ML17037B758

Letter Replying to the 11/11/1974 Letter Regarding AEC Licenses Issued for a Construction And/Or Operation of Nine Mile Point Units 1 and 2 and the Fitzpatrick Plant

ML17037B758
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Site:	Nine Mile Point, FitzPatrick
Issue date:	12/04/1974
From:	Case E US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)
To:	Caplan R Ecology Action of Oswego
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,'DPg 4874 Ruth Caplan, President Ecology Action of Oswego Oswego, New York 13126

Dear tls Caplan:

'Your letter of November 11, 1974, addressed to.the Director of Regulation, regarding the AEC licenses issued for the construction and/or operation of Nine Hile Point Units 1 and 2 and the Fitzpatrick plant has been treated as a request for action under the provisions of 10 CFR 5 2.206 of the Commission's Rules of Practice. A copy of this section is enclosed for your information.

Your request is based on an article appearing on November 10. 1974, in the New York Times. That article was based on information made publicly available by the Commission in the sumer of 1973. Enclosed.

for your information is a copy of a lette~ dated August 24, 1973 from the Secretary of the Commission to Hr. Hyron Cherry which should pro-vide you with useful background information regarding the )1ASH-740 report to which you refer and the subsequent work performed in connec-tion with updating information contained in that report.

The New York Times article did not mention the more recent Rasmussen report (HASH-1400) which was completed and released to the public last summer. This was a much more comprehensive study of reactor safety than ltASH-740. Last year the Coomission appointed Professor Norman Rasmussen of the Hassachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct an indepth study of the probabilities and consequences of a serious accident at a nuclear power plant. At the conclusion of the study a draft report was issued for comment by interested members of the public.

Copies of press releases relating to this study are enclosed.

Licensing proceedings require extensive analysis and evaluation of safety factors. To justify the revocation proceedings you request, it is necessary to show facts which were not considered in the original OPPICC~

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proceeding and which have a significant impact on health, safety and Your letter does not .present such facts nor does Nile it present any

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bases for us to take the requested action. The Nine Point proceedings (Nine flile I(os. 1 8 2 and Fitzpatrick) involved extensive findings made in full recognition of the existence of the above-mentioned theoretical studies.

For these reasons no proceedings will be instituted in whole or in part with respect to your request.-

Sincerely, .

Origin".1 S! gl'-d 8 E. Q. Case Edson G. Case Acting. Director of Licensing

Enclosures:

l. 10 CFR 5 2.206

2. Ltr to H. Cherry dtd 8/24/73

3. Rasmussen Press Release Distribution:

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