ML20004C669
| ML20004C669 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/1981 |
| From: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
| To: | Sasser J SENATE |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8106040447 | |
| Download: ML20004C669 (1) | |
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Dear Senator Sasser':
Thank you for your letter o.7 behr.lf of your consistuent, Stuart L. Schoff,
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Unit 1 was down for. refueling at the time of the accident at TMI-2 in late March 1979. On July 2,1979, the Comission ordered that the facility remain in cold shutdown until further order of the Comission, stating that "the Comission presently lacks the requisite reasonable assurance that the... Licensee's Three Mile Island Unit No. 1 Facility....
can be operated without endangering the health and sr.fety of the public."
Further, the Comission states that public hearings would be conducted to determine whether TMI-l should be allowed to resume operation and, if so, under what conditions.
In a subsequent. order issued August 9, the Comission established procedures for the hearing and decision on the issues. The hearings began before an NRC Atomic Safety and. Licensing Board in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on October 15, 1980. The current estimate is that a Board decision will not be made before late 1981.
I am enclosing for your further information a memorandum that the NRC received from the TMI-1 Licensing Board on the status of the restart proceedings.
I hope this information is helpful in responding to your consistent.
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