ML19246B803

Requests Info Re Evaluation of Feasibility & Effectiveness of Safe Alternative Responses to Error in Seismic Codes Rather than Shutdown of Facilities.Requests Info Re Possibility of Similar Errors at Other Plants

ML19246B803
Person / Time
Site:	Beaver Valley, Surry, Maine Yankee, FitzPatrick
Issue date:	03/23/1979
From:	Dingell J HOUSE OF REP., INTERSTATE & FOREIGN COMMERCE
To:	Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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