ML20128B158

Forwards Public Announcement of Issuance of License to Util for Full Power Operation of Facility,For Approval

ML20128B158
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	12/08/1970
From:	Harris J US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
To:	Price H US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
References
NUDOCS 9212030577
Download: ML20128B158 (3)

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n Socember 3, 1970 liarold L. Prico Director of !togulation ANNOUNCEMENT OF ISSUL'CL OF OPEPATING LICENSE -

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!!nclosed for your approval is a public announcement of issuance of a license to aorthern States Power Company for full power operation of the Monticello :uclear Generating Station in linnesota. The announcement has the approval of the Division of 4eactor Licensing.

.ie will not forward tac announcoment to the Commission until the licensing board has issued a decision in the j mattor.

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P. tiorris, DRL, attn: el. DeYoung #

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A license for full power operation of the t:onticello L

Nuclear Generating Station near '4onticel10, Minnesota, has been issued to Northern States Power Company by the Atomic knorgy Commission's Division of Reactor Licensing. *h license

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for fuci loading and startup-testine was issued in Septembo?

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, ine Monticello plant, whica was uuilt under an aC l

cons truction permit issund in June 1967, in 1%ated on a 1325-acro site on the west bank of the Mississippi River about three :ailes northwest of :onticello. The plant uc c ,

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a boiling water reactor ana will have a net cloctrical l f ~

capacity of about 545,000 xilowat ts .-- 4 Gonoral Electric f.onpany designed and built the reactor and turbo;;cncrator portions of the plant.

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- Comm.ittee on Reactor Safegu ar.ds_.. and a p u blic hearing conducted. . ~ . -

by an Atomic Safety and Licensing Boar'd. Sosnions of the hear-ing vero-held in'termittently between april 20 and Novenbar 19.

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