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PNO-76-194:on 761117,ERDA Informed NRC That People Republic of China Has Exploded Four Megaton Nuclear Test Bomb.No Trajectory or Arrival Times of Fallout Have Been Predicted. NRC Regional Ofcs Notified
ML20249C803
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Issue date: 11/17/1976
From: Dreher F, Roy G, Thompson D
NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE)
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PNO-76-194, NUDOCS 9807010218
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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION O

November 17, 1976

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PRELIMINARY NOTIFICATION OF EVENT OR UNUSUAL OCCURRENCE--PNO-76-194 This preliminary notification constitutes EARLY notice of an event of POSSIBLE safety or public interest significance.

The information presented is as initially received without verification or evaluation

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Subject:

NUCLEAR TEST BOMB EXPLOSION ERDA has informed the NRC at 1:15 P.M., 11-17-76, that the People's Republic of China has exploded a four megaton nuclear test bomb at 1:00 a.m. EST on 11-17-76.

No trajectory or arrival times of fallout have been predicted.

ERDA will be issuing a press release this P.M.

NRC Regional Offices have been notified.

Notification of licensees is not planned until the trajectory or the arrival times of the fall-

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out are predicted by NOAA.

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Contact:

FADreher, IE x27,261 GWRoy, IE x27261 DThompson, IE x27541 g

Distribution:

Chairman Rowden Commissioner Mason S. J. Chilk, SECY d Commissioner Gilinsky C. C. Kammerer, CA G. F. Murphy, JCAE A Commissioner Kennedy L. V. Gossick, EDO E. Volgenau, OIE J. A. Harris, PA B. C. Rusche, NRR H. K. Shapar, ELD T. J. McTiernan, AIA K. R. Chapman, NMSS R. G. Ryan, OSP Transmitted: PBldg

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