ML20031D338

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Requests Commission Review of Seismic,Security & Emergency Planning Issues.Plant Should Not Be Authorized Unless Sys Adequate to Protect Public Health & Safety
ML20031D338
Person / Time
Site: Diablo Canyon  Pacific Gas & Electric icon.png
Issue date: 08/07/1981
From: Brown W
CALIFORNIA, STATE OF
To: Palladino N
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
NUDOCS 8110130263
Download: ML20031D338 (1)


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Dear Chairman Nunzio Palladino and Commissioners:

as members of the Nuclear Regulator 3 I am writing to ask that you, Cormission, rev'iew the important seismic, security, and emergency planning issues pending in the Diablo Canyon operating license pro-Unless and until you personally find that the plant's ceedings.

seismic safety, security, safety, and emergency planning systems are adequate to protect public health and safety, I ask that the at low power or otherwise.

plant not be authorized to operate, It is my understanding that the Commission has instituted an "imme-diate effectiveness rule" which could permit the Diablo Canyon to be operated without giving all parties the opportunity beforehand to present briefs and arguments directly to the Commis-plant We believe that this rule has no place in the Diablo Can-sioners.

yon proceedings, particularly given the tremendous public concern in California about this facility.

While arguments have been pre-sented to the Commission's licensing and appeal boards, we ask that you now invite brief s and arguments for your own consideration and f

benefit.

Diablo Canyon has been sited only three miles from a major active Public confidence in the institutional integrity l

earthquake fault.

of the Commission would be undermined if the Commissioners were I

Recall-now to avoid a firsthand evaluation of the pending, issues.

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I ing the recommendation of the Presidential Kemeny Commission for a fundamental " change in attitude" at the Nuclear Regulatory Com-In mission, we urge thac you make Diablo Canyon the litmus test.

neither "irmediate effectiveness" nor any other proce-my judgment, dural practice should inhibit you from ~ personally confronting the facts and arguments in this unprecedented case.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

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