ML19208B111
| ML19208B111 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 06/06/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Gillespie V MARIN COUNTY, CA |
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Dear Mr. Gillespie:
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Thank you for your recent letter c6ngerning the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2 expressing your views on nuclear power.
We appreciate your concerns and assure you that every effort is being made to ensure the continued protection of the health and safety of the public not only at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, but also at all nuclear power plants.
We have taken or are taking a number of actions with respect to all nuclear power plants as a result of the Three Mile Island accident.
Specifically, full-time inspectors have been assigned to each operating plant utilizing Babcock & Wilcox pressurized water reacters like those at Three File Island.
In addition, the licensees of all these plants which were not already shut down have voluntarily shut down their plants. We are issuing confirmatory orders to the licensees of all Babcock & Wilcox reactors like those at Three Mile Island to assure that necessary plant modifications, additional training and revised operating procedures will be effected prior to resuming operation.
~ Licensees of all ope. rating plants utilizing pressurized water reactors have been instructed to take specific actions with regard to the status of certain equipment, plant procedures, operator actions and facility designs.
Licensees of all operating plants, including those utilizing boiling water reactors, have been instructed to provide us with additional information with regard to their facilities in light of the. Three Mile Island accident.
In addition, substaatial effort is being expended within this agency to evaluate the factors which centributed to the Three Mile Island accident and to prevent a similar occurrence in the future.
We will carefully review all the information obtained and developed as a result of the Three Mile Island accident and take whatever further action is deemed appropriate.
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SAN RAFAEL. CALIFORNI A 94903 TELEPHONE 479-1100 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF MARIN COUNTY April 5,1979 United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C.
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Gentlemen:
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Marin, State of California, at its meeting on April 3,1979 discussed the hazardous conditions resulting from the nuclear power plant incident at the 3 Mile Island Plant in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. They urge that all nuclear power plants in California be shut down or remain closed until such time as the safety of these plants has been conclusively established.
A copy of the Resolution is attached.
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