ML20247A103

Responds to Js Ewing Expressing Opposition to Restart of Plant.Bases Provided in Support of Opposition Are Related to Recent NRC Recommendations for Mark I Containment Improvements & Concern Over Radwaste Disposal

ML20247A103
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Site:	Peach Bottom
Issue date:	03/20/1989
From:	Murley T Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Ewing J PEACH BOTTOM ALLIANCE
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Peach Bottom Alliance-3300 Jourdan Avenue Darlington, Maryland 21034 1

Dear Ms. Ewing:

Your letter to Chairman Zech dated March.2,1989, has been referred to me for reply. In your letter, you expressed your opposition to the restart of'the .

Peach Bottom _ Atomic Power _ Station. -The bases you provided in support of your opposition,are related.to recent NRC staff _ recommendations for Mark'I' containment improvements and your concern over radioactive warte disposal..

A Comission decision on whether restart of the Peach Bottom station should be:

authorized has not been made., A Comission meeting to consider the question, is tentativel The Comission will consider the views of. the'ystaff, scheduled for Apr11 the-licensee 1989.

~, the Advisory.Comittee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS), and the comments provided by members of the public during.the various-public meetings held ~in the vicinity of the plant in arriving at its. decision on the question.

The staff's recommendations on Mark I containment improvements are part of the.

NRC's overall approcch to beyond design basis accidents. .These recommendations relate to the performance of the containment in response to low probability events beyond the already existing design basis perfomance capabilities of:

the containment design. The Mark I design meets. current regulatory requirements and the Comission has_ determined that such a design does not. pose an undue risk to the public health and safety. Accordingly, this-issue need:

not be resolved prior to a restart decision. The~_ issue is before the Commission and any_ required modifications at Peach Bottom will be performed in:

accordance with their decision. j

- i Regarding your concern over radioactive waste disposal, we agree that there is ]

a need to resolve the issue. The Congress and the U. S. Department of Energy (DOE) have been working on the matter for a number of years. . The Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 and_the Nuclear Waste Policy Amendments Act of 1987 provide-- .j guidance for fn e tork to be done by the DOE'and the NRC._ The DOE will be l responsible 4 tne seldtion, design, and construction' of a nuclear waste:

repository. The NRC will be responsible for the. safety review work. The- i preliminary design work is currently in progress. Detailed schedules for ,

procedures to construct the repository have been defined. .The schedule "

indicates an NRC decision concerning the Construction Authorization in 1998 and p ,

an NRC decision on the Operating License in the year 2003.

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Chairtaan Zech FOR SIGNATURE OF: ** GRN ** CRC NO: 89-0191 Murley DESC: ROLLIINBi-l CONCERNS RE REOPENING OF PEACH BOTTOM Russe 11', RI.

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PAPER NUMBER: CRC-89-0191 LOGGING DATE:-. Mar. 7;89 ACTION OFFICE: EDO-AUTHOR:: J.S. Ewing

. AFFILIATION: MD (MARYLAND).

LETTER DATE: Mar 2 89 FILE CODE: ID&R-5'PeachL' Bottom

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Opposes the reopening of the.. Peach Bottom nuc' plant ACTION: ~ Direct Reply DISTRIBUTION:

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