Nuclear Facility Standardization Act of 1986: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session on S. 2073 ... April 22, 1986, Volumen4U.S. Government Printing Office, 1986 - 483 páginas |
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analysis application April 22 Atomic Energy Act backfit rule believe BERNTHAL Boiling Water Reactor CHAIRMAN combined construction permit Commission's COMMITTEE ON ENERGY Congress construction and operating cost CP/OL criteria Davis-Besse decisions design approval Design Certification early site approval effective ELCON electricity ENERGY AND NATURAL engineering FADEN future health and safety improvements issuance licensing and regulatory licensing process major modifications NRC's nuclear energy nuclear industry nuclear option nuclear plant nuclear power plant Nuclear Regulatory Commission nuclear steam supply nuclear units one-step licensing operating license PALLADINO Palo Verde percent permit and operating plant licensing powerplants preapproved predictability pressurized water reactor prior problems procedures proposed legislation public health public hearing public participation quality assurance question regulations regulatory process resolved safety issues Secretary HERRINGTON Senator EVANS specific standard design statement steam supply system substantial tion TURLEY U.S. Senate utility Water Reactor Westinghouse
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Página 128 - ... substantial increase in the overall protection of the public health and safety or the common defense and security...
Página 154 - ... the US Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the National Industrial Conference Board.
Página 452 - The finally approved technical specifications will be made a part of the operating license. Included will be sections covering definitions, safety limits, limiting safety system settings, limiting conditions for operation, surveillance requirements, design features, and administrative controls. The...
Página 206 - I believe that industry would be willing to undertake the expense of submitting a more detailed design earlier in the process if it could be assured that its consideration would be meaningful, as it would be under the one-step format. My conversations with utility executives confirm this view. The significant advantage of the one-step process for utilities is permitting them the opportunity to plan for the future with confidence. Under the current regulatory process, a utility ordering a nuclear...
Página 174 - To prevent nuclear accidents as serious as Three Mile Island, fundamental changes will be necessary in the organization, procedures, and practices -- and above all -- in the attitudes of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, to the extent that the institutions we investigated are typical, of the nuclear industry.
Página 129 - NRC's primary responsibility is the protection of the health and safety of the public and the common defense and security of the United States.
Página 52 - The current licensing process was a prudent course to follow when the nuclear power industry was in its early conceptual and development years. In the early years there were many first-time nuclear power plant applicants, designers and constructors, and numerous developmental design concepts. Accordingly, the process was structured to allow licensing decisions to be made while design work was still in progress and to focus on case-specific reviews of individual plant-site considerations.
Página 277 - Act]-type process by which costs may be traded off against benefits. Rather, the function of the evaluation is to ascertain whether the ultimate, unconditional standards of the Atomic Energy Act and the regulations have been met; eg, whether the public health and safety will be adequately...
Página 423 - NRC will be able to evaluate in a critical and objective manner lts own past performance. A Nuclear Safety Board would provide the necessary independence and objectivity. To avoid the proliferation of advisory groups, I would abolish the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. In view of the decline in the Commission's licensing caseload and the increasing importance of operating experience at the plants, I believe the Commission, the Congress and the public would be better served by adding a Nuclear...
Página 391 - The issue cannot be resolved with sufficient accuracy except at a hearing; and (i) the issue was not and could not have been raised and resolved in any proceeding for the issuance, modification or amendment of a license, permit, or approval for that facility, its site, or design; or (ii) a showing has been made that (I) there has been nonconformance with the license...