THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR POWERPLANT

ACCIDENT

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON NUCLEAR REGULATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS

UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

APRIL 10, 23, AND 30, 1979

PART 1

SERIAL NO. 96-H12

Printed for the use of the Committee on Environment and Public Works

CONTENTS

OPENING STATEMENTS

Baker, Hon. Howard H., Jr., U.S. Senator from the State of Tennessee
Domenici, Hon. Pete V., U.S. Senator from the State of New Mexico
Hart, Hon. Gary, U.S. Senator from the State of Colorado
Randolph, Hon. Jennings, U.S. Senator from the State of West Virginia
Simpson, Hon. Alan K., U.S. Senator from the State of Wyoming

LIST OF WITNESSES

APRIL 10, 1979 (p. 1)

Page

235

234, 402

1, 229, 397

4, 233
231, 399

Eisenhut, Darrell G., Deputy Director, Division of Operating Reactors

Hendrie, Joseph M., Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, accompanied

by Victor Gilinsky, Commissioner, Richard T. Kennedy, Commissioner, Peter

A. Bradford, Commissioner, John F. Ahearne, Commissioner, and Darrell G.

Eisenhut, Deputy Director, Division of Operating Reactors

Prepared statements.....

APRIL 23, 1979 (p. 229)

Bancroft, Michael, lawyer and physicist/public citizen

Prepared statement

284

334

Conway, John, president, American Nuclear Energy Council

287

Prepared statement

371

Kuhns, William, board chairman, General Public Utilities; Herman Dieckamp,

president, General Public Utilities; and Walter Creitz, president, Metropoli-

tan Edison.....

254, 259

Prepared statements...

295-328

Roisman, Anthony, intervenor lawyer, Natural Resources Defense Council...
Prepared statement

288

384

Schweiker, Hon. Richard, U.S. Senator from the State of Pennsylvania..

Thornburgh, Hon. Richard, Governor, State of Pennsylvania, accompanied by

William Scranton III, Lieutenant Governor, and Jay Waldman, executive

assistant to the Governor

Favret, Louis M., executive vice president, Power Generation Group, Babcock &

Wilcox, accompanied by John H. MacMillan, vice president of nuclear power,

and Mr. Taylor, manager of licensing..

Prepared statement

Goode, W. Wilson, chairman, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

Prepared statement

Hendrie, Joseph M., Chairman, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, accompanied
by Harold Denton, Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation; Edson D.
Case, Deputy Director, Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation; Roger J.
Mattson, Director, Division of Systems Safety; and John G. Davis, Acting
Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement.......

ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Randolph, Hon. Jennings, U.S. Senator from the State of West Virginia, letter
to the President

Nuclear Regulatory Commission, responses to written questions..

432

457

447

480.

403

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103