ML19312D942
| ML19312D942 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane, Sequoyah  |
| Issue date: | 04/21/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Phillips J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8005270070 | |
| Download: ML19312D942 (3) | |
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,,Y APR 21 1%O Mrs. Jacqueline A. Phillips 4109 Daybrook Drive Bay City, Michigan 48706
Dear Mrs. Phillips:
This is in reply to your letter of January 28, 1980, to President Carter about licensing nuclear power plants.
A statement by President Carter on December 7,1979, about the Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (the Kereny Commission) included the following:
" Finally, I would like to discuss how we manage the transition period during which the Kemeny recommendations are being imple-i mented.
There are a number of new nuclear plants now awaiting operating licenses or construction pemits.
" Licensing decisions rest with the NRC and, as the Kemeny Commission noted, it has the authority to proceed with licensing these plants c.4 a case-by-case basis, which may be used as circumstances surrounding a plant dictate.
The NRC has in-dicated, however, that it will pause in issuing new licenses and constructioi' pemits in order to devote its full attention to putting its house in order.
I endorse the approach the NRC has adopted, but I urge the NRC to complete its work as quickly as possible, and in any event no later than six months from today.
"Once we have instituted the necessary reforms to assure safety, we must resume the licensing process promptly so that the new plants which we need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil can be built and operated."
The I:uclear Regulatory Commission is committed to protect the public healtS and safety. The Three Mile Island accident resulted in a need for changes in the approach to safety.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that actions recommended by its own staff and by the President's Cemaission on the Accident at Three Mile Island in the areas of human l
factors, operational safety, emergency planning, nuclear power plant l
design and siting, health effects, and public information are necessary and feasible.
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- rs. Jacqueline A. Phillips 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 ob-jectives, detailed criteria for their implementation, and various implementation deadlines.
As soon as the Action Plan is completed and approved, the resulting regulatory requirenents will be trans-mitted to all utilities concerned.
It is recognized 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 cperating licenses by the dates previously anticipated, and every effort is being made to avoid unnecessary delays.
With this objective, the Commissioners approved on February 28, 1980, the issuance of an NRC license to the Tennessee Valley Authority for the Sequoyah Nuclear Plant Unit 1 to load fuel and, under specified conditions, to operate at low power levels for testing.
Several other similar cases are under consid-eration.
Sincerely, Af e
Harold R. Denton, Director Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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o The President Jinuny Carter The White House Washington, DC 20500
Dear Mr President,
WE NEED NUCLEAR POWER!
You know it; I know it.
But the American public needs more educating.
I'm tired of lef t-wingers and rabble-rousers dictating my energy future.
You said yourself that we have to free our country from its overdependence on unstable sources of high-priced foreign oil.
The situation is getting worse by the day.
!i We need the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to resume the licensing of nuclear
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it, you'd better do something about the graduated income
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It's literally KILLING US!
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PLEASE!
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. Jacqu_line A Phillips (Mrs) 4109 Daybrook Drive Bay City, MI 48706 517-686-2412
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