ML19029A422
| ML19029A422 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Salem  |
| Issue date: | 10/04/1976 |
| From: | Williams H US SEN (Senate) |
| To: | Office of Congressional Affairs |
| References | |
| Download: ML19029A422 (3) | |
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HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR., NJ,, CHAIRMAN
~ENNJNGS RANDOLPH. W. VA.
. :._ :;Cl.:AlBORNE PEU.. R.I.
- .£DWARD"*M. KENNEDY, MASS *
..:GAYL;ORO NELSON, WIS.
JACOll K. JAVITS, N.Y
ROBERT T, STAFFORD, VT.
PAUL LAXALT, NEV.
WA(,'t'.~R F. MOH:::SALE, MINN *
. : ~THOMAS F. EAGLETON, MO.
,~AL.AN,CRANSTON, CAL.IF.
- .'*:":WILLIAM D, HATHAWAY, MAINE CONALD ELISBURG, GENERAL COUNSEL MARJORIE M. WHl'TTAKER. CHIEF CLERK Legislat1ve-Liaison COMMl"TTEE ON LABOR AND PUBL.IC WEI.FARE WASHINGTON, D.C. ZOlllO October 4, 1976 TO:
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, pc ENCLOSURE FROM:
Alfred C. Coleman 35 K Drive Pennsville~ New Jersey 98070 RE:
Nuclear fuel I am forwarding.the attached for *your conside"t'.ation.
I would appreciate receiving any information you have available that will enable me to be responsive to my constituent's inquiry..
Please return the enclosed correspondence with your report.
Sincerely,
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rison A, Williams, ~**.
Reply to:
SENATOR HARRISON A. WILLIAMS, JR.
352 Russell Senate Office.Building Washington, D. C.
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Getty Oil Subsidiary Says'*It Won't Reopen
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nv Ii w "LI. STRE~:T JOl'R!'<AL Sr<if/ Rf' porter ROCKVILLE. Md. *-Getty Oil Co.'s 83'(-
owned Nuclear Fuel Services Inc. suhsidiary announced that. as expected. it Is \\~ithdraw lng from the nuclear fuel reprocessing bµsi-ness.
1'he company has the only commercial nuclear fuel reprocessing facility ever to op*
erate in the U.S. The plant, at West Valley in western New York State, processed about 600 metric tons 12,20*1.8 pounds each I be*
tween April 1966, am! early.19i2. when the facility was closed for modernization and expansion.
The company cited huge additional col'lt requirements and delays that would be nec-
!'ssary to bring the West Valley plant back into production.
It blamed drastically changed regulatory requlremenL<i, espe<:\\ally a Nuclear Regulatory.. Commission ruling last April that Imposes sharply more strin-gent design requirements to protect against earth tremors.
The company snld that when the plant suspended operations in 1972, it was. ex*
peeled to *be able to resume output two years later, after Investing $15 mfllion to
. double capacity to 600 metric tons a year.
- and making plant efficiency improvements.
However, in view of the big regulatory changes, delays and inflation,. the Getty unit estimates it would take an additional invest*
ment of more than $600 million and lake a dozen yeari; to return the plant to produc*
tlon. Indeed, said Nuclear Fuel Sourc;es president Ralph W. Deusler. the drastic seismic criteria change ordered b.Y the Nu-clear Regulatory Commission this year "created doubt over whether or hot the plant could ever be licensed for commercial
- reprocessing."
Nuclear Fuel Services said it has **act*
vist-d ils rr~proc!'ssing r.w;tomPt'S of its del;I*
sio11. advising them of thl' impractlubili ty
- of reprocessing at West Valley and exercls*
Ing ~*{11dear Fuel Service's righL~ of termi-nation under tlH' rt>proressmg contracts:"
A spokesman said the company has **12 or 13" sur.t* customers. He said "there*s a.
question about whether one of the contracts was actually in (orce." He dl*clif!cd to list the customers or give the total value of the :
contracts. which are believed to run into the' hundreds of millions of doll:u*s.
As previously reported. Nuclear Fuel Service told customers earlier this year that it was cunsiclcring withdrawal from the.
- West Valley operntion azid had promised a, final decision later in the year.
One customer, Corn511mers Power Co. of Jackson, Mich.. sued Nuclear Fuel. Service.
in Federal District Court. Buffa.lo. demand*
ing that it delivtir rrprocessed rue! under a:*
!970 contract. The previously reported court:;
case still is pending.
Nuclear Fuel Service said ye!'terdny that it will continue its activities at a spedaltY..;
11uclear fuels facility it <iperates in Erwin, Tenn.
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