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Opposes Util Proposed Toxic Dumping of Toxic Wastes Into Ocean
ML20032C052
Person / Time
Site: Diablo Canyon  
Issue date: 10/21/1981
From:
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED, ANDERSON VALLEY NUCLEAR AWARENESS COMMITTEE
To:
CALIFORNIA, STATE OF
References
NUDOCS 8111060651
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into a 84HCR decision about the toxic dumping into the ocean at Diablo Cove.

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study the negative effects of these heavy metals and chemicals, and radioact.ive nuclides such as Tritium and Pl.utoniu=.

Some of these concentrate in the fish and shellfish that people are going to eat.

Please take a close look at what happened at the Humboldt Bay reactor and San Onofre.

Please don't let P.G.& E. contaminate another area, '

especially one as beautiful as San Luis Obispo.

They don't care about the environment or the people who have to live there.

P.G'.&E has no plans to monitor the effects of the toxic wastes on the surrounding sea life.

They aren3 looking at ho~w everything is connected in the food chain.

People will eventually be hurt, because they eat from the top of the food chain.

There should be some kind of independent monitoring system.

We do not feel that the " good morning fog" that P.G.E.

plans to vent into the atmosphere is acceptable.

There needs to-Eit least be cooling towers for the almost three billion gallons of radioactive wastewater.

It should not be dumped into the ocean.

It will kill i

the marine life.

I P.G.E must be held responsible for its pollution which can eventually kill us, either by gradual accumulations of radioactive poisons, or by a disastorous nuclear accident.

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near the Hosgri earthquake fault, the second possibility is entirely possible.

Please make your decision in favor of the health and safety of the surrounding citizens and animal life of San Luis Obispo.-

Sincerely yours, Anderson Valley Nuclear Awareness Co==.

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Mir.nesota's Elk River Reactor. a 22 MW demonstration project. cost $6 mi!!!on to construct and 56.0 million to dismantle.- paid for by federal tax monies.

The Sodium Reactor Experiment was built in 1957 and operated for seven years near Los Angeles. It is now being dismantled. a process that is expected to take two years and 56 million of federal tax funds. It took two years and 513 million to build. The walls are so radioactive that if a man tried to work inside the reactor he would burn to death in seconds Event 6 ally 350 tons of radioactive wastes will be shipped to Nevada. on public railways and highways.

to be turied. Commercial reactors being built today 'such as Diablo) are 100 t:mes as large as this plant. It is not known if we have the capability to deal with the levels of radioactivity and the size of these reactors when they are worn out.

4 The cost of dismant!ing Oyster Creek, a New Jersey plant owned by General Public Utihties was calcula:ed at 5100 million ut originally cost 565 millien to construct). Instead. the plant was entombed at a cost of 535 m:! hon.

In 1972 Nuclear Fuel Services shut down its commerciM reprocessing plant in West Valley. New York. In 1976 New York State took over control of the bankrupt facilits m.2 m aside 53 milhor. for its decomm:ssion:ng. Estimates for tne total cost of the project row run as high as S600.000.000 and New York has asked the federal government to assume respons;bility.

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',e this plan is accepted. customers can expect similar assessments for all other nuclear)1 ants in California.

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