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Discusses Issuance of Ssrt Rept.Revised Computation of Turbine Design Parameters Submitted by Consultant Renders Rept Inaccurate.Nrc Should Make Final Decision Re Issuance
ML20069A276
Person / Time
Site: 05000000, Dresden
Issue date: 11/12/1979
From: Newmark N
NATHAN M. NEWMARK CONSULTING ENGINEERING SERVICES
To: Eisenhut D
Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
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ML20069A188 List:
References
FOIA-82-399, TASK-03-06, TASK-3-6, TASK-RR NUDOCS 7911150252
Download: ML20069A276 (2)


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Each author of each chapter of the Dresden report is requested to send to N. M. Newnerk and W., J. Hall by 5 December 1979 the changes required in his chapter of the report as required by latest analysis from Tom Nelson in a letter dated 2 November. We should probably give ranges in numerical values rather than single values. We shall plan a meeting on 6 December or 19 December-either in Chicago or Urbana to review the report and to plan the

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