ML20245K440

Forwards,For info,890605 Ltr Ack Receipt of Petition Filed by Ecology Ctr of Southern CA & States That Petition Is Being Treated Under 10CFR2.206

ML20245K440
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Site:	Browns Ferry
Issue date:	06/23/1989
From:	Black S Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Kingsley O TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
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2.206, NUDOCS 8907050124
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Dear .Mr;. Kingsley:

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ECOLOGY CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA' 10 CFR 2.206-PETITION Encksed for your~information is a' copy of a-letter dated June 5,1989,': from 3 1

__the-birector, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, to the Representative of the ' Ecology Center of. Southern California. - The letter (1) acknowledges receipt-of a Petition filed by the. Ecology Center of California, and .

(2) states .that the. Petition _is being treated under 10 CFR.2.206 of the Commission's regulations.

Please contact me if you have any questions on this is' sue.

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- Suzanne C. Black, Assistant Director for_ Projects TVA' Projects Division Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Dear Mr. Kingsley:

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ECOLOGY CENTER 0F SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA - 10 CFR 2.206 Ersclosed for your information is a copy of a letter dated June 5,1989, from the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, to the Representative of' the Ecology Center of Southern California. The letter (1) acknowledges receipt of a Petition filed by the Ecology Center of California..and (2) states that the Petition is being treated under 10 CFR 2.206 of the j Commission's regulations.

Please contact me if you have any questions on this issue.

Sincerely, Suzanne C. Black, Assistant Director for Projects TVA Projects Division Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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General Counsel Chairman, Limestone County Commission  !

Tennessee Valley Authority P. O. Box 188 1 400 West Summit Hill Drive Athens, Alabama 35611 4 ET 11B 33H ,

Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 Claude Earl Fox, M.D.  !

State Health Officer I Mr. F. L. Moreadith State Department of Public Health ,

Vice President, Nuclear Engineering State Office Building Tennessee Valley Authority Montgomery, Alabama 36130 400 West Summit Hill Drive i WT 12A 12A Regional Administrator, Region II l Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission  !

101 Marietta Street, N.W.  !

Dr, Mark.0. Medford Atlanta, Georgia 30323 l Vice President and Nuclear Technicel Director Mr. Danny Carpenter Tennessee Valley Authority Senior Resident Inspector 6N 38A Lookout Place Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801 U.S.. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Route 12, Box 637 Manager, Nuclear Licensing Athens, Alabama 35611 and Regulatory Affairs Tennessee Valley Authority Dr. Henry Myers, Science Advisor ,

SN 157B Lookout Place Committee on Interior Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402-2801 and Insular Affairs .

U.S. House of Representatives Mr. O. J. Zeringue Washington, D.C. 20515 Site Director Browns rerry Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority Tennessee Valley Authority -

Rockville Office P. O. Box 2000 11921 Rockville Pike Decatur, Alabama 35602 Suite 402 Rockville, Maryland 20852 Mr. P. Carier Site Licensing Manager l Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant i Tennessee Valley Authority

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Decatur, Alabama 35602 l Mr. G. Campbell  ;

Plant Manager l-l Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant Tennessee Valley Authority P. O. Box 2000 Decatur, Alabama 35602 i

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Ms. Anna Harlowe 1

. Issues Coordinator Ecology ~ Center of Southern California l l

P. O. Box 35473 Los Angeles, California 90035 L

Dear Ns. Harlowe:

This letter acknowledges the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Consission's (NRC's) receipt of your Petition on behalf of the Ecology Center of Southern California dated March 8, 1989. Your Petition requests the i NRC to fix or close all nuclear power reactors designed by the General Electric Company (GE). As bases for this request, you allege that '

(1) in 1972, a member of the NRC staff recommended that GE-designed reactors be banned in the United Stater; (2) in 1975, GE engineers generated the " Reed Report" that detailed dozens of safety and economic

, problems with GE-designed reactors and that recommended that GE stop selling those reactors; (3) in 1986, an NRC official admitted that 24 GE reactors with Mark I containments had a 90 percent chance of failure j in a nuclear accident; (4) in 1987, an NRC task force confirmed that  !

Mark I containments were virtually certain to fail in an accident;  !

(5) according to NRC safety studies Mar scenarios for early containment failures;k IIand reactors have (6) Mark many possible II designs, on ,

which the Reed Report focused,'have dozen,s of safety and economic problems and have suffered massive cost overruns during construction as a result of design problems.

The NRC will review the Petition in accordance with 10 CFR 2.206, and I will issue a formal decision with regard to it within a reasonable time. A copy of the notice that is being filed with the Office of the Federal Register for publication is enclosed for your information.

Sincerely, l

omas E. Murley, Director ffica of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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RECEIPT.0F. PETITION FOR. DIRECTOR!S DECISION.UNDER 10.CFR.2.206 Notice is hereby given that by Petition dated March 8, 1989, Ms. Anna Harlowe, on behalf of the Ecology Center of Southern California (Ecology Center), has. requested the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC or -

C6 mission). to ' initiate enforcement action involving all boiling water reactors now operating or under construction. The Ecology Center 4

requested that the NRC fix or close all nuclear power reactors designed by the General Electric Company (GE). As bases for.this request, theEcologyCenterallegedthat(1)in1972,amemberoftheNRCstaff recomended that GE-designed riectors be, banned in the United States; (2) in 1975, GE engineers generated the " Reed Report" thac detailed dozens of safety and economic problems with GE-designed reactors and that recomended that GE stop selling those reactors; (3) in 1986, an NRC official admitted that 24 GE reactors with Mark I containments had a 90 percent chance of failure in a nuclear accident; (4) in 1987, an NRC task force confinned that Mark I containments were virtually certain to fail in an accident; (5) according to NRC safety studies, Mark II reactors have many possible scenarios for early containment failures; and, (6) Mark 11 designs', on which the Reed Report focused, have dozens of safety and economic problems and have suffered massive cost overruns during construction as a result of design problems.

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The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Comission's regulations. The NRC will take appropriate action on the Petition within a reasonable tisie.

A copy of the Petition is available for inspection in the Comnission's t

Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20555.  ;

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s H. Sniezek, Acting Director 0 fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville, Maryland, i this 5th day of June 1989.

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