ML19224B828

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Responds to Citizen Postcards Expressing Opinions on Nuclear Power & Closing of B&W Reactors.Describes NRC Actions Re Revising Operating Procedures & Plant Mods
ML19224B828
Person / Time
Site: Crane Constellation icon.png
Issue date: 05/25/1979
From: Harold Denton
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
References
NUDOCS 7906270019
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Dear Ms. Ress:

I n Thank you for your recent card concerning the a.cident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Station Unit 2 expressing your views en 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 l not only at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station, but also at all nuclear ] power plants. j t We have taken or are taking a lumber of actions with respect to all j nuclear power plants as a re,uit of the Three Mile Island accident. Specifically, full-time inspectors have been assigned to each operating plant utilizing Babcock & W-:lcox pressurized water reactors like those at Three Mile Island. In addition, the licensecs of all these plants which a were not already shut down have voluntarily shu'. down their plants. We l are issuing confirmatory orders to the licensees of all Babcock & Wilcox l reactors like th.se at Three Mile Island to assure that necessary plant j modifications, additional training and revised operating procedures will be effected prior to resuming operation. j Licensees of all operating plants utilizing pressurized water reactors have been.istructed 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, substantial effort is being expended I within this agency to evaluate the factors which contributed 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. i Sincerely, pgg ni M 81 p,,g. Cantos Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation b n

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Dear Ms. Ross:

Thank you for your recent card concerning 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 reactors like those at Three Mile Island. In additinn, 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 operating plants utilizing pressurized water reactors have been instructed to take specific actions with regard to the status of certair equipment, plant procedures, operator actio.s 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, substantial effort is being expended within this agency to evaluate the factors which contributed 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. Sincerely, CdVA'N ' g,n. Dant e. Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear ~ Reactor Regulation 254 103 hfield:mmt I ton 5-{-79 5- -79 'F

Ms. Pauline Ross 3731 Weslin Avenue Sherman Oaks, CA 91423 Ms. Celia S. Leio 11947 Otsego Street North Hollywood, CA 91607 Ms. Stella Mann 5627 Carpenter North Hollywood, CA 91607 Mrs. Dorothy G. Simen 12245 Kling Street North Hollywood, CA 91607 Mr. Bill Baldwin Rt. 1 Conway, KS 67434 Ms. Terri Bauman Rt. 1 Conway, KS 67434 Mr. William T. Smith 1 Newsome Park Jamaica Plain, MA 02130 Ms. Alice H. Kitner 4636 South Clearview Drive Camp H411, PA 17011 Mr. Stephen Kottler 236 State Street Portland, ME 04101 Mr. Robert Melvin 430 Canyon Drive Solana Beach, CA 92075 Mr. Seth Steinzor 236 State Street Portland, ME 04101 Ms. Virginia Ann Vida 34 John Street Waltham, MA 02154 Mr. Norm Abookike 9934 Pleasant Lake Blvd., T-112 Parma, OH 44130 } '(

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