ML20003C874

Urges OL for Unit 1 Be Issued Promptly.Delay in Licensing Is Costly to Rate Payers

ML20003C874
Person / Time
Site:	McGuire, Mcguire
Issue date:	03/09/1981
From:	Recasha Mitchell SOUTH CAROLINA, STATE OF
To:	Ahearne J NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8103180607
Download: ML20003C874 (2)

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Dea-Chairman Ahearne:

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Ad5.5 This letter is orompted by a recent newspaper account

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the projected dat for issuance of a full power operating

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license for the Duke Power Company McGuire Unit No. 1.

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are deeply concerned about your statement that a full-

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power operating license would likely not be issued until March 1982.

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We had ouv'ously understood that this 1180 megawatt unit would commence operation in time to meet the anticipated peak demand for electricity during the summer of 1981.

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Delay in the licensing of a major power facility such as inf gi--

McGuire Unit No. 1 is very costly to the ratepayers in the

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Duke Power service area.

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the delivery of less expensive electricity but also every day j[S.. ' =~ T._

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of delay increases the ultimate cost of this generating

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station. Unfortunately, all of these costs will be borne by ratepayers at a time when inflation and other factors are steadily pushin; the cost of electricity upward.

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This Commission certainly does not advocate a lessening 5

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nuclear operations. We cc, however, urge sericus consicera-1 tion of the very real economic burdens cosed by increased delays which in this case seem to have little or nothing to

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