ML15275A216

Comment (41) of Sam Casalina on Deick'S Opinions Regarding Reducing the Source of CO2 Emissions by Increasing the Use of Hazardous Fissionable Nuclides

ML15275A216
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	11/04/2014
From:	Casalina S - No Known Affiliation
To:	Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch, The Tribune
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80FR37664 00041
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November 8, 2014 Letters to the Editor The Tribune M~r. Deick's letter of November 7th contains opinions not in the realm of reality. Reducing the source of CO2 emissions by increasing the use of hazardous fissionable nuclides is like crowing about having quit smoking cigarettes by puffing crystal meth. For radiation health physicists like myself who have done the duck-walk in fully-confining personal protective clothing and respirators, trying to dissolve contamination from radioactive debris spilled on laboratory floors and surfaces, the task was depressing, back-breaking, and exposed us to carcinogens as well. It is not an experience we wish to see repeated.

Any slightly porous surface even "sprinkled" with radioactive fallout will probably, in my experience, need decontamination. In reality, this could mean: Good-bye vineyards, orchards, farms, grazing land and valued living structures. Wherever we fallible humans build and operate fallible machines and components, one or both will fail. Diablo Canyon is not exactly brewing beer out there. If there were a release of their product, we would not expect our neighborhoods to smell like Pabst Blue Ribbon.

Mr. Deick's opinions prompt me to suggest that if his cheers for nuclear power are so glowing, I would offer to help land him a real estate agent's job in Chernobyl, Russia or Fukushirna, Japan.

Yours truly, Sam Casalina, Ph.D 150 Cornerstone Arroyo Grande, CA 93442 c49- C+/-26

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