ML20246F918

Forwards TE Murley 890605 Ltr to Ecology Ctr of Southern California Ack Receipt of Petition & Advising Ctr That Petition Will Be Treated Per 10CFR2.206

ML20246F918
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Site:	Big Rock Point File:Consumers Energy icon.png
Issue date:	07/05/1989
From:	Pulsifer R Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation
To:	Berry K CONSUMERS ENERGY CO. (FORMERLY CONSUMERS POWER CO.)
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2.206, NUDOCS 8907140090
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July 5, 3989 Docket No. 50-155 Mr. Kenneth W. Berry Director, Nuclear Licensing Consumers Power Company 1945 West Parnall Road Jackson, Michigan 49201

Dear Mr. Berry:

Enclosed for your information is a copy of 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 Center 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 if you have questions on this issue.

Sincerely,

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Robert Pulsifer, Project Manager Project Directorate III-1 Division of Reactor Projects - III, IV, V

& Special Projects Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation

Enclosure:

As stated cc: Service List w/ enclosure

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Dear Mr. Berry:

Enclosed for your information is a copy of-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 e Petition filed by'the Ecology' Center of Southern California,-and (2) states that the Petition .is being treated under 10 CFR 2.206 of the Conunission's regulations.

Please contact rae if you.have questions on this issue.

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Enclosure:

As stated cc: Service List w/ enclosure

Mr. Kenneth W. Berry l Consumers Power Company Big Rock Point Plant l CC:

l' Mr. Thomas A. McNish, Secretary Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Judd L. Bacon, Esquire Consumers Power Company 212 West Michigan Avenue Jackson, Michigan 49201 Mr. Thomas W. Elward Plant Manager Big Rock Point Plant 10269 U.S. 31 North Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Mr. Bud Heeres County Commissioner 303 Sheridan Charlevoix, Michigan 49720 Office of.the Governor Room 1 - Capitol Building Lansing, Michigan 48913 Regional Administrator, Region III U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 799 Roosevelt Road Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137 Nuclear Facilities and Environmental Monitoring Section Office Division of Radiological Health P. O. Box 30035 Lansing, Michigan 48909 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Resident Inspector Office Big Rock Point Plant 10253 U.S. 31 North-Charlevoix, Michigan 49720

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• 1. June 5, 1989 Ms. Anna Harlowe

, Issues Coordinator Ecology Center of Southern California P. O. Box 35473 Los Angeles, California 90035

Dear 5s. Harlowe:

This letter acknowledges the U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Comission'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 Electri: Company (GE). As bases for this request, you allege that *

(1) 4.1972, 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 recomended that GE stop  !

selling those reactors; (3) in 1986, an NRC official admitted that 24 GE reactors with Mark 1 containments ha? 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 II reactors have many possible scenarios for early containment failures; and (6) Mark II designs, on which the Reed Report focused, have dozen,s.of safe +.y and economic problems and have suffered massive cost overruns during construction es 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 Federa'l Register for publication is enclosed for your information.

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RECEIFT.0F. PETITION FOR DIRECTOR!S DECISION.UNDER 10.CFR.2.206 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 requested the Nuclear Regulatory Comission (NRC or Comission) to initiate enforcement action involving all boiling water reactors new operating or under construction. The Ecology Center requested that the NRC fix or close all nuclear 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)in1975,GEengineersgeneratedthe'RhedReport"thatdetailed dozens of safety and economic problems with GE-designed reactors and that reconnended 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 confinned that Mark I containments were virtually certain to fail in an accident; (5) according to NRC safety studies, Mark II reactors have rany 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 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 Commission's regulations. The NRC will take appropriate action on the Petition within a reasonable time.

A copy of the Petition is available for inspection in the Commission's Public Document Room, 2120 L Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20555.

FOR THE NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 4.si4%C4

• s H. Sniezek, Acting Director 0 fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 5th day of June 1989.

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

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

COMMONWEALTH EDISON CO. (Dresden Nuclear Power Plant, Units 2 and 3, Docket Nos. 50-237 and 50-249), (Quad Cities Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 Docket Nos.50-254 and 50-265), (LaSalle County Station, Units 1 and 2, Docket Hos. 50-373 and 50-374)

CONSUMERS POWER CD. (Eig Rock Point, Docket No. 50-155)

DETROIT EDISDN CD. (Ftrmi Unit 2, Docket No. 50-341) -

GENERAL PU5LIC UTILIT3ES (Oyster Creek Station, Docket No. 50-219)

GEORGIA POWER CO. (Hatch Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-321 and 50-366) ,

GULF STATES UTILITIES CO. (River Bend Station, Docket No. 50-458)

ILLlhols POWER CD (Clinton Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-461) 30WA ELECTRIC LIGHT & POWER CO. (Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant, Decket No. 50-331)

LONG ISLAND LIGHTING CO. (Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-322)

MISSISSIPPI POWER & LIGHT CD. (Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Docket No. 50-416)

NEERASKA PUBLIC POWER DISTRICT (Cooper Station, Docket No. 50-298) h1 AGARA M0 HAWK POWER CORP. (Nine Mile Point, Units 1 and 2, Docket Nos. 50-220 and 50-410)

NDRTHEAST UTILITIES (Millstone Unit 1, Docket No. 50-245)

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

PENNSYLVANIA F0WER & LIGHT CO. (Susquehanna Steam Electric Station, Units 1and2,DocketNos.50-387and50-388)

Ph!LADELPHIA ELECTRIC CO. (Peach Bottom Nuclear Station, Units 2 and 3, Docket Hos. 50-277 and 50-278), (Lirerick Nuclear Power Plant, Unit 1 Docket No. 50-352)

POWER AUTHORITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (Janes A. Fitzpatrick Station, Docket No. 50-333)

PUBLIC SERVICE ELECTRIC & GAS CO. (Hope Creek Generating Station, Docket No. 50-354) t TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY (Browns Ferry Nuclear Station, Units 1, 2, and 3, Occket Nos. 50-259,50-260,and50-296)

VERMONT YANKEE NUCLEAR POWER CORP. (Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Docket No. 50-271)

WASHINGTON PUBLIC POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM (WNP Unit 2. Docket No. 50-397) '

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