NRC-2014-0189, Comment (1) of Caleb Laieski on Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations
| ML14252A137 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 08/26/2014 |
| From: | Laieski C - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Acquisition Management Division |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 79FR49104 00001, NRC-2014-0189 | |
| Download: ML14252A137 (2) | |
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,, Page 1 of2 As of: September 03, 2014 Received: August 26, 2014 PUBLICPUBLC SUBMISSION S BMISIONTracking Status: Pending-Post No. ljy-8e~i-56v2 Comments Due: September 18, 2014 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2014-0189 Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations Comment On: NRC-2014-0189-0001 Biweekly Notice; Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations cg//,7/
Document: NRC-2014-0189-DRAFT-0001 Comment on FR Doc # 2014-19386 Submitter Information Name: Caleb Laieski General
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Dear Chairman Macfarlane:
It has come to my attention that the former Senior Resident Inspector at the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant filed a differing professional opinion with the NRC in which he recommended that the Commission shut Diablo Canyon while addressing the fact that the reactors and internal equipment are no longer correctly tested and licensed given new earthquake information that exists in regard to the Shoreline, Los Osos and San Luis Bay faults which surround the plant.
It is unconscionable that the NRC has allowed Diablo Canyon to continue operating without fully analyzing seismic threats to the reactors. It is also astonishing to me that your agency has not only failed to act on this report but has suppressed the publication of the report despite the request by the author that his paper be made public.
I understand that Friends of the Earth has now petitioned the agency to close the reactors and to force Pacific Gas and Electric to undergo a public licensing review should they wish to continue to operate these reactors. I strongly support this petition and ask that you take immediate action to comply.
As a geologist, I am sure that you are aware that USGS technical staff posit that the Shoreline, Los Osos, San Luis Bay, and Hosgri faults could be connected, potentially causing larger earthquakes than Diablo Canyon was designed to withstand. According to PG&JE itself, the Shoreline, Los Osos and San Luis Bay faults could all ittps://www.fdms.gcov/fdms-web-agency/component/contentstreamer?objectld=090000648 18465f3&for... 09/03/2014
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If there were a proposal to build reactors on the Diablo Canyon site today, there is no way, knowing what we do now, that it would be accepted. Dont let what we didnt know decades ago be an excuse for keeping people and the environment at risk today. The NRC must shut the Diablo Canyon reactors down until and unless Pacific Gas & Electric can prove through a public licensing process that the plant can withstand the seismic activity that we now know exists throughout the area.
Thank you for your time and consideration, Caleb Laieski https://www.fdms.gov/fdms-web-agency/component/contentstreamer?objectld=09000064818465f3&for... 09/03/2014