ML20246B635

Forwards NRR Ack Receipt of Petition Filed by Ecology Ctr of Southern California,For Info.Ltr States That Petition Being Treated Under 10CFR2.206 of Commission Regulation

ML20246B635
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Site:	Hatch
Issue date:	06/30/1989
From:	Crocker L Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Hairston W GEORGIA POWER CO.
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2.206, NUDOCS 8907100042
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Dear.Mr.LHairston:

Enclosed for your,informationfis a copy of a letter dated June 5,1989, from the Director,L0ffice 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 Southern California, and (2)-

states that the Petition isl being treated under 10 CFR 2.206 of the Commission's

regulations.

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

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Lawrence P. 'Crocker, Project Manager Project Directorate 11-3 Division of Reactor Projects-I/II-Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Dear Mr. Hairston:

Enclosed 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 Southern California, and (2) states that the Petition is being treated under 10 CFR 2.206 of the Comission's regulations.

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

Sincerely ,

Lawrence P. Crocker, Project Manager Project Directorate II-3 Division of Peactor Projects-I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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G. F. Trowbridge, Esq. Mr. P. P. Mcdonald Shaw, Pittman, Potts and Trowbridge ExeL fve Vice. President -

2300 N Street, N.' W. Nue:aar Operations Washington, D.C. 20037. Georgia Power Company i

P.O. Box 1295 Mr. L. . T. Gucwa Birmingham, Alabama 35201 Engineering Department Georgia Power Company Mr. Alan R. Herdt, Chief P. O. Box 1295 Project Branch #3 i

' Birmingham, Alabama 35201 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission  !

101 Marietta Street, NW, Suite 2900 Nuclear Safety and Compliance Manager Atlanta, Georgia 30323 -l Edwin I. Hatch Nuclear Plant '

Georgia Power Company P. O. Box 442 Baxley, Georgia . 31513 Mr. Louis B. Long Southern Company Services, Inc. l P. O. Box 1295 Birmingham, Alabama 35201 Resident Inspector U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Route 1, Box 725 Baxley, Georgia 31513 Regional Administrator, Region 11 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Mr. Charles H. Badger Office of Planning and Budget Room 610 270 Washington Street, S.W.

Atlanta, Georgia 30334 Mr. J. Leonard Ledbetter, Director Environmental Protection Division Department of Natural Resources 205 Butler Street, S.E., Suite 1252 Atlanta, Georgia 30334 i Chairman App *iing County Commissioners ,

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This letter acknowledges the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission'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 recommended 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 yproblems 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 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 ,

l which the Reed Report focused, have dozen,s of safety and economic j 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 ,

l Federal Register for publication is enclosed for your information.

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RECEIPT.0F. PETITION FOR. DIRECTOR!! 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 init\ ate 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 alle gd that (1) in 1972, a member of the NRC staff recomended that GE-designed rhetors be banned in the United States; (2)in1975,GEengineersgeneratedthe"RhedReport"thatdetailed 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 II 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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Comission's regulations. The NRC will take appropriate action on the Petition within a reasonable time.

A copy of the Petition is available for inspection in the Connission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20555.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION t.tv)%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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