ML17083A623
| ML17083A623 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 10/16/1980 |
| From: | Miraglia F Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Elliot M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8010270244 | |
| Download: ML17083A623 (6) | |
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Your Septerrfer 23, 190('etter to Yr. Dentnn regarding the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant has been referred to me for reply.
I am pleased to make this response.
Ycr! expressed concern over cperator errors and erIuipr,ent malfiinctions in view of the accident at Three f'ile Island (TYI), and the potential for future accidents at nuclear plants.
Let me assure you that the HPC has reacted positively to improve the safety of all nuclear po<<er plants in operation and under construction based on the lessons learned from the Tf".I accident.
Pased on the findings of the President's Ccerission on the accident (The Kemcny Corpmission),
the recommendations of the Special Inquiry Group directed hy h'itchell Pogovin, recommendations developed by internal flRC special task forces, and recommendations from other sources including the Advisory Corrmittee on Peactor Safeguards, a ccmprehensi ve NPC Action Plan (flURE0-0660) developed as a
result of the TMI-2 accident, was prepared and published in Yay 1980.
Consistent viith the Nuclear Pegulatory Commission guidance, the fiRC staff is requirinq all applicants for now operating licenses to modify the desiqn and operation of their nuclear plants to conform to TVI-related requirements.
HUBE0-0694, published in June 1980, identified requirement s applicable to Diahlo Canyon and other plants anil provided a schedule hy vihich they must be implemented.
Additional requirements and clarifications are heinq considererl.
ke have re-examined the Oiablo Canyon f'acility for conformance to the NURFG-0694 recuirements as they apply to fuel loading and low povier testing and on August 6, 1980 issued our safety evaluation on these matters.
Pefore the NRC staff can issue a license to load fuel and conduct lout power (below 5 percent) tests, all of these requirements must be met, the Atomic Safety and Licensing Poard for Diablo Canyon rrust rule favorably, and the Commission itself will review the record.
In addition, vou stated that you do not feel that the benefits of nuclear power are worth the inherent risks, and you questioned the pctential need for energy and the alternatives availahle in lieu of a nuclear power plant.
The Hational Fnvironmental Policy Act (NFPA) of 1N9 requires the Nuclear Pegulatory
",Commis-sion to prepare a detailed statement on each of the following environmentallissues associated with the construction and operation of the Diablo Canyon facility:
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The environmental impact of the proposed action, (ii) any adverse environmental effects which cannot be avoided should the OFFICE P SURNAME
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{iii)alternatives to the proposed action, (iv) the relationship between local short-term uses of man's environment and the maintenance and enhance ment of long-term productivity', and (v) any irreversible and irretrievable commitments of resources which would be involved in the proposed action should it he implemented.
i"e did this.
All cf your concerns lrentioned above were addressed in our Final Fnvironmental Statement (FFS) for Diablo Canyon.
Chapter 13 of the FFS addressed the benefits to he derived from this facility; Chapter 7 addressed the environmen-tal impact of potential accidents; an~i, Chapters ll and 12 addressed the matters nf need for power and the alternatives available to meet that need.
Furthermore, hearinos were held nn these environmental issues before construction permits were issued to construct. this facility, and a favorable partial initial decision was issued on September 26, 1979 hy the present Atomic Safety and Licensing Poard.
That Poard considered all issues,(including environmental issues) that were brought before it for operating licenses for the Diablo Canyon facility.
A copy of the FFS as well as other licensing documents, correspondence and Board proceedings can be found in the Local Public Document Ponm (LPOP) main-tained for Diablo Canyon.
This LPM is located at the California Polytechnic State llniversity Library, Documents and Maps Depart ent, San Luis Cbispo, Ca 1 iforni a 93/I07.
'I trust that this information is responsive to your request.
Si ncerel y, Frank J. bhraglia, Acting Chief Licensing Branch ho.
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