ML20054F310

Forwards Nrdc/Sierra Club Petition to Commissioners to Exercise Inherent Supervisory Authority to Delineate Scope of LWA Proceeding.Proceedings Presently So Restrictive to Make Inquiry Hypothetical & Answers Meaningless

ML20054F310
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Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	06/11/1982
From:	Finamore B, Weiss E HARMON & WEISS, National Resources Defense Council
To:	Aherne J, Gilinsky V, Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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Natural Resources Defense Council,Inc.

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Nunzio J. Palladino, Chairman Victor Gilinsky, Commissioner John F. Ahearne, Commissioner ~

Thomas M. Roberts, Commissioner - -

James K. Asselstine, Commissioner United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Clinch River Breeder Reactor, Docket No. 50-537 Gentlemen:

I am enclosing NRDC and Sierra Club Petition to the Commissioners To Exercise Their Inherent Supervisory Authority To Delineate the Scope of the LWA Proceeding for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor. The issues which NRDC seeks to have you consider concern the scope of the ongoing proceedings to

, determine whether a limited work authorization should be issued for the CRBR. In NRDC's view, those proceedings have been so restricted as to make the inquiry almost totally hypothetical'and the answers which it can be expected to yield virtually meaningless.

Now that there are five Commissioners sitting, it is appropriate and vital for you to consider these questions that go to the core of the integrity of the licensing process.

It is proposed to approve the CRBR site and to do the NEPA review (which must include, among other things, an assessment of the probability and consequences of serious CRBR accidents) without evaluating the information that currently exists on the CRBR design and the analyses done to date on the potential for a serious core disruptive accident for the CRBR.

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2 Earlier in this proceeding, the Commission exercised its inherent supervisory authority to intervene and delineate its scope. The Commission's intervention is even more.necessary now. We urge your attention to this matter.

Very truly yours,

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