ML20214S190
| ML20214S190 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Issue date: | 11/28/1986 |
| From: | Grimsley D NRC OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION (ADM) |
| To: | Taylor J DALLAS TIMES HERALD, DALLAS, TX |
| References | |
| FOIA-86-346 NUDOCS 8612080211 | |
| Download: ML20214S190 (2) | |
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NOV 2 81986 Mr. Jack H. Taylor, Jr.
Special Projects / News Department Dallas Times Herald 1101 Pacific Avenue IN RESPONSE REFER Dallas, TX 75202 TO F01A-86-346
Dear Mr. Taylor:
This is in further response to your letter dated May 6,1986, in which you requested, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act (F0IA), six categories of records concerning USA and USSR nuclear power reactors.
An additional reccrd subject to this request was also subject to your earlier request number F01A-86-336, and this record was referred to the Department of Energy (D0E) for a disclosure determination and direct response to you under F01A-86-336.
The additional record described on the enclosed Appendix A(continued) as item 26 is already available for public inspection and copying at the NRC Public Document Room (PDR) at 1717 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20555.
In our partial response letter dated September 15, 1986, we informed you that
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certain documents on the N-Production Reactor at Hanford were superseded by a report that is available for inspection and copying in the PDR. Also, the f'
staff identified seven additional documents dated from 1963 to 1968 regarding the N-Production Reactor at Hanford.
In light of the public availability of the report, we believe you may not be interested in documents that were superseded e
by that report or the seven additional documents. Therefore, if we do not receive written notification from you by December 12, 1986, we will assume I
that you have no further interest in this matter and will close our file on your request.
You may, of course, submit another F0IA request at any time in the future for any specific records in which you may be interested.
l If you have any questions regarding this matter, you may telephone Mr. Frank Karas at (301) 492-4610.
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Donnie H. Grimsley, Director Division of Rules and Records Office of Administration
Enclosure:
As stated 8612080211 861128 PDR FOIA TAYLOR 86-346 PDR
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5/9/86 Letter to Berkow from Brey,
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20555 re FREEDOM of IN FO RM ATION ACT REQUEST Dear Mr. Fraleys Your attention is invited to the Freedom of Information Act (5 USC 5521, as amended, and to implementing Nuclear Regulatory Commission instructions and regulations.
Under provisions of the above cited authority and in connection with your responsibilities to review and report on nuclear reactor safety matters, it is requested that we be provided with copies of the foll-owing documentst 1.
Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations, recommendations or similar written documents prepared by your office or in the poss-ession of your office, or any office under your jurisdiction, pertain-ing to any safety issue, actual or hypothetical, at any of the nine nuclear reactors at Aiken, S.C.,
Oak Ridge, Tenn., Platteville, Colo.,
Idaho Falls, Idaho, and Hanford, Wash., which include similar design l
characteristics to the Chernobyl nuclear power reactors in northwest-l ern Ukrainian S.S.R.
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Any summary listing of accidents which have occurred at the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above.
This is not a request for documents pertaining to each accident, but simply any single doc-ument, or computer printout, which lists all accidents in summary form which may be in your possession.
3.
Any assessment of potential contamination, up to and including worst-case scenario, of radiation leakage from one or more of the nine nuclear reactors listed in No. 1 above which may have been. prepared by or is in the possession of your office.
4.
Any assessment prepared by or in the possession of your office of the potential contamination or hazardous e f f e c t s,' whether biologi-cal or ecological, national or international in scope, of the Chernobyl accident.
This includes tentative or preliminary evaluations and ass-essments.
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Any studies, reports; assessments, evaluations or similar written documents in the possession of your office or any office under your jurisdiction, regardless of source, foreign or domestic, pertaining to nuclear reactor capabilities and potential safety haz-ards of the Soviet Union's nuclear industry in general.
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Any studies, reports, assessments, evaluations or similar written documents in the possession of your office or any office under your jurisdiction, regardless of source, foreign or domestic, pertaining to nuclear reactor capabilities and potential safety haz-ards of Soviet nuclear reactors marketed, constructed or planned in other countries, including but not limited to the Jaragua I and II reactors at Cienfuegos, Cuba.
If any of the requested documents are classified in the interest of national security or foreign policy, it is requested that they be considered for release through a declassification review but that such process not delay release of other unclassified documents em-bcdied in this request.
Because of the public interest in the subject, it is requested that this request be given expedited handling.
We are willing to provide reimbursement for reproduction costs or other reasonable fees, but request a waiver of all fees, under NRC guidelines, since the documents are requested in connection with re-search for articles for the Dallas Times Herald, a general circula-tion daily newspaper, and their release will primarily benefit the general public.
If a fee waiver is not granted and fees exceed $25, please first advise the undersigned at 214/760v9152 (office) or 214/
991-5045 Cre sidence ).
If any documents, or portions of documents, are withheld, it is further requested that an itemized index be prepared correlating each withheld document, or portion of a document, with a specific FOIA exemption and the relevant part of NRC's nondisclosure justification, as requir-ed by Vaughn v Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S.
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Sincerely,
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