ML20033C567

Opposes Licensing of Facilities

ML20033C567
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	11/22/1981
From:	Hansen K AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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NUDOCS 8112030437
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It is with great joy that I send my c6ngr^itulaEions,to thI'

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Since its inception, the nuclear industry has been plagued with errors and accidents. In recent years, public concern about the viability and necessity.of nuclear power plants as an energy source has generated a series of unanswered questions:

1) What is to be done with the waste?

Why wasn't the waste problem worked out before the first plant was built?

2) Why haven't complete decommissioning coser been figured into the cost of building each and every plant?

3) Who really knows how to decommission today's commercial reactors?

4) Who's really willing to accept the burden of responsibility for collossal mistakes at TMI, Brown's Ferry, Fermi in Detroit, and now, Diablo Canyon?

Who should pay for these mistakes?

5) Why does the Price-Anderson Act fail so miserably to adequately cover estimated costs for a nuclear accident?

6) Why are evacuation plans so poor and, more of ten, l

nonexistent, for communities near reactors?

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7) And why, after 30 years of pursuing nuclear energy by virtue of f ederal subsidy and finding many mere problems 5

than solutions is the f ederal government and the nuclear

//O industry still intent upon nuclear development? Why is it so difficult to admit that the use of nuclear energy is not, in f ac t, the energy source we once thought it was?

How long can we continue to jeopardize the safety, health, and well-being of every human being on this planet?

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biomass, ocean thermal energy conversion, vind, geothermal, hydro, and conservation receive microscopic support?

As Pacific Gas and Electric Company is now f aced with the stark (and perhaps, embarrassing) reality that Diablo Canyon Power Plant is not necessarily destined to be a nuclear f acility, I strongly suggest conversion plans be ef f ected imediately to save the enormous investment in this plant.

The conversion to other fuels such as natural Sas, oil, or coal would be f ar short of ideal due to inherent pn 5Lems with fossil fuels but could serve to utilize the planc in a far less dangerous manner and help to restore the increasing lack of confidence in the public utility.

As a concerned citizen, I commend you on your exercise of responsibility in the public's behalf. I send the sincerest wishes for a continuing trend to systematically shut down and q

decommission every nuclear reactor in this country at the earliest possible date and to cease immedia731y all export of nuclear energy technology and materials.

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