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Three Mile Island cleanup and rehabilitation. Oversight Hearing before the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, second session

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The purpose of this hearing is to present testimony concerning the cleanup and rehabilitation of unit 2 at Three Mile Island nuclear powerplant. A particular concern is with the manner in which the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is confronting this difficult situation. An attempt is being made to understand, among other things, the path the Commission is taking in making its decisions. Along the way the Commission will have to make tradeoffs between economics and public health and the Commission's views as to how such tradeoffs should and can be made will be heard. The Commission's views and those of other witnesses as to the responsibility of the NRC to take account of the public anxiety in the region in terms of its decision-making will be discussed. The anxiety question arises with respect to the venting of the radioactive krypton gas from the Three Mile Island containment. While most experts seem to agree that the releasing of this krypton into the atmosphere will not create a radiological hazard, there is a disagreement as to whether venting would exacerabate the anxiety that is prevalent in the area surrounding the plant. How NRC is approaching the venting question, which may be typical of many that would be made as the cleanup process proceeds, is important. There seems to be also some disagreement as to the dangers that might arise if the krypton is eliminated by a process which would capture it but which would take longer than it would be releasing it directly into the atmosphere. (PAG)
OSTI ID:
5533945
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United States
Language:
English

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