ML20037A487

Responds to Taylor s Re Facility Const.Aec Shares Concerns for Safe Electric Power Production

ML20037A487
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Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	02/15/1973
From:	Giambuso A US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Taylor J, Renee Taylor, Taylor V AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
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Dear Sirs ani.i Madame:

t I am pleased to respond to your letters concerning the Davis-Besse Uuclear Power Plant nov under construction about 20 i

niles northwest of Sandushy, Ohio.

The Atomic Energy Consission shares your concern that the electric power society uses ir produced in a safe manner. We appreciate the concern of the public in this r.atter, both with regard to the consequences of on electrical shortage and the j

inpact of alternate solutions on other hu=an values.

t With regard to the construction of nuclear power plants, vc carefully weigh the inportant, factors of health and safety of j

the public, protection of envirow.catal values, prese:vation of natural resources, cost benefits and technical feasibility.

Also, we provide a means whereby the general public may be kept infor:aed and may participate in public hearings involving Davis-Besse as well as othst nuclear plants.

Upon completion of an extensive pre-construction review of the Davie-Besse plant by the AEC, the public was afforded the opportunity to participate in the hearings held during the three months before the construction permit was issued in March 1971. Public hearings were held in the first half of 1972 on environ:nental matters and results of additional reviews I

of safety and environmental matters now undervsy by the AEC will be made available to the public when they are completed.

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have enclosed a copy of our notice of opportunity for public participation in the AEC public hearing on Davis-Besse which provides aZditional information on the ways in which you l

may actively participate in the hearing.

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Mr. Jack Taylor 2033 Cedar Point Roadway Sandusky, Ohio 44870

Dear Sirs and Madame:

i I am p. eased to respcnd to your letters concerning safety of the Davis-Beste nuclear power plant. Multiplicity or redundancy of safety systen compenents gives extraordinary reliability to the overall functioning of the safety systems in the very unlikely event that they are required.

The measures taken in nuclear plant design, construction and operation i

to insure safety,far exceed those of any industrial activity in our society. -Me believe that these measures make the likelihood of a serious accident exceedingly smil.

In spite of this conviction, an extensive array of redundant back-up systens and continuing in-plant surveillance programs are required for each nuclear power plant because safety has been a prir:ary concern of the Atcaic Energy Commission in developing nuclear power.

Strict. regulations are ir. posed.on the operation of nuclear plant facilities to reduce the release of rad'eactive effluents to in-significant quantities such that they will have little or no effect en the environments and its inhabitants.

We fimly believe that the precautionary steps taken in the design, construction and operation of nuclear reactor plants are adequite with respect to protecting the general public.

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NATICE OF OPPORTUNITY FOR PilBLIC PAR't.

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DAVIS-DESSE NUCLEAR ?OWER STATION The Atomic Energy Commission will hold a public Scoring to be conducted by on Atomic Sofety and Licensihg Soord to determine

~j whether the construction permit issued to The Toledo Edison Com-pony and The Cleveland Electric li!uminoting Company author-j izing construction of the proposed Davis-Sesse Nuclecr Power Sto-tion in Ottawa County, Ohio, should be continued, modified, termi-vi noted or oppropriotely conditioned to protect environmental vol-ues. The hecring will be be:d in_the vicinity of the proposed facility E of a time and piece to be set later. The issues to be considered of the W, heericg are specified in a FEDERAL REGISTER notice published on y Januory 5,1973.

9 Members of the public who wish to participcte in the hearing g may do so in one of two wcys:

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l. They may make a limited cppeorance. A person mohing a limit-ed appearance does not become o party to the proceeding but rnoy state his position'ond rcise questions which he would like to have answered to the extent that the questions are within the R, scope of the hearing and are permitted by the Licensing Soord. $!

Persons desiring to make a limited cppearance cre rec;uested to b

inform the Secretory of the Commission, U.S. Atomic Energy q

Ccmmission, Washington, D.C. 20545, Attention: Chief, Public

j Proceedings Stcff, by February 5,1973. Limited cppecronces will be permitted at the time of the public hecrings by the Licens-ing Board,

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2. They mcy petition for leave to intervene. A person permitted to gj intervene becomes c party and hcs o right to porticipcte in the j

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conduct of the hecring. For excmple, he mcy present evidence ond examine end cross examine witnesses.

Any person,whose interest may be effected by the proceed-ing who wishes to pcrticipcte cs c party must file c petition for leave to intervene under octh oreffirmation setting forth the in-terest of the petitioner in the proceeding, how thct interest mcy be effected by the results of the proceeding, and the petitioner's -

coatentions with respect to the proposed licensing cetion. Such petition must be filed with the Secretcry of the Commission, U.S.

Atomic Energy Commission, Wcshington, D.C. 20545, Atten-tion: Chief, Public Proceedings Sicff, by February 5,1973.

A petition for lecve to intervene must be accompcnied by a supporting effidevit which identifies the specific cspect or cs-pects of the proceeding as to which intervention is desired and spe:ifies with porticulcrity the fccis on which the petitioncr reli25 os to both his interest cad his contentions with regcrd to ecch espect en which intervention is requested.

/.li petitions will be acted upon by the Licensing Socrd. Those petitions stating contentions re!cting only to motters outside the Commission's jurisdiction will be denied.

The Commission hos cercnged for documents and corre-spondence re!cting to the licensing of this fccility to be kept on f

file for public inspection et the Ida Rupp Public Librcry, Port /

l Clinton, Ohio.

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