ML20127J585

Forwards Public Announcement of Receipt of Repts from ACRS Re Plants

ML20127J585
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Site:	Monticello, Haddam Neck  File:Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Co icon.png
Issue date:	04/17/1967
From:	Harris J US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Johnson, Nabrit, Seaborg US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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SUBJECf: AIUiOUNCEFEl.T OF RECEIPI OF TWO ACRS REPORTS Attached for your information is a public announcement of the receipt of reports from the- Advisory Co:::mittee on Reactor Safecuards concerning the Connecticut Yankee nuclear power plant at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and the proposed Northern .

States Power Co::1pany facility at bbnticello, Minnesota. The announcement has the approval of the Director of Re6ulation.

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REPORTS TO AEC ON TWO PROJECTS The Atomic Energy Commission has received reports from its Advisory Co==ittee on Reactor Safeguards concerning two nuclear power projects.

They are the Connecticut Yankee nuclear plant nearing completion at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and the proposed Northern States Power Company facility at Monticello, Minnesota.

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, -s-utilities, is building a h62,000 net electrical kilowatt nuclear plant at Haddam Neck, about 21 miles southeast of Hartford. The facility has a pressurized water reactor. Connecticut Yankee has applied to the AEC for a license to be5 1n operation of the plant.

Northern States Power Company of Minneapolis has applied to the Commission for a permit to construct a boiling water reactor at the company's I.

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net electrical output of about 471,700 kilowatts.

The A50 Regulatory Staff is continuing its review of those two applica-tiona. The reports of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safe 6uards are

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i i k No. X-89 -FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tel. 973-3335 or (Wednesday, April 19, 1967) '

973-3LL6 ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON REACT 0F SAFEGUARDS REPORTS TO AEC ON TWO PROJECTS The Atomic Energy Commission has received reports from its Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards concerning two nuclear power projects. They are the Connecticut Yankee

.uclear plant nearing completion at Haddam Neck, Connecticut, and.the proposed Northern States Power Company facility.at Monticello, Minnesota.

Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power Company, composed of 12 New England utilities, is building a 462,000 net elec- ,

trical kilowatt nuclear plant at Haddam Neck, about 21 mi'les southeast of Hartford. The facility has a pressurized. water reactor. Connecticut Yankee has applied to the AEC for a license to begin operation of the plant.

Northern States Power Company of Minneapolis has applied to the Commission for a permit to construct a boiling water reactor at the company's site about three miles northwest of Monticello. The facility would have a net electrical output of about 471,700 kilowatts.

The AEC Regulatory Staff is continuing its review of these two applications. The reports of the Advisory Com-mittee on Reactor Safeguards are attached.

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