@inc power (See enclosures) geothermal, solar ponds, small hydre, tidal, nethanol, ethanol and now het water from the volcanic fields near Susanville, Califcrnia. Many of these forms of energy are beginning to be established by people like our pioneer ancestors and others who don't live in the past. Again, Califernia is leading the nation! S pO J Mr. Hendrie, for God's sake let's avert the disaster that hcs not ~ f/ gethappened! Sincerely - h) gw Cocies: hark Hatfield, Apprcpriations ^~ Committee & members, Senate Fernand St. Germain, Banking, Finance Janes hcClure, Energy & National & Urban Iffairs & members House Resources & Committec members John Dingell, Energy & Commerce & Robt. Dole, Finance & Cemnittee members - House James Whitten, Ippropriations Den Fuqua, Science & Technology, House Ccenittee & members - House Dan Rostenkowski, Ways & Means & Ccemittee, House 107080171 810624 hggg Goverv.ent Operations, Jack 3 rocks & Committee, House DR ADOCK 05000

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Ma How A Nuclear Power Plant Dies... it starts to die the day it goes to work. As a suc-Sometimes the mothballing of a reactor isn't so cession of atomic fuel cores is inserted, used, and easy. The hfarcoule, France Arer which pro-extracted from the plant, thepdiatinn Isxgl.in 1he - duced plutonium for French nuclear weapons, was plant structure begins toI sy i shur down tgy_ egis ajo and placed under guard. e This is no accident, but a normal part of the But it has already devebped cracks ar.d is lenkine operation of the plan radiation.Jt will have to be dismantle,1 co'mpletely effter approximatelf Ir?rha plant must b, and entombed in concrete. Even then, the guards closed. Every nuclear p nt.saffers the same fate. wsll have to stay, e.lert for radsatson. It must be closed and sealed or dismantled. With only a 30-year lifespan, the problem of And guarded. Because scientists estimate that " dead but dangerou_s"Myartants cannot be s thefoisoned structure will be a threat for at least put off untillater.@fteen plantsNn the U.S. have dbo yearsdif not much longer. These inoperable already been closed, and their dispose.1is a maior plants cannot be dismantled and moved without . problem today, great expense and enormous risk of exposure to Where are nuclear plants located? The answer is surrounding aress, due to the thousands of tons of simple: all over. Take a look at this map provided steel and concrete permeated with intense levels of by the U. S. government... radiatior.. NUCLEAR POWER REACTORS IN THE UNITED STATES 4 de sea. ~ o s, . A u-m >= j += I = g; 3 [- ,, p-T.. -

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