ML19249D660
| ML19249D660 | |
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| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 07/12/1979 |
| From: | Maullin R CALIFORNIA, STATE OF |
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| 79-0702-1, 79-702-1, NUDOCS 7909250168 | |
| Download: ML19249D660 (2) | |
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Resolutina No. 79-0702-1 STATE OF CALIFCRNIA State Energy Resourcer Conservation and Developcent Co mission RESOLUTION kTEFIAS, the feedvater transient experienced at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant was caused by design failure, equiptent calfunction, and human error, and bHEPIAS, the Nuclear Regulatory Cor=ission (NRC) staf f has deterctined that the nine Babcock and b'ilcox (S&b') reactors, including the Three Idle Island facility, have experienced 27 feedwater transients over the past year, a frequency which is 50 percent greater than the corresponding rate for other pressurized ater reactors, and kHEPIAS, the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant is of Babcock and Wilcox design, and kHEREAS, the NRC staf f conducted a generic assessment of feedwater transients in Babcock and Wilcox plants in the af ter:ath o f the Three Mile Island accident, and published an interic report containing findings and reco:cendations in May, 19 79, (NUDIG-0560), and bHEPIAS, the NUREC-0560 repo rt identified 19 safety measures to "further inc raase the safety cargins in B&W plants" which have not yet been 1 plemented at the Rancho Sect nuclear power plant, and bHEPIAS, the Governo r's Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Review Panel, which was asse bled to evaluate California's emergency response capa'ilities in the wake of the Three !!ile Island accident, has cencluded that secious accidents will occur at nuclear facilities no matter how diligent regulatory authorities and power plant operators are, and bHEREAS, the Governor's Nuclear Power Plant Energency Review Panel has identified a number of corrective ceasures which it believes will considerably improve California's ability to protect the public f rom the consequences o f a nuclear power plant accident, and bHEREAS, the NRC staf f has cade similar reco=endations (NUREC-0396) on the need to upgrade energancy response planning around nuclear power plants, pa rt icula rly wit'a respect to expanding the evacuation radius to at least 10 tiles and to developing eme rgency response plans for the cost serious type of accidents (Class 9) involving core melt and/or breach of containment, and kHEREAS, the e ergency response plan currently in e f fect for the Rancho Seco nuclear powr plant has an evacuation radius extending only 5 miles aad
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" b3EREAS, the NRC has chosen to lif t its >by 7,19 79, shutdown order and permit the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant to resu=e operatien without imple=entation of the corceetiva actions identified by NUPIG-0560 and NUREG-0396, and kHEREAS, the NRC has not indicated why these additional identified safety measures should rat be implemented prior to the restart of the Rancho Seco nuclear, power plant, and its refusal to do so has raised the concern that the NRC cay be allowing the facility to operate in less than the safest possible manner, and kHEREAS, the NRC's decision to permit the restart of the Fmcbo Seco nuclear power plant does not 3:. ate that the f acility is safe to operate, bt.c cerely that the teros of the shutdown order have been cet, and kHEREAS, the citizens of California are entitled to a higher level of probity and prudence in protecting public health and safety than the NRC has de=onstrated in permitting the restart of the Rancho,Seco nuclear power plant, THEREFCRE BE IT RESOLVED, that the California Energy Co=21ssion does hereby authorize its staff to:
No. 1.
Petition the NRC for public hearings to be held in California to publicly air the issues set forth above; No. 2..
Intervene in c.ny NRC Atomic Safety had Licensing Board proceed-ings held on the safety of the Rancho Seco facility, and request that such hearings be held in California, with such intervention to be directed by this Cc==ission's Nuclear Fuel Cycle Cccaittee ;
and No. 3.
To execute the approved contract with Inter =ountain Technologies, Inc. to analyze the short and long term safety of Babcock and b'ilcox reactors generally and Rancho Seco in particular and to develop evidence for the NP.C proceedings.
DATED: 7/12/79 STATE ENERGY FISOURCES CONSERVATICN MD DEVELOP 3ENT C0deiISSION O
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