ML20040H397

Opposes DOE Request for Exemption from Commission Regulations.Project Legislative History Shows That Major Goal of Project Is to Demonstrate Licensability of LMFBR

ML20040H397
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Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	02/05/1982
From:	Quayle D SENATE
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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The Honorable Nunzio J. Palladino -

Chairman Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D. C. 20555 .

Dear Mr. Palladino:

Late last year the Department of Energy asked.the Nuclear Regula-tory Commission for exemptions from established regulatory procedures for the purpose of' allowing preliminary site work on the Clinch River breeder reactor proj ect. Such work would be allowed prior to completion of the project's-environmental impact statement. I do not believe such exemptions fulfill Congressional intent in authorizing the project, nor do I believe they would. benefit the entire breeder reactor program.

that The legislative history of the Clinch River project clearly shows of a major goal of this proj ect is to demons'trate the licensability the liquid metal fast breeder reactor. Any deviation.:from licensing ~.

procedures established by NRC would obviate this..purp_ose and deprive the nuclear industry of the clear precedents needed to proceed with additional LMFBR plants.

I believe the.best way to ass'ure'a stabl.e future for the. nation's

, nuclear industry, which represents. a v. ital.part of our present and "

future energy supply structure, is to stabilize ayd clarify the regu-latory environment. Exempting demonstration. plants from normal regu-latory requirements- can only delay" progress toward meeting this goal. -

It will also retard the progress o-f pr.oying new technology. For these reasons, therefore, I 'reques't ~ at you deny DOE's request for exemptions. .

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