ML20087K081

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Requests That Low Power Test License Not Be Granted. Discussion Before Licensing Vote Requested
ML20087K081
Person / Time
Site: Diablo Canyon  Pacific Gas & Electric icon.png
Issue date: 03/23/1984
From: Levy B, Sharpe C
AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To: Asselstine J, Bernthal F, Palladino N
NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
References
CON-DSB-79 OL, NUDOCS 8403260005
Download: ML20087K081 (1)


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.,(J Dr. Nunzio Palladino g-F James K. Asselstine Frederick J. Bernthal Dr. Victor Gilinsky Thomas M. Roberts 84 IBR 23 P2:30 U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission March 23, 1984 Washington, DC 20555 ts . . . s . . .

000.r.imi a SER RE: Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant BRMCH _

Dockets STN 50-275, 50-323 OL D NO23@y Dear Commissionerr We have come from California to meet with you personally to ask you not to grant a low-power test license for the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant. f We represent thousands of Californians who would be nere if they could.

We have sent written communications and telegrams to you over the many years of this plant's disastrous history. We feel that at this crucial moment human contact is necessary to express the very human concerns for life and health that would be endangered by Diablo Canyon's operation at this time.

We are outraged that you would consider letting Pacific Gas and E'lectric Company remove the control rods in a plant that has experienced leaks in its

" hot testing" process (a specially contrived level of licensing for this plant which could not follow regular procedures) without subjecting it to considerable further non-nuclear testing.

We are outraged that your staff did such a cursory investigation of worker allegations of poor construction and then said that the plant was fit for licensing, leaving hundreds of complaints unresolved.

We are outraged that a plant which has such lax security that protesters not knowledgeable about terrorist infiltration methods could get over the double fencing and into the plant area without detection - even at a time that PG8E was told they would be there.

We are outraged that the consideration for [noney invested by PG&E in this plant - much of which was due to their early mistake in ignoring information about the Hoscri fault and their subsequent slipshod management and construction practices - takes precedence over the safety of the people of San Luis Obispo county and neighboring areas.

Diablo Canyon is already an embarassment to the nuclear industry.

It is a prime example of what should not have been done. As we approach the fifth anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident it is incomprehensible that the NRC will close its eyes again to the signs of impending disaster that Diablo Canyon's operation represents.

We would very much appreciate being able to discuss these and other concerns with you before your licensing vote on Monday.  ;

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Barbara Levy

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