ML19322A302
| ML19322A302 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Atlantic Nuclear Power Plant  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/1979 |
| From: | Bunch D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Birkel R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 7904060136 | |
| Download: ML19322A302 (1) | |
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!!E.'iOP,N:DU:1 Fna: Ralph A. Cirkel, Project "anager Light '.'ater Recctors Cranch I'o. 2. DP't D. F. Bun'h, Director
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YCUR !!El'0 TO FILES OF l' ARCH 10, 1979 RE OPS I have reviewed the subject nero.
It is in error in one sicnificant respect. You quote na incorrectly, as saying "the staff decision to replace the concreta base cat itas based on a cost benefit analysis and not on safety."
In fact. as you know, I have long argued that the decision cust be (and was) solely based on safety considerations.
L' hat I said at the r.eeting vas intended to rapresent the position taken in Citizens for Safe Power vs HRC [524F.2d 1291 (1975)]
t:hich noted 'The real question turns not upon a choice of statutory labels but upon the requisite treighing of the residual
- risks.at sore point of the licensing process."
It tras precisely this traighing that tras at the heart of the
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.H. Bivins D. F. Ross H. R. Denton R.'P.
Denise E. G. Case W. P. Gammill J. Lee D.' B. Vassallo.
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