ML20043H255
| ML20043H255 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Seabrook  |
| Issue date: | 06/18/1990 |
| From: | Taylor J NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
| To: | Wilson P SENATE |
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| ML20043H256 | List: |
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| NUDOCS 9006220317 | |
| Download: ML20043H255 (7) | |
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The Honorable-Fete Wilson United States Senate-Washington, D.C.
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Dear Senator Wilson:
I am responding to your May 22, 1990, letter to tae Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Congressional Liaison in which you forwarded comments about the.Seabrook power plant that were made by your constituents, Alan Robinson andLisaBruner(case 0142070001). Specific responses to your constituents' comments are enclosed.
Sincerely, Original Signed By:
James M. Taylor l
James M.-Taylor
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Comment 1:
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) safety re) orts on all the nuclear power plants in the United States siould be made public.
NRC Response:
After the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island plant, the 55 utilities owning and operating nuclear power plants joined together to create INPO, a private organization whose stated purpose is to upgrade the quality of operations and safety performance at nuclear power plants. One of INP0's methods of achieving improved performance is through the conduct of periodic team evaluations at all reactor facilities. After assessing the information gathered from these activities, the inspection team writes a repot t to the utility, which documents the strengths and weaknesses that the team observed. The utility is required to report back to INP0 on the ste')s that the utility plans to take to address the observed wea knesses.
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visits. These INP0 activities are independent of Nuclear R
Regulatory Commission (NRC) activities.
INPO, as a private organization,-has taken the position that
!;b its reports are private and should not be made public.
Because the reports are treated as proprietary information, member utilities maintain that they feel free to accept and answer candid reports of weaknesses without becoming defensive and argumentative about matters resorted. Although INPO does not make its evaluation reports pu!)1ic and is not required to submit them to the NRC, our staff is able to review these reports on site at each reactor facility. These reviews are normally conducted by one of NRC's resident inspectors who-l is assigned. full time at each licensed power reactor.
NRC reviews are conducted to ensure that INP0 reports do not contain'any significant adverse safety information that was not previously revealed by our inspection program.
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the NRC of any matter, including a finding by INPO, which indicates a condition that the utility's license would otherwise require them to report to the NRC.
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evaluation reports are private, we believe that the public safety is aided through the industry's INP0 self-assessment-initiative, as an addition to the NRC's direct inspection program, and the NRC's ongoing review of INPO activities.
( kg Comment 2:
The plant is not safe and no satisfactory emergency plan is in place or even can be formulated.
>NRC Response:
The NRC has considered the findings of all the NRC staff reviews and inspections performed with regard to the Seabrook Station and has concluded that the plant meets the regulations and that there is reasonable assurance that the plant can and will be operated without endangering the health and safety of the-public.
The Commission's emergency planning requirements, including evacuation plans, are clearly stated.
In the text of the regulations, in rulemakings on the subject of emergency plan-ning, and'in adjudicatory decisions-interpreting those regula-tions, the Commission has made clear that judgments on the adequacy of emergency planning are to be. based on conformity with the 16 planning standards givcn in 10 CFR 550.47(b).
Detailed criteria for evaluating emergency plans are contained in guidance developed jointly by NRC and FEMA, primarily'in NUREG-0654/ FEMA-REP-1, Rev. 1, " Criteria for Preparation and Evaluation.of Radiological Emergency Response Plans and Pre-paredness in Support of Nuclear Power Plants." For offsite planning, the regulations provide that the Fedecal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) shall make " findings and determinations as to whether State and local emergency plans are adequate and whether there is reasonable assurance that they can be imple-mented,"[10CFR550.47(a)(2)].
The NRC staff has also concluded, and has successfully argued before the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board and the Atomic Safety and Licensing Appeal Board (both of these boards are l
part of the adjudicatory arm of the NRC), that the record in the Seabrook licensing proceeding demonstrates that the i
emergency plan for the Seabrook Station satisfies the NRC -
requirements for. emergency planning and provides reasonable.
assurance that adequate protective measures can and will be taken in the event of a radiological emergency.
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