ML20040D668
| ML20040D668 | |
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| Site: | San Onofre  |
| Issue date: | 01/21/1982 |
| From: | Hayes L AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | Palladino N NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
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| NUDOCS 8202020137 | |
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It is hardly surprising that those who play god by authorizing emulation of the sun's fission / fusion / radiation process to victimize this and whatever generations may follow, have no hesitancy in appointing themselves diviners of the behavior I
of earthquakes, too.
The government's persistent attitude of "the people, the environment and the future be damned" is pathological -
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whether for your province, nuclear energy, or its " mother" nuclear weaponry.
Thank goodness, we are old and had no children, but I fear for everyone who is forced to exist during this "pilent" phase of the nuclear war - all are sitting ducks for accident, mishap, error - if not by design - for insuperable batastrophes in regions or worldwide.
What consummate arrogance is it that leads you to continue to inflict this torture when you do not know how to safely clean up the horrendous mass of wastes or dispose of t)e facilities that made them?
What exactly can you do to dispose of that sloppily l
repaired, early-aged Unit I that menaces the region and makes the operation of its companions more of the short-sighted goddom from which you suffer?
When I say "you", I include all experts, academics, policy-makers, fund-providing legislators and entrepreneurs who succumbed to nucleat-addiction - here where the exploitation of the technology began after World War II and in all countries that joined in the mad game out of fear and/or
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Sincerely - more in despair than in hope...
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bpaai%cmrom be operauve.
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. recommended in a report re! cased ' statement ra' ling the licensmg mera-a g
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'Uhne nuucar wastes wnn tr.c o.lis. committec itcpubhrans s:ud. a idmc i
p3*TtyTiantKs and tneir cusomers.
that the ryort adds up in nothing inc aucicar utgaaiuy Lumans-more than a "repoatory for evety
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- ,ston, which licenses nuclear power
.mh nuckar argument that has ever pt:nt.t. should develen a set of waste been ma le!*
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I dispo:a! cstimau s kr uunues. tus a The commince's acconuntndauons
, managers and costuneis p consort have no effect unless lept.ition is
- Scrore buildmg a nucIcar plaiif the eventually dr fted and -passed by panel said.
- T Congress.
The committec said tne rest of dis-
_ mantling a nucic1r powcr plant reac-Approval of the report came en a,
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and 11llepublicans dissenting.
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.per pbnt.;md the cosis should.5c.rc.-
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m titiht d The said there are several The pernicting enchantment with this ettractive alternatives to nuelcar
" marvel" technolory blinds people to power. including solar power, which the over pronent and long torm
..could beceme economically compch.
tive m five years with mcreased fed e hazards for which no colutions have
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been deviced.
~ The nationalinventerv of enent nu-.
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Agreement on the dispocal problem by lathmg a5ilhtnpment i[ burgeon.
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,lcennnigcdor pci.nanent[y and'iafe-Ilouce Operations Committoo if disposmg of this waste. the repoiL s.Icund.
Cnlif rnia Energy Commicsion Sescral nucle..r enercy simoah.st.
Calif. Ascombly Committee for who tcentred at hearinas did contend L tud, Hescurecs, and Energy ccnnot be ignored.
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sj for the good of the country, with concern for thn conronucncos of Con ta paid aa TAXI.,o.
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u uni g eyargo to cuctomorn - a groco decoption... that hva fone on for 2fk years, crom*
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Marth envisions the repostones as being about three.
, tung with questions that would test Or cities not evenimagmed could '
square miles each, located %0 feet below the earth's the imagination of science-fiction arise above dump sites chosen for surface. The first repos tor / might be started in the l wnters m an effort to overcome a theirverymmoteness.
nud-1990sa'ndsealed25yearslater'ngineered part-t very real problems disposal of dead-
"Muttertapahout Wa*a den-Each reposttory will have an e ly ttonue waste.
M 1986 doesn't make any sense contamers, or perhaps contamers within containers mots,1.000 years, will today's,re,-
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you're talking about where within contamers. that will hold the wastes themselver-dump site stillbe remote.
cities wtH be !ccated in two mille ~
'Then there will be the geologic setting-the hole m the Will iuture prospectors hung,er nia. Hendriesaid.
ground that will be sealed to prevent leakage.
Shortmee of Spees The standards the commmion is de"==Mg now
'WegygSiggingfgg He ennewa' "You're just going would have the engineered section containmg the waste l
to have to live with human intru.
completely fbr 1.000 years. The repository would have to be located so that ground water could not carry the very t/g/n 3/kg o[g'
' :a ston" argutng that standards must wastes to the outside for 1.000 years. Martm says that 2/JMTMeSayS MM42SI/f..,. be setnow fxbury2gthe wastes of
. nuclear plants airsedy runmng out.
"after 1.000 years most of the hazard has disappeared."
of storage space and produchg
"'Iheoretically it never disappears completely. It Just gets smaler and smauer." he said.
morespentfueleach yees, c for the now. worthless mmerals
.The Union of Concerned Selen.
Martm% comment pomts up another porblem. Some that contam them, espomng -the tests has estimated that using water argue against rules that are too specific, fearing they long-hidden nuclear wastes?
to reduce to safe levels the com.
would mean no repos: tory could ever be beensed be-Will socicm cycn rememher,
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cause there would be no way to show the entena were wheretheatomsejunkis stockpiled?
through 1979 would regture 5.000 bemsmet.
In 50.000 or 1006000Jears, could a. : years of the annualflow of the Mis.
Hendrie said at the last meetmg that he had heard m-
' l such awata=te from "some of the package people who shift of the earth, or a trend in the" gaseppt are afraid they will net be able to prove their contamer climate fostenng erosion, helyrthe Thehoulo-unsees escape? How will an un==-
gasshg are freerhundreds of*yests wdl be able to contam all the radionuclides for 1.000 pectmg rnd perhaps thHy dif-inp to what seems almostinflate. '-
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forent society cope?
gggathesias, fot* exataple.
The C.eiiis said he feared " formulating a rule with Enter Joseph Hendrie. John ' thatplutomum 2Mwinremem toxic the best of mtenuons that then becomes an impossible Ahearne. %ctor tLnnairy and Peter $to some degree for24000 years, barner... a maze from which there is no escape."
Bradford. The four NRC commis.
With figures ulce that, no wonder Commismoner Bradford said however, that a lack of sioners,who usually talkletterms e was ashdag whether thc.
tough standards was "almust an invitauon to sloppi.
phemg weeks from licensirig hear
- win be " societal memory" and ness." but Ahearne said simply: " Rigorous proof wilt j
N never be achieved."
, ngs for melaae planta, suddenlyfare speakmg of cons and ponderts, "x_..
Jy W humammutuuans"to Bradford said he was afraid the commission would 4
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6dolog[SZ3' M10&ldi construct "a four-lane highway" to a heense. "You just how long society as we imow it- -
could dnve this far enough so that any hole in the ground is better than no hole in the ground." he said.
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ly. "Wa are trymg to predict what "Puttmg the stuff in the ground is better than leaving wul happen in tens of f h=mands of evertkeeptrack of where the weste
.It lymg around f or a thousand years... I am absolutely' ents."
'!he ennwmsman is M to' set is, buried. He suggested ^%---
conymeed that the durable course for vnanir+nd is to rules to beense repostories for the archiving and accumentmg and starttuckmgthisstuff away."
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, huelear mdustry not, yet a quarter the repostlertee willbe a delicate eentury old.Their musmgs recently C one of a contmtung series of gpoutical problem. Just setting tech-moeungs on the subject pomted up...nicaldesign standards is connplicat-anew the notonous dangers of pre s edenough diction.
John B. Martirt head of the com-Chairman Hendrie noted that'you. missions division of waste manage-would hav,elping write rules that ment, is h could bury the wastes in gremte e ganlag1sts tanirmt 2 only to have gramte harama a val-uable anneral 1.000 yeers hence.
milhon years into the past tr. ensure
? That might have praspactars of the the statmhty of sites.
future madvertently setting free to-Please see WASTE.Page 5
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