ML20030D047

Package of Three Ltrs Supporting Licensing of Facilities

ML20030D047
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	08/11/1981
From:	Darling C, Darling M, Finley G, Vanner M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC
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NUDOCS 8108310337
Download: ML20030D047 (5)

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Nuclear Regulatory Commission 1717 H. Street Ny Washington, D. C 20555 Gentlemen:

When the liberal Democratic 3acramento BFA carries the attached lean editorial " Diablo Canyon:

No More Debate" its long past time for your Commission to get off the dime and move promptly to put P.G. & 3. nuclear power plant th. e in operation.

Its a disgrace that it has taken 14 years to bring this plant to near operation, especially since w Sdcerel

\\ greatly need lower cost energy.

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of Pacific Gas and Electric's Diablo Canyont : refuse to open it.

a, fnucirst power plant hav.e had every opportu-It.is.true that far more money has been nity to challenge the safety and the environ 2 spent on the Diabic Canyon plant than origi-

. mental impact of that p ant.They have been nally. estimated.(and its 14. year construction l

heard in court and in public hearings, and. -history does not offer mush encouragement

- federal regulators have responded to 'their for'new. nuclear builgng), But these costs are

. ' concerns by requirmg PG&E to make all sorts st!!rffi5derate compared to what it would cost

' of studies a' d design and engineering im ; to start building even a non. nuclear replace-n

' provements. In the wake of Three Mlle Island, ment plant today. Indeed,.if oil prices keep the regulators imposed new delays to recheck. rising the way they have been and if Diable themselves and added new safety require.. Canyon functions as well as it's' designed to, v the cost of electricity is actually likely to be-7 ments.

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yon is oCine than it would be with continued openness of this regulatory process,and it has oil use mstead. Moreover, if Diablo Canyon come to the point where one'must, therefore,. does not go on line, PG&E would be in desper,

accept its conclusionLThe federal regulators.

have decided that the Diablo Canyon plant is : : ate financial trouble, and it would be the rate-rafe, can withstand any likely earthquake, and '. payers who woufd finally have to ball it out.

should be permitted.to begin operational test-

- 4 ing soon.While reasonable people might still. ~ T"he Diablo Canyon case is not yet clos disagree cbout the wisdom of allowing any - - l Operational tests,must still prove the plant's reliability, and emergency plans must -

nuclear power plant to open, there is no more meet regulatory approval before the plant is information to' be gained from further fact,

finding about Diablo Canyon, no more atten pumitted to go on line. But, in a way, me debate over Diablo Canyon is already a relic -

tion to be focused by further demonstrations.- of an era when California utilities were still The controversy at this point is essentially. pinnning for enormous increases in electricity political, and it must finally be left tar the Nu consumpdon and wue s2 wedded to large,

clear Regulatt,ry Commation, the arbitrator plants asme best way of meedng mose,

our political representatives havefhm tof resolvelt.

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little consumption growth is to be expected in 1

California, and both the state's energy officials It is much clearer now than it once was that

, utilities should'be wary of constructing new and the private utilities have endorsed future nuclear power p' nts. The decline in building ' supply plans that depend on the more cost-and the lack of funding for nuclear' plants effective options of conservation and the de-across the country attest to the fact that mak-velopment of smaller, diverified power sourc-ing nuclear power plants reasonably safe

. es. In addition, Californian have passed a law and slogging through the lengthy regulatory prohibiting the siting of any more nuclear procedures necessary to assure their safety --

power plants in the state until the problems of has turned into a 'very expensive proposition.

nuclear waste disposal have been resolv But the Diablo Canyon plant has already been Diablo Canyon's opponents ha;; lost ir

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