ML19308A674
| ML19308A674 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 11/08/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Temples J BRADLEY UNIV., PEORIA, IL |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7911280162 | |
| Download: ML19308A674 (1) | |
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NOV 0 819m Mr. James R. Temples i
Assistant Professor of' Political ScieMe Bradley University l
Peoria, IL 61625
Dear Mr. Temples:
This is in reply to your letter of August 24, 1979 regarding the licensing of nuclear power plants by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The thiclear Regulatory Commission has requested that no operating license, construction pemit or limited work authorization be issued without prior approval of the Comission.
The Commission has also requested that the staff forward to all construction-pernit and Operating-license applicants for planning and guidance purposes the list of items related to the Three Mile Island accident from the Lessons Learned Task Force and in various NRC Bulletins and Orders, advising the applicants that the list is not complete and will be updated as new inforna-tion accomes availaole. The Commission has stated that the staff should continue to review on an on-going basis those areas not related to the Three Mile Island accident.
As a practical matter, some time will be required before licensing activities and proceedings can be completed on pending cases and before any licensing l
decision can be made.
In any event, we assure you that every effort is being made to ensure the continued protection of the public health and safety at all nuclear plants that are currently operating or that may begin operation '
in the future.
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Sincerely, Mouua uusiTF E10PY Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation DISTRIBUTION Docket 50-320 NRC PDR LPDR
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UNIVERSITY POttfiCAL Wit MI August 23, 1979 Dr. John Kemeny, Chairman The President's Co= mission on the Three Mile Island Incident Washington, D.C.
Dear Dr. Kemeny:
May I com=end the courage shown by you and your colleagues in condecning the unconscionable, reprehensible, and outrageous attempt by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume the licensing of new nuclear power plants. As you know, this is the same NEC which only seven months ago repudiated its own study of nuclear plant safety and publicly admitted that it still could not answer the many unresolved questir.1s concerning the threat posed by nucIsar power to human life and the environment. The NRC's callous disregard for the public it supposedly serves and protects is matched only by that of President Carter in his blind support of the nuclear industry's l
insane efforts to impose upon the rest of us-without our consent-a technology that is simply too dangerous, too expensive, and totally unnecessary in view of safer, cheaper, and more efficient energy alternatives.
Some of us citizens who are fed up with President Carter's sell-cut en nuclear energ wender her-the Cem icsien en Th c.c ?.'ile Islasi l
can proceed at all in the face of the President's continuing habit of undermining his own investigative comission by making irresponsible l
pro-nuclear statements in public without even having the simple decency to wait for the commission's report. Sadly, it becomes clearer every day that this President cares more for the profits of nuclear industry executives (who first threaten us with nuclear reactors and then try to force us to pay for their mistakes) than h'e does for the people who elected him (including this writer,.who voted for him in 1976 but will not do so again). Nationwide public opinion surveys have shorm that a large majority of the American people do not want nuclear power plants built in their communities. The actions and statements of President l
Carter and NRC Chairman Hendrie not only fly in the face of comon sense and threaten our lives and those of our descendants; they also make it increasingly ~ difficult for =e as a teacher and as a citizen to convince myself and my increasingly cynical students that their government is accountable to them and worthy of their trust.
BRADLEY UNIVERSITY /PEORIA, ILLINOIS /61625/ PHONE 309-676-7611 1