ML20040D668

Comments Opposing Use of Nuclear Power.Supportive Articles Encl

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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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 t

environment and the future be damned" is pathological -

l 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 pride, l Sincerely - more in despair than in hope...

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d The port'y bdb.are several said there The pernicting enchantment with this ettractive alternatives to nuelcar " marvel" technolory blinds people to power. including solar power, which

..could beceme economically compch . the over pronent and long torm tive m five years with mcreased fed e hazards for which no colutions have been deviced.

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c car luct and urgmas and raitoactive . Agreement on the dispocal problem by clathmg a5ilhtnpment i[ burgeon. II . S. Geolorical Survey

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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 .,

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By G.G.f_mus'f f 7 dda' Press WASHING'!ON '!he Nuclear deWdangerouswastesmentomor- Casekssed fsema Seseed Fees Regulatory Comnnssion is wree- row's namWng secteues. 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.

very real problems disposal of dead- "Muttertapahout Wa*a den- nud-1990sa'ndsealed25yearslater'ngineered Each reposttory will have an e part-t ly ttonue waste. M 1986 doesn't make any sense contamers, or perhaps contamers within containers In w you're talking about where within contamers. that will hold the wastes themselver-mots,1.000 years, dump site stillbe will remote. today's ,re,- 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 He ennewa' "You're just going would have the engineered section containmg the waste l 'WegygSiggingfgg 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 nuclearsetnow plants fxbury2gthe airsedy runmng wastes out. of "after 1.000 years most of the hazard has disappeared."

<' of storage space and produchg "'Iheoretically it never disappears completely. It Just morespentfueleach yees, c .. gets smaler and smauer." he said.

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 , ,,,,,w g* cause there would be no way to show the entena were wheretheatomsejunkis stockpiled? through 1979 would regture 5.000 bemsmet.

m- In 50.000 or 1006000Jears, could a. : years of the annualflow of the Mis. Hendrie said at the last meetmg that he had heard shift of the earth, or a trend in the" gaseppt ' l such climate fostenng erosion, helyrthe ,

Thehoulo- areawata=te afraid theyfrom "some will net be ableof to the package prove people who their contamer 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. '- years." .. .

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.

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• win be " societal memory" and ness." but Ahearne said simply: " Rigorous proof wilt j "x_.. Jy W humammutuuans"to N

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"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." is, buried. He suggested ^%--- conymeed that the durable course for vnanir+nd is to

'!he ennwmsman is M to' set archiving and accumentmg and starttuckmgthisstuff away."

rules to beense repostories for the

• estressely long lived wastes W a 9. marking"aslhe bestway.

, huelear mdustry not, yet a quarter eentury old.Their musmgs recently )Obviously.

the repostlertee deciding the W willbe a delicate 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-could bury the wastes in gremte ment, is h only to have gramte harama a val- would hav,elping e ganlag1stswritetanirmt rules that 2

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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