ML19208D027
| ML19208D027 | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Bradtmiller P MIDDLETOWN, PA |
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| NUDOCS 7909270764 | |
| Download: ML19208D027 (2) | |
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g AUG G 579 Mr. Paul Hart Bradtmiller Manager, Borough of Middletown Comunity ' Building Middletown, Pennsylvania 17057
Dear Mr. Bradtmiller:
Your letter of July 5,1979 to Chaiman Hendrie enclosing a resolution adopted by the Borough Council concerning the Three Mile Island nuclear facility, has been referred to me.
We appreciate your concern about restarting the operation of Three Mile Island Unit No. 1.
On July 2,1979, the Nuclear Regulatory Comission issued the following order:
"In view of the variety of issues raised by the accident at the Three Mile Island Unit No. 2 facility, the Comission presently lacks the requisite reasonable assurance that the same licensee's Three Mile Island Unit No.1 facility, a nuclear power reactor of similar design, can be operated without endangering the health and safety of the public.
Accordingly, we direct that the Unit No. I facility, presently in a shutdown condition, shall remain shut down until further order of tha Commission itself.
The Comission has further determined that it is in the public interest that a hearing precede restart of the facility.
The Commission will also issue an order within thirty (30) days spe-cifying in detail the basis for its concerns, and the proceduras to govern further proceedings in this matter. The licensee may file a written answer to this Order no later than twenty (20) days after the issuance of the detailed Grder.
"The Commission has found that the public health, safety and interest require that this order be effective immediately.
"It is so ORDERED."
You can therefore be assured that Three Mile Island Unit No. I will remain shutdown until the Cormission has determined, after a public hearing, that it can be operated without endangering the public health and safety. The public hearing will be held locally in Pennsylvania at a place to be deter-mined by the hearing board and will include Saturday sessions to facilitate public attendance. With regard to Three Mile Island Unit No. 2, it is of course not operable and won't be for a long time to come.
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The question of ":iuclear exclusion" in an individual homeowner's policy has been raise *d numerous times over the last few years. While the Price-Anderson Act does not prohibit private insurers from offering insurance with nuclear coverage, the standard fire and property insurance policies have contained the nuclear exclusion since 1959.
Our understanding is that the insurers consider that property damage caused by a nuclear ac-cident would be covered by nuclear liability insurance and that coverage for the same property damage should be excluded from the conventional homecwner's policy to avoid duplication. Thus, if a person suffered damage to his property hicause of a nuclear accident, the compensation would ccme through nuclear liability insurance or Government indemnity as provided under the Price-Anderson Act.
The nuclear exclusion question is presently being studied by a committee of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Although hearings have been held recently to review the exclusion and to examine methods for possibly eliminating it, no reccamendations have yet been made.
Sincerely,
/Yk Harold R. Denton, Director 4
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