ML19308B649
| ML19308B649 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 12/31/1979 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Ivaska Y AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8001160519 | |
| Download: ML19308B649 (4) | |
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DEC 31273 i
Ms. Vyonne Ivaska Box 592 Park Ridge, IL 60068
Dear Ms. Ivaska:
I I am writing in response to your letter of April 8, 1979, to President Carter j
regarding the Three Mile Incident. I regret that this answer to your letter I
has been delayed. The accident and its consequences have created a substan-tial increase in the agency's workload, which has prevented us from respond-ing to you as promptly as we would have liked to.
An important purpose of the Nuclear Regulatory Connaission is to regulate the nuclear power industry by granting and reviewing construction and operating i
licenses for nuclear power plants. Such lengthy procedures, which include j
the carrying out of environmental impact studies, are required in order to ensure that public health and safety requirements are satisfied.
In regard to your question about reducing the possibility of accidents, we have taken a number of actions with respect to all nuclear power plants as a result of the Three Mile Island incident. Specifically, full-time inspec-tors have been assigned to each operati g plant utilizing Babcock and Wilcox (3&W) pressurized water reactors i de those at Three Mile Island. In addition, all such plants were shut down and the licensees of each plant were instructed to provide us with additional information about their facil-ities in light of the Three Mile Island incident. After review of the information provided, orders were issued to the licensees that required them to make immediate plant modifications, to provide additional operator train-ing, and to revisa certain operating procedures. Additional long-term actions were ordered to further upgrade certain plant systems, and operator training, and procedures. All of these plants, except of course the Three Mile Island plant, have complied with the orders and have been permitted to resume operation.
In addition, licensees of all operating plants utilising pressurized water reactors have been instructed to taka specific actions with regard to the status of certain equipment, plant procedures, operator actions, and facil-icy designs. Licensees of all operating plants, including those utilising boiling water reactors, have been instructed to provide us with additional information with regard to their facilities in light of the Three Mile Island incident.
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DEC 311979 We are currently reviewing the information provided. As soon as our review is complete, orders for modifications, as appropriate, will be issued to provide additional protection to the health and safety of the public.
In addition to the actions outlined above, as a result of TMI-2, studies were initiated in the areas of emergency preparedness, operator licensing reassessment, loss of feedwater event, small-break loss of coolant acci-dents, and lessons learned from the incident. In a number of areas work has progressed to the point where additional license requirements have been recommended. A number of these reconsnendations have been approved and efforts have begun to imple:nent them.
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