ML19322D030
| ML19322D030 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 01/09/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Cox R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8002080299 | |
| Download: ML19322D030 (1) | |
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JAN 9 1930 Mr. Richard Cox 6135 30th Street, N. W.
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Dear Mr. Cox:
This is in reply to your letter of November 20, 1979, about licensing of of nuclear power plants.
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
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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.
This Action Plan will include new or improved safety objectives, detailed criteria for their implementation, and various implementation deadlines. Our goal is to have approved NRC requirements available to all utilities shortly after February 15, 1980.
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.
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20015 November 20, 1979 Harold R.
Denton, Director Nuclear Reactor Regulations 1717 H Street N W Washington, D C 205SS
Dear Mr. Denton,
in the course of my regular occupation I am e: posed to opinions, conclusions and theories of many people from as many valks of life throughout North America daily on many different issues.
My conclusions are in part couched from reactions to those opinions, conclusions and theories.
Houever, I vish to have you consider my rccommendations in this letter as those of a person uho is concerned primarily from the position of a consuming tar-payer.
I am acutely aware of the potential risks encompassed by continued construction of nuclear pouer generation facilities.
However, that knouledge is offset by the existence of the safety far
,, back-up features and the added improvements made' in those areas since Three Mile Island.
When reflecting on the reasons for gas lines in 1973 and again in 1979, I become increasingly alarmed as my personal life and that of my neighbor remains coupled closely to energy which must be p~rchased outside the United States.
When those reflections and considerations are ccupied uith knouledge of hou little progress the current administration, both on Pennsylvania Avenue and Capitol HiLZ, have made in development of energ'u sources alternative to oil, the reser-vations from additionhl construction of nuclear pouer house generation facilities is tremendously diminished.
Those con-siderations are diminished even further when applied to contem-
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plation of a national broun-out, the failure of life saving equipment in hospitals, due to lack of available electrical energy, cessation of food processing equipment for the same reasons, and a myriad of other comparisons.
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e November 20, 1979 page 2 In revieuing items uhich have recently crcased my desk I uas especially struck uith the appropriate expression of Carl Watske 's November 7, 1979 statement relative to licensing freeze of nuclear power house construction.
As you know, Carl Watske is President of Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc.,
and a strong proponent of nuclear pouer generation.
When all aspects of the critical energy situation in which ve tive is reviewed, I am hard put to find justification for anyone disagreeing uith Carl Watske.
I am enclosing that statement for your revieu and I urge you to add your efforts to those already in existance for promotion of Licensing for construction of nuclear power generation facilities.
I would appreciate your response to this letter.
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