ML20010A932
| ML20010A932 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 06/30/1981 |
| From: | Dircks W NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Flippo R HOUSE OF REP. |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8108130136 | |
| Download: ML20010A932 (2) | |
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3 This responds to your letter of June 1, 1981 to Carlton Kammerer of our Office of Congressional Affairs, and your question as to whether a nuclear facility, such as the TVA's Browns Ferry Plant, would be required by the flRC to have a helicopter emergency response team.
The NRC has never imposed such a requirement; however, as of July 1, 1981 we will be requiring that a prompt alerting and notification system to alert the residents around a nuclear facility of a nuclear emergency be in place. This ale
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on-call emergency response team from TVA's Muscle Shoals facility to the affected site and not to be used to warn the population. The response team members will now travel by car and can reach the site in one to two hours.
In addition, onsite environmental monitoring teams.have vans equipped to monitor atmospharic, terrestrial and aquatic environs and off-site radioactivity levels. These vans are provided at each plant as a primary means of response.
Enhanced communications between the site and the Ifuscle Shoals facility will ensure that all necessary information will be available for analysis.
Additionally, TVA does have helicopters and fixed wing aircraft as a back-up response capability. The NRC staff feels that this TVA emergency re-Sponse capability will adequately protect public health and safety in the unlikely event of a nuclear emergency and is acceptable.
If I can be of further assistance, please let me know.
Sincerely 3 (Signed) T. A, Rehm William J. Dircks i
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