ML20132C081
| ML20132C081 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png |
| Issue date: | 10/18/1976 |
| From: | BECHTEL GROUP, INC. |
| To: | CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.) |
| References | |
| CON-3159 0740G30146, 740G30146, E-146, NUDOCS 8105070284 | |
| Download: ML20132C081 (1) | |
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Dear Kristin:
This is a response to your recent letter requesting infonnation on nuclear waste and the Oyster Creek nuclear power plant.
Low-level wastes from nuclear power plants are placed in metal con-tainers before shipment to comercial burial grounds. We are en-closing a fact sheet on waste disposal that identifies the burial locations.
The high-level wastes that result from the burning of uranium fuel e
in nuclear power reactors are contained in the used fuel which is being stored in specially designed water-filled basins, much like large swi m ing pools, at the reactor sites or at two away-from-reactor storage facilities.
The Department of Energy, Washington, D.C. 20585 is responsible for developing facilities for the ultimate disposal or longer-tem interim storage of high-level wastes. The NRC will have to determine if these facilities can be built and operated safely and with minimal
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impact on the environment.
If you have not already done so, we suggest you write to DOE for information about its program.
In the meantime, we are enclosing a portion of an annual report on the government's waste management program.
Information on operating experience of the Oyster Creek reactor is available for public examination and review at the local public document room established for that facility. The PDR is located at the Ocean County Library, Brick Township Branch, 401 Chambers Bridge Road. The operating experience also is contained in a monthly
" Status Report on Licensing Operating Reactors, NUREG-0020 " which is available for purchase from the National Technical Infonnation Service Springfield, Virginia 22161 or under the GPO sales program at the NRC's Public Document Room, Washington, D.C. 20555.
We are encloting a portion of an environmental impact statement on the Oyster Crook station which addresses the impact of the facility on fish life.
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. We also are enclosing a copy of a regulation which contains the general criteria for sechrity personnel et nuclear facilities.
Details of a licensee's security plan, of cour:e, are not made public.
Currently, there is no accepted quantitive measurenent of the safely of nuclear reactors. So far, the safety record $has been excellent.
In more than 20 years of operation there has been no accider.t in which any member of the public has been killed or observably injured from radiation. This is still true even after Three Mile Island.
Wo hope this information is helpful.
Sincerely,
/N John Kopeck Public Affairs Officer Office of Public Affairs
Enclosures:
As stated
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