ML20032B791
| ML20032B791 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 10/15/1981 |
| From: | James Smith AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Joseph Kelly Atomic Safety and Licensing Board Panel |
| References | |
| NUDOCS 8111060331 | |
| Download: ML20032B791 (8) | |
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Dear Mr. Kelly:
Please enter the following statement into the record of the hear-ings on seismic and evacuation measures taken by the applicants for licensing San Onofre Units II and III.
7' sing both dates for pub]ic testinny at both lo stions - San Diego d San Clemente - I tried to orally enter my comments before the board.
But 7emember aow many others had the same wish.
I waited ard watched in the papers for another date set in Ana-heim until finally I read that the hearings were over.
Hence my tak-ing this letter route.
Thanks for your attention to this.
Also, could someone there let me know what becomes of my request?
Finally, let me thank you for your patience this past su=mer.
The hearings were frustrating for everybody but, for a fortunate few, a catharsis as well.
For myself, the hear. Is - both public and tech-nical - should have been on TV.
They gave me fresh insight into the problen of nuclearitis, for which I am grateful.
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TISTIMONY pago 1 of Jeffery J. Smith before the A3LE hearing on San Onofre Units II and III, Southern California, summer of 1981.
My ncne is Jeffery J. Smith.
I live in La Jolla.
I am a teacher and an inventor.
My most noteworthy invention to date ic a non-pollu-ting engine once investigated by NASA and found wortny of further re-search, as long as 1 (sic) pay for it.
Also, 1 as the official cartoo-nist for the Lunatic Fringe, Inc. and with me are my wares.
(Nuclear energy is like Richard Nixon in that, sadly, it is easy to poke fun at.)
What i am not is a lawyer; nor an expert,.
But i'n not so sure that would make any difference.
No less a personage than Einstein said i
"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and we thus drif t toward unparalleled ;catas-trophes...
To the village square we must carry the facts of ato-mic energy... from there will come America'; voice."
Cartoon (1) says "No radiation without representation".
I admit i welcome the chance to blow off a little safe steam; but a thank you is not in order.
I'd rather my testimony not be necessary.
The research is arduous; and poking fun really is no fun.
C'ill, the word must get out.
And th,,e media won' t do it.
That's a funny thing, because the facts are newsworthy.
It is these very facts about nuclear power that must be icnored, for San Onofre Units II and III to be li-censed.
To me, this is the cruz of the issue - how does a rational mind overlook the truth?
Consider the magnitude of the facts highlighted by these posters.
(2):"The missing link in the descent of man, radiation - unnatural se-lection".
(3):" Mutants For a Radioactive Future".
(4):"The only red Indian is a dead Indian".
(5):"At San Onofre State Beach, Tan While Swimming!
Offer good to 24,000 AD, Courtesy your local utility".
(6):" Shake n' Bake, For Crispy Critters without even trying, San Onofre has its Faults".
(7):"No Quaking, Reactor Zone, By order of N2 C" shows a builder saying to a utility official, '9 Don' t worry.
We've got no fault insurance."
(8):" Beat the queke - Evacuate.
Long Over-due Vacations, Unlimited" shows a stampede of lemmings dashing the wrong way, to the cliffs of San Onofre, to thejr doom.
(9):" Unlimited Potentia'? Accident - waiting to happen" chows a fuse from the San Onofre dome.
(10):"Why take chances?" shows an NRC (written in the shape of a temple / treasury))" Keeps cor-official painting a Star of David on the twin domes.
(11 :"The Price-Anderson Act" porations safe thru any nuclear disaster".
A brief aside:
The co-au-thor of this law, Jonn Anderson, is the same man that the Tri-Lateral Commission ran for president last fall as a " liberal".
Se wary, liber-als.
Stay : lear of two-party candidates.
Register and vote Citizens' Party.(12):"Af ter- $67 million you think San Oncfre still leaks?!" is.said official wearing a raineo + eand _showa_ ducks \\ waddling by an-by and trout leaping up a corridor. 7 insidF the' plant h It s an irrevocable law of physics that high temperature steam carrying miner-
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als must corrode metal, including the metal pipes of the steam genera-tor in all heavy-water reactot<.
Altho (sic) every steam generator leaks, only nuclear fueled ones leak radiation.
At the end of the cycle there is the permanent disissal of waste, including the plant itself.
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"Deconmissioned by 2000 AD, Rechtel Wrecks, In compliance with all NRC rules".
,hhrame for a minute that radiation were healthy and consider only dollars and cents realism as advocated by the Harvard Sonool of Business, (14):" San Onofre Standard & Poor's of the Wall Street Journal, et al.Can we spare the change costs a pretty penny,
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TESTIEONY page 2 of Jeffery J. Smith before the ASLB hearing on San Onofre Units II and III, Southern California, summer of 1981.
With the porcine corporador, the slogan "In corp we trust", the word
" equity", the date "1984".
(15) "Let the market decide" shows a util-ity expert nailing an "Out of Order" sign over the sun.
(16):shows the lyric "There's no business like glow business" being sung by three can-canning piglets,- Miss Voice, Miss Of, Miss Energy - while a patron, General Atomicue, stuffs a bill into a blouse saying "They sing so sweet i can't contain myself".
(17):"How many corporations does it take to screw the public?" shows the utility lightbulb, Killerwatt, riding a stepladder turned by laboring, exhausted consumers and answer-ing "We are all one, eh?".
(18) shews-an alley, a "No. Exit" sign an a brick
< walk wittthe.grafiti'" Nuclear Energy Traps is", and'a pusher saying to his junkie, Uncle Sam, "Not to worry.
I got something stronger.
Trust me".
(19):" FREE Enterprise, JAIL Corporations" shows the renewable alternadves baind bars.
(20):"But we need the energy" is whined by a consumer under a lamp whose pull chain is a noose; its electrical chord is plugged into a nuclear plant labeled "THE" by a corporador thinking "Say anything often enough..."; and in the background is a frowning sun.
Energy is a crisis only because the solution is terminal to the capi-talist and germinal to the consumerist.
(21):"See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil" shows the three
=onkeys - N, R, C - being handed a rubber stamp by the nuclear indus-try.
Utilities can be in compliance with all !aC rules and still wreak havoc on us.
(22):" Murphy's Law repealed by NRC, after testimay by professional yes-men" prostituthg their degrees for the utilities, i continue.
Their job is not to present the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the tru;h so help them God, but to present a winning case, so help them corporation.
(23):"The leak has been gagged, uh, fixed, to our satisfaction".
(24):"Kerr-McGee Grocery, Special on bolognee!
Fortified!
Hurry while the offer's hot".
Two dozen of the many crucial facts regarding life and monev (something there for everybody) that get ignored in the promotion of nuclear poison.
Knowing all the dove plus more, how can a rational mind do thd? What psychological mechanism is it at work that requires one to deny the dch?
Consider the pro argument that runs "See, France does it.
And more than we do!;'
Logicily, this distraction of evoking false natio-nal pride is irrelevant.
Recall an analogy from childhood: "If Fran-cie sticks her hand in a fire, would you?" National pride is not at stake; multinational profits are.
Psychologically, this patriotism ploy which does appeal (not to reason, but to pride, an ego function) is not irrelevant.
It can be used in an con argument.
To become truely proud, America would lead the world to sane, decentralized energy sources.
To do so is our responsibility, since we were the ones to originally lead the other countries astray.
Either way, what place has ego in a scientific debate? An expla-nation is provided by the theory of socio-biology.
Very briefly, as mammals, we see ourselves as individuals in a hierarchy - those above us we respect and obey, those below we snub and mistreat.
This hier-archy, the knowing of where one stands with others, is essential to peace of mind.
An estblished order that is comfortable must be kept stable at all costs.
It grows impervious even to irrefutable logic; thus we get self-delusions.
In the case at hand, proponents of atomic power identify utilities and corporations as powers above them, as some kind of benevolent providers, and regard questioning, concerned, single
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individuals as ineffectual detractors below them.
This ranking pro-vides the subconscious motive for the right's obsequious behavior tow-ard the ruling elite and their irritation towards the echelon they es-teen as below.
Fortunately, suppression is not ever endurable.
Reality relent-lessly intrudes and psychological barriers. yield.
Recognizing this fact, the powers-that-be have pragmatically selected for loyalty, or, if you will, insensitivity.
And they've seen to it that there's no annflict of interest - those wno give final approval to the evacuation plans for the 10 mile radius around San Oncfre do not reside within that radius.
Nevertheless, those sithout regard for the sanctity of life should be with'out power over the safety of human lives.
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we should create our fate.
We don't have lo end up as lemmings, all following the one in front to disaster.
Most protesters have not realized that the ASL3 is required by law to grant a license to any utility that meets the criteria, which is set by the NRC.
The rules 5 of the haC are shaped by the demands not only of science and safety but of politics as well.
Politicians are elected by us, so supposedly we are responsible for the decision of this board.
Especially if they decide wrong.
Right? However, elec-i tions are von by big coney, by mass media campaigns.
So again, the eco-nomic elite is ultimately in control and therefore responsible.
Given this power structure, the only evidence the NRC accepts is a disaster, which is precisely what we're trying to avoid.
Our only hope is to reach you as members of, don't laugh, the sa=e species as ourselves -
human to human.
Let's learn from the past.
It used to be that when miners went deep into the bowels of the earth to work, they'd take a canary along since the little bird's lungs were more sensitive to poisonous gases than a man's.
When the yellow bird keeled over, the miners knew it wac time to knock off early.
Consider mammoth Three Mile Island as a lit-tle yellow canary.
Mr Chairman and,me=bers of the board, mako history, let us out of the black-hole of nuclear energy.
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sinecures; the world's desperate for more principled people.
(Lord anows the movement could use a lawyer.)
There's plenty of jobs, but only one Earth.
Either we do make history, or repeat it.
If you succumb to licen-sing the plant, and if you're wrong and the plant blows during a quake or anything else, such an " incident" won't be considend an accident, but an act of class warfare; and the hearings that follow will again be mere rubberstamp proceedings but this time you'll be the victims; y'all will be the scape-goats offered by the establishtent to appease the righteously angered populace.
I've reiterated some swept-under-the-rug facts, i've offered the explanation from sociobiology, and i've tried to cajole and entice the board into ruling reasonably.
If i's unheerd this round, next time my body goes on the line.
Rather than that, listen.
Given the harsh real-ities of fission fuel, i think deep down the proud utilities would love the excuse to back off without losing face. D ear XRC, please give it to them.
Thank you.
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