ML20062C765

Opines That Small Increase in Crbr Efficiency That Might Result from Granting Exemption Request Does Not Justify Extraordinary Relief from NRC Licensing Process

ML20062C765
Person / Time
Site:	Clinch River
Issue date:	08/03/1982
From:	Finamore B, Greenberg E National Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, TUTTLE & TAYLOR
To:	Ahearne J, Asselstine J, Gilinsky V, Palladino N, Roberts T NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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The Honorable Nunzio J. Palladino The Honorable James K. Asselstine Chairman Commissioner Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Washington, D.C. 20555 The Honorable Victor Gilinsky The Honorable John F. Ahearne Commissioner Commissioner Nuclear Regulatory Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 washington, D.C. 20555 The Honorable Thomas F. Roberts Commissioner Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Re: Clinch River Breeder Reactor Plant Docket No. 50-537 (Section 50.12 Request) l Gentlemen:

Applicants' latest submission sets forth the unexceptional proposition that, all things being equal, it is better to have information now then later. But the benefits Applicants foresee are mainly in the long term, deriving largely from CRBR operation soretime in the 1990s. Further, given the overall uncertainties with respect to whether the LDP will be built at all, there is no particular magic to eny timing sequence for information transfer in the miaters.

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In any event, at best what Applicants hope for is a modest increase in program efficiency. This scarcely constitutes emergency and exigent circumstances of the sort that would justify extraordinary relief from the NRC licensing process.

Nor is it true that timely relief from the CRBR Licensing Board is impossible or highly unlikely because of uncertainties in the LWA hearing schedule. During a conference with counsel held yesterday, O

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The Honorable Nunzio J. Palladino The Honorable Victor Gilinsky The Honorable Thomas F. Roberts The Honorable James K. Asselstine The Honorable John F. Ahearne August 3, 1982 Page Two the Licensing Board ruled that LWA hearings will commence in three weeks, on August 23 as previously scheduled. The Board will take evidence at that time on all site suitability issues, and will consider all environmental issues shortly after the final impact statement supplement is published on November 1, 1982.

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