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,t!;:0 Julie Fraisse 2418 Golf Course Rd.
Bayside, Ca. 95524 OM,)AN -!; $ lO: 20 Dec.6,1983 MG;J' N '! F.-
Comissioner Victor Gilinsky i
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Office of Public Affairs Region Five 1450 Maria Ln.
Walnut Creek, Ca.
Dear Comissioner Gilinsky; will it take a devastating earthquake at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant to shake sense into your colleagues at the NRC?
Last month your co=ission voted in favor of Icading atomic fuel into the troubled Diablo Canyon plant.
This irresponsible and foolish decision does not come as a surprise.
It is simply another example of the co:=ission's lackadaisical attitude regarding public safety when licensing nuclear power plants.
It seems that your co...dssion is :. ore concerned with politics than with environ. mental safety.
I would like to co= mend you, however, for abstaining from this recent I urge you to convince your fellow co= sa.ioners to reconsider vote.
the facts regarding Diablo Canyon before making the tragic mistake of bringing this plant into eperation.
Perhaps the NRC needs to be reminded of some of the serious problems associated with this plant.
In 1976 United States Geological Survey scientists said that earthquake nearly five times stronger than the one that hit the San an Fernando Valby in 1971 is possible alcng the undersea fault close to Diablo Canyon.
You must be aware that this fault is lo:ated less than three miles from the Diablo Canyon plant.
Last month officials of the Teledyne Engineering services Co. reper-ted to the comission that the problems at the Diablo Canyen plant t had been solved, and that the operating license could be restored w,ithout a risk to public safety.
First of all, there is a risk to public safety with every nuclear power plant already in existence. There is no way to build, operate, and maintain a nuclear power plant free of errer.
Let us not so hastily forget about the catastrophes which nearly happened at Brown's Terry, Ginna, and Three Mile Island. In each cf these accidents human error was to blame, and the public was very much in danger.
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..,..A Second, Bechtel engineers estimated in January of last year that this plant would require more than 3000 safety modifications in order to meet the level which was then considered to be safe. It seems un-likely that al.'. of these modifications could have been corrected in just ten month's time. And what about the potential problems that have not yet been detected?.It took engineers four years before they noticed that Diablo Canyon had been built cornpletely backwards!
I can just imagine how many more mistakes may be un: overed in four more years, that is, if an earthquake doesn't occur before then.
Please do not allow this plant to come into operation. The NRC should have enough eccmon sense and integrity to ignore any pressures placed on it from either Pacific C-as and Electric cr the Relan Administration.
There is still time te make a rational decision regarding Diablo Canyon. Please make it.
Thank you for y;ur time and consideratien with this matter.
Sincerely..
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