ML20127P331
| ML20127P331 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Monticello  |
| Issue date: | 08/21/1971 |
| From: | Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC) |
| To: | Class R AMERICAN LEGION |
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| NUDOCS 9212020192 | |
| Download: ML20127P331 (4) | |
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AUG 21 1971 Mr. Robert F. Class, Connandar
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Dear Mr. Class:
I au pleased to reply to your letter to Chairman Seaborg dated June 25, 1970, in which you enclosed a resolution concerning the preservation of the Minnaapolis-St. Paul area air and water resources.
Each application to construct and to operate.a nuclear power plant is subjected to the extensive licensing process described in the enclosed booklet, " Licensing of Power Reactors." This includes a thorough review by the AFC's regulatory staf f and by the independent Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS). Af ter reviewing the application of the Northern States Power Company for the Monticello plant, the:
regulatory staff and the ACRS have concluded that there is reasonable assurance that the plant can be operated without undue risk to the -
health and safety of the public.
I an enclosing a copy of the regulatory staff's public safety evalua-tion of the Monticello Nuclear Generating Plant, prepared prior to the public hearing on the facility's operating license application, which contains a number of consultant reports including the report of the ACRS. The evaluation addresses all of the points that were raised in the resolution you sent except that relating to tha authority of the State of Minnesota, through the Minnesota Follutiot Control Agency, to set radioactive discharge limits more restrictive than the standards set by the.AEC. This matter is presently the subject of litigation between the Northern States Poser Company and the State. ; You will /'
note that section 3.7 of the report (pages 32-42) describes our evalu-
- ation of the liquid and gaseous radioactive waste system and our con-clusions, - and sections!4 and 5 (pages 43-50) analyse the radiological consequences from a design basis accident and discuss emergency plan-alas. As the report indicates, the protection of the St. Paul and Minneapolis water systees even in the unlikely event of an accident at.the plant, was considered in our safety evaluation.
Publia hearings before an Atomie-gafety and Licensing Board-to consider Northern States' application for an.eperating license for the Monticello -
plant were held in April, May, June and August 1970. Af ter the public hearings are concluded, the Board will issue an initial decision based G q.11 R. r.... i.4.c d.. l.- gi. 7;.e A;;C 111...esi.. e.s.
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of the fasility only syse a favorable destaise in this proceeding and in asserdamse with any limitations found asseseary or appropriate. If the plast is 11eensed to operate, it will be subject to Aac inspeetles and ourveillnese threegheet its itfetime.-
j with respect to the radioactive effluents released by nuclear power plants, I en analosing a print of part 1 of the hearings en the envireemsstal affects of predestag alastrie power held by the Joint Committee sa Atente l
Energy in late 1969 and early' 1970. I would eall your attention especially i
to testimony by Commissioner Sees J. nompeen (pages 175-194). Commissioner Clarence E. Larsen (pages 238-176), and Dr. Paul Tompkins, Executive Director of the yederal Radiaties Council (pages 391-415),
his testimony discusses in detail sources of radioactive affluents from a nuclear power plant and i
how these effluents are processed, the bases for radiation protection standards, how these standards are applied as limits on normal releases i
of small quantitles of radioactive material, the results of environmental l
monitoring programs around nuclear power plants, and environmental research programs on the effects of radiatica that are carried out by the AEC.
i In essmary, operating experience has shown that actual releases of radio-l activity from these plants have generally been small percentages of limita j
imposed under AEC regulations. Based on our present knowledge and operating experience, we do not believe that the low levela of radioactivity released j
from auclear power remeters will have a perceptible adverse effect on the i
environment er on public health and asfety.
Yer your information, I also an enclosing copies of speeches made by commissiesers Larsen, Ramey, and Thompson during the past year concerning i
the licensias and regulaties of nuclear power plaats. Rose remarks dis-essa the ABC's eeneers for public health and safety la its regulatory
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