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E-Mail from Virgilio to Dean, Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced ... Uprate Review
ML053180162
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Site: Vermont Yankee File:NorthStar Vermont Yankee icon.png
Issue date: 05/05/2004
From: Virgilio R
NRC/STP
To: Bill Dean
NRC/EDO
References
FOIA/PA-2004-0369
Download: ML053180162 (3)


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Eliot Brenher - Fwd: FW: Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced Independent Assessment--Plan Goes Further than PSB Requy -d 1 From: Rosetta Virgilio To: Dean, William Date: 5/5/04 5:13PM

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Fwd: FW: Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced Independent Assessment--Plan Goes Further than PSB Request and is Addition to Existing Uprate Review Bill -

Note attached Statement from Governor Douglas, which I believe the Commission would be interested in seeing.

Rosetta CC: Anderson, Cliff; Ennis, Rick; Hayden, Elizabeth; Howe, Allen; Lohaus, Paul; Pelton, David; Piccone, Josephine; Schoenfeld, Isabelle; Skay, Donna

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Eliot Brenher - FW: Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced Independent Assessment--Plan Goes Further than PSB Request arnaqd I From: "Sherman, William" <William.Sherman state.vt.us>

To: "Cliff Anderson (E-mail)" <cja~nrc.gov>, 'Paul Lohaus (E-mail)" <PHL~nrc.gov>, "Rick Ennis (E-mail)" <rxe@nrc.gov>, "Rosetta Virgilio (E-mail)" <ROVXnrc.gov>, "Dave Pelton (E-mail)"

<dIpl @nrc.gov>

Date: 5/5/04 2:33PM

Subject:

FW: Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced Independent Assessment--Plan Goes Further than PSB Request and is Addition to Existing Uprate Review

>JAMES H. DOUGLAS

> GOVERNOR

> <<...OLE_Obj...>>

> State of Vermont

> OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR

> For Immediate Release:

> Wednesday, May 05, 2004

Contact:

Jason Gibbs

> (802) 828-3333

> Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced Independent Assessment

> Plan Goes Further than PSB Request and is Addition to Existing Uprate

> Review

> Montpelier, Vt.--Governor Jim Douglas today said his administration's

> efforts to urge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) to conduct a

> comprehensive Independent Engineering Assessment of the Vermont Yankee

> nuclear power plant have been successful. In fact, the NRC has developed

> a more comprehensive review than the assessment requested by the Public

> Service Board that will supplement its current uprate assessment.

> Governor Douglas said that he is pleased that the NRC has been responsive

> to Vermont's desire for a comprehensive assessment of the plant. "We have

> been aggressive in our efforts to convince the NRC that a comprehensive

> assessment of Vermont Yankee is necessary," Douglas said. "They must

> assure the people of Vermont, with certainty, that this facility is

> operating safely."

> Douglas went on to say that his administration would continue to monitor

> the assessments and the search for the missing fuel rods very closely.

> "Our efforts will always put the health and safety of Vermonters first,"

> he said.

> The new NRC assessment would be the first of its kind and applied to NRC

> reactor oversight across the country. According to a letter to PSB

> Chairman Michael Dworkin from NRC Chairman Diaz six experts including

> several independent inspectors will conduct the inspection. According to

> Chairman Diaz, more than 700 hours0.0081 days <br />0.194 hours <br />0.00116 weeks <br />2.6635e-4 months <br /> of direct inspection will be conducted.

> In addition, Chairman Diaz said that the NRC Advisory Committee on Reactor

> Safeguards (ACRS) would conduct its own independent review of the power

> uprate request. The ACRS is a committee that reports to the Commission

Eliot Brenner - FW: Douglas: NRC to Conduct Enhanced independent Assessment--Plan Goes Further than PSB Request anB3-#

> and is a forum for experts to provide supplemental technical advice for

> the NRC. The ACRS will then make another independent recommendation on

> the uprate based its own review.

> "The NRC will not approve the Vermont Yankee uprate, or any proposed

> change to a plant license, unless the NRC staff can conclude that the

> proposed change will be executed in a manner that assures the public's

> health and safety," Chairman Diaz wrote.

> The reviews announced today by the NRC are in addition to the established

> uprate review process which includes a team of engineers with specialties

> in a minimum of 17 different technical areas, more than 4,000 hours0 days <br />0 hours <br />0 weeks <br />0 months <br /> of

> assessment on the engineering, design, and safety of the plant while

> reviewing the uprate application.