ML19274E537
| ML19274E537 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | 05000502 |
| Issue date: | 01/17/1979 |
| From: | Gossick L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Proxmire W SENATE |
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| NUDOCS 7903290199 | |
| Download: ML19274E537 (2) | |
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Dear Senator Prcxmire:
The fluclear Regulatory Cc= mission OlRC) Staff has reviewed the letter of November 14, 1978 from fir. and P.rs. Raymond Russart, Route 2, Sheboygan, Wisconsin 53081.
The followi. g ccanents are provided in response.
The Russarts have expressec concern over the storage of spent nuclear fuel at the Haven plant, in narticular, A..endment 15 which would allow increased fuel storage capability at Haven.
All nuclear plants have the capability for storage of spent nuclear fuel.
The safety of such storage is carefully evaluated and monitored by the NRC to assure the protection of public heal th and safety.
As a result of the current national posture not to reprocess spent nuclear fuel, additional storage capacity is required to provide interim storage until pemanent high level waste storage facilities are established.
The increased capacity preposed for Haven would have negligible safety significance and approval of such fuel storage expansion is given only if all apprcpriate safety criteria are met and if envirornental impacts are judged acceptable.
As an example of the procedures being followed for review of the proposed Haven fuel storage expansion, I am er. closing a copy of the NRC Staff's Safety Evaluation and Envircnmental Impact Appraisal relating to modification of the spant fuel storage pool at the Kewaunee Nuclear Power P1 ant.
Our review addressed all important aspects of the licensee's request for an increase in the spent fuel pool storage capacity.
These documents identify the issues reviewed by the Staff and pro-vide the basis for the conclusion that such an inerlase is consistent with our requirements for the protecticr. of public health and safety and will not adversely affect the er.viron-ment.
You will find a sunnary of the safety evaluation on pages 11 and 12 of that report and a summary of the environ-mental analysis on page 19 of that document.
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