ML16340B213
| ML16340B213 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 10/14/1980 |
| From: | Miraglia F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Joyner J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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>fr. John Joyner 1172 f arding Orange, California 92667
Dear f~r. Joyner:
Earlier this,year you sent the HRC a postcard urging "The recent lifting of the moratorium on licensing nuclear power plants be reconsidered" or, at least, that we "refuse to 'license the Diablo Canyon Nuclear plant".
I am pleased to respond.
As you note in your postcard, the NRC has resumed its licensing activities an pending applications for operating licenses'.
This is consistent with our statu-tory requirements.
However,-let me assure you that the NRC has reacted posi-tively to improve the safety of all nuclear power plants in operation and under construction based on the lessons learned from the Three Nile Island (TNI) ace'fdente Based on the findings of the President's Coomission an the accident (The Kemeny Coreission),
the recommendations of the Special Inquiry Group directed by Fitchell Rogovin, recommendations develaped by internal NRC special task forces, and recommendations from other sources including the Advisory Golrmittee on Reactor Safeguards, a comprehensive NRC Action Plan (NUREG-0660), develo'ped as a
result of the Tt1I accident, was prepared and published in tray 1980.
Consistent with NPC Cooeission
- guidance, the NRC staff is requir ing all applicants f'r new operating licenses to modify the design and operation of their nuclear plants to conform to TfiI-related requirements.
NUREG-0694, published in June 1980, ident'ifies 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 app'ly to fuel loading and low power (below five percent) 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 tests, all of these requirements, must be met, the Atomic Safety and'icens(ng Board for Diablo Canyon must rule favorably, and the NRC Commission itself will review the'ecorde Based on the above, I believe your concerns are being adequately addressed.
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