ML20154B659
| ML20154B659 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Browns Ferry  |
| Issue date: | 01/20/1986 |
| From: | Duncan J HOUSE OF REP. |
| To: | NRC |
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WAYS AN3 MEANS JOHN J. D,UNCAN COMMITTEE 2#msrect. TE==EsstE
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Washington, D.C.
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Dear Sir:
Please find enclosed a self-explanatory letter I have received from Mr. Carl Swafford.
Your consideration of the views and comments outlined in this communi-cation will be deeply appreciated.
I look forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.
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Dear John:
Inclosed pleast find copy of newspaper ANicle from the cettanooga News Free Press dated December 24, 1985.
Don't yta think from thip newspqper anda.le that 'r,b;' M3C has been
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dilatofy in advisin6 the TVA vhat needs to be done on the TVA-plant prob-lems?
i The GC should tell the TVA whe.c to do and then see that it is done, otherr!.se, thc. NRC should na' be in char 6e, ef naclear plaats.
If the NRC to colog to be the bces, tht.n TVA ausnt to comply accord-i
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Pl@:e see vbit you can do to get this patter straightened.)ut b4-cause it, is conting taxpayers r"Hons of 6ousar, l
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CHATTANOOGA NEWS-FREE l%E8SMT4eaday, December 24.1985 I
Zech Sees No Hope Of January Restart t
NRCDefended On TVA Plant Troubles By MIKE PARE North Ham!! ion County plant which can be made," say the former UA News Free Press Staff Writer has been shot down since August, and Navy aam!ral.
It was not a f ailure by the Neelear. is takes time to do them.
He not"I there has been some crit-
, Msm d me E and me erm Regtilatery Commt= sten that hd to
% Wee concerns in some cases
- DfY right to see we do cur TVA4 troubled nuclear power 1ro-are very reSI and need to be sd-gram, a member ef the cvarsaght
- w. mid Mr* M Job properly.,
UA R*p. John Dingell, who chairs agency said Monday, add!ng he secs marap M the investigatkes subcommittee of to January restart of the istiltty's off-to work together in a more coord-the House En+rgy and Commerce 4
line phnts.
noted w=).
/ Oemmittee, denounced the NRC for
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"We niake De rules that net be "The seMy resistehTVA iw *astual # mace"in oversee-comphed with, but it is the titility's The !WIC has a part to play, het the-Ang TVA's neclear operatioen responsibility to marage the plar.t.
't ultausste sospenstely is TVA't," he Chaim M diadn'o,a NRC In a 27-page reply ' -
said the NRC's Lando Zeck after a 'saMJ
said he tour of the idled Sequoyah Nedtar
!fe said he believes TVA reallnes helieves NRC has acted responsibly.
Pla: t-that and "I taist they are taking ac-Mr. Each said the public can ex-Cornmissioner Zech sold TVA has tions to bring the plants enline M poet a careful NRC review of the
- 'a long way to go" before satisfying it is safe to de so" TVA *.dtentlest the NRC it is ready te safely operate A few years ago, he said TVA "We uneheestes est unaut heessa?
the nuclear-energy producha plants.
plants were operating
- fine? bet k M WhattInto 6 so-TVA asked the NRC last menth for was in the past year that perform-W D sneungs te ptset" he permission to reactivate one O! the ance hee declised.,
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Sequoyah planis nuclear reacior He sam be sees no regulatory fait-Mr. fech sold he has visited about 1
natts by late January, het Mr. Zmh are on NRC's pert. _
50 plants in the past year and a half.
said he does not beheve it can be on-Asking if NRC cocM have seen the He said he was impressed with the line then.
difficulties sooner, he said it is OK operators of tb-Sequoyah plant, add-
- Miracles can happes,* said Mr.
for the agency to determine if ft ing be thoeght they were knowledge-Zech but I d6n't believe it can be-could have made better aswsunents able of the plant's operations.
done."
of TVA's nuclear program.
TVA voientarily shut down its 4
He said there are too many items
- It is important to reallae that ev-Browns Ferry plant in March and that much be taken este of at the cryone looks where lamprovements thee Segeoyah la mid-August.
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET PAPER NUMBER:
CRC-86-0068 LOGGING DATE: Jan 24 86 ACTION OFFICE:
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J.J.
Duncan AFFILIATION:
U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES LETTER DATE:
Jan 20 86 FILE CODE: ID&R-5 TVA sequoyah
SUBJECT:
Comm's handling of problems at the TVA ACTION:
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