ML19351F167
| ML19351F167 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Issue date: | 12/09/1980 |
| From: | NRC OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS (OPA) |
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| References | |
| PR-801209, NUDOCS 8101100087 | |
| Download: ML19351F167 (1) | |
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OFFICE OF PU3LIC AFFAIRS NEWS
SUMMARY
DECEMBER 9, 1980 PAP.SIPPA'iY, NJ--General Public Utilities, saying it didn't get enough Federal regulation at Three Mile Island, filed a $4 billion damage suit against the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
The NRC has six morths to act on the claim, largest in history of commercial nuclear power.
GPU contends that "NRC is the gr,vernment agency charged with statutory responsibility to warn utilities of plant design ind operational dangers...when the government agency fails to provide these warnings, it is liable under existing Federal regulation."
GPU says the NRC failed to warn the utility about equipment problems after a 1977 accident at the Davis-3essie plant. Wall Street Journal, Washington Star, New York Times, Washington Post,12/9.
PHILADELPHIA--Philadelphia Electric says it nas taken steps to withdraw an application with the NRC for site review and a construction penitit for a nuclear power plant it once planned fnr Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
The utility had announced cancellation of the plant in 1976, citing shrinking electricity demand and a decision by General Atomic to leave the reactor business. Wall Street Journal, 12/9.
WASHINGTON--A report by the General Accounting Office says customers of Consolidated Edison and the Power Authority of the State of New York would face increases of more than $600 million a year in electric bills next year if Indian Point 2 and 3 were forced to shut down cermanently.
New York Times, 12/9.
A recount of ballots in Montana shows voters there decided to ban disposal of uranium mining WJste or mill tailings in the state.
The ban won by a margin of 416 votes. Washington Post, 12/9.
WILMINGTON, DEL--Du Pont has agreed in principle to buy New England Nuclear Corporation for about 5350 million of stock.
New England Nuclear develops and markets radioisotope systems used in raedical research and diagnosis. Wall Street Journal _, hew York Times, 12/9.
VEPC0 will pay S78.7 million in state and local tax bills this year, including $3.18 million in Louisa County, where the North Anna nuclear station is located. Washington Post,12/9.
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