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Comment (56) by Linda Seeley Opposing Re-Licensing of the Diablo Canyon Power Plant
	ML15282A336
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	08/24/2015
From:	Seeley L; - No Known Affiliation
To:	; Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch
References
	80FR37664 00056, NRC-2009-0552
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Diablo Canyon Power Plant, Units 1 and 2; Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental Impact Statement

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Name: Linda Seeley

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1. It would be very irresponsible of the NRC to approve an ELS that does not take in to account the thousands of tons of radioactive waste that are being stored onsite at the Diablo Canyon plant. The

),, casks in use are 5/8" thick stainless steel, and they are subject.to corrosion, especially in the marine environment. Though the casks are safer than the spent fuel pools for storage of radioactive waste, they are sited, on or near at least a dozen earthquake faults. By comparison, the spent fuel casks that.

~i~survived the earthquake and tsunami at Fukushima were over 9" thick stainless steel. With

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nowhere to store nuclear waste, no plan to build a permanent repository, and the likelihood of having to store the waste onsite for the next 600 years, it is unethical to make more of it. The

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facility should be shut down immediately, and it certainly should not be given a license to operate for another 20 years beyond the license expiration.

,, 2. With the advances in renewable energy, battery storage, and energy conservation that are

.* emerging almost daily, there is absolutely no need for electricity from Diablo Canyon. Nuclear S energy is a 20th Century technology that has no place in the flexible, responsive grid that we need to meet California's energy needs. Local microgrids are being built. Solar roads are becoming a reality. Roofing and window materials that double as solar collectors are here. Wind power, wave power, micro-hydro power - all of these are here and are of the future. Nuclear power is very

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carbon-intensive to build; the mining is toxic to the ecosystem; milling and processing are dirty and dangerous; every plant is over-budget. Dirty, dangerous, and expensive. That's what nuclear file:lllC:/UserslCAGIDownloadslNRC-2009-O552-DRAFY-O049.html 11",2

9/1/2015 N RC-2009-0552-DRAFT-0049.html power is. We must move on for the sake of all of the future generations - out of the dark ages and into a future that is responsible to Earth, to the plants, animals, air, water, and humans - so that life itself can continue.

3. The Independent Peer Review Panel has complained that PG&E ignored its findings and attempts to communicate about seismic conditions at Diablo Canyon. The NRC cannot allow this situation to continue and must order PG&E to confer openly and in good faith with the IPRP.

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