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Dec. 15, 2004: BREDL letter to
NRC Chairman Nils Diaz
regarding NRC Predecisional Enforcement
Conference with Duke Energy.
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June 8, 2004:
May 28, 2004 Nuclear Regulatory
Commission's Atomic Safety & Licensing Board
(ASLB) Memorandum and Order regarding BREDL
arguments on security measures at the Catawba
Nuclear Reactor and the proposed plutonium fuel
test. The ASLB wrote: "The original version
of this Memorandum and Order was issued on April
12, 2004, and was sealed as Safeguards
Information. This document is a redacted version
of the original." Redactions are blacked out
sections of the document, removed by the NRC.
BREDL objects to some of these omissions; we will
raise our objections before the ASLB judges.
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June 8, 2004: Notice of the June 15, 2004 hearing in Charlotte, NC on Duke Energy's plutonium fuel test at Catawba. The public will be permitted to attend and speak at what is called a "limited appearance" session with Atomic Safety Licensing Board judges. This is the public's opportunity to present issues centering on opposition to plutonium fuel. The hearing is the result of legal challenges by BREDL to Duke’s request to amend the operating license for its Catawba Nuclear Station to allow the testing of four experimental plutonium fuel assemblies at the station. Note: The nuclear industry calls this new type of nuclear reactor fuel "MOX" because it contains a mixture of plutonium and uranium oxides.
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Dec. 03, 2003: BREDL's second
supplemental petition before the Atomic Safety
and Licensing Board to intervene to set forth
contentions. | Dr. Edwin Lyman's
Declaration in support of BREDL contentions.
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Dec. 02, 2003: On
Wednesday, December 3rd,
representatives of the southeastern regional Blue
Ridge Environmental Defense League will argue
against plutonium fuel testing at Duke
Energy’s Catawba nuclear plant at an
ajudicatory hearing before the Atomic Safety and
Licensing Board of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission. Read Press
Advisory
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Nov. 04, 2003: BREDL
petitions the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for
review of LBP-03-17, in which the Atomic Safety
and Licensing Board (“ASLB”) rejected
BREDL’s Amended Contention 2.
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Oct. 21, 2003: BREDL submits supplemental petition in
Duke Energy Catawba Nuclear Power Plant license
amendment proposing use of mixed oxide Lead Test
Assemblies. Duke Energy
has requested NRC grant permission to test
plutonium rod assemblies at the Catawba plant.
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Aug. 25, 2003: BREDL requests a
hearing and petitions to intervene in Duke Energy
McGuire and Catawba Nuclear Power Plant license
amendments proposing use of mixed oxide Lead Test
Assemblies.
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April 11, 2003: BREDL & NIRS
request the Atomic Safety & Licensing Board
to reinstate NIRS contention regarding
environmental impacts of MOX fuel use.
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Sept. 6, 2002: BREDL submits NRC "Down the
Rabbit- Hole" brief regarding license
renewal at Duke Energy's Catawba and McGuire
nuclear power stations.
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March 22, 2002: BREDL reply to
DUKE & NRC Briefs in response to Feb. 27,
2002 BREDL Brief in response to NRC Memo &
Order CLI-02-06.
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Feb. 27, 2002: BREDL response to NRC
Memorandum and Order CLI-02-04 regarding Savannah
River Site Fuel Fabrication Facility.
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Feb. 27, 2002: BREDL response to NRC Memorandum
and Order CLI-02-06 regarding security and NEPA.
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Jan. 31, 2002: NRC
Atomic Safety & Licensing Board grants NIRS
and BREDL a hearing on the license renewal of
Duke Energy's McGuire and Catawba Nuclear Power
Plants. The
Nuclear Regulatory Commission's judges had never
before granted such a hearing in a license
renewal case. Hearing date
to be announced later. Read NRC
notification
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Nov. 29, 2001:
Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League submittal
of contentions in the matter of the renewal of
licenses for Duke Energy Corporation (DUKE)
McGuire Nuclear Stations 1 and 2 [McGUIRE] and
Catawba Nuclear Stations 1 and 2 [CATAWBA]. And
Support for Motion to Suspend Proceeding Filed by
NIRS 11/29/01.
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Oct. 23, 2001: Today
at a press conference in Rock Hill, SC, the Blue
Ridge Environmental Defense League (BREDL)
announced the filing of a legal petition to block
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission's
proceedings for the extension of licenses for
Duke Energy’s Catawba and McGuire nuclear
power plants. BREDL
Press Release ; Petition to NRC
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Sept. 14, 2001: BREDL
files petition with NRC for leave to intervene in
the license renewal proceedings for Duke Energy's
Catawba 1&2 and McGuire 1&2 nuclear
power plants in Rock Hill, SC and Charlotte, NC.< Duke has requested 20-year
renewal of their licenses to operate the four
reactors. The licenses for the four units
are set to expire in 2021-2026. Therefore,
if the renewals are granted, Duke could operate
the reactors until 2041-2046.
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September
21, 2001 - The re-licensing public hearing for
Catawba nuclear power station will be held
at the Rock Hill Council Chamber at the City
Hall, located at 155 Johnston Street, Rock Hill,
South Carolina, on Tuesday, October 23, 2001. The NRC will hold the hearing
in two 3-hour sessions: from 1:30 p.m. to
4:30 p.m. and from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00
p.m. NRC will
record a transcript of the hearing
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September
10, 2001 - The first re-licensing public hearing
for McGuire nuclear power station will
be held at the North Campus of Central
Piedmont Community College (in the auditorium) on
Tuesday, September 25, 2001. CPCC is on 11920 Verhoeff
Road, Huntersville, North Carolina, about 15
miles north of Charlotte. The NRC
will hold the hearing in two 3-hour
sessions: from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
and from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.
NRC will record a transcript of
the hearing.
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