ML20005B396
| ML20005B396 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| 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 | |
| Download: ML20005B396 (9) | |
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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? e No. Is it ce,Leit-effective? Emphatically no! 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 Yes.there Th3re safer, cleaner more ceg' 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 is leading theancestors nation! and others who don't live in the past. Again, Califernia - pO S J Mr. Hendrie, for God's sake let's avert the disaster that hcs not
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,i itip.t;ek,4 w;. ndaalah chairman. Richard Maullin told-gumbers of thedfkM L4, :,f;ip" e===L==La= be was9 anxious ~ to experunentwith' this; novel a. yd ana na-64.Ebma=rcei-of'
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Chrtscan $dsmes.'ssamarNevismie concentrate the broad energy'from the ment atop the ,with its pumps surrounding oceaninto a form of kinete powered Dy.the woqld be more ,
! '- I48/ ANGELES-An ancient observa-tion ' coupled with more recent-but ' energyathau could mort easily be practical than the , ese_l fuels being simple--technology could generate a : ' tapped. " c . O p *. ~. - r . t ~ und now.
new source of electricity from,.the At the bottom of the tube would be the And since the unit draws water from massive energy.-H in the world's key component and the'only moving . the surfacei the dam stairwould also be oceanej . t f. omw , part, a turbine. The turbine would be- y an effective meansiot bel to clean -
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connected to a generator at-the-top of A.up06L -which 'would be wn into - dev by two scientists at Iack- the dome, which would in turn be the unit. gollected.; . v. . Co., takes advantage of . # ~W with onshore electrical grids In additica, a series of the units a few heed . miles out.atraea would have the effect
< a phanamanaa noticed by ancient Po. ~1 and power other functions ', hat Wirt and
" lynesian" navigators:' when-waves ap- Morrow have la mind.for the dam. atoll /. of calming the ocean surface closer to One dome unit, the~selestista estb shore- crea qa and safer har-proach' a>smallJring shaped island known as en- atoll,. they are naturally . . mate, could. generate between one and hors for
;.they say, a The scientiete..say: c I al'ly brought.$ award the- center in ' spiral 1. two megawatts. In
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I.eslie S. Wirt and Duane L. Morrow oceans with a high degreat of wave stoll and found no serious flaws that '
, are aQthat'a' submerged 6 con- activity could nytch the'genpratine =would maarbarnttothe envisemant. -
creter 1 '. structure;'some 250 ~ capacity of Hoover DarnM e F-4,9% Wirt:an4%rrow both' acknowledge Construction. costa might be' three & that site selecticut would<be a hoy to the j ! feet istdiametsel could sw. create ther ' ' offact of"aaratoilL Ocesa waves:would:' . times that of'a nuclear orcoaHurning' e . unit's success; because possible disrup. break acroot.the tonof the dome formf power plant when calculated for the not p~. 'tica of thg sometimeinecessary effects the natural spiral, and slosh intor a.. cost of each kiloyatt-hour / But with'an" 'of beacir erosion'would'need to be series of vanes,iust at the water'sa e inexhaustible ,fbel supply-waves-the r weighted. _G, , .. l surface, la the conter of the~ structurez" scientista believe their proposal is eco . .;... ..Several years of development remain, I F r - Ethey say, before possible construction of Liker.a, flywheel; the vanes..would nomically sound. direct the water down inside a tube; 30 More important, electricity would nqt. ,
.a full-scale unit could begin. -
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