ML19221A684
| ML19221A684 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 04/02/1979 |
| From: | Gossick L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7905300079 | |
| Download: ML19221A684 (3) | |
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i ORDER TO ASSUME AND CONFIPA DIRECT NRC REGULATORY AUTHORITY OVER EMERGENCY SITUATION Beginning March 25, 1979, a series of events at Unit No. 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Stacion resulted in an emergency situation which continues to exist.
The Atenic 7nergy Act of 1954 confers broad regulatory power on the Nuclear Regulatory Conraission to protect public health and safety, including plenary authority to control actions to be taken by a licensee in an energency situation.
Representatives of the licensee aave agreed that the Comission does have the authority, in the event of any disagreement, to detennine which steps shall be taken.
Nevertheless, since important safety decisions remai.. to be made, the Cocnission believes it necessary to confinn its previous understandings wit.1 the licensee and to dispel any possible doubt about where the authority to i
decide those questions resides.
Accordingly, the Comission directs 166 344
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Effective immediately and continuing until further
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order of the Comission, the Director of Nuclear Reactor
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dealing with the emergency situation presentiy existing i
at the site.
Representatives of the licensee shall take
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no action [(breid option) of safety significance relating t~o the present emergency] [(narrow option) which may change l
either the rate of release of radioactiv. gases or the way f
of cooling the reactor vessel] until after they have consulted
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Mith and obtained the concurrence of the Director of Nuclear i
Reactor Regulation or his designated representative.
This Order is issued pursuant to Section 186 of the Atomic Energy Act,10 CFR 2.202, and the Comission's inhecent supervisc y authority over all matters within its jurisdiction.
Counsel for Metropolitan
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Edison Company has consented to entry of this Order.
It is so ORDERED.
For the Commission SAMUEL J. CHILK Secretary of the Commission i
Dated at Washington, D.C.,
this day of April, 1979.
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