ML19261A246
| ML19261A246 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 10/17/1978 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Glenn J SENATE |
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| NUDOCS 7810240009 | |
| Download: ML19261A246 (2) | |
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Dear Senator Glenn:
I am pleased to respond to your letter of September 6,1978, regarding the inquiry of Mr. Daniel D. Wilt, seeking information on a number of issues concerning the Perry nuclear power plant.
You requested our views on the matters Mr. Wilt raised and also on the application of the Commission's siting regulations to the Perry facility.
Our views on the matters raised by Mr. Wilt are expressed in our letter responding to him dated September 19, 1978.
I am enclosing a copy of this correspondence and its enclosures for your information.
As for the matter of siting the Perry plant, it has been the practice and policy of the Nuclear kegulatory Commission (NRC) of assuring that power reactors be sited away from densely populated areas.
In accordance with this policy the NRC staff has developed population guidelines for use in its reactor siting reviews.
These guidelines (Regulatory Guide 4.7),
which are not part of the Commission regulations, but which do reflect staff review practicts, state in part as follows:
"If the population density, including weighted transient population, projected at the time of initial operation of a nuclear power station exceeds 500 persons per square mile averaged over any radial distance out to 30 miles (cumulative population at a distance divided by the area at that distance), or the projected population density over the lifetime of the facility exceeds 1,000 persons per square mile averaged over any radial distance out to 30 miles, special attention should be given to the con-sideration of alternative sites with the lower population densitics."
There is currently pending before the Commission a petition filed on behalf of the Public Interest Research Group and 25 other citizens groups request-ing that the Commission specify its siting policy with respect to population density in its regulations.
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Although the Commission's regulations do not now precluce a site from being app.oved ' hich does not meet the staff's onpulation density guide-lines, since the staff adopted the guidelines in 1973, no new application has been approved whose site did not conform to the guidelines.
Our current information indicates that the maximum projected population densities for the Perry site, which is approximaceiy 35 miles northeast of Cleveland, are about 270 persons per square mile at the time of pro-jected initial operation in 1980, and about 600 persons per square mile at the projected end of plant life in the year 2020. Thus, the Perry facility meets the population density guidelines of the Commission's staff.
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Enclosure:
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