ML19323B265
| ML19323B265 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane, Sequoyah  |
| Issue date: | 04/21/1980 |
| From: | Harold Denton Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Michael Scott AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
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| NUDOCS 8005120166 | |
| Download: ML19323B265 (3) | |
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!!s. Marian R. Scott P. O. Box 177 Jonesville, Michigan 49250
Dear Ms. Scott:
This is in reply to your letter of January 30, 1980, to President Carter about getting nuclear power plants in operation.
A statenant by President Carter on December 7,1979, about the Report of the President's Comnission on the /,ccident at Three liile Island (the Keaeny Co nission) included the following:
" Finally, I would like to discuss how we manage the transition period during which the Ke eny reconnendations are being imple-cented. There are a nunber of new nuclear plants now awaiting operating licenses or construction pemits.
" Licensing decisions rest with the NRC and, as the Keneny Comaission noted, it has the authority to proceed with licensing these plants on a case-by-case basis, which cay be used as circunstances surrounding a plant dictate. The SRC has in-dicated, however, that it will pause in issuing new licenses and construction 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 conths from today.
"Once ue have instituted the necessary refoms to assure safety, we must reedae 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 Coamission is coanitted to protect the public health and safety. The Three !111e Island accident resulted in a need for changes in the approach to safety. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has found that actions reconnended by its own staff and by the President's Cor.cission on the Accident at Three !!ile Island in the areas of huaan factors, operational safety, energency planning, nuclear power plant design and siting, health effects, and public infomation are necessary and feasible.
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At this tine 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 implenentation, 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 recogni:ed that there will be a significant effect on the availability of po.;er generating capacity if those plants now in the final stages of constructicn 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 23, 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 lcw power levels for testing. Several other,similar cases are under consid-eration.
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Dear President Carter:
I feel it is imperative we get the nuclear plants, under construction at this time, in operation as soon as possible.
These plants would reduce our r31iance on foreign oil by
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Nuclear energy is cheaper, cleaner and in my opinion safer than coal fired plants.
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