ML19345D074
| ML19345D074 | |
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| Issue date: | 11/26/1980 |
| From: | Rehm T NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Barber R ENERGY, DEPT. OF |
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| NUDOCS 8012090028 | |
| Download: ML19345D074 (1) | |
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Mr. Robert W. Barber, Chairman 5
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20545 Dear Mr.
- d This is in response to your letter of September 25, 1980, with regard to the future commercial availability of the DOE Atmospheric Release Advisory Capability (ARAC) at nuclear power stations.
As you know, we have installed an ARAC terminal at the NRC Operations 3
Center and in cooperation with the Federal Emergency Management Agency 1
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(FEMA) are preparing to pilot test the ARAC system. These pilot tests will be' performed by installing terminals at two nuclear power station 1
.sites, Indian Point and Rancho Seco with companion installations for the State governments at Albany, New York and Sacramento, California. Plans are underway to evaluate this meteorological system along with other j
techniques for projecting offsite radioactive releases.
It is the opinion of the NRC staff that it is too early to consider possible problems of making the ARAC system available to the commercial industry when the system has not been installed or tested at any of these sites to date.
If the ARAC proves to be needed by the commercial nuclear power industry,
-please be assured that we will adv se you of these requirements in time to i
work out these problems with both ODE and FEMA.
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/ Thomas Rehm, Assistant for Operations Office of the Executive Director for Operations t
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