ML19220C501
| ML19220C501 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/29/1979 |
| From: | Lochstet W Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Power |
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| NUDOCS 7905100403 | |
| Download: ML19220C501 (2) | |
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.2 Sefore The ::uclear Rer,ulitory Ccr ussion E.wrgmicy retition The : uclear Regulatory Ccr !ission is hers'ay petitioned to ir ediately suspend the oper: ting lic:nse for each 'ressurized later Reactor (FR) currently licensed to arerate. This petition is brought before the Commission pursuant to 10CFR 2.204,2.206, 50.5E and 50.100. This petition is brought bacause the safety evaluations performed for these li
.ises are not valid.
As required by 10C7R 50.L6, each P'c2 shall be eculpped with an F.mergency Core Cooling System (ECCS).;hich shall be designed so that its performance shall be to respond to postulated accidents in such a way as to linit the fuel temperature as specified in 10CFR 50.46. This specification would not permit the fuel to melt. These postulated accidents include the double-ended rupture of the largest pipe in the reactor coolant system. All P'G power plants are licensed subject to this regulation. The procedures used to demonstrate this perfor-ance are not valid.
The Three "ile Island Unit II clant is licensed to operate subject to this recuirement. On 28 ? larch 1979 an accident occured at this plant. The accident tas initiated by an event less severe than the double-ended rupture of the largest pipe in the reactor coolant system. The consequence of this accident v.u s that a t least scme of the fuel melted. This consecuence is clearly in excess of the performance reanired under 10CFR 50.a6. Thus, the analyses used to predict such perfor-ance are invalid. Thus, it '.as now been established in fa ct by the evidence of 28 :* arch 1979 at Three Mile Island Unit II, that the basis for granting these licenses was invalid, and they should be i.. mediately suspended, or revoked.
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7ncloced is the origional of a ;ctition -thich I :niled to you by regular mail yesterday.
The regular mailing contained a xerox copy of this origional.
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