ML16340B150

Responds to Opposing Licensing of Facilities. NRC Has Reacted Positively in Light of TMI Accident to Improve Safety at All Nuclear Plants in Operation & Under Const

ML16340B150
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Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	09/03/1980
From:	Schwencer A Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Lambrook W AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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TERA NSIC TIC Nr. Mi1 1iam Lambrook 3524 High1 and Avenue Redwood City, California 94062

Dear t'lr. Lambrook:

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EHughes OELD NFudge Thank you for your Narch 1980 letter in which you expressed a concern about the licensing of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in light of'he accident at the Three Nile Island facility.

Let me assure you that the NRC has reacted posi tively to improve the safety of al 1 nucl ear power p'l ants i n operati on and under constructi on based on the lessons learned from the Three Nile Island accident.

Based on the findings of the Pres ident '

Commission on the accident (The Kemeny Commission), the recomnendati on of the Special Inquiry Group directed by Nitchel 1 Rogovin, recommendations developed by internal NRC special task forces, and recommendations from other sources including the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, a comprehensive NRC Action Plan developed as a result of the TNI-2

Accident, NUREG-0660, was prepared and pub'I ished in Nay 1980.

Consistent with NRC Commission guidance, the NRC staff i s requiring al 1 applicants for new. operating 1 icenses to modify the desi gn and operati on of their nuclear plants to conform to TNI-related requirements.

NUREG-0694, published in June 1980, identifies these requirements and provides a schedule by which they must be implemented-bfe have re-examined the Diablo Canyon facility for conformance to the NUREG-0694 requirements as they apply to fuel loading and low power testing and on August 6, 1980 issued our safety evaluation on these matters.

Before the NRC staff can issue a license to load fuel and conduct low power (below 5 percent)

tests, al 1 of these requirements must be met, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board for Diablo Canyon must rul e favorably, and the NRC Commission itself will t'eview the record.

Based on the above, I believe your concerns are being adequately addressed.

Si ncerely, 8o09M8 age A. Schwencer, Acting Chief Licensing Branch No.

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1S80 Mr. William Lambrook 3524 Highland Avenue Redwood City, California 94062

Dear Mr. Lambrook:

Thank you for your March 1980 letter in which you expressed a concern about the licensing of the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant in light of the accident at the Three Mile Island facility.

Let me assure you that the NRC has reacted positively to improve the safety of all nuclear power plants in operation and under construction based on the lessons

- learned from the Three Mile Island accident.

Based on the findings of the President's Commission on the accident (The Kemeny Commission),

the= recommendation of the Special Inquiry Group directed by Mitchell

Rogovin, recommendations developed by internal NRC special task forces, and recommendations from other sources including the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, a comprehensive NRC Action Plan developed as a result of the TMI-2

Accident, NUREG-0660, was prepared and published in May 1980.

Consistent with NRC Commission guidance, the NRC.staff is requiring all applicants for new operating licenses to modify the design and operation of their nuclear plants to conform to TMI-related requirements.

NUREG-0694, pub'lished in June 1980, identifies these requirements and provides a schedule by which they must be implemented.

We have re-examined the Diablo Canyon facility for conformance to the NUREG-0694 requirements as they apply to fuel loading and low power testing and on August 6, 1980 issued our safety evaluation on these matters.

Before the NRC staff can issue a license to load fuel and conduct low power (below 5 percent) tests, all of these requirements must be met, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board for Diablo Canyon must rule favorably, and the NRC Commission itself will review the record.

Based on the above, I believe your concerns are being adequately addressed.

Sincerely,

~4C A. Schwencer, Acting Chief Licensing Branch No.

3 Division of Licensing

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