ML19308C988
| ML19308C988 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 02/05/1980 |
| From: | Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Guttman D SPIEGEL & MCDIARMID |
| References | |
| FOIA-80-42 NUDOCS 8002130043 | |
| Download: ML19308C988 (1) | |
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l Daniel Guttman, Esquire Spiegel & McDiarmid 2600 Virginia Avenue, N.W.
IN RESPONSE REFER Washington, DC 20037 TO F0IA-80-42
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This is in response to your letter dated January 19, 1980 in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act:
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The 1959 proposal of the City of Ft. Pierce, Florida to i
participate in the Atomic Energy Commission's Power Reactor Demonstration Program.
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Documents showing the disposition of the Ft. Pierce proposal.
The NRC has no records subject to your request, but you may be able to obtain this information by writing to tha Department of Energy.
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. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration 8002180 D
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.E;5-City of Fort Pierce, Fort Pierce, Florida; the City of Jamestown, Jamestown, New York; and the Dairyland Power Cooperative, La Rf. Crosse, Wisconsin. m%; .M M The project, to be carried out vader the Commission's M Power Demonstration Reactor Program, will have as its major ob- >1.; jective the development of a reactor chat will make a significant !QO contribution to the achievement of economical electric power ,g in a small plant. Q;.. The proposed plant would use a pressurized water re-J::f; actor with a fossil fueled superheater for the generation of @j; about 60,000 kilowatts of heat from the reactor and approximately gyp 22,000 kilowatts of electric power from the plant. .is: ..? The Commission has asked that the participating organi-FiE zation contribute, as a minimum, the plant site, turbogenerating 36.5 facilities and associated buildings and services. In addition, W ..:.x (more) D \\, C 6.~.v +
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/ COPY UNITED STATES ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION Washington 25, D. C. No. B-126 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel. HAzelwood 7-7831 (Tuesday, August 4, 1959) Ext. 3446 AEd INVITES PROPOSALS FOR SMALL SIZE NUCLEAR POWER PLANT John A. McCone, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commis-sion, today announced that the Commission is designing and plans to construct a small size pressurized water reactor plant. Accordingly, the Commission is inviting proposals froa coopera-tives and public power organizations for participatien in the project. The proposer is expected to provide as a mi.nimum, the site, the conventional turbogenerating facilities and certain other services. The small size power plant is planned under the Commis-sion's Power Demonstration Reactor Program. The project will-have as its major object!.ve the development of a reactor which will make a significant i:ontribution to the achievement of eco- ~. nomical electric power ir a small size plant. Construction is - j expected to begin about Msy 1960 with completion of the plant ~ scheduled for May 1962. The proposed plant would use a pressurized water reac-tor for the generation of about 60,000 kilowatts thermal and 16,500 kilowatts' electrical power. Installation of a super-heater, which would make,it possible to increase the electrical capacity of the plant to 22,000 kilowatts, could be included at the option of the proposer. The cooperatives and public power organizations will be expected to make a contribution which should include,as a minimum, (more)
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= g- , 4 I~- The Commission is giving serious consideration to the issuance in the near future of an additional invitation to co-operatives or publicly-owned organizations for proposals to co-operate in the design and construction of another small nuclear power plant utilizing a boiling water reactor. Additional information concerning the project may be obtained by writing: S. R. Sapirie, Manager, U. S. Atomic Energy Commission, Oak Ridge Operations Office, P. O. Box "E", Oak Ridge, Tennessee. l i I (NOTE TO EDITORS & CORRESPONDENTS: This announcement is b.cing { issued simultaneously in Oak Ridge Tennessee, by the Oak Ridge i Operations Office of the Commission.) ~ Jh \\* A ,,..~ ~ 8459 .}}