ML20004B126
| ML20004B126 | |
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| Issue date: | 05/14/1981 |
| From: | Hendrie J NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Friedman H NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL |
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0418 DearDr.Fr) man I was very pleased to receive your letter of April 30, 1981 and appre-ciate your continued interest in the safe siting of nuclear facilities especially with regard to earthquake hazards.
The report you forwarded, Earthquake Research for Safer Siting of Critical Facilities makes' a number of interesting recommendations with regard to future research efforts in the area of earthquake safety. As you are aware, Dr. Jerry Harbour of our Office of Regulatory Research and Dr. Robert E. Jackson of the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation served as liaison members to the National Research Council's Panel on Earthquake Problems related to the Siting of Critical Facilities and participated in the review of the report you forwarded.
We continue to maintain a high level of interest in earthquake hazards reduction and the important aspect of acquisition of earthquake informa-tion.
In this respect, we are continuing to maintain and expand our seismic network coverage with careful attention to geographic areas where we anticipate the best returns. We currently fund extensive networks throughout the U. S., for example, in the Charleston, S.* C.,
New Madrid, Mo.; Nemaha Ridge (Nebraska, Kansas); and New York-New England areas. We have recently initiated coverage in the Pacific Northwest and are also funding portable seismic arrays which can be deployed into areas in the Eastern U. S. following an earthquake to gain valuable information from aftershock occurrences.
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The NRC and the former AEC have been instrumental in advancing the state of knowledge in the area of earthquake research and I fully anticipate that this effort will continue as an important element of our 'research effort in the future.
I am confident that our efforts in conjunction with those of the U. S. Geological Survey and the National Science Foundation will provide a continued expansion of our knowledge of earthquakes. Thank you for your recommendations.
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