ML19262B917

Comments on Hendrie 791105 Appearance Before House Energy & Power Subcommittee Re Possibility of Closing Plants Near Population Ctrs.Facility Should Be Included in Shutdown Consideration,Due to Proximity to Louisville,Ky

ML19262B917
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Site:	Marble Hill
Issue date:	11/06/1979
From:	William Ford SENATE, COMMERCE, SCIENCE & TRANSPORTATION
To:	Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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'In your appearar.ce yesterday before the Ecuse Er.ergy and y Pcwer % ittee, you rentioned the possibility of closing F certain nuclear plants near pcpulatica centers because evacu-aticn of such areas, in the event of a serious accident, right s nethe " entirely successful." I am writi:4 to urge that the l Farble Hill Facility, new under ccnstrue.ica at Madisen, )

Indiana, be included areng these plants ycu will censidar shut- I ting dcwn. .

Icuisville, the largest retropolitan area in Fentucky, is located just 30 riles frcm Madisen. If a nuclear disaster were to occur, the lives of a millica people in the city and

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I its vicinity would be jecpardized. Wenty-five Sincepercent of the even during populatica of my state would be affected. l the nest non al circurstances the reads and high.eays of Icuis- I ville are congested, I can assure you that urder conditiens of I panic, a rassive evacuation would be absciutely Lpessible to I i

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You are all too fariliar with the track record of Marble Hill so far.

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ht=creus, but. tragic. I have no confidence whatscever that the i

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defects already brought to light involving safety-related cen-Tnerefore, in

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strc.c.ica can evar be satisfactorily ccrrected.

lina with the reasening effered yesterday, I strengly re w...rnd that F*le Hill, with the advantage of being in the early stages of careccicn, be cens!da-ed as a pri:e candidate for any closures *

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