ML043480150
| ML043480150 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png |
| Issue date: | 12/29/2004 |
| From: | Dyer J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Blanch P, Gundersen A - No Known Affiliation |
| Skay D, NRR/DLPM, 415-1322 | |
| Shared Package | |
| ML043480162 | List: |
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| G20040836, LTR-04-0744, TAC MC5370 | |
| Download: ML043480150 (3) | |
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December 29, 2004 Paul M. Blanch 135 Hyde Road West Hartford, CT 06117 Arnold Gundersen 139 Killarney Drive Burlington, VT 05401
Dear Messrs. Blanch and Gundersen:
I am responding to your letter to Chairman Diaz, dated December 8, 2004, regarding the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Vermont Yankee). In your letter, you raised concerns about Vermont Yankees conformance with its design basis and compliance with applicable Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations. Based on these concerns, you requested that the Chairman intervene in the licensees application for a power uprate to ensure reconciliation of Vermont Yankees design basis. You also sent an e-mail to Mr. Rick Ennis, the Vermont Yankee Project Manager, and requested that this letter be treated as supplemental information to the petition you submitted, dated July 29, 2004, under the process specified in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 2.206. Therefore, we will respond to the issues related to the design basis at Vermont Yankee in conjunction with the response to your petition.
In your letter, you expressed concerns about the engineering inspection conducted at Vermont Yankee earlier this year. NRC staff was available to answer questions regarding this inspection at the public meeting in Brattleboro, Vermont on December 16, 2004.
Furthermore, if you have identified any specific information indicating that Vermont Yankee does not meet applicable regulatory requirements, you are encouraged to provide that information to NRC so that we can evaluate the issue and take appropriate action. Thank you for taking the time to provide your concerns to us.
Sincerely,
/RA by RBorchardt for/
J. E. Dyer, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Docket No. 50-271
December 29, 2004 Paul M. Blanch 135 Hyde Road West Hartford, CT 06117 Arnold Gundersen 139 Killarney Drive Burlington, VT 05401
Dear Messrs. Blanch and Gundersen:
I am responding to your letter to Chairman Diaz, dated December 8, 2004, regarding the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station (Vermont Yankee). In your letter, you raised concerns about Vermont Yankees conformance with its design basis and compliance with applicable Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations. Based on these concerns, you requested that the Chairman intervene in the licensees application for a power uprate to ensure reconciliation of Vermont Yankees design basis. You also sent an e-mail to Mr. Rick Ennis, the Vermont Yankee Project Manager, and requested that this letter be treated as supplemental information to the petition you submitted, dated July 29, 2004, under the process specified in Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) Section 2.206. Therefore, we will respond to the issues related to the design basis at Vermont Yankee in conjunction with the response to your petition.
In your letter, you expressed concerns about the engineering inspection conducted at Vermont Yankee earlier this year. NRC staff was available to answer questions regarding this inspection at the public meeting in Brattleboro, Vermont on December 16, 2004.
Furthermore, if you have identified any specific information indicating that Vermont Yankee does not meet applicable regulatory requirements, you are encouraged to provide that information to NRC so that we can evaluate the issue and take appropriate action. Thank you for taking the time to provide your concerns to us.
Sincerely,
/RA by RBorchardt for/
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