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

Icuisville, the largest retropolitan area in Fentucky, If a nuclear disaster is located just 30 riles frcm Madisen.

were to occur, the lives of a millica people in the city and I

its vicinity would be jecpardized. Wenty-five percent of the Since even during populatica of my state would be affected.

the nest non al circurstances the reads and high.eays of Icuis-l I

ville are congested, I can assure you that urder conditiens of I

panic, a rassive evacuation would be absciutely Lpessible to I

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l You are all too fariliar with the track record of Marble Hill 2.o.

It has been a disaster---a c:redy of er crs that is not so far.

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

i defects already brought to light involving safety-related cen-

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Tnerefore, in 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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