ML19296D658

Forwards Fund for Secure Energy 791120 Ltr Re NRC Study of Environ,Health & Safety Concerns of Nuclear Reactors

ML19296D658
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Site:	05000574
Issue date:	01/23/1980
From:	Bradley B SENATE
To:	NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA)
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John Aristotle Phillips Chairman .

The Fund for Secure Energy, Inc.

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Westport, CT 06880 E proposed Phillipine Nuclear Plant No. 1 I forward the att. ached for your consideration and would appreciate receiving information in regard to this inquiry as soon as possible.

Please return with the original correspondence.

Thank you very much for your time and assistance in this matter.

Sincerely, Bill Bradley United States Senator

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l FUSE THE FUND FOR SECURE ENERGY, INC. 21 CHARLES STREET WESTPORT, CT 06880 (203) 226 7911 John Aristotle Phillips, Chairman .

John CoRee,

• Leeuwe Director November 20, 1979 Senator Bill Bradley 315 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, D.C. ,20510

Dear Senator Bradley:

Eaving examined several reports on the proposed Phillipine Nuclear Plant No. 1 (PNPP-1) , for which Westinghouse Electric Corporation has submitted an export license application, I am most concerned about the handling of this matter.

While there are extensive legal and technical questions associated with the reactor, the basic question right now-is whether the NRC '/ill deal with health and safety issues re-lating to this and other foreign reactor sales. Despite evi-dence that Congress intended the NRC to do reviews of this kind on nuclear plant exports, NRC is questioning whether it has the authority to conduct such a study on the Phillipine reactor.

I ask you not only to inform NRC that they certainly do have congressional authorization to look into these important environmental, health and safety. concerns, but to join with other members of Congress in mandating such reviews on all ex-ports of nuclear technology. ,

This reactor is of particular concern because of the serious earthquake potential of the site, and the proximity of an active volcano. There have also been allegations that

.when research was done by the consulting firm Ebasco for Westinghouse, evidence that the site and reactor design are unsafe may have been covered up. I hope you will study all

• material relating to this reactor, including the IAEA report of September, 1978 and September, 1979, and information avail- e able from the Center for Development Policy, intervenors with the URC on the case.

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9 Page Two In addition, I believe that it should be United States policy not to export nuclear technology without the fullest precautions against harmful results from use of such tech-nology. We live in a world in which what happens in all the farthest reaches of the globe can have immense reper-cussions for the American people. Even if we did not have a moral responsibility for the dangers entailed as we spread this technology throughout the earth, it is to our own best interests to be vigilant in determining its potential effects in each instance. Those effects must include environmental, health and safety concerns as well as the political and mili-tary aspects of nuclea. proliferation. If it cannot be done safely, it shouldn't be done.

I trus't you will give serious consideration to this im-portant issue.

Sincerely, ew John Aristotle Phillip D JAP :j a 4

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