ML18187A010
| ML18187A010 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 07/05/2018 |
| From: | Stephanie Blaney NRC/OCIO |
| To: | Mintz S E&E News |
| References | |
| FOIA, NRC-2018-000357 | |
| Download: ML18187A010 (1) | |
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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NRC RESPONSE NUMBER (04-2018) 1 2018-000357 1 RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF 11 INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST RESPONSE TYPE D INTERIM j ,t I FINAL REQUESTER: DATE:
Isam Mintz 11 011os12018 DESCRIPTION OF REQUESTED RECORDS:
"All correspondence to or from [NRC) Chairman Kristine Svinicki between the dates of June 1, 2017 and the date of search
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NRC FORM 464 Part I U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION NRC RESPONSE NUMBER (04-2018)
RESPONSE TO FREEDOM OF I 20 I 8-000357 11 I INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST RE~~~SE D INTERIM [7J FINAL PART 1.D - COMMENTS In addition to the enclosed records, the following responsive records are available in public ADAMS:
ML17286A241 - LTR-17-0387 Joseph Pollock, Vice President and Acting Chief Nuclear Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute, Memorandum re: SECY-17s0075, Planned Improvement in Design Certification Tiered Information Designations (Information Paper). .
ML18024A742 - LTR-18-0027 Armond Cohen, Nuclear Innovation Alliance, Maria Korsnick, Nuclear Energy Institute, and Daniel Blee, Nuclear Infrastructure Co.uncil, Paper.re: Ensuring the Future of US Nuclear Energy: Creating a Streamlined and Predictable Licensing Pathw~y.
As a result of the processing of your request, we have also initiated action to make one additional record available in public ADAMS:
ML1719188151 - LTR-17-0260 Maria Korsnick, President & Chief Executive Officer, Nuclear Energy Institute, expressed appreciation to Chairman Svinicki for addressing the Nuclear Energy Assembly.
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Si1:mature - Freedom of Information Act Officer or Desl11nee Digitally signed by Stephanie A. Blaney Stephanie A. Blaney Date: 2018.07.05 11 :37:03 -04'00'
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From: KORSNICK, Maria Sent: 22 Jun 2017 21:04:41 +0000 To: CMRSVINICKI Resource
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[External_Sender] Fwd: Please Read Kristine - this is a heads up. Sec Perry has made some significant mis-statements about used fuel and what happened at Fukushima. We are trying to correct it.
NRC weighing in with him would be helpful to ensure a clear understanding of the safety of our used fuel.
I will send what we finalize for your awareness.
- Thanks, Maria Begin forwarded message:
From: "COHEN, Neal" <nmc@nei.org>
Date: June 22, 2017 at 4:57:50 PM EDT To: "KORSNICK, Maria" <mgk@nei.org>
Cc: "MARSHALL, Beverly" <bkm@nei.org>
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Please Read I'd like to get this language to Secretary Perry via Jeff and Carol's contacts. Andrew et al at DOE suddenly realize how bad this and know they have to fix it asap. I think we should ask Perry to correct the record with this statement and get it to committees and then release it to the industry. I've suggested other things to Carol to share with DOE as well.
Are you okay with this language (as drafted by Keeley) to share.
Also Carol. B. made good suggestion to ask Svinicki to call Perry and speak to this issue directly and to assure him about safety of used fuel on sites.
Neal Neal M. Cohen Senior Vice President, External Affairs Nuclear Energy Institute 1201 F Street NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20004 www.nei.org T: 202-739-8091
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[In my urgency to address the need for progress on used fuel storage and disposal, I mischaracterized events at Fukushima.]
Fukushima was a reactor accident, not a fuel pool accident.
What we learned from Fukushima was that even in the face of a once in a thousand years earthquake, the fuel pools at that site maintained their integrity. The fuel remained safe. This doesn't mean that we ought to leave used fuel at reactor sites for generations, however. We have a moral obligation to manage this material in the safest and most secure fashion possible. And that means, ultimately, disposal in a geological repository.
The industry today stores spent fuel safely and securely, but there are smarter ways to manage this material.
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From: KORSNICK, Maria Sent: 22 Jun 2017 21:19:22 +0000 To: CMRSVINICKI Resource
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[External_Sender] Fwd: Perry Cortez Masto Question on Yucca Mountain' Attachments: imageOOl.jpg Below is what Sec Perry said - this is the second hearing he has made this statement. We thought we had it corrected yesterday .... trying again.
An additional voice of reason would be very helpful.
Maria Begin forwarded message:
From: "iv1ARSHALL, Beverly" <bkm@nei.org>
Date: June 22, 2017 at I :36:31 PM EDT To: "GRP.ELT"<grpelt@nei.org>
Subject:
FW: Perry Cortez Masto Question on Yucca Mountain For the second time this week--- this was at today's Senate Energy Hearing.
I have calls into DOE again.
Fro_m: BAWOROWSKY, Christina Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2017 1:32 PM To: MA~SHALL, Beverly
Subject:
Perry Cortez Masto Question on Yucca Mountain
- Senator Cortez Masto expressed her grave concerns about storing spent fuel at Yucca Mountain and focused her questions on Yucca Mountain. Noting that since his confirmation Perry went from touting state sovereignty in Nevada to promoting the use of Yucca Mountain Cortez Masto asked, "What has prompted such a change in your viewpoint?"
o Perry disagreed with her analysis of his position, "Nothings really changed. I think it is wise for us to have a very open conversation with this country about the moral obligation that we have as a people. There are statutory requirements for us to move this waste. There are multiple options about where that waste could go. As I clarified yesterday, there is no plan in place to put it ih a particular place at this particular point in time. But I think we need to be looking at all of our options and have an open and productive conversation. I don't think it's wise for us to continue to leave
~igh leyel_wa_st~~ you kn~~ spe11t ~o.cis in pails, n<>t unlike-w~at they had at-Fukushima. And parti~ularly that over in ea*lifornia is in the Ring of Fire
its g!!o}~gic_a!ly ~her~_ YC?_LI ~QU.I<! ha-ve ~an_event_thaJ _is n?t u~like '!"hat they_hc1_d in Fuku-shima.. "
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From: KORSNICK, Maria Sent: 22 Jun 2017 21:37:03 +0000 To: CMRSVINICKI Resource
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[External_Sender] Fwd: Draft Language For Sec Perry Attachments: Fukushima was a reactor accident.docx, ATTOOOOl.htm Fyi Maria Begin forwarded message:
From: "COHEN, Neal" <nmc@nei.org>
Date: June 22, 2017 at 5 :26:22 PM EDT To: "GRP.ELT"<grpelt@nei.org>
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Draft Language For Sec Perry Fyi -- In an effort to ask Secretary Perry to walk back his comments on Fukushima, we have shared the following language with our contacts and requested that the Secretary send a letter to the Senate and House Committees to correct the record. We also are working other avenues to address this matter.
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[In my urgency to address the need for progress on used fuel storage and disposal, I mischaracterized events at Fukushima.]
Fukushima was a reactor accident, not a fuel pool accident. What we learned from Fukushima was that even in the face of a once in a thousand years earthquake, the fuel pools at that site maintained their integrity. The fuel remained safe. This doesn't mean that we ought to leave used fuel at reactor sites for generations, however. The industry today stores spent fuel safely and securely, but there are smarter ways to manage this material.
From: SCHLUETER, Janet Sent:* . 29 Sep 2017 13:14:17 +0000 To: CHAIRMAN Resource Cc: Castleman, Patrick
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[External_Sender] Thank You Chairman Svinicki Thank you and your staff for taking the time out of your busy schedule to meet with members of the fuel cycle industry and representatives of NEI. We very much appreciated the opportunity, and hearing your views and the openness with which you expressed them. In addition, we walked away with a few zingers that I'm confident will be repeated at work and at home, e.g., "Don't look for evil when stupid will do." © Thanks again, Janet JANET SCHLUETER I Senior Director, Radiation ond Materials Safety 1201 F Street, NW, Suite 1100 Washington, DC 20004 P: 202.739.8098 M: (b)(6)
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From: KORSNICK, Maria Sent: 15 Nov 201711:34:50 +0000 To: CMRSVINICKI Resource
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[External_Sender] Fwd: Greg Jaczko's book now scheduled for February, 2019 Fyi Maria Begin forwarded message:
From: "WALD, Matthew" <mlw@nei.org>
Date: November 14, 2017 at 8:15:58 PM CST To: "KORSNICK, Maria" <mgk@nei.org>, "COHEN, Neal"
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Greg Jaczko's book now scheduled for February, 2019 I have a contact at Simon & Schuster. She says Simon & Schuster's internal editorial system now lists Greg Jaczko's book, "Splitting the Atom," as scheduled to come out in hardcover in February, 2019.
When Jaczko signed the book contract, in April, 2013, it was scheduled for publication in 2017.
see: http://www.robweisbach.com/featured upcoming jaczko.htmlhttp://www.rob weisbach.com/featured upcoming jaczko.html But in 2015, the book disappeared from S&S's internal schedule entirely.
If it really is scheduled for 2019, there won't be a finished manuscript until almost a year from now. And it will be coming out seven years after he left the Commission.
That's all I know for now but I will keep an eye out for more news.
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Svinicki, Krjstine From: Mccree, Victor Sent: Friday, February 02, 2018 4:39 PM To: Svinicki, Kristine; Baran, Jeff; Burns, Stephen Cc: Johnson, Michael; Holian, Brian; Dorman, Dan; Lewis, Robert; Doane, Margaret; Castleman, Patrick; Powell, Amy; Zorn, Jason
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Phone Call from NextEra Good afternoon Chairman/Commissioners, I received a phqne call this afternoon from Mano Nazar, CNO NextEra, informing me that today NextEr~ filed a lawsuit against the Nuclear Energy Institute. He indicated that the lawsuit, which was filed in the US District Court in (Southern?) Florida, claims that NEI has limited reasonable access to the industry-sponsored Personnel Access Data System (PADS) and the Component Adversary Force (CAF) resources. By doing so, NEI is attempting to "force" NextEra to remain a member of NEI. He said that NextEra believes that NEl's actions constitute a breach of contract.
I hope you have a great weekend.
Vic
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