ML19343A666
| ML19343A666 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 11/06/1980 |
| From: | Snyder B Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
| To: | Hadud R AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8011190549 | |
| Download: ML19343A666 (3) | |
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Dear Mr. Hadud:
I am writing in response to your letter to President Carter asking him to improve nuclear power plants.
We have taken a number of actions with respect to all nuclear power plants as a result of the Three Mile Island Incident. Specifically, full time l
inspectors have been assigned to each operating plant utilizing Babcock and Wilcox (BaW) pressurized water reactors like those at Three Mile Island.
In addition, all these plants were shut down and the itcensees of each plant were instructed to provide us with additional infomation about their facil-ities in light of the Three Mile incident. After review of the information provided, orders were issued to the licensees that required them to make imediate plant modifications, to provide additional operator training, and to reverse certain operating procedures. Additional long-term actions were ordered to further upgrade certain plant systems, and operator training and procedures. All of these plants, except of course the Three Mile-Island plant, have complied with the orders and have been pemitted to resume opera-tion.
In addition, licensees of all cperating plants utilizing pressurized water reactors have been instructed to take specific actions with regard to the status of certain equipment.. plant procedures, operator actions, ar.d facility designs. Licensees of all operating plants, including those utilizing boiling water reactors, have been instructed to provide us with additional information with regard to their facilities in light of the Three Mile Island incident.
We are currently reviewing the infomation provided. As soon as our review is complete, orders for m6difications, as appropriate, will be issued to provide additional protection to the health and safety of the public.
In addition to the actions outlined above, as a result of TMI-2, studies were initiated in the areas of emergency preparedness, operator licensing reassess-ment, loss of feedwater event, small-break loss of coolant accidents, and lessons learned fmm the incident. In a number of areas work has progressed to the point here additional licensee requirements have been recomended.
A nunber of these recomendations have been approved and efforts have begun to implement them.
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-2 Nuclear power plants do not dispose of nuclear wastes in nearby rivers as you mentioned. Radioactive materials not intended for further use are put in a pemanent repository. The goal of the U.S. Nuclear Waste Management Program is to provide assurance that existing and future nu-clear waste from military and civilian activities, including spent fuel from the once-through nuclear power cycle, can be isolated from the bio-sphere so as to pose no significant tilreat to public health and safety and the environment. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is responsible for providing the framework of criteria and regulations that will ensure that the disposal methods developed for all types of radio-active waste are consistent with the achievement of this goal of safe, long-term waste disposal.
The NRC's authority to license and regulate the storage and disposal of radioactive wastes is derived from three statutes: the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Energy Reorgani7.ation Act of 1974, and the National Environmental Policy Act of 1%9. To implement this authority and to provide guidance to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the industry, and the public, the NRC is developing new or revised regulations for such storage and disposal. These regulations will require confomance with a fixed set of minimally acceptable perfomance standards for waste management activities while providing for flexibility in the technological approach.
The DOE responsibilities concerning radioactive waste disposal are limited to high-level e stes, and only those low-level wastes produced as part of DOE's pmgrams. Their responsibility does not include comercially generated low-level wastes.
NRC has prepared a Programatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for public coment on the decontamination and disposal of radioactive wastes re-sulting from the Three Mile Island, Unit 2, accident. The PEIS, a copy of which is enclosed for your inforination, focuses on the environmental issues and alter-native methods associated with the perfomance of these cleanup activities.
Sincerely, Bernard J. Snyder, Program Director TMI Program Office Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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