ML20210K497

Forwards Copy of Ltr from Concerned Constitutent AC Menninger from Franconia,Nh to Senator Smith Re Seabrook Nuclear Power Station Y2K Readiness

ML20210K497
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Site:	Seabrook
Issue date:	06/15/1999
From:	Beverly Smith SENATE
To:	Shirley Ann Jackson, The Chairman NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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. BOB SMITH COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES

, NEW HAMPSHIRE

• COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS Cpinion@ smith. senate. gov i COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY http://www. senate. gov /-smith /

( h(h @k( CHAIRMAN.

"' 3 WASHINGTON, DC 20510-2903 l

l l June 15, 1999 1

The Honorable Shirley Jackson Chairman ,

Nuclear Regulatory Commission l Washington, D.C. 20555

Dear Chairman Jackson:

Enclosed please find a copy of a letter I received from Ann Catherine Menninger, a concerned constituent from Franconia, New Hampshire. Ms. Menninger is concerned about Seabrook nuclear power station's Y2K readiness.

In her letter Ms. Menninger raises some important issues concerning Seabrook. I have forwarded her letter to you asking i for your review and respectfully ask you for an update on the issue.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely you e,

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Bob Smith, U.S.S.

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Dear Senator Smith:

I am wnting you at tids time about the Seabrook ik Nuclear Station and its status as a fbtfy compliant.Y2K fhellity in our k state. I would l e to see anindependent audit perfbrmed as soon as possible on Sehbroo . 1 From what I havelearned, the GAO could most appropriesely perform I such an audit.  !

These facts are known:

1.1,304The Y2K-related October 1998 N.ILc. audit of the Seabrook St problems. This included 13 that could 1

shut down the resotor, and 12 other safety issues.

2. The N.R.C. announced in 1998 that it would close down any ofits 103 nuclear power plaats which were not Y2K compliant by July 1,1999 (that compliance date may now have been moved till later in the summer - - but several months Will nevertheless be rehylred, before January 1,2000, to power down any one of those reacton safely). 1 l

3. Thiny five (35)% ofour electricity in New Hampshire comes from the nuclear energy generated at Seabrook.

I think the above fhets speak for themselves. This is a matter of compelling urgency, I --- we, all of us living here -~ will be most gr for any expeditious action you can take on it on our behalf Thank you.

Sincerely.

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Ann Catherine Mennlager l

4 P.S. I have teamed from correspondence with the preparedness in the state. This is fino and good, but we need highly ,

i particular scrutiny of Seabrook and the O AO512- can best do that. Thl l person there, to make such a request o( is: Joel Williamssen, (2 l 6253 l

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