ML17056A029
| ML17056A029 | |
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| Site: | Millstone, Hatch, Monticello, Dresden, Peach Bottom, Browns Ferry, Nine Mile Point, Perry, Fermi, Oyster Creek, Hope Creek, Grand Gulf, Cooper, Susquehanna, Columbia, Brunswick, Limerick, River Bend, Vermont Yankee, Duane Arnold, Clinton, Quad Cities, Big Rock Point, FitzPatrick, LaSalle, 05000000, Shoreham |
| Issue date: | 06/05/1989 |
| From: | Sniezek J Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| 2.206, NUDOCS 8906120208 | |
| Download: ML17056A029 (4) | |
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UNITED.STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY CObSISSION DOCKET NO. 50 293 -ET-AL.>>
BOSTON. EDISON-COMPANY.ET-AL.>>
7590'-01 PILGRIM.NUCLEAR POMER-STATION ET. AL.>>
RECEIPT-OF PETITION FOR.DIRECTOR!S DECISION. UNDER 10 CFR.2.206 Notice is hereby given that by Petition dated March 8, 1989, Ms. Anna Harlowe, on behalf of the Ecology Center of Southern California (Ecology Center),
has requested the Nuclear Regulatory Comnission (NRC or Comissfon) to initiate enforcement action involving all boiling water reactors now operating or under construction.
The Ecology Center requested that the NRC fix or close all nuclear power reactors designed by the General Electric Company (GE).
As bases for. this request, the Ecology Center alleged that (1) in 1972, a member of the NRC staff recommended that GE-designed re'actors be banned in the United States; (2) in 1975, GE engineers generated the "Reed Report" that detailed dozens of safety and economic problems with GE-designed reactors and that recommended that GE stop selling those reactors; (3) in 1986, an NRC official admitted that 24 GE reactors with Mark I containments had a 90 percent chance of failure in a nuclear accident; (4) in 1987, an NRC task force confirmed that Mark I containments were virtually certain to fail in an accident; (5) according to NRC safety studies, Mark II reactors have many possible scenarios for early containment failures; and, (6) Mark II designs',
on which the Reed Report focused, have dozens of safety and economic problems and have suffered massive cost overruns during construction as a result of design problems.
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The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Coamission's regulations.
The NRC will take appropriate action on the Petition within a reasonable time.
A copy of the Petition is available for inspection in the Coomission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.M., Washington, D.C., 20555.
FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMNISSION Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June 1989.
s H. Sniezek, Acting Director fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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