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| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 09/16/1976 |
| From: | Krejsa R SAN LUIS OBISPO, CA |
| To: | Gossick L NRC OFFICE OF THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS (EDO) |
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.e n kmofthaswl September 16, 1976 g,3, g o,,,yyy M. E. WIL:.EPCRO KuRT P KUPPeR McWARC MANK'NS OR. ' dcHARC J. KREJSA Mr. Lee V. Gossick Execu:ive Di rector for Cpera:icns Nuclear Regulatory Ccemission Washington, D.C. 20555 Cear Mr. Gossick:
Thank y'cu for ycur respense (19 August 1576) to Congressman Lagera rs ino's incui ry en my behal f rega rding nucl ear acciden:
preparedness in San Luis Obispo County.
The report I prepared was simply a sum:.ary of the main findings of two indepencen: s:ucent surveys.
While the re-pcrt seemed to ycu to paint "a rather black p'icture", I can perscnally vouch that seme of the actual replies received by In writing my summary of : heir the students were far bleaker! incriminating evidence and ccm-efforts, I edited cc: the most I did this intentionally ments made by the agencies surveyed.
as I did wish to give all the agencies :he cpper: uni:y :c "get their act together" iF they fel: any moral or iegal coliga:icn to do so.
I did no: wish to alienate any persen or any agency.
I certainly wcul dn't intend to challenge the documen:<
which you say ycu have on file "which seem to indicata tr-the emergency preparedness capabilities are be :er ther I
ca te d".
I can tell you unequivecably that, except fer :he Evacuation Plan, there is s Ccunty plan Sheri ff's Departmen:
The Sheriff's clan only speaks to the six mile at this time.
LPZ, an area with less than 18 pecple, but abcut half the l
pcpulation of cur Ccunty is located within a 12 mile radius of the plant and there is no plan for their evacuation!
Perhaps.NRC is satisfied that the Diablo Canycn facility emergency plan " meets all of the requirements of the licen-cing regulations" but,I am not.
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to Mr. Raymond Whi:e, da t ed jletterfecmMr.RussellPcwellletter is more a holicw premise of 18 Cecember 1972:
-Tha t hcped for bureaucratic intent than an actual s:stement of fact.
It has ne substance at all since cur first "Ccunty Emergency Plan" (which is also a ecmpiliatien of what might be done rather than an implementing instrument) was not hxhbd b 8185040475 a
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.. September 16, 1976 adopted by the Board of Supervisors until mid-1975 and copies were not printed and available for agercy distribution until June, 1976.
Incidentally, Mr. Powell is a member of the County staf f not a member of the Board of Supervisors.
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to provide the necessary facility and services"..
It is my Is understanding that, as of about four months ago, no such
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1W.G.& E. nor wi th County Gen,eral or French Hospi ta l !
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To my knowledge such respony sibility has. never been publicly admitted, as my student reports in d i ca t ed.
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Prior to three weeks ago, you would be hard pressed to find anyone around here who would be willing to make a state-ment such as that made by four years ago.
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sl ightly pl eased, however,:Mr. Powel l to report that three weeks ago i
our Board of Supervisors finally tock action (on a 3:2 vote) to move the accident preparedness issue from the back burner.
An administrative team was formed and the first meetinc of an informal County " Disaster Council" was hel d September I4th.
A time table has been set to get a preliminary Nuclear Power Plant Emergency Response Plan draf t to the Board of Supervisors on October 25th.
A dmi t tecl y, this is an lith hour response, but it is a giant leap forward for our County.
I doubt it woul d have occurred if I hadn' t persisted in our ef forts to 1
make this negligence known to the people.
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evacuation and coordination.
We lack the technical exper.tdse and equipment' to detail and document what it is that we are evacuating peopl e from.
Whose respons ibil i ty i s it to provide this expertise and equipment?
And a t wha t cos t ?
Who will pay?
I anxio.usly await the dra f t of the response plan.
I sincerely hope that, for the well-being of the County residents, it is not as shallow as previous premises.
Thank you for your concern and consideration of my remarks.
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KREJsA Supervisor, Fifth District San Luis Obispo Ccunty RJK:d cc:
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MR-E!E PG&E says nuclear plant safets be and re0,luirement
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Flasses pictarut handtses of pse-Diaate Caayos macient power plaat Mas:aebesetts Iastttate ef pie suffertes affacts as far away as
, has bees Lacrongs and goes beyoad Teconseegy protemase and m-maar Lornose and Saata Mana, mia Ge l etat is regnaret ef tae Uesea e( Ceaeerae4 priencues Last"yf per eastof the re-They sad masy of tae comcwars Ptymetsts taastaats of Avtle Beact weed dae
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safety piammag wwe Dr. Retand caned ter "sta specne sammer* to The beanas was corussctad by tae Eastaa, henak paymcsst from Stae. hele 6eter'nias waat cosid happen.
Caufernsa Eastgy Rossettes !srd Unverney and Dale andes-Dr. 5ramit sad Dr. Ftr.stan's accs-Casservaties sad Levelopeest besen. sectent engmeer wee former-dont var est "most tileir and a
Camanasse, ty worsed for General Cettne and latelee it "a=== ** " He sad the Comausanosers es hand with represented Metaers tre Peace.
resort oted by the Staaford protes-mesisers of cent staff were A'ah Dr. Wlmars J. L.asha&d. PG&E ser acmaa!y f'.q arse out te be a ame.a greiect eegineer at DiasieL 1<niHies meereccal pesscalaty.
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.Dtispe Caasty's eaergeacy vocatat was alrtaer a ; art of the cdeet." he sad.
russene and evacuause plass for plasmas at Diaele Caaves. Ertdem.
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the Dianis pians are adequata.
bouga said is Wa tasumesy that he be very smaa" at Diaana. sad Dr.
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.i casarman of the honrag -of beag bougal was tesutytag for as.* sad Dr. Brunot stresud the " set.
r==ada far "as imaa ance* is Dr. (Jaobad, standsst recerg" of safety is the
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Dr.1rtillam Brine.. PG&E sucaar energy incuscy. Ee sad me l
Decer :marpd that Pastarsars siclear estiseef, ctarted Dr. nsa fross acedents was "masa
' pertepues was "'tarrow" amt sad Flastas's tastimeer e ytataed sma'!ar* a me escfest mergy m.
Passarnats statarnants barserad on "some inacesrzta statsmacg* He dastry tana a ocaer indastnet He sad that extensrve sua specSe "parammed" and were "tacecomung, sad Mastas "mtsused t3e data.". stacies have tees done.
of voor office."
Anstes paated a fr4staeast pic Daciarwas responsible for hafwg tart af wtat he sad cugnt he as es.
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a conf erence teirptoes set us at the sected sec=me to a talor disastar _ gg;,g,g,
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i Camalawed (mas pees l DLable islowertsaa at other naciear Sert Townsend. staff member piast stan. and mort att fewer uth the $14 Causty Resta Age' icy:
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. Rnchard Kretsa. memser of tamaicas at $14 County Honestal
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the $4s Las Otnspo Caenry Board of ame Dr. David landertL engsgat is 5mpuvisart enumsse has evenry's amorpacy meencae a $as Las pace and levd of expensatares is Dtissa, ad rasses canewss aeout preparing plass arvoiving evacuause medacal stal! mEnpass to trt.at precederus and esaar safety ese-vienms of sudaar acceenst They I
alas sad taere has seen ;riadersate curus reaar.: to the Diasie ptaat He raised sewersi crittcat smets.
trnasag for secs tresanent
'w=nar me czarp that PG&E has Jarnes HarwooA regional Cff!ce as larmal apvanant for menacal at Leerpney Services, sad me 4
j care fnxa sectent aceseau mit cuermanian could estaa staa:es that any hausstalla the cosecy. assy mta saewed recs fears vers preesely us.
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a== PC&E disastad the ensteouse ame Gearp !Hva, civi disamer coer.
saad they de have a format agree-dantor for saa Laas Cbtsee Cseory, mest wie SieTa Vista Hospitat for eetnaed the consty's plans for evacuacasifit were ever secessary.
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fGlama Cartsee, adnumstratar at He sad agreements have not been Sierra Y1sta Herpital. toed The made vita meerparstas eties. Det T*. mas ey tasesaane t3at me saecital seggested as. aeterd essM te does not aave a Inocang artenent.
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. Numerous witnesses raised ces-j Pacne Cas and Cactrtc. He saad certis atout safety plaamns ane the taure has team contact between the adeenacy of 2e emary's evacsanos two. lactumag a lettar. het *'se
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N the socion of Supertisor Kre'sa. seconded by Suce:risor Kuoper. to adope 18 E.8 a r6 solution declart g opposi.cion to cons:nction of mid-cers or pers.
i nuclear vaste disposal sites 'or processing centers in San Luis anen Cbispo County, los on the follevi=g roll call voce. :o vi:
Supervisors Krej=sa. KupperSuper risors Hei ann. '4111eford. Chair:an Ms-k' AYES:
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I. MI53Z3 L'CLI.AM. County Clark and Iz-Cfficio Clerk of the Board of Supe risors of :he Councy of SA: Luis Chispo and ex-officio Clark of the goversing body for all other speelal assessmen: and caring distrie:s for which said Board so acts.
i do hereby cenify tha: the foregoiss is a fair stata=en: of the proceedings of che neecing held May 13,1973, by the 3 card of Supe: risors of the Coun:7 of San Luis Cbispo, and ex-officio che gove==i=g body of all other special assess =e::
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AUI M, V JU1y 16s. 1976 M4 of du M MANS >'E:L.MANN M. L W:L: EFC AD MuRT P. KuPPER HCWAM: MANKINS Mr. Richard L. Paul 1in, Cha.ir=an on. nicam J. ut 'sA State Energy Rescurces Ccnservation and Develcpment Cenmission 1111 Hewe Avenue Sacramento, r,alifernia 95c25
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Regarding crder No. 76-512-3, Occke: Nc.:
76-517-1, in which ycu invite cccrents en the plans -
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plants, I wish to make the follcwing cec =ents.
On Oc:cher 6,1976, the Nuclear Regulatory Cc.missien will hol d eviden:iary hearings en the
' environmental portien cf :he cperating license for Unit one cf the Diabic Canyon Nuclear Pcwer Flant
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here in San Luis Obispo.
An addi:icnal hearinc en Safety will be held later in the year, no date'has yet been set.
s Many of my constituen:s and I are concerned abcut the lack of nuclear preparedness of Iccal
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accident or emergency.
Recently, I attempted to have cur Scard of Supervisors fund an additional half-time ecsitien for cur Civil Disaster Cecedinator who new cc'cuci,es caly fundi.' g wcul d a hal f-time posi t t en.
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have enabled:
1) an earlier cenpletien of cur Nuclear ?cwer
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Plant Emergency Response Plan; 2) distributien of infor:.atien and material related to Civil Disaster and emergency plans to interested agencies and :he public; 3) planning of test exercises and =cck emergencies in order :o determine weaknesses in cur system when the N.P.?.E.R.P.
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The Scard of Supervisers turned dcwn this request.
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There exists an unfortunate but general assump-i tion that the State and Federal Government is respon-
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with it.
Since local goverr. ment's role in the exis-tence and siting of large energy projects has largely if not entirely been pre-empted by State and Federel agencies, we are new somewhat reluctant to have local taxpayers carry the burdensome costs of studies, plans, emergency services, and health precautions associated with and made necessary.by the presence of a nuclear power plant.
I am interested in all six of the issues listed in paragraph II, but especially in items 2, 4, and 5, relative to evacuation alert, plans and monitoring.
At this time I do not kncw whether I will be able to attend either 'of your scheduled
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In the event that I cannot make a ' personal appearance, 1 enclose 12 ccpies of a report I recently prepa re-d rela ti ve to the present lack of preparedness in San Luis Obispo County in the event of a nuclear emergency _
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. our current status is in any way typical of other areas, currently under cons.truction or pro-sosed for nuclear plant siting, your Ccmmission will 1 ave an ample share of work to perform in the immediate
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Thank you for your consideration of my letter and the enclosed report.
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REJ A Supervisor, Fi fth District San Luis Obispo County RJK:d encl:12 a) letter to Board of Supervisors b) survey of Nuclear Accident Preparedness l
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sum m m u.ana a.a w an uas July 1, 1976 Dr. Richard Krejsa Vice Chairman and Supervisor, 5th District San Luis Cbispo County Courthouse Annex San Luis Obispo, California 93401
Dear Dr. Krejsa:
Thank you for your 1ctter and subey.
'I have referred your letter to the U.S. Nuclear Reg-ulatroy Comission, the agency which has federal responsibility for seeing that all nuclear plants are properly prepared for a nuclear accident. As soon as I receive a response from the NRC, I will forward it to you.
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Dear Members of the Comission:
I wish to coment orally at the November 4th hearing regarding the matter of emergency response, evacuation plans, and civil preparedness associated with the Diablo Canyon nucl ear faci 1ity.
On July 16, 1976, I forwarded 12 copies of an i nfor-mation packet regarding this matter to Mr. Richard Maullin, Chairman of the Cenmission, in preparation for the hearings that were initially scheduled for August 23rd and 25th.
Those copies apparently have been lost so I am sending another packet of 12 sets of back-up information regarding the oral testimony I intend to present on November 4th.
I trust that this information packet will be perused by each member of the Comission prior to my testimony.
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[ lack of preparedness of cur County and primary agencies toSpecifically, m implement and fund any of the actions necessary in the event of an off-site (primarily) emergency resul ting from activities at Diablo Canyon or frem the trans-shipment of ear naterials or spent fuel through our County.
j i look forward to addresting and meeting your honor-able Comission on November keh.
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should be is no place within the coun-
'"Med Strong. executive a prelimmary solid waste replaced by the original:
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management plan had ban
" Prepared emergency Krejsa said the ccunty is vironmental Estance and
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plans have beer. buv.ed in the not prepared for a nuclear Ectmomb. Sta*)ihty. said he nection with..uclear con.
hureaucracy and wedd take accident at DiaW. and even wucid lika to see the nucle:r tingencies and hazardous too much ti:ne to find. !=t 11 ageraies' personnel were scate issue clearod up hy (ne wastes from what was alone implement (in tne event prepared, they are not facerai Nue! ear Regdatney originally drafted by the of an emergency)."
trained to cope with one.
(*unmission rather than have county staff.,
I And where it says there Chairman llans Heilmann the t.9unty's plan "get.11 tied Krejsa made.his remarks "should be one place mthin said nuclear waste is "an us in t.st ;srticular pontics!
tiaring a Board of Supervisors the county"_wp copin of an pop Hem. cymplet.e fontbsH." )
meeting to consider the preliminary plan. Con.
sideration of the proposal.
continued from May 17, was postponed again to an in-definite date after budget hearings this week.
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plan's c:ll fer mandatory garbage collection in all unincorporated areas where r.......
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San Luis Obispo County Council chambers, 10:o agencies don't know what cidents - speciResny at the Supervisor R!cnard Krejsa ' Spring St.
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PG&E Diablo Canyon plant.
wiu criticize the count 7 The loc lcommu=ityis in Krejsa said.
vacustica p!an for Diablo spoorpositlanto respondte
- For instance az=bulance Krejsa said the plan was. e weakened because when Canyon nuc!est power plant a nuclear accidant as Dlab!o personnel doc't know what.
sa:tions were discussed last at ahearingbefore the St. ate Canyon because there is no to do with a reclicactive
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the community was divided.
Thes h a'n".=nen wiH tralams for count) person, certacsinated panents, he So much of the original review the plan at a public net. Krejsa ssdd.
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A study 3,,,,g g,' esa. ducted by A later check cf county I
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include much of the deleted mater.al in a
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plan" but indicated it has not '
been included and probably won't be. He said the stronger language should be restored.
Forinst.aree. Krejsa said, a section saying " prepared energency plans, in some I
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Testimony to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Ga rety Licens ing Boa rd Envi ronmental Hea rings k-h[f' for the operating License at P.G. S. E's Diablo Canyon Mc Lus of 6 so a Nuclear Power Plant - Madonna inn Wine Cellar H ANs HEiu.tAsn M. E WILLEFC.70 KuRT P. KuPPER HoWARD MANKINS OR. RICH ARO J. KREJEA December 7, 1976 Madame Cha irperson and members of the Committee:
Thank you for allowing the peopl.
to sing.
You stated that this is not a town hall meeting.
But since the people's options are by lack of informational access, etc., limited in so many other ways I don't think you ought to limit their expression of spontaneity; it's one of the few things they as yet can do without being taxed for it!
My name is Dr. Richard J. Krejsa and I am a resident of San Luis Obispo.
I am a biologist by profession and a County Supervisor for District 5, by the will of the people.
I concur with the earlier statements of all those who urge caution.
Mr. Kidwell, my_former colleague on the Bor d of Supervisors, who testified earlier this morhing, is a former colleague specifically because he no longer repre-sented the majority of his constituency.
I was recently re-elected to another 4 year term by a heal thy 54% major-ity.
My views on and concern for nuclear power safety have never been secret and I believe are reflective of a major portion of my constituency.
l Yet, as an elected public official, I feel the burden of representation'most heavily when attempting to place in balance the issues surrcunding nuclear power as discussed so carefully, colorfully and soberly by the various resi-dents who testified here today.
Om side argues environmental hazard and lack of publ ic sa fe ty; the other side argues icbs and tax assessments and an unyielding faith in technology.
But people are no longer willing to accept bland official assurances or re-a s su ra nces.
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7, 1976 The nuclear plant does not pollute with snoke and fumes, or with ash.
But it dces produce radicactive substances which, al-though unseen, are potentially very dangercus pollutan...
2 The industry however does not, it seems, want to educate the public on these facts.
Rather, their pamphlets soft pedal the issue with neutral words.
Nowhere do the words "dangereus" or "hazardcus" appear in the several educational pamphlets available to the public f rom P.G. & E.
While such extremely dangercus land reactor westes are stored in carefully-engineered containers, we have no way of safely disoosing of the wastes.
The public is not reassured by utility and ERDA promises tnat "something will turn up".
How can we believe that somethine will " turn up" when our best scientists are still trying to figure cut a way to rid the world of some of the collution introduced with the industrial revolution 150 years ago?
The mother who spoke this morning said to her children:
" Clean up one mess before making another."
Tne report of Sritain's Royal Ccmmission on Environmental Pollution, issued in September 1976, indicates that an alternate strategy is necessary and that B ri tai n shoul d go sl ow.
A rco rd-ing to Sir Bricn Flowers *, its Chairman, the Commission:
" believes first of all that for semething as basic as energy, one shoul d not relv en a orecess that creduces in cuantiev a b v-o re duc t as dancercus as clutonium unicss one is e6solutelv convinced that there is no reasonable alternative course of action."
With regard to waste disposal, Sir Ficwers says, "in spite of some good ideas, no single method has yet been estab-l lished beyond reasonable doubt."
And further:
"The relevant research has only just begun, and even new the rescurces being devoted to such work are negligible ccmpared with its importance.
If pursued with adequate vigor this work might take 10 or 20 years to reach
__e doubt whether it, g wise _t_o contemolate nation-fruition.
W al rel iance on nucl ea r ecwer unt il it has been estaot,sned i
enat enere exists at least one methoc to disoose of its in-s i ci ou s -bv-o rocuct s. "
"What concerns us is that this country, and indeed the l
l worl d, shoul d not commi t itsel f to rel iance on nuclear power until that course is secr. te be inescapable, and then only if
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it has been adequately prepared for."
l in December 1966, P.G. & E. applied to the i
10 years ago, California P.U.C. for authorization to buil d unit one.
After public hearings whTch began in February 1967, the P.U.c. granted the necessa ry certi ficate and' a f ter publ ic hea rings.the A.E.C.
l granted a permit to build the first nucl ear unit in February. 1968.
- Sir Brian Flewers, F.R.S. 6.In) Sull. Atemic Scientists, 32 (10).:
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Members of the Committee Page Three Cec. 7, 1976 All the hearings, which granted initial of this safe cle permission for the start hel d wi thin a one y, ea r 'an, h igh l y-taxab l e,s period of time 10 year energy pro were most everyone believed in Santa Claus tool when al-a di f ferent world and a different At any rate, it was economy.
Even P.G. & E. be-lieved that the cost of Units One and Two would be $400 million a figure 'that has now approached $1 billion.
Now, a decade later, P.G. & E.'s desired start up time /or Unitand approxima tel y h months be fore in the following circumstances:
One, we find ourselves 1.
-A last minute push in Emergency Service to get a nuclear accident 1975 by the State Of fice of each nuclear unit in the State of California. response plan for An even later crash program by the County to piece gether for a " planned" accident which cannot be seen,in 6 weeks, a resp to-by the general public.
heard or fel t The plan, at pres,ent, is unworkable.
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An as yet general belief by the public, 10 years of industry propaganda through the media and in al-fostered by most every monthly. electric bill, that an _ accident Canven is extremely "unlikelv"; that the radia t ion f rom a at Diablo nuclear power plant reactor immeasurably low".
i s " ins igni ficant" or "a lmos t etc.; that the " peaceful a tom" -- " benefits eg ricul ture" --
i.'t rea t s ma l a dies tha t bese t both man and beast" and get this i
atom moves ou,r Na vy!" moves our modern nucl ea r Navy".
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misunderstanding of the diversity of species concept) pos ated that a _new species will arise as a resul t
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So new species will irradiation caused mutgenic agentlikely arise or be created unless l
there is some Some existing warm water species might migrate to do so!
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10 CRF 50, Appendix E Section IV-0 sta tes that an applicant must make arrangeme,nts with local officials and 1
applicant must,cgencies for any help that may be needed in an emergency.
I An as you know, de t e rmi ne tha t he _ha s me t the re-
@j quirements. The NRC's safety Evaluation Report, October 16, 1974, states that the "NRC sta f f reviewed the da te d i s Diablo Canyon facility emergency plan a.nd found that il forms with. Appendix E and was a'cceptable."
it con-i letters - SV Hosp. January 25, 1973, and one(On basis of two
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(Repeat.)
,f Only recently an arrangement between P.G. & E. and private phys icians to care for on-s ite emergencv.. e d i ca l treatment for up to 5 injured was made.
Ha dame Cha i rperson, I might r* peat something that was said ea rl ier.
The automobile no longer serves that purpose for which it was invented, i.e.,
to move people about.
I t 's prima ry function new is to keep the econcmy alive.
I f we don ' t sell 10' million cars this (past) year, our economy will plunge once more.
We are aware now that there are more workers involved in cancer research than there are people with cancer!
Professor Ivan Illich believes and documents that there is more disease caused by the medical profession than is cured by it.
Man mc de disease is a function of the Industriosphere.
We new utilize 9.5 industrial calories for every one
, calorie of edible dnergy.
i The cost of energy going into some crops is greater than that which we get out,
.to provide more and more pcwcr for less and less food!yet we are willing Will the nuclear power industry also pervert the ori safe electrical energy - ginal Intent of its creation --
i.e.,
to produce power as anv cost to people, to our standards of living, to our environment?
I doubt that any agency would have allowed any initial permits based on what we knew now.
I submit copies of correspondence documentin with safety aspects over the past years and urge,g my concernfor the that safety of the people, and the environment as a whole, you take your charge most seriously.
I wish you God's blessings on your final deliberations, which i view as one of the most critical decisions ever to be made in our County, in the words of th'e song suns' earlier:
',' Do n ' t let it slip away."
OR. RICF RO J. KREJSA Supervisor, Fifth District San Luis Obispo County O
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