ML16340B193

Responds to Encl to President Carter Urging Denial of OL for Facility.Hearings Are Held Re Environ Matters Before CP Is Issued.Response to Concern Re Effects of Low Level Radioactivity Encl

ML16340B193
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	10/07/1980
From:	Miraglia F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Pipp S AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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NUDOCS 8010240172
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Ns. Suzanne Pipp 1063 Cortez Drive Santo t>aria, Cal ffornia 93454

Dear Ps. Pipp:

OCT 7 1980 Your Parch 30, 1980 letter to President Carter regarding the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant has been referred to me for reply.

You expressed concern over the licensing of Diablo Canyon citing a Kemeny Coamission Report statement on the potential for future accidents'at nuclear plants.

Let me assure you that the NRC has reacted pos1tfvely to improve the safety of al'l nuclear power plants in operation and under constructfon based on the lessons learned from the Three Nile Island accident.

Based on the findings of the Pres1dent's Comnfssion on the accident (The Kemeny Commissfon), the recommendations of the Special Inquiry Group directed by Nftchell Rogovin, recomendations developed by internal NRC special task forces, and recoomendatfons from other sources including'the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards, a comprehensive HRC Action Plan (NUREG-0660) developed as a result of the TNI-2 accident, was. prepared and published in Yay 1980.

Consistent with the t'uclear Regulatory Com1ssfon

guidance, the NRC staff is requiring all applicants for new operating licenses to mod1fy the design and operation of their nuclear plants to conform to Tf<I-related requirements.

NUREG-0694, published 1n June 1980, identified requirements applfcab'le to Diablo Canyon and other plants and provided a schedule by which they must be implemented.

Additional requirements and clariffcatfons are being considered.

'e have re-examined the Diablo Canyon facility for conformance to the HUREG-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 t<RC staff can issue a license to load fuel and conduct los, power (below 5 percent) tests, all of these requirements must be met, the Atom1c Safety and Licensing Board for Diablo Canyon must rule favorably, and the ComIfssfon itself will rev1ew the record.

In addition, your letter expressed a concern over the release of low-level radiation normal with the operation of a nuclear plant.

I am pleased to provide the enclosed response to this concern.

Furthermore, you state that possibly there is no need =for this plant because of conservation.

The National Environmental Policy Act requires us to consider whether there are environmentally preferable alternatives to a nuclear power plant proposed for licensing.

Me did this.

Hearings were held on this environ-mental issue before construction permits were issued to construct this facility.

Moreover, a favorable partial initial decision regard1ng environmental matters has been issued by the present Atomic Safety and Licensing Board considering all OFFICE)

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VIs. Suzanne Pipp W P 40 OCT V 1980 issues that have been properly brought before it, for operating 'licenses for the Diablo Canyon facility.

A copy of the Final Environmental Statement as well as other licensing documents and correspondence can be found in the Local Public Document Room (LPDP.) maintained for Diablo Canyon.

This LPDR is located at the California Polytechnic State University Library, Documents and Yaps Department, San Luis Obispo, California 93407.

I trust that this information is responsive to your request.

Sincere'ly, Fnclosure:

As stated Frank J. Yiraglia, Acting Chief Licensing Branch No.

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RELEASE OF LOW LEVEL RADIATION AT DIABLO CANYON REFERRED TO D. Eisenhut DATE 5/8 RECEIVED BY OA'Tf ENCLOSURES:

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