ML20003B088

Supports Facility Restart

ML20003B088
Person / Time
Site:	Crane
Issue date:	01/31/1981
From:	Carter E AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
ISSUANCES-SP, NUDOCS 8102100337
Download: ML20003B088 (1)

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Dear Sir:

This correspondence is in reference to Docket 50-289SP concerning Three Mile Island Unit #1 of Middletown, Pa, It is a fac t that Three Mile Island Unit 1, now closed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, was not involved or dam-aged in the accident at TMI Unit 2 in March of 1979. Moreover, a poll taken last spring in ci1;ies near TMI indicated that in excess of 58% of the residents favored restarting the undamaged reactor.

Unfortunately, the U.S. government has decided to stop the operation of TMI-1, the undamaged unit, during modification.

Yet similar nuclear plants elsewhere are operating while being modified !

Since the incident, the U.S. electriccpower industry has responded quickly and forcefully to correct inadequacies in-l dicated by the accident. Those correctisataW ,bapp, and are now ike being made at the undamaged unit. As a ressestathis plants elsewhere, is even safer than it was Wefore it closa udit,'.;1,8Yor routine inspection and refueling way back in'1979 f

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l Moreover it is costing Metropolitan Edison and its customers nearly $500,000. a day! That is, $500,000, daily to purchase more expensive coal and oil instead of uranium for ..

fuel as use. , , ]y The government's decision to keep the undamaged uni b closed, then, is not only discriminatory and irrational but ,y totally unjustified as well. .-

Pleas - let's get TMI Unit Wpen--soon ! ~

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