ML20113G568
| ML20113G568 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Crane  |
| Issue date: | 03/19/1984 |
| From: | Jeanne Johnston SENATE |
| To: | Kammerer C NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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| ML20113F513 | List: |
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| FOIA-84-341 NUDOCS 8501240411 | |
| Download: ML20113G568 (5) | |
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Marc'h 19, 1984 Ms. Evelyn B. Graham Box 89 A Ventress, Louisiana 70783
Dear Es. Graham:
Thank you very much for letting me hear from you concerning restarting TMI-1.
I will certainly be pleased to look into this matter for you, and have taken the liberty of contacting the appro-priate officials here in Washington to request a report.
I will be back in touch with you just as soon as I have any additional information.
I appreciate your bringing this to my attention, and send every good wish.
With kindest regards, I am Sincerely, J.
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Dear Senator Johnson,
Your help is needed.'I and probably many other Louisiana citizens are stock holders in the General Public Utilities Corporation.
As you know the three mile island accident occurred in March,1979 This March vill mark five years of inoperation. For most of those years there has been no dividend declared which is understandable considering the cost of clean-up etc.
However there nov seems to be a probler with the Incleer Ergulatory Commission (NRC).
In GPU's third quarter report (copy attached) ve are advised the company is ready to restart but the NRC 'cas not decided whether it Wll pemit the restarting of the unit and has set a hearing date for Nove=ber which is nine months away.
Isn't there somevay the beaucratic process could be speedei up?
Wa citizens have suffered financial losses for five years.
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No one vants a plant that vill be harmful but this does not seem to be the problem in this situation s,Ence NRC Licensing Board and Appeal Board have rendered decisions favorable to restart.
Any help you can give us in this matter vill be gratly appreciated.
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To the Stockholders:
NRC Office of Investigation (01).
on October 7, the NRC issued a Notice to which was attached a schedule setting forth the Commission's estimate of the As you know, we regard restorationef ; ' -
time which would be required for the
. Three Mile Island Unit No.1TTMP1) to serv completion of the 01 investigations, and ice as an important milestone inthe GPU possibly f or further hearings, depending System recovery from the March 28;i1979.*
upon the results of the 01 investigations.
accident. The repairs to the TMI-1 steam ~ '
On that approach, the Notice stated that,
. generators have been completed andIMi-1 even assuming those investigations are is essentially physicallyreadytoioperated completed at the earliest practicable date At this wrtting, the Nuclear Regulatoryf. r and result in findings most favorable to Commission'(NRC) has not yet determined' the Company, an NRC decision on restart
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would not occur prior to mid 1984. It also
_,.cf TMI-1. However,.I will be appearing sta-stated that,if the 01 investigations publicmeeting beforethe.NRCCommis-demonstrated the need for further hear.
-slonersonNovember28thto: discuss ings, an NRC decision on restart might lhesematters withthem.
not be made until mid-1985 or later.
Extensive pubile hearings on the restart The Notice also stated that given those of TMi-1 have been held. There now exists time estimates, the NRC is prepared to are abundance.of information available to consider alternative approaches, and the NRC to make a decision. This includes that the NRC expects to address the sub-NRC Licensing Board and Appeal Board Ject of alternative approaches in the near decisions favorable to restart.
future.
The NRC staff earlier had advised the in the interim, I had requested Admiral NRC that the GPU stated policies and Hyman Rickover to review the GPU organizational structure are acceptable. it Nuclear operations, including the sound-had also advised the NRC that it found the ness of its organization and its senior competence of the GPUNuclearmanage-management. His report is to be delivered ment employees to be acceptable.
to me by November 23.
However, questions have been raised in light of the Commission's Notice,I
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about so-called " management integrity",
- requested a public meeting with the largely on items which we believe have Commissioners promptly after i receive no bearing on integrity. These issues the Admiral's report, to discuss the alter.
were referred for investigation to the native approaches to which the Notice O
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referred. The Commission responded to TMI accident to balance a multiplicity of that request and fixed November 28th for requirements against tremendous odds.
i that meeting, it will also permit the These requirements involved the protec.
parties to the restart proceeding to sub-tion of the public safety, the continued mit written comments on our proposal.
provision of electricity to our customers, The Harrisburg Patriot accurately cap.
and preservation of the shareholders' tured the essence of the Company's investment. While this path has been response to its continuing dilemma in a longer and less successful than we have recent editorial when it said:
wanted, progress has been made. This progress has been achieved despite con-
"No one could accuse us of being a tinuing delays in the regulatory process cheering squad for General Pubilc Util-and unfair, self-seeking political files over thelast 4h years since the opposition at almost every turn.
accident, but you haFe to give the In addition to a TMI-1 restart, we must i
company credit for enduring through and will continue to press for adequate one of the most devastating misfor-funding for the TMI 2 ciesnup program.
tunes In American corporate history.
As we have maintained since the acci.
i Few othercorporations have been dent, the cleanup at Unit 2 must be scrutinized and criticized with the accomplished-no matter what-to Intensity and vigor that has been assure the health and safety of the appiled to GPU and stillmanaged to workers and the public. The cleanup is maintain some semblance of order and simply not an obligation that can be I
forward movement. This is not the ignored.
j same company that was running things Nor is our obligation to you-our on the morning of March 28,797A" shareholders-being ignored. I want to assure you that your management, your Earlier this month, a federal grand jury Board nf Directors and the employees l
returned an eleven-count indictment are all working hard to meet head-on, the against Metropolitan Edison Company unprecedented challenges we face.
arising out of its operation of Unit 2 at One of the real sources of strength TMI. The matters in the indictment have these past four and one-half years has been the subject of grand jury investiga-been the understanding and strong tions since 1980. Given the limitations support by the Company's owners-the j
imposed on us by the restrictions of the stockholders. That support is itself a grand jury procedure, we have been un.
challenge to us to do the best job able to fully investigste the matter thus humanly possible and I pledge that to s
far. Based on the fact now known to the Y""*
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Intends to plead not guilty to the Indict-(
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of further developments relating to this Willam G. Kuhns matter and our subsequent course of Chairman and Chief 1
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and day for almost five years since the Jovember15,1983 1
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