ML20127J720
| ML20127J720 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 09/09/1970 |
| From: | Harris J US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Johnson, Ramey, Seaborg US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 9211190406 | |
| Download: ML20127J720 (2) | |
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Commissioner Larson ANNOUNCEMENT OF ISSUANCE OF LOW POWER LICENSE FOR j
MONTICELLO PLANT Enclosed for your information is a public announcement of l
issuance of a limited license to Northern States Power i
Company for fuel loading and startup testing of the Monti-cello Nuclear Generating Plant in Minnesota.
The announce-ment has the approval of the Deputy Director of Regulation.
We plan to distribute it today (September 9).
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1 AEC ISSUES LOW Poh'ER LICENSE FOR MONTICELLO NUCLEAR PLANT IN MINNESOTA A license for limited operation of the Montic'eilo iiu-clear Generating Station in Minnesota has been issued to Northern States Power Company by the AEC's Division of Re-actor Licensing.
Issuance of the license was authorized by a decision of an Atomic Safety and Licensing Board on August 24 license permits only fuel loading and start-up testing of The the facility at power levels up to a maximum of five mega-watts thermal and without the reactor vessel head in place.
A public hearing conducted by the licensing board to consider the company's application for a full power licenso was held April 28-May 1; June 15-18; and August 5-7 in St.
Paul, Minnesota.
authorization for the low power license, and the board author-D ized its issuance after consideration of the evidence.
The proceeding on the full power license is continuing.
The Monticello plant, which was built under an AEC con-struction permit issued in June 1967, is located on a 1325-three miles northwest of Monticello. acre site on the west bank of the water reactor and will have a not electrical capacity of.The plant uses a
.approximately 545,000- kilowatts.
General Electric Company designed and built the reactor and turbogenerator portions of the plant.
by the AEC Regulatory Staff to assure that all construction
. necessary for fuel loading and low power testing has been satisfactorily completed.
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