ML20037A621

Replies to Two Util Allegations Re Intolerable Delays to Const Caused by Unreasonable AEC Regulations

ML20037A621
Person / Time
Site:	Crystal River
Issue date:	09/22/1972
From:	Schwencer A US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Deyoung R, Ingram F US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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NUDOCS 8003250627
Download: ML20037A621 (3)

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.i F. Ingens, Chief, Regulatory News Branch, Office of Information News Services hg THRU:

R. C. DeYoung, Assistant Director, Pressurized hter Rea a RESPONSO TO ALLEGATIONS OF FLORIDA POVER CORPORATION i

b On Septer.ber 19, M. Futler, of your office, inforned tea that a repr=centative ot the St. Petersburg ?lorida l' ires had notified the AEC that the nevspaper is planning to publish a story cencerning Florida Power Corporatien and 3

the Crystal ' liver nuclear tmits. It uts stated that Florida Tcuer Corporation has alle.ed that they have encountered intolerable delays in ** s conatruction M crystal R1*rer Unit 3 eau sed Ly unronsenahia UC

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Four specific alleactions trare precented e ensq:les.

'"b H r m mle= replies to t* e ' tum allegations.

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Ar" to?.d ylorida ?c.:r.: urpr: tion to Luild tha pixt ta.fi:Nstauti a 23 feet stor: tide.

Vhile th ms well underway, tJ'C changed and required a 34 foot 9 tera tido dazi;-a.

'113 ctory points out that a O'. foot atorm tide would cut water in the strer'en of Ocala in central ? lor 14.

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of the public, the AEC requires a design basis for this type of natural j

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must operate,for a~ safe and forderly. shutdovu of the reactor plant.

In le63. in support;e( their application for a permit to construct Crystal Rivier Uait-3,,'{ Florida Fower Corporation consittad to this design

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basis...*daing' th#them current criteria for sizing' the maxiem probable

. hurricane, a vster level of 21.4 feet above mean Imi vater was calculated.

' Emcyor, at this same ti.s the 7.nvirotraental Sciences Services Abinistra-p tion (ESSA) was updatin?, their criteria for sizing manism probable hurri-

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Evaluation for a construction permit in the matter of Florida Power Corporation. Crystal River Unit 3 Nuclear Generating Plant, published 1

June 6,1%8, that "Additicual studies are in progress by the Hydro-k meteorological Branch of the 2nvironmental Sciences Servicas Lloistratica

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(ESSA) on string the== r*= prooable hurricane OtFU) for various Atlantic and Gulf constal sites. We intend to evaluate the proposed plant design relativa to hurricane effects as soon as the revised ESSA report is available. The applicant has stated and we will require that the plant protection will conform to the app 1f emble portions of revised Essa criteria."

i Using the revised criteria, a preliminary AEC calculation indicates a vater level of betma 8 to 14 feet higher tMn calechted in 1963.

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?resently, we are avaiting responso from Florida ?cver Ccrporation to i

cur inquiry concerning their ncv vater lavel prmHetica as obtained ucing the updated and ravised probable vurfnca hurricane criteria.

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a realistI: :p :er 11Mt for a ster 1mi dich ia pigsically poe-ibl2 at the parricular reactor site under review.

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of a 72crids Pccer Cer;cratics report that totaled l

AEC asked for 300 ccpic:

.six voluzes. Florida Power Corporation deterair.cd that 300 copies of the f

six volume rerort vould veigh two tons. Thia is asking too much, 7PC raid.

rt Arc 2entenu By, law, 300 copies of the Crystal River Unit 3 Environmental Report and

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Amendments therecs ammt be submitted to the AEC for_ review and precessing.

Such a larga quantity of 'theos deemments is required becessa of wide internal and external ~ distribution as well as providias some additional copies for projected public requests for such information.' This legal.

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