ML18086B698

Supports Licensing of Facilities

ML18086B698
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Site:	Diablo Canyon, San Onofre
Issue date:	03/20/1981
From:	Kidd G AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
To:	Lowery B HOUSE OF REP.
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NUDOCS 8105120346
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• The Honoroble Bill Lowery House of Representatives Washington, D.C. 20515

Dear Mr. Lowery:

I am v.rriting this letter to all San Diego area congressional re-presentatives in the expectation that some combined action v:ill be taken on the problem discussed below.

Dr. Joseph ~'!. Hend.rie, recently reinstated as acting Chairr.ian of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, has now expressed himself as favoring a simplified and expedited process.for the licensing of nuclear power plants. Such a process is urgently needed and no more critically so than in California. ~ere the Diablo Canyon and*

San Onoire Nuclear Stations are hopelessly caught in bureaucratic foot-draggin~ and anti-nuke intervenor mischief.

Diablo Canyon units (2) are now ready for o~eration, in fact, Unit No. 1 has been ready for the loading of fuel for the past 5 years.

The loss of this station's production is now costing the Rate-payers in the P. G. and E. service area S2 millions per uay for the purc~nse of replacement power plus a.,, additional $0.5 millicns per day for interest charges.

And the situation at San Onofre is rapidly moving into the same level of unnecessary fiscal burden to the Sa~ Diego community.

The la.test news out of NRC is that the final licensing hearing has been postponed to early 1982.

Please ta.~e immediate steps, if possible through the entire Cali-fornia concrecsional dele~ation, to stiffen Dr. Hendrie's b~ck bone a.~d expedite the lice~sing of our Califo=nia nuclear s~ations.

Incidentally, throughout the Nati.on we now have 11 new plant"s idle while NRC simply procrastinates - 11,000 MWs total capacity, enerey equivalent 100 million barrels or OPEC oil per year. This is a national scandal.

incerely, ~ld

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The A;/e~ican Society or Mechanical Engineer.a.

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