ML20126L700

Responds to FOIA Request for Documents Describing Peaceful Use of Nuclear Energy,Description of Eisenhower Atoms for Peace Program & Recent Rept on Health Effects of Reactor Accident at Tmi.Documents Available in Library or PDR

ML20126L700
Person / Time
Site:	Three Mile Island
Issue date:	03/27/1985
From:	Felton J NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM)
To:	Best J AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
References
FOIA-85-145 NUDOCS 8506200117
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Dear Mr. Best:

This is in response to your undated letter. received by this office on March f 6, 1985, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act

(FOIA), copies of: .

l' 1. The earliest dated document in our possession suggesting or i describing peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

2. A description of President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace Program.

l 3. The most recent available report on the health effects of the reactor accident at Three Mile Island.

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4. The most recent available report describing the development l

l of fusion power for peaceful purposes, i

i The FOIA (5 U.S.C. 552) applies only to requests for, or access to, agency records. Since your request, in part, is for documents of a general nature i rather than access to NRC records, we cannot fully comply with your request.

i However, the information set forth below is provided to assist you in locating documents of possible interest to you from sources other than the NRC.

l With regard to category one of your request, this is to inform you that w i cannot identify the earliest dated document in the agency's possessio.

suggesting or describing peaceful uses of nuclear energy because the agency

! dces not maintain files on that subject and does not maintain all agency l records in chronological order by date. However, if you are looking for the earliest documents in existence on the subject, the staff believes that i President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace speech before the United Nations i General Assembly in New York in 1953 was among the earliest public statements

[ on this subject. In this regard, please note our comments regarding category two of your request.

t i The description requested in category two of your request can be found in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's speech given before the United Nations in i 1953. See the document titled, "Public Papers of the Presidents of the United-States - Dwight D. Eisenhower - 1953", which can be obtained at any local, j large public library or university library.

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.- . w With regard to category three of your request, NRC Report No. NUREG-0558,

" Population Dose and Health Impact of the Accident at the Three Mile Island Nuclear Station", May 1979, Accession No. 7905300300, is available for public inspection and copying at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR), 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20555. There is no charge for inspecting records maintained at the POR. We are enclosing a copy of a notice that provides charges and procedures for obtaining copies of records from the PDR.

In response to category four of your request, this is to inform you that the NRC does not have responsibility concerning fusion power for peaceful purposes. The Department of Enercy is responsible for the development of fusion power for peaceful purposes. Any request for this information should be directed to the following address.

Ms. Carole Gorry Acting Chief, FOIA and PA Branch United States Department of Energy 1000 Independence Avenue, SW, Room 1G051 Washington, DC 20585 SJncerely,

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J. M. Felton, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration

Enclosure:

As stated

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