ML19249B099
| ML19249B099 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | Rancho Seco |
| Issue date: | 06/24/1979 |
| From: | Wrinkle H AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Gilinsky V, Hendrie J, Kennedy R NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| Download: ML19249B099 (1) | |
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Peter a, 3radford,lienber, John P. Ahearne, Mesher.
Gentleaan, Th2 menbers of ycur icportar.t bcdy along with Harold it. Danton, Direc tor of The Of fice of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, should move swif tly to in the Jula on any problets the 72 Nuclear Pe.er Plants have -r.ow or ray have future---with a view toward keeping then in full eperation in this nost critical t i.: e.
a2 sluple reason is that thero is practically nothing to turn to swiftly to ;et out the kiloitatta needed to keep the hones and the busines ses of the na-tion operating confortably than Nuclear Power, it will take up to five years to replace this kind of power with coal and even longer because of the nuts <ho nahe up the environmental groups who go to great len;ths to sabo tage.tny efforts to get coal fired plants off the gropad.
In California, despite great efforts by Public Utilities such as PG&r---a company which bought coal nines turning out low sulfur coal----no coal using electric generating plant hcs even got ten s tarted.
Great growth in houaing and business broni;ht on by legal and illegal inuigrants (California has about 1,000 illegals sneaking over its borders every day and the government plans to d op thousands more of the ethnic Chinese f rom Vietnam here this y'eia) na.e of electricity and natural gas ha; junped by leaps tad bounds.
One day last nenth PG?I, since the shutdcun of Rancho Seco here, cauc sithin 5/> of a blackout and the real scorching sunner hasn't s tarted yet.
O er 180 aajor companies were told by FGdW to hurry up stand-by genarating equip-v uent becauac if Itancho Seco was held out of service tud the Coogany could not get the 01' to start u (tthich is all finished and ready to go) p their big !!ount Diablo Nucl2ar Plant they might have to be turned off.
This ceans grdat loss of incoca to both the companies and their emplpyees sinc e noc t probably would not be able to get any kind of fuel or even the OK to build their own s tand-bys so the plants may have to close, at Icast partially.
Sacranento Municipal Utility District was urged to build Rancho Seco by the Fedecal, State and local governuental bodias plus the press and IV media. The people of Sacramento County, nunbering less than 750,000 people, are on the hook for about One Billion Dollars the district now oues.
It is cost-in.; the District $13,500 a day in salaries to the trained personnel who nust be kept on at full pay while the facility is shut down (you can't pick up replace-ment personnel in the streets) and with Guards and other charges it runs about i20,000 per day or 3140,000 a week.
Itight now it is " borrowing" power from PG W (which buys all the surplus power from Hauchir Seco) and this aborrowed" power ia being made right now from very expensivo oil and SMUD will have to pay through the nosd for this power if Rancho Seco ia kept closed.
A fair guess woul be that power for houachold use for air conditioning, etc., would triple or quad-rupal in coat to the consuner if the go ahead isn' ' given.
The Dis trict has scade all the changes requested and will gladly cake more at tie direction of the Director Harold Denton, Personnel will be as care-ful as th(t on the U.S. Navy's nuclear powared subs, cr uisers and air craf t carr-headed by the so-called " Friends Of The 1 arth",/ l{rawasking for safety hear ng ar iers.
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their support frc2 college campuses and in the many meetings called by S).flID af ter the Three Mile Island fia-sco wanted to " shut all unblear plants down permanently" regardless of how safe they were.
Oil and Natural Gas are out for nahing power and solar is still far of f where quahtity produc tion is c oncerned.
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