ML19208C689
| ML19208C689 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/15/1979 |
| From: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Udall M HOUSE OF REP., INTERIOR & INSULAR AFFAIRS |
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August 15, 1979 CHAIRMAN The Honorable Morris K. Udall, Chairman Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs United States House of Representatives Washington, D. C.
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Dear Mr. Chairman:
In your letter of June 19, 1979, you view the initiatives taken by TVA to improve reactor safety as encouraging signs.
We are also highly pleased by TVA's initiatives and received a briefing froa the TVA panel on June 25, 1979.
Our review of the TVA Task Force Report convinces us that TVA is moving in the right direction.
In general, the s'.7ps being undertaken are consistent with the kind of measures the Comission expects to take as an outcome of its review of the TMI-2 accident.
A report by the TMI-2 Lessons Learned Task Force, an NRC interdisciplinary and interoffice team under the leadership of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, was issued on July 19, 1979.
A copy of the report (NUREG-0578) is enclosed. This report contains a set of 23 short-term rGommendations for design and operatitns changes in operating plants and plants under construction.
These requirements would be in addit-ion to those requirements which have already been imposed on operating plants in connection with Inspection and Enforcement BulTetens and the Commission Confirmatory Shutdown Orders for B&W plants.
A decision on the NRC's adoption of the Task Force's recommendations is anticipated shortly.
Many of the short-term actions parallel those initiated by TVA, but some go beyond.
One exception concerns the TVA initiative to install remote venting capability on PWR's. The Lessons Learned Task Force has deemed it prudent to weigh and evaluate this feature more thoroughly before it makes a definitive recommendation.
In addition, the Task Force has recommended a more thorough-going, two-stage approach to the reactor vessel level indicator than TVA is apparently pursuing.
The Lessons Learned Task Force has turned its attention from specific, short-term actions to more general, long-term problems in the areas of general safety criteria, system design requirements, power plant operations 0@]S D
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Recommendations with respect to these topics will be issued by the Task Force in about two months.
Such reconunendations, when implemented, would have a significant effect on the licensing process over the long-term.
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