ML19317H322
| ML19317H322 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane, Sequoyah  |
| Issue date: | 04/21/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Bliss H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8005270384 | |
| Download: ML19317H322 (3) | |
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Dear fir. and !4rs. Bliss:
This is in reply to your letter of February 18, 1980, to President Carter about licensing nuclear power plants.
A statement by President Carter on Dacember 7, 1979, about the Report of the President's Commission on the Acc: dent at Three !4ile 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-mented. There are a number of new nuclear plants now awaiting operating licenses or construction permits.
" Licensing decisions rest with the NRC and, as the Kemeny Commission noted, it has the authority to proceed with licensing these plants on a case-by-case basis, which may be used as The NRC has in-circumstances surrounding a plant dictate.
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 possibid, 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 ?'uclear Pegulatory Commission is committed to protect the public 1
The Three Mile Island accident resulted in a need health and safety.
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 THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS P00R QUAUTY P";ES m.v 389 //
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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 unnecessery 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.
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