ML20084B840

Expresses Concern W/Aec 690801 Authorization to Increase Plant to Full Power when,3 Wks Previously,Aec Decided to Further Inspect Reactor Piping & Relief Valves Before Full Power Could Begin.Requests Info Surrounding Final Decision

ML20084B840
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek, 05000000
Issue date:	08/15/1969
From:	Williams H SENATE
To:	Seaborg G US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
Shared Package
ML19289B309	List: ML20084B823 ML20084B840 ML20084B853
References
690813, NUDOCS 8304070131
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The llonorable Glenn T. Seaborg i Chairman I Atomic Energy Commission l

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Dear.Mr. Chairman:

i The August ist authorization by the Atomic Energy f Coa. mission to increase the Oyster Creek Atomic Power Plant. .:

to full power and the related potential dangers created j hy its operation arc distressing to me, j 1

On July 16, af ter three months of trial operation of '

the plant, the Hal1 street, Tournal and reliable trade journals reported that a decision was made .by the Atomic -

Energy Comaission to further inspect the reactor's piping and relief valves before full power operation could begin.

I an at a loss as to how in just three short ueeks such a dangerous and complex facility as an atomic power

• plant can change its status from a possibic source of danger

• Lo a safe full pouer operation.

1 have learned through consultation uith your Agency and articles in various trade journals that during the plant's construction it uns discovered that of the 137 fuel lines, 123 vere found to contain crachs. And, at every point uhere the tubes and control-rod housings were joined around the reactor's vessel, defects existed in the uciding.

We both know that the plant has had a history of serious defects and I am sure that you are fully auare of the dangers and problems created by the plant's operation.

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I uould appreciate an inacadiate full report of thic l recent decinion and the related facts surrounding the Oyster Creek operation. Further, I would like to know

wha t steps your al;ency has taken to assure the safety, health, and security of the regica's envia

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