ML20246B596

Forwards,For Info,Nrr Ack Receipt of Petition Filed by Ecology Ctr of Southern CA & Stating That Petition Being Treated Under 10CFR2.206 of Commission Regulations

ML20246B596
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	06/22/1989
From:	Mcdonald D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Bird R BOSTON EDISON CO.
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2.206, NUDOCS 8907100023
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Docket No. 50 293 Mr. Ralph G. Bird Senior Vice President - Nuclear Boston Edison Company Pilgrim Huclear Power Station RFD #1, Rocky Hill Road Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360

Dear Mr. Bird:

Enclosed for your information is a copy of a. letter dated June 5,1989, from

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the Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, to the Representative of the Ecology Center of Southern California. The letter (I) acknowledges receipt of a Petition filed by the Ecology Center of Southern 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 questions on this issue.  !

Sincerely, Original signed b1:

Daniel G. Mcdonald, 'Jr.

Senior Project Manager Project Directorate I-3 Division of Reactor Projects I/II

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Station Director Senior Vice President - Nuclear Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Boston Edison Company RFD #1 Rocky Hill Road Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360 RFD#1, Rocky Hill Road Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360 Resident Inspector's Office Mr. Richard N. Swanson, Manager U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission Nuclear Engineering Department Post Office Box 867 Boston Edison' Company Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360 25 Braintree Hill Park Braintree, Massachusetts 02184 Chairman, Board of Selectmen 11 Lincoln Street Ms. Elaine D. Robinson i Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360 Nuclear Information Manager i Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Office of the Commissioner RFD #1, Rocky Hill Road Massachusetts Department of Plymouth, Massachusetts 02360 {

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One Winter Street Charles V. Barry Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Secretary of Public Safety Executive Office of Public Safety Office of the Attorney General One Ashburton Place One Ashburton Place Boston, Massachusetts 02108 20th Flocr Boston, Massachusetts 02108 Mr. Robert M. Hallisey, Director Radiation Control Program Massachusetts Department of Public Health 150 Tremont Street, 2nd Floor Boston, Massachusetts 02111 Regional. Administrator, Region I U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission 475 Allendale Road King of Prussia, Pennsylvania 19406 Mr. James D. Keyes Regulatory Affairs and Programs Group Leader Boston Edison Company 25 Braintree Hill Park Braintree, Massachusetts 02184 I

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Dear $s.Harlowe:

This letter acknowledges the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) receipt of your Petition on behalf of the Ecology Center of Southern California dated March 8,1989. Your Petition requests the 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 reconmendef that GE-designed reactors be banned in the United States; (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 l GE reactors with Mark I containments had a 90 percent chance of failure 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, Mark II reactors have many possible scenarios for early containment failures; and (6) Mark II designs, on which the Reed Report focused, tave 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 i Federal Register for publication is enclosed for your information.

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L omas E. Murley, Director ffice 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 Comission) to initiate enforcement action involving all boiling water reactors now operating or under construction. The Ecology Center

' requested that the NRC fix or close all nuclear power reactors designed by the General Electric Company (GE). As bases for,this request, the Ecology Center alleged that (1) in 1972, a member of the NRC staff recomended that GE-designed reactors be, banned in the United Statas; (2) in 1975 GE engineers generated the "Rhed Report" that 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 confirmed 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 II designs', on which the Reed Repcrt 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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• 1 2-The request is being treated pursuant to 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission's regulations. The NRC will take appropriate action on the ,

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

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 4.424%C4 c s H. Sniezek, Acting Director 0 fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation  ;

Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June 1989.

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