ML19309A590
| ML19309A590 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/03/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Davis E AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8003310465 | |
| Download: ML19309A590 (1) | |
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Dear Mr. Davis:
This is in reply to your letter of January 24, 1980 to Chairman Ahearne about licensing of nuclear power plants.
The Nuclear Regulatory Comm'ission is committed to protect the public health and safety. The Three Mlle Island accident resulted in a need for chances in the approach to safety. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that actions recommended by its own staff and by the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island in the areas of human factors, operational safety, emergency planning, nuclear power plant design and siting, health effects, and public information are necessary and feasible.
At this time we are preparing for review and approval by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission an Action Plan that will specify the precise actions to be taken.
It will include new or improved safety objectives, detailed criteria for their implementation, and various implementation deadlines. As scon as the Action Plan is comoleted and approved, the resulting regulatory requirements will be trans-mitted to all utilities concerned, it is recogni:ed that there will be a significant effect on the availability of power generating capacity if those plants now in the final stages of construction do not receive operating licenses by the dates previously anticipated, and every effort is being made to avoid unnecessary delays.
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