ML20087K923
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| Site: | Diablo Canyon, LaSalle  |
| Issue date: | 03/21/1984 |
| From: | Kaku M JOINT INTERVENORS - DIABLO CANYON |
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CONCLUSION i
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The transition from zero to 5% power is a qualitative one.
Certain of the major accidents that are postulated for a reactor operating at 100% full power can also occur within a longer timeframe in a reactor operating at low power.
This is because the radioactive inventory stored in a reactor operating at 5% is roughly half a billion curies, which is similar to the radiation inventory studied in WASH-740 and is 10,000 times the radiation released at Windscale in 1957.
The probability calculations done in WASH-1400 have been largely undermined by other scientists.
Quite frankly, no one knows how to calculate the probability of Class IX accidents correctly.
Consequently, I conclude that even the routine operation of the Diablo Canyon reactor at up to 5% power presents a significant safety hazard to the surrounding environment and to plant workers and poses a risk of the irreversible contamination of the reactor.
Executed this 81 day of March, 1984, at New York City, New York.
I declare under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is true and correct to the best of my knowledge.
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