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-

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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

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on the Boston-Ottawa earth fault.

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List sunser there was an earthquake at Seabrook

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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

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Richter Scale at the time. Only by reading

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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

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(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

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now we know they are very nearly broke, even

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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

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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

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

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

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