ML20126K176
| ML20126K176 | |
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| Site: | Crane, Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 03/17/1981 |
| From: | Eagleton T SENATE |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS (OCA) |
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Dear Senator Eagleton:
Thank you for your March 17, 1981 letter en behalf cf Professor Xenneth A.
Soxman, who is concerned about NRC licensing delays, particularly those related to the Diablo Canyon units in California and Three Mile Island Unit 1.
Following the accident at Three Mile Island, the Commission did not issue any further operating licenses for over a year while a thorough review was made of implications of the accident.
In the spring of 1980, the Ccmission approved new requirements for cperating licenses based on the lessons learned from Three Mile Island.
Since that time several new Operating licenses have been issued, the most recent being for Farley Unit 2 in Alabama on March 31, 1951.
The diversion of resources and the rethinking of safety requirements following the TMI accident adversely affected licensing activity at the Commission.
As a result, we estima e that in 1951 and 1952 ap:reximately a de:en nuclear plans will be completed fr:m 1 :: 12 mon hs before a full :cwer license decision can be made. The Commission is concerned about this situation anc is taking a number of steps to correc: it. These steps are outlined in the attached testimony given by Chairman Hendrie on A:ril 2 before the House Apprcpria: Tons Subc:mittee On Energy and Water Cevelopmen.
With respect to the Ciablo Canyon units, an upda ed Su:plemental Safe y Evaluation Report for icepower Oceration was issued by the NRC staff en March 5, 1981. Hearings will c:mence in May with a licensing decision l
on icw-pcwer operatien ex:ected in February 1952 and en full-power license j
in March 1952, These pr:jected decisi:n dates wculd mean a thirteen mcnth I
delay using the a: licant's c:nstruction ::mple:icn date and an eleven men-h l
delay using the NRC staff's.
Three Mile Island Unit 1 was down for refueling at the time of the accident at TMI-2 in late March 1979.
On July 2,1979, -he Commission ordered that the facility remain in cold shutdown until further Order of the Comission, stating that "the Comission presently lacks the requisite reasonable assurance that the... Licensee's Three Mile Island Unit No.1 Facility...can be 0;erated without endangering the health and safety of -he public." Further, :ne Comission stated that public hearings wculd be concucted to determine whether TMI-1 should be allowed to resume operation and if so, under wnat conditions.
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for the hearing and decision on' the issues. The hearings began before a NRC Atomic.S2fety and Licensing Board in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania en October 15, 1980. The current estimate is that a Board decision will not be made before late 1981.
I am enclosing for your-further information the most recent Commission order regarding the restart proceeding.
Professor Soxman is correct that there have been no known fatalities to date due to radiation emissions from commercially operated nuclear power plants.
The Presidential Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island concluded that the radiation doses to the surrounding population were so low that "the overall health effects will be minimal." Their report stated that "the accident may result in no additional cancer deaths or, if there were any, they would be so few that they could not be detected." An NRC/ HEW /E?A task force found the probabilities of a cancer death resulcing from the TMI releases to be less than one for.the approximately 2 million people within 50 miles of the plant.
I hope that this information is helpful in responding to your constituent.
Sincerely, j;b q Carlter
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