ML13024A137

LTR-13-0060 - Ace Hoffman E-mail Information on the Nuclear Power Debate

ML13024A137
Person / Time
Site:	San Onofre
Issue date:	01/20/2013
From:	Hoffman A - No Known Affiliation
To:	NRC/Chairman
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LTR-13-0060
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed: Jan 23, 2013 15:30 PAPER NUMBER: LTR-13-0060 LOGGING DATE: 01/22/2013 ACTION OFFICE:

CeDO Pi..V AUTHOR: Ace Hoffman AFFILIATION:

ADDRESSEE: Chairman Resource

SUBJECT:

Information on the Nuclear Power Debate ACTION: Appropriate DISTRIBUTION: RF, SECY has Ack LETTER DATE: 01/20/2013 ACKNOWLEDGED Yes SPECIAL HANDLING: Lead office to publicly release 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br /> after SECY's assignment, via SECY/EDO/DPC.

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FILE LOCATION: ADAMS DATE DUE: DATE SIGNED:

Joosten, Sandy From: Ace Hoffman [rhoffman@animatedsoftware.com]

Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2013 6:36 PM

Subject:

NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE TONIGHT! Harvey Wasserman vs. Dr. Ben Wattenburg 1/20/2013

Dear Readers,

San Onofre (SanO) remains shut down as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) awaits Southern California Edison's (SCE's) response to 32 areas of concern, which were sent to SCE's Chief Nuclear Officer (CNO) Pete Dietrich by the NRC on December 26, 2012.

Meanwhile, the California Public Utilities Commission's (CPUC's) "Order Instituting Investigation" (011) is getting under way. Some useful URLs regarding the 011 appear below.

Sincerely, Ace Hoffman Carlsbad, CA Topics:

(1) NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE TONIGHT!

(2) Will San Onofre be restarted soon? Quite possibly...

(3) CPUC 011 URLs (4) This movement is a positive one...

(1) NUCLEAR POWER DEBATE TONIGHT!

Sunday, January 20th, 2013 Harvey Wasserman vs. Dr. Ben Wattenburg.

11:15pm eastern/8:15 pacific.

Streaming live at http://www.trnl.com/wattenburg-audio NO NUKES/4 SOLARTOPIA!!!

(2) Will San Onofre be restarted soon? Quite possibly...

This is from a letter to Harvey Wasserman .....

The claim of a possible restart, as I recall, came from several sources. One I heard was that workers were being called in for that period of time, workers who would be most likely involved in a restart. Sorry, I'm working from memory and can't cite the source. Another story is that the NRC's meeting schedules and statements sound like they just need to get some documentation from SCE, look at it, and then viola! They approve the reactor and it starts running within 24 hours2.777778e-4 days <br />0.00667 hours <br />3.968254e-5 weeks <br />9.132e-6 months <br />. I believe the LATimes said something about the NRC saying they are only one step away from allowing restart (not in so many words, perhaps).

And lastly and most importantly, somewhere along the line, SCE is directly credited with proposing a March 5th restart, or mid-March, or some time in March ....

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So although I don't know which of these statements I could verify for you or give you any source, those are what I've been hearing. In my opinion, the ONLY thing preventing a restart is that the NRC isn't totally blind, and San Onofre's U-tubes really are busted. It would be nice to think it's a simple as that, but it isn't. We desperately need the governor to weigh in against the plant, nothing would be better for California and, I think, for other governors who also want to dump their nukes.

Another very real possibility is that Edison will sit on a shut SanO for the 3-5 years it will take to re-engineer and build new Steam Generators. They won't mind a bit, since the ratepayers will pay for it. We've got to dismantle the beast. Otherwise, it can and will be restarted. Edison would be willing to eat the whole costs if they could have their reactors back afterwards, they just don't expect to have to do that, but they would. A properly running reactor is very, very lucrative for its owners and guaranteed to be that way for two decades at a time. They can lose a few billion waiting for that cash cow to start giving again.

Ace Hoffman Carlsbad, CA (3) CPUC 011 URLs:

SCE has posted documents online here:

http://www3.sce.com/sscc/law/dis/SongsOlIDocLibrary.nsf/viewByCategory.xsp San Diego Gas & Electric has posted "public" versions of documents here:

http://www.sdge.com/regulatory-filing/4011/songs-investigation Here is the official CPUC web site for the 011 proceeding -- it has rulings and decisions, party comments and motions (but no testimony or transcripts -- for testimony you have to be on the service list, and for transcripts you have to pay a fee or be a party eligible for compensation):

http://delapsl.cpuc.ca.gov/CPUCProceedingLookup/f?p=401:56:1260337137439001::NO:RP,57,RIR:P5_

PROCEEDINGSELECT:I1210013 (4) This movement is a positive one of enlightenment, enrichment, growth, and love of all things living...

1/2e/2013

Dear All,

This movement is FOR decommissioning San Onofre NOW. It is FOR a clean environment. It is FOR protecting our DNA from damage. It is FOR protecting ALL creature's DNA. It is PRO-LIFE (but that term's been taken).

It's not ANTI-anything, unless it's anti-death, anti-illness, anti-pain, anti-global poverty, anti-damage to our DNA.

This movement has achieved many positive things, especially since Fukushima, and since the steam generator tube leaked and the reactors were shut down: Increasing awareness in the community and among its local elected officials of the dangers of SanO, obtaining letters of concern from numerous cities, informing the NRC that we are far from comfortable with a 2

retart, informing the CPUC that their responsibility lies with the people, not with the corporations. Informing the media. Informing each other.

This movement is a positive one of enlightenment, enrichment, growth, and love.

Turn off the nukes, turn on the sun! Think positive, and (with all due respect...) do not become one of the "nattering nabobs of negativism."  :-}

Ace Hoffman Carlsbad, CA Contact information for the author of this newsletter:

Ace Hoffman, computer programmer, author, The Code Killers:

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