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National Three Mile Island: The Fight Continues Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh had no choice but to give approval to the venting of krypton gas from the Three Mile Island Unit 2 containment building May 18, when the antinuclear Union of Concerned Scientists reported the truth—that the venting would cause no danger. Thornburgh had sought the opinion of the environmentalist group in April before making his decision, although three previous evaluations—including one by the governor's own Blue Ribbon Commission on TMI—had recommended venting the gas as quickly as possible. "I am now persuaded that the plan is now a safe one," the governor said. In the first stage of the venting, two engineers from Metropolitan Edison, which operates the nuclear plant, began to enter the containment building May 20, but were foiled by the inner door from the airlock to the building, which had corroded shut. UCS a Laughingstock The Union of Concerned Scientists, which assumes leadership for the professional wing of the environmentalist movement, made itself a laughingstock by reporting to the governor that although the venting posed no physical danger, it would be unbearable to the 20 percent of local residents who allegedly had been psychologically damaged by the 1979TMI incident. To ease this psychological Continued on page 67 "I agree with the Union of Concerned Scientists' feeling that 'stress' should be a consideration in this decision. ..." —Pennsylvania Governor Dick Thornburgh in a letter to the editor of the New York Times May 27, 1980. Above: Gov. Thornburgh and an artist's depiction of one of the TMI venting devices suggested by the Union of Concerned Scientists. Put TMI Back on Line The following comments are from a Fusion interview with David Walls, executive vice president of the Lebanon, Pa. Chamber of Commerce. "We want to get TMI Unit 1 back on line. There is an ever-increasing burden on the business community—that's the way we've described it to anyone who will listen. It costs $280,000 per month for Metropolitan Edison to purchase the power that substitutes for Unit 1. "We brought in Harold Denton of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to make our case to him. We held one town meeting on the issue. We've met with the City Council. . . . We've spoken with NRC officials and the NRC representative for TMI. We expressed our concern only one week after the accident." "On the krypton venting, as I say, we're not experts. The way we've stated the matter is that the experts have stated it is safe; therefore, it should be done. They've made that decision. So it should be done. In our view, too many lay people are meddling in this, and none of them are bothering to get the facts. "Here's what we plan to do. The problem we face is that local officials say it's an NRC problem, and the NRC says it's a Pennsylvania problem. We have been discussing that one thing that might get TMI Unit 1 back on line is to put all the Chambers of Commerce in the Metropolitan Edison service region together in a meeting for the specific purpose of developing some plan of action. . . . "We are also going to make our case to the national Chamber of Commerce. We're not scientists. But we want to make sure they know the business facts—the impact of putting this plant out of business— which are devastating. If the NRC sends us to the state, and the state sends us back to Washington, at least the national organization has more influence on both. "We are aware that the electrical workers, at least locally, have taken a very similar position on Unit 1. I am aware that the unions in Philadelphia have taken a very similar position. The building trades take the same point of view." 24 FUSION August 1980
Four men who did not subscribe to EIR Executive Intelligence Review and missed out on what EIR readers knew— • Volcker's October credit policy would lift inflation to 20% and push major banks toward the brink of bankruptcy. • Volcker's policy would also strangle the industrial sector, starting with auto and steel.
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