ML20246B884

Forwards Director of NRR Ack Receipt of Petition Filed by Ecology Ctr of Southern California & Stating That Petition Being Treated Under 10CFR2.206,for Info

ML20246B884
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Site:	Brunswick
Issue date:	07/03/1989
From:	Tourigny E Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Eury L CAROLINA POWER & LIGHT CO.
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Docket Nos. 50-325 x 324 Mr. 1,ynn W. Eury Executive Vice President-Power Supply Carolina Power and Light Company Post Office Box 1551

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SUBJECT:

PETITION FILED BY ECOLOGY CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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. J 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 Commission's g regulation.-

3L Please contact me if you have any questions on this issue.

Sincerely, Original signed by:

E. G. Touringy, Senior Project Manager Project Directorate 11-1 Division of Reactor Projects -I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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SUBJECT:

PETITION FILED BY ECOLOGY CENTER OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA 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. Theletter(1)acknowledgesreceipt 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 regulation.

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

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E. G. Tourin , Sen r Project Manager Project Directorate 11-1 Division of Reactor Projects -I/II Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Mr. Russell B. Starkey, Jr. Mr. H. A. Cole Project Manager Special Deputy Attorney General Brunswick Nuclear Project State of North Carolina P. O. Box 10429 P. O. Box 629 Southport, North Carolina 28461 Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 Mr. R. E. Jones, General Counsel Mr. Robert P. Gruber Carolina Power & Light Company Executive Director P. O. Box 1551 Public Staff - NCUC Raleigh, North Carolina 27602 P. O. Box 29520 Raleigh, North Carolina 27626-0520 Ms. Grace Beasley l Board of Commissioners P. O. Box 249 Bolivia, North Carolina 28422 Resident inspector-U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Star Route 1 P. O. Box 208 Southport, North Carolina 28461 Regional Administrator, Region II U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 101 Marietta Street, Suite 2900 Atlanta, Georgia 30323 Mr. Dayne H. Brown, Chief Radiation Protection Branch Division of Facility Services N. C. Department of Human Resources 701 Barbour Drive Raleigh, North Carolina 27603-2008 Nr. J. L. Harness Plant General Manager Brunswick Steam Electric Plant P. O. Box 10429 Southport, North Carolina 28461

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\ ,,,,, June 5, 1989 Ms. Anna Harlowe

, Issues Coordinator Ecology Center of Southern California P. O. Box 35473 Los Angeles, California 90035

Dear $s. Harlowe:

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 engireers 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 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 11 reactors have many possible scenarios for early containment, failures; and (6) Mark 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.

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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 req', Jest, the Ecology Center alleged that (1) in 1972, a member of the NRC staff ,

recomended that GE-designed reactors 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 confirmed that Mar { I containments were virtually certain to fail in an accident; (5) according to NRC safety studies, Mark II reactors have sany possible scenarios for early containment failures; and, (6) Mark II designi, 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 l Commission'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 Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20555.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION d.41 4Mid c s H. Sniezek Acting Director 0 fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of Jut.21989.

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CLEVELAND Unit 1, DocketELECTRIC ILLUMINATING CO., ET AL. (Perry Nuclear Power Plant, No. 50-440)

COMMONWEALTH EDISON CD. (Dresden Nuclear Power Plant Units 2 and 3,  ;

Docket Nos. 50-237 and 50-249), (Quad Cities Nuclear, Power Plant. '

Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos.50-254 and 50-265), (LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-373 and 50-374)

CONSUMERSPOWERC0.(BigRockPoint.DocketNo.50-155)

DETROITEDISONCD.(FermiUnit2,DocketNo.50-341)

GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES (Oyster Creek Station, Docket No. 50-219)

GEORGIA POWER CD. (Hatch Nuclear Power Plant Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366)  !

GULF STATES UTILITIES CO. (River Bend Station, Docket No. 50-458)

ILLINDIS POWER CD. (Clinton Nuclear Power Plant Docket No. 50-461)

IOWA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. (Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-331)

LONG ISLAND LIGHTING C0. (Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-322)

MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT CO. (Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Docket No. 50-416)

NEBRASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT (Cooper Station, Docket No. 50-298)

NIAGARA MOHAWK POWER CORP. (Nine Mile Point, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-220 and50-410)

- NORTHEAST UTILITIES (Millstone Unit 1, Docket No. 50-245)

NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. (Monticello Nuclear Power Plant Docket No PENNSYLVANIA POWER & LIGHT CO. (Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50 388)

PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC CO. (Peach Bottom Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3, Docket Nos.50-277and50-278),(LimerickNuclearPowerPlant, Unit 1.DocketNo.50-352)

POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (James A. Fitzpatrick Station.

Docket No. 50-333)

PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO. (Hope Creek Generating Station.

Docket No. 50 354) y TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (Browns Ferr Docket Nos. 50-259, 50-260, and 50-295)y Nuclear Station, Units 1. 2, and 3, YERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER CORP. (Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-271)

WASHINGTCN PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM (WNP Unit 2, Docket No. 50-397) 9

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