ML19294A936
| ML19294A936 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 02/07/1980 |
| From: | Chilk S NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
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| RULE-PRM-50-26 NUDOCS 8002260171 | |
| Download: ML19294A936 (3) | |
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NUCLEAR REGULATORY C0f011SSION
/_ Docket No. PRM-50-26 f Willitm K. Watson
..Filing of Petition for Rulemaking AGENCY:
U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission ACTION:
Publication of Petition for Rulemaking from William K. Watson
SUMMARY
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is publishing for public comment, as a petition for rulemaking, a motion filed before the Comission on January 6, 1980, by William K. Watson.
This petition, which has been assigned Docket No. PRM-50-26, requests that the Commission amend 10 CFR Part 50,
" Domestic Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," to provide that an applicant for a license for a facility which will store certain quantities of nuclear products be required to design the facility to protect against release to the atmosphere of these products if tha facility is attacked -
by nuclear weapons detonated at ground level and having an equivalent yield of up to 5 megatons.
DATE: Comment period expires April 15,1980.
ADDRESSES:
A copy of the petition for rulemaking. is available for public inspection in the Comission's Public Document Room,1717 H Street, NW.,
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Washington, DC. A copy of the. petition may be obtained by writing to the Division of Rules and Records, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission,. Washington, DC, 20555.
All persons who desire to submit written comments or suggestions concerning the petition for rulemaking should send their comments to the Secretary of the Commission, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC 20555, Attention: Docketing and Service Branch.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATICN CONTACT: Joseph M. Felton, Director, Division of Rules and Recoros, Office of Administration, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC, 20555, Telephone:
301-492-721'.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The pertinent paragraph of the Comission's regulations,10 CFR 650.13, now reads as follows:
An applicant for a license to construct and operate a production or utilization facility, or for an amendment to such license, is not required to provide for design features or other measures for the specific purpose of protection against the effects of (a) attacks and destructive acts, including sabotage, directed against the facility by an enemy of the United States, whether a foreign government or other person, or (b) use or deployment of weapons incident to U.S. defense activities.
The petitioner requests that this paragraph be replaced by the following wording:
An applicant for a license to construct a production or utilization facility, or for an amendment to such license, wherein it is contemplated there will be stored anywhere within the facility nuclear products with a. radioactive half life of one year or more'in quantities in excess of 100,000 Curies, shall be required to design the facility in such a manner that the nuclear products caanot be released to the atmosphere by the use of a nuclear weapon with an equivalent yield of less than. five (5) megatons which is detonated at ground level at the geographical locat'an of any structures at the facility which contain the aforesaid quantities of radioactive material.
The petitioner alleges that nuclear anned cruise missiles are now able with reasonable probability to directly impact a building, pond, or storage tank and disseminate the contents over a wide region.
In support of his contentions, the petitioner attaches an article from an unidentified publica-tion, entitled "Why Nuclear Power Should go Underground".
This article refers to Government-sponsored reports which, according to the article, indicate that a direct hit by nuclear weapons in the 20- to 100- kiloton range could smash the reactor containment vessel and release its contents.
bM' ? ? ^g Dated at Washington, D. C., this day of For le Nuclear ulatory Commission AD&m b
Samuel Ji Chilk Secretary of {he Connission O
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