ML13254A289
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| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 08/15/2013 |
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UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION ATOMIC SAFETY AND LICENSING BOARD PANEL WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555 September 6, 2013 MEMORANDUM TO: Rebecca Giitter, Administrative and Litigation Analyst FROM: Twana Ellis, Program Analyst
SUBJECT:
PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY (DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2)
DOCKET NOS. 50-275-LR and 50-323-LR ASLBP NO. 10-890-01-LR-BD01 WRITTEN LIMITED APPEARANCE STATEMENT
Dear Ms. Giitter,
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board handling the above-captioned adjudication recently received the enclosed communication. While it does not constitute evidence, we deem it to be a limited appearance statement filed pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.315(c).
On behalf of the Diablo Canyon Board, I request that you place the enclosed document in the electronic hearing docket for this proceeding.
Thank you.
Twana Ellis Encl.: 08/15/13 Letter from J.A. Tony Fallin CC: Judge Alex Karlin
To: *Allison Macfarlane, Chairman *Sally Jewell, Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission U.S. Department oflnterior Mail Stop 01664 1849 "C" Street N. W.
Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 Washington, D.C. 20240
- Jeanne Hardebeck, Tom Bracher, et al. *Roy Shlemon, CEO U.S. Geological Survey M.S. 977 Shlemon and Associates Earthquake Studies Group P.O. Box 3066 345 Middlefield Road Newport Beach, California 92659-0620 Menlo Park, California 94025
- Hab Boushey, M.D., and Family
- Sam Blakeslee, California Assemblyman Helen, Billy, Eleanor, Anna 11 04 Palm Street U.C.S.F. Medical School San Luis Obispo, California 93401 505 Parnassus Avenue Room 0130 Box M-1292
- U.S.-N.R.C. Atomic Safety and San Francisco, California 94143 Licensing Board Panel Two \\'bite Flint North *Other Family, Friends and Associates 11545 Rockville Pike M.S. T-3F23 Rockville, Maryland 20852 From: J.A. Tony Fallin P.O. Box 1624 Boulder, Colorado 80306
Subject:
NRC review ofPG&E's report on the Shoreline Fault offshore DCNPP, SOCAL Tl(E: FAR SIDE'
~Atfl.y L4RSOP-l Date: August 15,2013
PG&E VlE ARE HERE TO SERVE YOU At-Risk, Nuclear Facilities Posing Clear and Present (DEA1H ON THE HALF SHELL!)
l Dangers on Tsunami-Prone Coastlines of the U.S.
By J. A. Tony Fallin, U.S.G.S./Janus International- 2012 Common sense alone says the nuclear site was fatally flawed from the outset, An off-shore, active fault lies "l'rithin five miles of the plant, as do tsunami-generating fault basins as well. Also, another fault bounds the coastline within 1000-feet of the nuclear facility, making the site unacceptable by NRC criteria. Individual earthquakes can tilt as well as offSet and rupture nuclear plants, while repeated shaking by multiple structural fatigue and break-downs.
Greater San Andreas Transform Fault System At Humboldt Bay, we learned we can get away with murder by building nuclear power plants wherever we wish. We've got the NRC L11 our pocket, pro-nuclear as they are, They just turn a blind eye to things that go against their own criteria for building safe nuclear facilities.
YET ANOTHER GEOLOGICAL CONSULTANT TRIES TO TALK COMMON SENSE INTO THE MINDS OF PG&E'S DEATH-WISH SUITS AT THE UTIU1YS CORPORATE HEADQUi\RTERS lN SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
NUCLEAR DEVELOPMENTS AND GEOTECTONICS ACROSS WESTERN NORTH AMERICA Tbank you for your time and attention to this missive.
bv J. A. Tony Fallin
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To Billy, Eleanor. and ,.\.nna W1lite 1 and Their Mother Helen, Joys of ay Life.
Less than five miles offshore is the active San Simeon-Hosgri Fault System destructive 7+ M earthquake corridor.
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WEST COAST EARTHQUAKES, SUBMARINE DEBRIS AVALANCHES A.c'ITI TSUNA.MIS 8.3 M Earthquake aftershocks continue to rock the Diablo Power Plant as ruptured, radioactive, fuel hum and a tsliDZillll
Radi~ Dangers 9f0\fvn pelican do*vnwind aoo do~ and thermal Game Fish Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant California boniio Moon Jellyfish Abalone Pismo clam iittfeneck clar" Sheil Fish razor ctam Ring billed gull Environmental contamination Hoorman'S gull Squid Spiny lobster Caiilornia gull Vermilion rockfish Pelagic cormorant California barracuda
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Fallin, J.A., FUGRO, 1974 PG&E;s 2012 bathymetric profiles of the Pacific sea...floor around Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Pla..Tit (DCNPP) suggest that up to a quarter-mile-wide trough borders what the utility company labels as the Shoreline Fault. Such troughs occur often over upward-flowering offsets in the Greater San Andreas Fault System, with some even flagging "pinched" or "torqued", anticlinal, petroleum traps at depth immediately south and southeast of the DCNPP along the Hosgri and other fault traces, including ones in Santa Maria Basin. Geochemical signatures suggest that thermally-mature, organic-rich, Diablo Canyon ~ w~:~uts~)r ~ Tnmsrorm Motion Vector Anticline
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PG&E 2-D Bathymetric Profile During the 1970s when I was working with CNPP FUGRO, International, Consulting Engineers and I Geologists, Stanford's Ben Page and others viewed Santa Maria Basin many of the oil-bearing anticlines, plus associated \.
West thrusts and reverse faults in Santa Maria Basin as compressional structures. This led to the region being labeled as "TRANSPRESSIVE TERRAIN",
especially when paleo-magnetic data revealed that a Splintering Shoreline Isostatically-Rebounding number of microplates in the Western Traverse Microplate Ranges were rotated clockwise during Mid- to Late Irish Hills Microplate
(!) Miocene time (-12 to 4 Ma), giving form ultimately to compressed, linear, mountain ranges across Santa Potential Petroleum Reservoir Maria Basin, while also initiating transform motion along an inchoate Hosgri Fault trace around 4 Ma.
RU-13 SaM Lucia tsunami-producing, rift basin However, when I viewed proprietary seismic survey lines cutting across Santa Bank Fault Zone \
Maria and Santa Lucia Basins just west of the Hosgri Transform, there was more evidence 0 Cross Sections Shov.ing Thick for a TR.Al'ISTENSIONAL than TR.A..NSPRESSIONAL stress field still at work in Post-*
u Post-Miocene Extension Miocene time. More specifically, the basins appeared to be rifting apart between trans- 'I>
fornl faults in response to northwestward, Pacific Plate with thick, Post-Miocene fill "' Fill in Santa Maria being torqued into long, sinuous anticlines over time by bounding, transform movements.
Among other things, this suggests to me that more than one stress field is involved with f Basin Oftshore From Diablo Canyon NPP fault and earthquake generation around and under the DCNPP.
For exan1ple, there is a compressive push from the south that is generating deep, sole fault quakes beneath the Western Transverse Ranges (e.g., San Fernando Valley) and 45 kilometers 0 15 30 probably under rotated microplates in Santa Maria Basin., plus the "Pt. Buchon" Peninsula.
Then there is Pacific Plate drag to the northwest that is inducing transform motion along P.G.& E.
the Hosgri and other, offshore, fault traces in the Greater San Andreas System to be Santa Lucia Bank Santa Maria Basin Hosgri Fault Zone considered. In addition, isostatic rebmmd over an upward-bulging, thermal, mantle plume Fault Zone may explain periodic, jolting uplifts of the Irish Hills Microplate upon which the DCXPP 0 is located.
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3 0 15 45 Fossil P.G.&E.-3 Santa Lucia Bank Fault Zone Hosgri Fault Zone After Hoskins, E.G. and Griffiths. J.R., Shell Oil, 1971, AAPG Memoir 15; Hall. C. Rhilng 1hermal tv1antle Plume 1973, l:SGS MF-511; Fallin, J.A., Ft:GRO, 1974, Addenda, Diablo canyon PSAR; P., Ben, Stanford, 1977, Geology)' Magazine; Crouch, J.K., et aL, l 984. SEPM-Pacifir..: NUCLEAR POWER PLANT CONSTl lCTJON s.ction, Volume 38; Clark, D.G., eta!., 1994, GSA Special Paper 292; Sorlien, C. C.. et !S PRECLUDED WTTfifN at !.'rwtal Studies-U.C. Santa Barlma, 1998-1999, USGS Bulletin 1995; Hardebeck, FIVE (5) MILES OF ANY ACTJVb Je~, 2010, BuH. ofSeis. Soc. A mer.; Fallin, J.A., 2010, Nuclear Developments and Gao.teC(OU.ks of Western North America. Nuclear Regulatory Commissinn 0 15 30 45 60 1m;.
An upper mantle convection cell may also be driving shoreline microplates north- "Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America" suggests that an active sole fault runs westward between Point Arguello and Point Buchon, pushing some ofthe deeper-rooted, below DCNPP between I 0- and 12-kilometer depths. The sub-horizontal zone of rupture landmass, crustal blocks even faster than the massive, offshore, Pacific Plate. Most and intermittent, jolting, stress releases is defined by a series of relatively-deep, assuredly, some of the landward microplates appear to be impinging on the Hosgri Fault earthquake foci that occurred between 1988 and 2008 along the Shoreline Fault trace.
System, defining sea\vard-arcing, thrust belts off Purisma Point, Point Sal and Point Combined with a cluster of shallower, M 0.8 toM 3.5 seismic events, the deeper quakes Buchon. On seismic profiles, the offshore, thrust belts override an ancestral, meta-core accounted for an average of more than two tremors per year along the Shoreline Fault, complex buttress similar to one that we discovered offshore San Onofre Nuclear Power while leaving open the possibility of even larger, more destructive earthquakes to come.
Plant across the California borderlands in the 1970s. The meta-core complex formed most likely when t.l-je West Coast ofNorth America began over-riding t.he East Pacific Zayunte-Vergeles Tn...-ust Rise, \Vith northwest, convectional stresses below the coastal microplates following.
M 7.1 Lorna Prieta Earthquake But more on the significance of sole faults running below DCNPP and many other doming ground surface parts of the Greater San Andreas Fault System, especially ACTIVE sole faults that generate both small and large earthquakes as splintering microplates and microplate slivers shift about in an evolving, transform setting. To some of us, the excellent 2010 Hardebeck report "Seismotectonics and Fault Structure of the California Central coast" in Microplates Impinging on the Hosgri Fault Trace Between Point Arguello and Point Buchon Fault Such being the case, one must consider doming as well as fracturing of ground surface atop "sole fault" quakes in the DCNPP area. This is to say that even structurally-reinforced nuclear facilities might be tilted as well as fractured by sole fault shifts below them, cracking or partially draining used fuel tod cooling pools while also jamming reacturs and initiating nuclear meltdowns. In 1989, theM 7 .I Lorna Prieta Earthquake just south E.mhquake Hypocenters of the San Francisco Bay Area was generated at 20-kilometer depths over a sole fault, The shallower earthquakes may srem from doming rather than fracturing ground surface, while also inducing numerous landslides rnm-eCJent along pre~exist~ng and rippling Bay Area mud deposits like a bowl of Jello. Numerous, reinforced structures were tilted off their foundations as freeways overpasses collapsed like wet Seismologic'li spaghetti and as broken gas main fires raged beside broken water lines.
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...,.. of the Andreas Transform Fault System Seismic i\nisotropy Perhaps unsurprisingly, PG&E makes little or no mention of a sole fault and associated earthquakes occurring below the DCNPP. Nor does the Utility offer any explanation about how pouring extra concrete over rebar to reinforce and make their nuclear facility able to withstand a M 7.5 seismic event will keep it from being tilted to non-operable angles during a sole fault quake. After all, PG&E has a 50 year history of mis-representing and down-playing faults, earthquakes, tsunan1is and other natural disasters, while also ignoring Nuclear Regulatory Commission criteria that preclude the construction of any nuclear plant within five miles of an active fau!L Even when 60,000 people protested the construction of the DCNPP, the Utility had 2000 of the demonstrators arrested and charged with what they were doing, i.e., with civil disobedit:nce, and endangering ALL!
In PG&E's 2012 status report on the Shoreline Fault, the Utility describes the transform system as being actually three, out-stepping, seismically-active, right-lateral offsets that are less than 20-miles long combined. Then, after a rigorous evaluation with "logic trees", probability calculations and mind-numbing mathematics, the Utility lOOkm concludes that the fault traces a:re no more than about M 6.5 "capable".
Su!e Others of us, using only logic, common sense and comparative analyses, view ~e Asthenosphere Shoreline Fault a bit differently. To some of us, the Shoreline Fault is a series of three Faults stressed, surface "rips" that may well be connected at depth and ready to tear apart with bounding "end" faults to the northwest (N 40 W Fault) and to the southeast (Oceano
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margin of a rising microplate in a stressed, dog-leg section of an active fault system that stretcblls more than 1500 miles from the southem of ~through California on both sides of the Sierra Nevada to southem Oregon and that is being ,:!riven by Pacific Plate drag to the northwest, The Cireat American Rip-Otr 3rJuthern Cali tbmUL. J ffsetting grcund StirfllCt by l..I:j::'Vf!Tds ~0 feet Tr;msform F~ System dog-leg section of the Greater San Andreas Transform System between splintering microplates (Irish Hills, Shoreline) that are nndercut by a sub-horizontal, sole fault at 10-to 13-kilometer depths and that are being propelled to the northwest by an upper mantle, thermal-convection celL As such, the fault reminds us of four, end-to-end fault splays that merged into one, 40-miles-long, transform, right-lateral rupture with up to 20 feet of vertical offset in SOCAL's Mojave Desert during theM 7.3 Landers Earthquake in 1992.
Of course, if the Shoreline and its bounding neighbors move in conjnnction or concomitantly with the Hosgri Fault less than five-miles west of the DG\!'PP- and with the nnderlying sole fault at a little over six-miles depth below the plant, one can expect an even larger seismic event, perhaps even exceeding M 8.0 magnitude. After all, Mother Nature can really "kick" sometimes and as She! Silverstein once told his children, "Anything can happen, anything can BE!"
With regards to tsnnarni dangers, PG&E states that the DCNPP is safe sitting top an 85-feet, wave-cut terrace. Unmentioned are the vulnerability of nuclear plant's reactor cooling-water intake and outflow facilities at and below sea level, including jetties that have already required costly repair after being ponnded by seasonal storm waves around Intake Cove. Historical tsnnarnis recorded aronnd Diablo Canyon include one in the early I 900s during a quake near the southeast end of the Shoreline Fault that sent a wave Geotectonic Setting of Nuclear Sites
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The 1964 Prince William Sound 9.2 M Earthquake and Mega.-Tsun.ami surge into San Luis Obispo Bay; one in 1960 following theM 9.5 Valdivia Earthquake in Chile; one in 1964 after the M 9.2 Prince Wm. Sound Earthquake in Alaska; one in 20 10 that vvas generated by aM 8.8 temblor offshore Chile; and yet another 2011 following the M 9.2 Tohoku Earthquake that destroyed the Fukushima NPP in Japan. None of the tstmami surges were over six-feet high around the DCNPP and danmges were limited After <he 1964 Prince William Sound 9.2 M Earthquake mostly to boats, piers and offshore navigation buoys. W!ega-Tsunan_d ln total, the 1964 Prince William Sound Earthquake and Mega-Tsunami imparted more than $!00 miltiort dollars in damages to Pacific bays and ports across ihe Western U.S., wilile almost breaching a new, nuclear power plant at Humboldt Bay, California, too. The nuclear power plant's foundation had been placed near water~s edge ar Humboldt Bay, 2010 M 8.8 temblor l%0Valdivill offshore Chile 9 5 M Earthquake and Mega-Tsunami Hawaiian Islands M 9.5 Valdivia Earthquake Chilean 8..& M Earthquake and Mega-Tsunami Trans-Pacific Travel
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Naturally, any active f:n:it i.'l the region i:' capable tsunamis. be it by initiating submarine slides and debris flows in offshore basins or by vettical as 'Nell as horizontal components of transform motion. Offshore seismic lines suggest that that Santa Lucia Basin has the most potential for generating the "local" tsunan:ris, Index Map Santa Maria and slope failure To Diablo Canyon ~ ~
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More ominous are the mega-tsunami generation potential in the Hawai'ian Islands and along Cascadia Trench in the Pacific Northwest. Field surveys and computer models Fault System suggest that the Hilina Slump Block is dangerously close to breaking off the flank of the big island ofHawai'i, especially with an active volcano generating M 5 earthquakes at its tsunami Pacific base and the island's plate tectonic motion tilting the block seaward to the southeast.
"\\'hen the block does slump or break free, it has been calculated that it has the potential to generate a tsunami well over l 00-feet high. Not only will such a surge destroy Honolulu completely at near-sealevel elevations, but it will also shoal catastrophically to 80- or even 100-feet heights along the West Coast of California by many estimates.
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Computer simulations show that the 10,000-cubic- kilometers Hi !ina Slump Block will mmrt likely generate at least a 100+-feet-high mega-tsunami if it does break off and *slide down the over-steepened t1ank of the Big Island, displaciog enormous surges of seawater towards both North and South American coastlines. On the Islands themselves, it will be "Goodbye" to Honolulu withio 30 minutes as the giant surges enter Mama!a Bay and wash up to 16 miles inland via Pearl Harbor and other Oahu inlets, killing hundreds of thousands of people.
Similarly, the West Coast of North American emexpeet 50- to 100-feet-bigh surges by the mega-tsunami that will not only destroy ocean-front nuclear facilities like ones at Trident Submarine Base Point Lorna, San Onofre and Diablo Canyon. but that will also swamp whole cities. San Diego, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Venice. Santa Barbara, Monterey. San points north. [! is no! a pretty picture.
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Tsunami-Prone Atl;mtic Gulf Similarly, Pacific Plate subduction and associated over-thrusting in Cascadia Trench off Oregon and Washington are overdue to generate another "Fukushima-type" Coast Nuclear Facilities the mega-tsunami that would be more than 99-feet high by researchers' current Tsunarri-Prone Pacific Coast predictions. Such a surge will impart catastrophic damage not only along the West Coast Nuclear Facilities the u ofNorth America but in Japan and other parts of Asia as well. Of course, PG&E makes little, if any, mention of such scena,'ios. It just isn't good for business! And besides, it makes Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant look like the clear and present danger that included!
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This packet addresses a Post-Fukushima report by Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) on the tectonically-active, Shoreline Fault Zone that is located beside the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant (DCNPP) in Southern California. The report is currently under review by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel in Rockville, Maryland, and is believed to have over-looked important aspects of the nuclear facility's geotectonic and physiographic setting vis a vis the earthquake-generation potential of a major sole fault that runs under the plant at 10 krn depth and the catastrophic dangers of mega-tsunamis hitting the West Coast after being generated by the Hilina Slump Block's failure in Hawai'i or overthrusting in the Pacific Northwest's Cascadia Trench. The information included in this packet is not intended to be the final word on anything but is simply a warning that other things may yet need to be considered about DCNPP's geotectonic and physiographic setting.