Emergency planning around U. S. nuclear powerplants: Nuclear Regulatory Commission oversight. Hearings before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-Sixth Congress, first session

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:5714896

This session is the first in a series of three hearings the subcommittee will conduct to review the state of preparedness to deal with emergencies at U.S. nuclear power facilities. The review will center on the role of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) but will also look at the efforts of both the utilities which operate these plants and the governments of the States and localities in which they are located. The NRC's present regulatory scheme is as follows: States with nuclear facilities are encouraged to prepare and submit radiological emergency plans for NRC review and concurrence on a strictly voluntary basis. No penalties accrue to either the States or to the nuclear plants operating in States that do not have NRC-approved plans. At present, only 12 of 26 States with nuclear powerplants have NRC approved emergency contingency plans. Pennsylvania, for example, does not have a plan. The subcommittee inquiry does not end, however, with those States which do not have NRC-approved plans. Of paramount importance to the inquiry is the performance of the NRC in approving state emergency plans.

• OSTI ID: 5714896
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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