Register of the Richard Thomas Kennedy papers

General. Primarily NRC administrative issues

General. Annual report, pamphlet, regulations and memoranda primarily relating to the Sunshine Act and the Ethics in Government Act 1975-1980

Conflict of interest 1975-1980

Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 1978-1980

Calendars

1975-1977

1978-1979

1980

Chronological file. Correspondence and memoranda

1975-1976

1977-1978 June

1978 July-1979 June

1979 July-1980 April

1980 April-July

Speeches. NOTE: The few copies of speeches by Richard Kennedy are found with related materials under the subsequent entry, "Trips"

General. Speeches by other NRC personnel, primarily Commissioners

1975-1976

1977-1980

Background materials. Materials for Commissioner Kennedy's speeches, arranged by subject

Energy 1977-1980

International 1975-1980

Non-proliferation and safeguards 1975-1980

Nuclear power 1974-1979

Nuclear power (contd.)

Quotations 1977-1980

Radiation health effects 1978

Regulation 1975-1979

Seabrook (New Hampshire) 1978

States 1977-1980

Statistics 1976-1979

Three Mile Island 1979-1980

Waste management 1976-1980

Telephone logs. Includes attachments of appointment schedules and note pads

1974 Dec.-1975 June 13

1975 June 16-1977 Aug.

1977 Sept.-1979 March

1979 March-1980 June

Trips. Includes extensive briefing materials, and a few speeches (See Appendix for details)

Draft remarks 1975 Feb. 24-Sept. 20. Aug. 20

(contd.) 1975 Sept. 20 -1976 June 18

1976 Aug. 2-Dec. 16

"The NRC and its Regulatory Role," 1977 Jan. 18-July. 1977 April 20

1977 July 11-Oct. 12

1977 Oct. 13-1978 May 20.

"Cleaning up Our Federal Energy Regulatory Mess," "Health and Safety Aspects of Nuclear Reactor Exports," Remarks 1978 June 13-1979 Jan. 27. 1978 June 13; Oct. 11; 1979 Jan. 25

1979 Feb. 12-Nov. 13.

1980 March 27-May 6

General. Speeches, letters and responses to Congressional inquiries 1976-1980

Adjudicatory process 1975-1980

Hearing process 1978-1980

Hearing process (Contd.) 1980

Immediate Effectiveness Study. Relates to the issue of nuclear power plant construction during adjudication proceedings. Includes several reports

Final report 1978 Feb.-1979 Dec. 1979 Dec.

(Final report, contd.)- 1979 Dec. 1980 March

Lessons Learned. Study Group Recommendations 1977 April-1979 Feb.

General

Export Reorganization Act (S. 1439)

1976 Jan.-March

1976 May-Sept.

1980 May-June

International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (INFCE)

General. Speeches and articles 1978 Feb.-1980 March

1977 Nov.-1979 Aug.

Licensing 1976 Aug.-1977 July

Non-proliferation and weapons

General. Speeches and articles 1974-1980.

Conferences. Collections of presentations

Japan Atomic Industrial Forum 1978 March 14-16

International Conference on Regulating Nuclear Energy 1978 May

National Security Affairs Conference 1978 July 17-19

Atomic Industrial Forum Conference on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Safeguards 1978 Oct. 24

Atomic Industrial Forum Executive Conference on International Nuclear Commerce 1979 Sept. 11

Organization of American States Conference on the Utilization of Small and Medium Size Power Reactors in Latin America 1980 May 12-15

Great Britain. Reports 1977-1979

India. Relates to the export of fuel and components for the Tarapur reactor

1976 Jan.-1978 April

1978 May-1979 Oct.

1980 Jan.-June

Soviet Union. DOE "Report of the Visit of the U.S.-U.S.S.R. Coordinating Committee on Scientific and Technical Cooperation in the Field of Thermal Power Plant Heat Rejection Systems to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics," (DOE/ET-0076) 1978 Nov.

West Germany. Relates to the proposed export of reactor components in the construction of a new reactor 1976 July-1978 Jan.

Emergency Planning

1975 Dec.-1979 June

Includes comments on an NRC/EPA Task Force report (NUREG-0396) 1979 July-Dec. 1979 Sept.

Includes materials relating to an organizational discussion 1979 Dec.-1980 May. 1980 Jan. 8

Fuel

General, Primarily printed reports (NUREG-0002, NUREG-0290 and NUREG-0095) relating to safeguards and material accounting. 1976 Aug.-1977 May.

American Physical Society Study Group on Nuclear Fuel Cycles and Waste Management report 1977 March-Oct.

Information and communications systems. Includes a report by the Mitre Corporation, "Communications and Control to Support Incident Management" 1977 Nov.-1979 Dec.

Inspection and enforcement. Primarily policy issues

Burden of proof in enforcement proceedings 1976 Oct.-1980 May

Civil penalties

1974 Dec.-1979 April

1979 May-1980 June

Operators 1979 Feb.-Nov.

Research

General

General 1979 April-Nov.

Printed reports (NUREG/CR-0147, NUREG/CR-0565, NUREG/CR-0793, NUREG-0577) 1978 June-1979 Oct.

Anticipated Transient without Scram (ATWS) 1979 Sept.-1980 Feb.

Emergency Core Cooling System (ECCS). Report of Advisory Task Force on Power Reactor Emergency Cooling ca. 1967

Risk assessment

General

General. Relates largely to the progress of the Risk Assessment Review Group

Final report (Lewis Report, NUREG/CR-0400) 1975 Oct.-1979 May. 1978 Sept.

1979 July-1980 Feb.

Lewis Study. Primarily reaction to and analysis of the Lewis Report

1978 Sept.-1979 Feb.

1979 Feb.-July

Radiation exposure (including occupational exposure), Includes reports by the National Research Council, "Considerations of Health Benefit-Cost Analysis for Activities Involving Ionizing Radiation Exposure and Alternatives," "Occupational Radiation Exposure at Light Water Cooled Power Reactors," (NUREG-0482), and Massachusetts PIRG, "Nuclear Power Plants: Unsafe for Workers," 1977 Feb.-1979 Sept. 1977; 1979 May; 1979 Aug.

Siting

1976 Jan.-1977 Dec.

1978 Jan.-1980 Feb.

1980 Feb.-April

Specific reactor sites

Clinch River (Tennessee) 1975 April-1978 Aug.

North Anna (Virginia). Testimony on licensing (NUREG-0370) 1977 Oct.

Terrorism

General. Reports 1976

Anti-Terrorism Act (S. 2236) 1977 Oct.-1978 Sept.

General

Articles 1979 April-Aug.

Clippings, Predominantly relating to the venting of krypton-85 from the TMI-2 reactor 1979 April-1980 June.

Press releases

General, Includes statements by President Jimmy Carter and others, relating to the accident and the subsequent Kemeny Commission investigation 1979 March-1980 May.

Associated Press and United Press International 1979 March-Oct.

Telephone transcripts. Incident Response Center

General. Miscellaneous sheets to be interfiled with transcripts which are not in this collection

Day 5 Channel 19 (April 1, 1979),

Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), Nuclear Safety Analysis Center (NSAC), "Analysis of Three Mile Island Unit 2 Accident," Report with indexed bibliography and memoranda comparing this report to NUREG-0600 1979 July-Oct.

Energy Department (DOE). Letters and an aerial radiological report 1979 April-1980 Feb.

Illinois Commission on Atomic Energy. Report, letter, commission review material 1979 Oct.-Dec.

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Serial issue and letters 1979 Nov.

NRC Special Inquiry Group (Rogovin Commission). This was an independent study commissioned by the NRC and prepared under the direction of the law firm of Rogovin, Stern and Huge

General. Primarily progress reports and materials related to NRC review of the final report; includes responses to letters from Reps. Toby Moffett and Morris Udall

1979 April-1980 Feb.

1980 March-May

Depositions by Mr. Kennedy 1979 Oct. 2

Report, (draft) 1980 Jan. 24

Parts 1-2

Part 3

Pennsylvania, State of. Governor's Commission on Three Mile Island. Report, memorandum and letters 1979-1980

President's Commission on the Accident (Kemeny Commission)

General

1979 April-July

1979 July-Oct.

Depositions

Ahearne, John F. (NRC Commissioner) Aug. 29

Bradford, Peter A. (NRC Commissioner) Sept. 10

Denton, Harold (Director, NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation) May 31

Gallina, Charles O. (NRC Investigation Specialist) Aug. 2 and Aug. 16

Gilinsky, Victor (NRC Commissioner) Sept. 8

Hendrie, Joseph M. (NRC Chairman) Sept. 7

Kennedy, Richard T. (NRC Commissioner)

General. Background material, including annotated sequence of events and question lists

Transcripts

1979 June 1

1979 Aug. 22

1979 Sept. 5

Thornburgh, Richard (Gov. of Pennsylvania) Aug. 21

Hearing transcripts

1979 April 25-May 17

1979 May 18-May 31

1979 June 1-Aug. 22

(highlighted copy) 1979 Aug. 22 -Aug. 23

Reports

General

General. Background and NRC report review materials

Includes "NRC Views and Analysis of the Recommendations of the President's Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island" 1979 Oct.-Nov.

1979 Nov.-Dec.

Articles 1979 Oct.-Nov.

Final Report and Supplemental Views. Includes index to staff reports

Staff reports

Office of the General Counsel, "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission"

Technical Assessment Task Force

"Summary Sequence of Events"

"Chemistry"

"Thermal Hydraulics"

"Core Damage"

"WASH-1400--Reactor Safety Study"

"Selection, Training, Qualification, and Licensing of Three Mile Island Reactor Operating Personnel"

"Pilot-Operated Relief Valve Design and Performance"

"Containment: Transport of Radioactivity from the TMI-2 Core to the Environs"

Public Health and Safety Task Force

"Radiation Health Effects"

"Public Health and Epidemiology"

Public's Right to Information Task Force. Summary of report only

TMI Ad Hoc Nuclear Oversight Committee (Edison Electrical Institute, American Public Power Association, and National Rural Electric Cooperative Association), Report and letters 1980 March-May

U. S. Congress

General. Joint House-Senate hearings: Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation, Gary Hart, Chairman until 1981, followed by Alan K. Simpson (hereafter referred to as the Hart/Simpson Committee); and House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, Morris Udall, Chairman (hereafter referred to as the Udall Committee), Transcript and NRC memorandum 1979 Oct. 31.

House of Representatives

General

Correspondence

1979 March-Oct.

Includes letter to Rep. Udall in response to inquiry 1979 Nov.-1980 May. 1979 Nov.

Legislation (H.R. 2608; H.R. 3415/4174; H.R. 3476; H.R. 4096) 1979 April-Oct.

House Committee on Armed Services, Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, Lucien N. Nedzi, Chairman. Memorandum 1979 May 17

House Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Energy and Natural Resources, Anthony Toby Moffett, Chairman. Includes a hearing summary, a letter from Rogovin, and a transcript of hearings relating to the Rogovin report 1979 May 14, 1980 Feb. 12, 1980 Feb. 13

House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, (Udall Committee). Includes transcripts, memoranda, and Kennedy responses to questions

1979 May

1979 May-Sept.

House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power, John Dingell, Chairman. Transcript, memoranda and notes 1979 Nov.

House Committee on Science and Technology

Subcommittee on Energy Research and Production, Mike McCormack, Chairman. Memoranda and transcripts 1979 May and Sept.

Subcommittee on Natural Resources and Environment, Jerome A. Ambro, Chairman. Memoranda 1979 May

Senate

General

Correspondence 1979 April-1980 Feb.

Legislation (S. 562) 1979 April-May

Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Nuclear Regulation (Hart/Simpson Committee).

General. Letters from the NRC in response to Committee inquiries 1979 Oct.-1980 Jan.

Hearing transcript, press releases, statement 1979 April 10.

Hearing transcript (morning session), statements, memoranda, and responses to questions 1979 April 23.

Hearing transcript, statements, and responses to questions 1979 April 30.

Kennedy deposition and letters 1979 Sept. 26.

Hearing transcripts, memoranda and statement 1979 Oct. 2-3.

Hearing transcripts, letter, memorandum 1979 Nov. 8-9.

Senate Committee on Government Operations, Subcommittee on Energy, Nuclear Proliferation and Government Processes, John Glenn, Chairman. Memoranda, transcripts, statements, and responses to questions 1979 May 8-9

General

General. Pre-accident materials relating to the operating license, including an inspection report 1978 Feb.-1980 May

Correspondence. Incoming. Includes letters and telegrams neither to nor from the NRC

1979 March-April

1979 April-1980 July

Correspondence. Outgoing 1979 April-1980 Jan.

Meeting transcripts. Closed meetings

1979 March 30-31

1979 April 1-6

1979 April 9-Nov. 2

Meeting transcripts. Open meetings 1979 April 4-May 17

Memoranda. Includes material relating to technical issues and the release of NRC meeting transcripts 1979 March 29-Aug. 9

Preliminary Event Notification reports 1979 April 1-Dec. 10

Press conferences 1979 April 2-May 7

Press releases 1979 April 11-1980 April 17

Reports

General. Weekly Status Reports 1980 March 11-June 23

"Evaluation of Long-term Post Accident Core Cooling of Three Mile Island Unit 2" (NUREG-0557) 1979 April,

Accident sequence. Chronologies, memoranda, hearing transcript and statement 1979 ca. March-May

Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards

General. Includes letter and report to the Rogovin Commission relating to ACRS recommendations 1979 July 25

Hearing transcripts

General meetings 1979

(Meeting #228) April 5

(Meeting #229) May 10

(Meeting #229, contd.) May 11-12

(Meeting #230) June 14

(Meeting #230, contd.) June 15

Special meetings 1979 April 16-17

TMI Subcommittee meetings 1979

April 4-May 1

May 9 and May 31

June 1-7

July 9-27

Aug. 8-Sept. 5

Babcock and Wilcox. Primarily post-TMI re-evaluation of generic design and sister plants

General. Other reactors

General

1979 April

1979 May

Davis Besse (Ohio), NOTE: A very similar accident occurred here yet was recognized and controlled 1976 Nov.-1979 July. 1977 Sept. 24,

Oconee (South Carolina) 1978 April-1979 June

Rancho Seco (California) 1979 April 1-19.

C. Michelson, "Decay Heat Removal during a Very Small Breack LOCA for a B&W 205-Fuel-Assembly PWR" 1978 Jan.

"Staff Report on the Generic Assessment of Feedwater Transients in Pressurized Water Reactors Designed by the B&W Company" (NUREG-0560) 1979 May,

Corrective actions. Consists of TMI Lessons Learned Task Force recommendations and the subsequent development of an Action Plan for more general reactor regulation reform

Includes a report entitled "TMI Lessons Learned Task Force Status Report and Short-term Recommendations" (NUREG-0578), and a transcript sent to the NRC by the President's Commission for licensing review purposes 1979 April-Sept. July; Aug. 23

Includes a memorandum with a transcript of a briefing by Harold Denton on the conclusions of the task force, a draft report entitled "Report to the Director, Office of Inspection and Enforcement on Lessons Learned from Three Mile Island by Special Review Group, OIE" (NUREG-0616), a final report entitled, "TMI-2 Lessons Learned Final Report", Oct.; a report entitled "Supplement to Staff Position on Need to Consider Class 9 Events," which relates to a general re-evaluation of major accident factors, including appendices on the NRC Action Plan, siting and design, emergency preparedness and radiation effects 1979 Sept.-1980 May. 1979 Sept. 6; Oct. 10; 1980 March

Decontamination and clean-up of the TMI-2 reactor

1979 April-Dec

Includes materials relating to public meetings held in Pennsylvania 1980 Jan.-June. March 19 and 21

Economic effects

Extraordinary Nuclear Occurrence (ENO). Relates to the discussion concerning application of this designation to the TMI accident, thus qualifying under the Price-Andersen Act to provide payment for any resulting claims

Financial qualification review 1980 Feb.-March

Emergency response procedures

Emergency planning 1979 April-Sept.

Evacuation plans 1979 April

Interagency Radiological Assistance Program (IRAP) 1979 April

Environmental effects. Primarily a report (NUREG-0596) 1979 Oct.-1980 April

General Public Utilities/Metropolitan Edison. Relates primarily to issues of management competence and the restart of the undamaged TMI-1 reactor, Includes public meeting 1979 June-1980 March. 1980 Jan. 9

Includes an interim report submitted by Met. Ed. with cover memorandum and a Safety Evaluation order modifying operating license 1979 June-1980 Jan. dated Aug. 9; ca. Sept.

1980 Jan.-March

International reactions 1979 April-1980 Feb.

Investigation and enforcement

General, Includes some material relating to allegations by Harold W. Hartman, Jr. 1979 March-1980 May.

"Investigation into the March 28, 1979 Three Mile Island Accident by Office of Inspection and Enforcement" (NUREG-0600)

Legal issues. Relates largely to records management and FOIA requests 1979 April-1980 May

Radiation health effects

1979 April-May

1979 June-1980 April

Social and psychological effects, Includes a report entitled, "The Social and Economic Effects of the Accident at Three Mile Island" (NUREG/CR-1215) 1979 July-1980 May.

Technical systems

General. Other reactors (non-Babcock & Wilcox) 1979 April

Hydrogen bubble, Includes a report on hydrogen/oxygen generation rate during the accident 1979 June-Sept. 1979 June

In-core thermocouples 1979 Sept.-Nov.

Instrumentation 1979 April-Dec.

Oak Ridge Laboratories technical support 1979 July-Sept.

Atomic Industrial Forum, Inc. (AIF)

General, Letters, memoranda, notes, reports on licensing problems, and a transcript of a meeting with the NRC 1976 Oct.-1979 March.

Conference reports ca. 1976-1980

Economics of nuclear energy

General, Memoranda, reports, and hearing testimony 1977 Aug.-1979 Sept.

Anti-trust review process. Memoranda, reports, and letters 1977 Feb.-1979 Sept.

Energy policy and projections. Primarily speeches, reports and printed articles, Includes a survey report by Louis Harris & Associates, Inc. 1974 Nov.-1980 April. 1978 Dec.

Solar studies. Letters relating to a proposed study 1978 April

Richard Kennedy speech given in Madrid 1979 November 5

American Law Institute-American Bar Association Second Annual Program on Nuclear Export Control, Washington, D.C. 1979 March.

Bea Godfney song, "God Bless Solar Energy"

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory undated

Seabrook projection slides 1970s

Two videocassettes made during a trip to Korea in 1978 March: an interview with Richard Kennedy entitled "Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation", and a speech by Richard Kennedy entitled "United States Nonproliferation Policy"

Correspondence, reports, and budgets

Reports, speeches and correspondence