ML19312D944
| ML19312D944 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane, Sequoyah  |
| Issue date: | 04/21/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Olhman C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8005270084 | |
| Download: ML19312D944 (5) | |
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Dear Mr. Chinan:
This is in reply to your letter of February 20, 1980, to President Carter about licensing nuclear power plants.
A statement by Dresident Carter on December 7,1979 about the Report of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island (the Kemeny Commission) included the following:
" finally, I would like to discuss how we manage the transition period during which the Kemeny recommendations are being imple-cented.
There are a number of new nuclear plants now awaiting operating licenses or construction pennits.
" Licensing decisions rest with the fiRC and, as the Keneny Commission noted, it has the authority to proceed with licensing these plants on 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 construction pennits 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 Nuclear Regulatory Commission is committed to protect the public health 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 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.
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Mr. Carl L. Ohlman AFR 21 BE9 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 requirements 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 operating 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 %1 ant Unit 1 to load fuel and, under specified conditions, to oper ate at low power levels for testing.
Several other similar cases are under consid-eration.
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Dear L'.r. Tresident:
I a= attaching herewith a copy of a letter addressed to the Grand Fapids Press. Grand Espids, L*.ichigan (attention of the Public Pulse) for publication.
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d texe ection,to register your support in the resu:ECng of -the_.,
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enargy ccats and eventual shcrtege. The s probler.s s.re causing cany of our Utility Co.m;nnies that have Nuclesr nants on the drcwing bocni, or in the procots of building the=, cro concalling their progrt=2.
In conclusion, I feel thct the generating of IICISM POUF, up to the tira of the Three Elle incident, hes hed en enrictbIs prorca record in saving cony r.illions of dollcro in genercting electricity with no c5 verse affects and no sericus accidents.
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ne Anti-Muclear Bloc rends reshington a considerable enount of rail chile the ;roponents send very little. Friends of !*uclear Tauer c:ust etcrt deliver-ing their c.cresce befcre it is too late.
De gractect precent day threat to the pror;erity and even the survivcl cf Both develo,ed and undeveloping nations cre threr.teced.
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Only a part, but a very iz;ortant pLite te zrust not turn our beck on any courco of ecercy then our very existsace is at eteke. Is need them all, es;ecially :U.'CL' AB ICt.EF..
The Anti- !uclear proreg:.nde that ce cro hearing today puts denocracy to a cevers teat. Unless the politicci trend torcrd Encrcy EcTelorent in this ccuntry, chances repidly, there =cy not be a United Etetes in the 21ct century.
The T ree :'.dle Isleni incident uns unfortunr.te, but due to the leasca learned, it will c1d extrer.e knowledge to our technolecy cnd help to refine tce enfety rysten und rA.s the ::ucler>r ucy of Generoting electricity uven ecfer. Muclear To.ver potentiel is too rcat to ignore. It will ple.y en eccential role over ths next 30 yours in caeting e
c r nction's coeIs end help genercte the proEress that cshes it poscible for all nctiocs to EIcw cad precper. If re cro to avoid ter, re rust be strong.
At precent no have 7 Huclear T1 ante that ere effected by the EJGLE!J TEZIl-TClY CC.."ILSIC:i (:!TO) freening the leeuing of new reacter liscentec. Thece 7 Duclecr
- .Irnte cro ready to o; crete end ecch r.onth these reactorn rer#.in idle the nation will use ec
- e then 200,000 e361ticnal terrels daily or about 2/3 of the oil we in;orted free Iren tofore the 1ctent cricis - end the rhitienal cost to the custonars is 83 to 103 rillica dollr.rs ccre teccuse replacer.ent pescr will be cenereted by higher cocte -(ccal and oil fired ;1cnts). Thic fztene can rete us increccingly de;endent on ir;crted cil then the paticn ze'ke relcece frec CISC's strcngle hold. De 1:IC Freene reflects a vsve of erotienelcin that nust not to alloned to throttle e vitel acurce of energy.
It nos re;uires a 1a.01512 P0;ET FIRiT 10 to 12 yeurs to plcn cnd build before it beccc.es a cc c.ercial reality. As iceredible es it r:y see=, ebout half of that tire is c; cat filling out forts, ehuffling papers end waiting for one Tegulctory J.gency or another to cche3ule a hecrind or approve e p rmit, cd.iing considerably to the coct of every Tuclear In Europe cnd Jo;en, they cre conctructing Nuclect Forer Plants in 5 to 6 years Tlent.
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