ML20072T881
| ML20072T881 | |
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| Site: | Saxton File:GPU Nuclear icon.png |
| Issue date: | 11/06/1959 |
| From: | Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Luedecke A US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
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| FOIA-91-17 NUDOCS 9104180322 | |
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_ I have ;iesued the attached notice of h' earing on the
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Experimental Corporation to ocnstavot a 20 megawatt f thermallp.4 nuclear reactor at a site approximately twenty miles southeasty ',
of Altoona, Pennsylvania.
The hearing will be held at 10:3 Ja.mjf on December 15, 1959, in the Auditorium of the AEC Headquar ersy at Germantown, Maryland.
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tm01ASSIFIED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ATOMIO ENER0Y COMMISSION In the Matter of Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation )
NCfrICE OF HEARING ON APP 120ATION POR CONSTRUCTION PFRMIT Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,.
(hereinaf ter referred to as "the Act") and the regulations in
- Part 2,10 CFB, " Rules of Practice", notice is hereby given y that a hearing will be held to consider the issuance of a con struction pemit for a 20 megawatt (themal) facility, to bc used 4 7..-
for research and development, to Saxton Nuclear Experimenta1w w,y.,..e Corporation under Scotions 104b and 185 of the Act. The hearing and will p p;*y.7.
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UNCLASSIFIED Safeguards in this matter is available for public inspection at the AEC's Public Document Room. Copies may be obtained by request to the Director, Division of Licensing and Regulation, Washington 25, D.
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'Ihe Conur.ission has designated Samuel W. Jensch, Esq., as the Presiding Officer to conduct the hearing and to render a'de-oision pursuant to' Section 2 751(a) of the commission's " Rules of Practice".
FOR GE ATOMIC ENER0Y ColMISSION H. L Price Director Division of Licensing and Regulation Dated at Germantown, Maryland this 5th day of November,.1959.
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.....g UNCLASSIFIED ANNEX "A" DOCKET No. 50-146 SAXTON NUCLEAR EXPERIMENTAL CORPORATION PROPOSED CONSTRUCTION PERMIT
- 1. Pursuant to the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") and Title 10, CFR, Chapter 1, Part 50, " Licensing of Production and Utilization Facilities," the Atonito Energy Comission (hereinafter referred to as "the Commission") hereby issues a construction permit,,
to Saxton Nuolear Experimental Corporation to construct a utilitation facility in accordance with the application and amendments thereto. Thispermitshallbedeemedtoconta$$1 and be subject to the conditions specified in Sections 50,54 and 50 55 of said regulations; is subject to all applicablis provisions of the Act, and rules, regulations and ordere of',the
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D, The applicant may proceed to design and construct the facility described in the application and amendments thereto without further authoritation. However, this does not consti-tute final approval of any technical specification of the facility as distinguished from the generaldesign ocncept pro-posed. Before the license is issued to operate the facility, the Comionion must finally approve r11 technical specifica-tions. If the applicant desires final approval of any particular technical specification prior to the issuance of the license to operate, he may request that the Comission grant specific approval of rny technical specification by appropriate amendment to this permit.
- 2. This permit is provisional to the extent that a license authorizing operation of the facility will not be leeued by the Comission unless Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation has submitted to the Comission (by amendment' to the application) the complete, Final Hazards Summary Report (portions of which may be submitted and evaluated from time to time) and the Cocciosion has found that the final design provides reasonable
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UNOLASSIFIED and upon a finding that the facility authorized has been constructed in conformity with the application, as amended, and in conformity with the provisions of the Act and the rules and regulations of the Commission and in the absence of any good cause shown to the Commission why the granting of a license would not be in accordance with the Act, the Commission will issue a Class 104 license to Saxton Nuclear Experimental Corporation pursuant to Section 104(b) of the Act, which license shall expire six years from its date of issuance or five years from the date the reactor first achieves criticality, whichever is earlier.
POR 'nE ATOMIC DER 3Y COMKISSION Date of Issuance:
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