ML16340B269
| ML16340B269 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 12/04/1980 |
| From: | Miraglia F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Clucas J Sierra Club |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8012180132 | |
| Download: ML16340B269 (6) | |
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Cy pg UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 DK 4 1980 Mr. Jan Clucas, Chairman Sierra Club Santa Lucia Chapter 1727 Corralitos Avenue San Luis Obispo, California 93401
Dear Nr. Clucas:
Let me first express my regrets for the delay in responding to your March 29, 1979 letter addressed to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) regarding the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
A large number of letters came to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission following the accident at the Three Mile Island (TNI) plant, all of which we are trying to answer as fast as our re-sources permit.
Your letter has been referred to me for reply and I am pleased to make this response.
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 Nile Island accident.
Based on the findings of the President's Commission on the accident (The Kemeny Commission), the recommendations 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 (NUREG-0660) developed as a result of the TMI-2 accident, was prepared and published in Nay 1980.
Consistent with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission guidance, the NRC staff is re-quiring all applicants for new operating licenses to modify the design and opera-tion of their nuclear plants to conform to TMI-related requirements.
NUREG-0694, published in June 1980, identified these requirements and provided 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 Commission itself will review the record.
In addition, following the TMI accident, Intervenors moved to reopen the record on Class 9 accidents and emergency planning.
On June 5, 1979 the Licensing Board stated that it would not rule on the motion until it received the NRC staff's supplemental safety evaluation report on the effects of TMI related to full power license for Diablo Canyon.
This report will be issued early in 1981.
A licensing process similar to the fuel loading and low power testing license will be followed for the full power license.
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C Hr. Jan Clucas gg 4 i980 A copy of the Kemeny Commission and Rogovfn reports,
- NUREGs, as >cell as other licensing documents, correspondence and Board proceedings can bp found fn the Local Publfc Document Room (LPDP,) maintained for Diablo Canyon.
The LPDR fs located at the California Polytechnic State University Library, Documents and Maps Department, San Luis Obispo, California 93407.
I trust that this fnformatfon fs responsive to your request.
Sfncerely, Frank Mfraglfa, Acting Chfef Licensing Branch No. 3 Dfvfsfon of Licensing Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DISTRIBUTION:
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