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By Mai
Gamecock
Safety features on tod
being sacrificed for gov*
energy outlets, said Robe
safety project manager f
Commission, NRC.
"I am not opposed to
opposed to building plar
safety features," Pollard
Nuclear Regulatory Concrucial
job of reactor
promised in favor of th?
PALMETTO ALLI
organization, conducts ;
"The South Carolina El
SCE&G, is responsible fo
plant 25 miles north of
create 25 tons of deadly, r
said.
"/ resigned
because 1
being c
Ninety percent of th
being moved in Ame
Carolina, and that may
after state refuses to b
cording to Palmetto A1
Pollard is now a me
cerned Scientists, UCS.
since I resigned, I contii
the rules of the Nuclear
bring forward the saf
hearings in the hope th
down the nuclear prog
are solved."
POLLARD SAID he
Westinghouse reactor i
ficulty in Westinghouse
equipment, I don't r
equipment, but the verj
are used both for contr
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ay's nuclear reactors are placi
;rnment approval of quick simu
;rt Pollard, former reactor desig
or the Nuclear Regulatory Po
recei
nuclear power, but I am whflt
its which do not recognize with
1 said. "I resigned from the Char
imission because I felt my be r<
safety was being comi
industry." "T
the p
ANCE, a statewide the 1
studies of nuclear issues. Pr
ectric and Gas Company, perh
r Dunaing a nuciear power cnan
Columbia. This plant will Di
adioactive waste a year, it educ
effec
from the Nuclear j
felt my crucial job
compromised, in favc
e nuclear waste presently the
rica is coming to South conf
become permanent as state ecor
ecome nuclear dumps, ac- heal
liance. alwi
mber of the Union of Con- pre\
"In my work with the UCS
tiue to try and work through Ni
Regulatory Commission to opjx
ety problems of the NRC file
tat we will be able to slow ator
rams until these problems bein
Li
repi
was concerned about tne Jron
lsed by SCE&G. "The dif- mai
plants is that the very same was
nean identical pieces of "1
/ same pieces of equipment pial
ol and safety. is,"
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h disables the control system
ne the reactor in an unsafe cc
ltaneously disabling all of the sal
;ned to protect against that accid
llard said no reactor designs are
ive a construction permit. Only j
: the project entails and a promis
safety standards and regulation
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eported.
'HE PROBLEM with the reviews is
ilants would have to be shut down <
NJRC sets up regulations," Pollan
essure from government to shut d<
aps the most influential problem o
iges, Pollard added.
iring a recent television deb
ational program, Pollard said, "T
:tive in evading its sole responsibil
Regulatory Commi
of reactor safety'
w of the industry.
health and safety of the public,
lict arising in the review practice
lomic health of the nuclear indu
th and safety of the public, my exp
ays the health of the nuclear i
'ails in the decision-making proc<
UCLEAR SCIENTIST Ralph La]
)nent in the television debate, saic
an pnvironmpntJil imnart statpr
nic preliminary safety analysis i
g reviewed by the NEC."
app said he felt nuclear was
ocessed and used for fuel. He
ard that the government should g
ting decisions about the nuclear ph
te.
[ feel that it would have to take
te people realize how dangerous
Pollard said.
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