ML19247A494
| ML19247A494 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 06/01/1979 |
| From: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Goodling W HOUSE OF REP. |
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| NUDOCS 7908010054 | |
| Download: ML19247A494 (2) | |
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June 1,1979 OF FICE OF THE CHAIRMAN The Honorable William F. Goodling United States House of Representatives Washington, D.C.
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Dear Congressman Goodling:
In my letter to you of March 15, 1979 I promised to pr svide you with information cencerning the impact of the shutdowr of 16 nuclear power reactors on the installed reserve mara'ns o# potentially affected utilities.
The 16 plants were identified in a p ess release of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) as those that JCS felt should be shutdown.
The
,ir. pact on reliability council installed reserve margirs of losing the output on the 16 nuclear power plants is indicated in the attach-ments to this letter prepareci by the NRC Office of Nuclea.r Reactor Regulction; these data are based upon the April 1,1979 submission of the country's electric reliability councils to DOE.
The firs t attach-ment lists 12 stations (15 reactors), their comoonent units, design electrical ratings by unit, and the reliability council within which the station is located.
The second attachment is a map ir.dicating the geographic boundaries of the nation's electric reliability council areas.
Attachment three is a table indicating the National Elect-ic Reliability Council's April 1st estimate of dependable capacity, peak demand, and the resulting installed reserve margin.
Information in tre table applies to the sumner and winter peaks of 1979 and 1979/80 respec.ively. The three columns on the right indinto the impact on depenckle capability and installed reserve margin of ving the 16 plants fr:m operation.
Of course, scheduled maintenance ar
'oreseen outages will lower the operating (i.e., actual) reserve.
Attachment three indicates that for both the summer and winter peaks--
for the years indicated--a decrease in the installed reserve margin would occur nationally as a result of closing the 16 stations. The decrease would be more severe for both winter and sumner peaks in th.a following council areas:
MAAC, NPCC (New England), TVA, and VACAR.
It is important to ncte that these figures do not take conse vation into account.
Conservation should be considered in any effort to assess the real impacts of closing down particular plants.
The ajor irpact would be in VACAR where the installed reserve margin would f all to 41; for the sunaer peak.
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The Honorable William Goodlina I hope that this infomation is responsive to your request.
If we can be of further assistance, please feel free to call upon us.
Sincerely, k\\.A b l Mos'eph M. Hendrie Chaiman
Enclosures:
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