ML20246C010

Forwards Ltr from Director,Ofc of Nrr,Ack Receipt of Petition Filed by Ecology Ctr of Southern CA & Stating That Petition Is Being Treated Under 10CFR2.206

ML20246C010
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Site:	05000605
Issue date:	06/30/1989
From:	Scaletti D Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Marriott P GENERAL ELECTRIC CO.
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June 30, 1989 Decket No. STN 50-605 Mr. Patrick W. Marriott, Manager .

Licensing & Censulting Services GE Nuclesr Energy General Electric Company 175 Curtner Avenue San Jose, California 95125

Dear Mr. Marriott:

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 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 at (301) 492-1104 if you have questions on this issue.

Sincerely,

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Dino C. Scaletti, Project Manager Standardization and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Div'ision of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects ,

Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation .

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Dear Mr. Marriott:

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 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 at (301) 492-1104 if you have questions on this issue.

Sincerely,

$in C Scalk Dino C. Scaletti, Project Manager Standardization'and Non-Power Reactor Project Directorate Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, Y and Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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Dear 5s."arlowe:

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 Flectric 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

.,, 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 dozens of safety and economic problems and have suffered massive cost o'verruns during constructica 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, omas E. Murley, Director I ffice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

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RECEIPT.0F. PETITION FOR. DIRECTOR!S DECISION.UNDER.10 CFR.2.206 l 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 requetted 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 nt: clear 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 States; (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 confimed 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 f

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

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

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CAROLINA' POWER & LIGHT CD. (Brunswick Station, Units I and 2, Docket Nos. 50-324 and 50-325)

CLEVELAND ELECTRIC ILLUMINATING C0., ET AL. (Perry Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1, Docket No. 50-440)

COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. (Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, Units 2 and 3, DocketNos.50-237and50-249),(QuadCitiesNuclearPowerPlant, 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)

CONSUMERSPOWEkCD.(BigRockPoint,DocketNo.50-155) l DETROIT EDISON CO. (Fermi Unit 2, Docket No. 50-341) i GENERAL PUBLIC UTILITIES (Oyster Creek Station, Docket No. 50-219)

GEORGIA POCR CO. (Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, '

Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366)

I GULF ILLINDISSTATES POWER CO. UTILITIES CO. Power (Clinton Nuclear (RiverPlant, Bend Station, Docket Docket No. 50-458) )

No. 50-461 IOWA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. (Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant, "

Docket No. 50-331) i 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 (MiMstone Unit 1, Docket No. 50-245)

NORTHERN STATES POWER CO. s'Monticello Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-263)

PENNSYLVANIA' POWER & LIGHT CO. (Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units I and 2, Docket Nos. 50-387 and 50-388)

PHILADELPHIA ELECTRIC CO. (Ptrach Bottom Nuclear !':stion, Units 2 and 3, Docket Nos. 50-277 and 50-278), (Limerick Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1 Docket No. 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 f.UTHORITY (Browns Ferry Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, '

Docket Nos. 50-255,50-260,and50-296)

VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER CORP. (Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-271) J WASHINGTON PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM (WNP Unit 2, Docket No. 50-397) 1 l

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