ML20236N315

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Petition of Ee Apfelberg & SA Silver as Representatives of San Luis Obispo Mothers of Peace for Leave to Intervene
ML20236N315
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Site: Diablo Canyon  Pacific Gas & Electric icon.png
Issue date: 11/15/1973
From: Apfelberg E, Silver S
SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE
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US ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION (AEC)
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'le, ClinWth S. Apfelberg and Sandra A. Silver, as representatives of the San Luis Obiapo Mothers for Peace, and as individuals, pntition for leave to intervene in the matter of Pacific Gas and Electric Company's -(Diablo Cany'on Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2) application for facility operating-licenses.

Ve are residents, property. owners.' end taxpayers of San Luis Obispo, dwelling within a' 12 nile radius of Diablo Canyon, which gives us the richt to be cancerned with the c"slity of the environment in the area in which we live and work. We believe that the granting of operating licenses for Units 1 and 2 of the Disbl., Cviyon Nuclear Power Plant would lead to very serious problec,s, some, al thoach not all, of.which follow:

1. Effects of long rance reicases of low level radioactive materials under numal functioning of the nlant.

A. What was once considend a " safe level" of radioactive exposure is no longer considered safe. What will happen in the future to the levels now conaidered cafe? What will happen when the new Environmental Protection A5ency's lower radiations standards are set?

B. Radioactive materials released into the air and the water are concentrated when they get into the food chain and can lead eventually to peoplo receiving more than the maximum pemissable level of radiation.

C. It has never been proven nor demonstrated that there is any safe level of radioactive exposure.

2. Effects of Accidents at Diablo Units 1 and 2.

A. Minor accidents lead to relense of additional radiation into the environment in tho fom of can, liquid, and solid.-

S. Major accidents can lead to explosion and destruction of containment structure and nassive escape of radioactive materials as well as immediate fatalities of people in the area.

6 C. The emercency ccre cooling systen has never been success-fully tested and is considered unreliabic to protect us

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Usin Luis Obinpo Co;n.ty in the event of a major necident? j No n, moi rk routen nor r,roceduran nnvo 1,ren ndopted.

e l E. The above problers hold also for the cases of spilla at the reactor site and/or along the fuel and waste transporta-tion routes.

3 The Prica-Anderson Act's limit on liability insurance Of S560 million per accident amounts to a truly small fraction of j

. the property damage poscible in the event of an accident. Claims that would arise as a result of deaths and injuries caused by accidents of a wide spectrum of severity, are essentially un-covered by a 8560 nillien limit. This is not only a fiacal i problem of considerable cacnitude but a moral one of infinite extent. Will the power company supply its own liability insuance(withoutgovern.enthelp)whenthePrice-Andersonact expires in 19777

4. Disronal of radionetive wastes from Diablo Canyon Units 1 and 2  !

pose another threat to our safety. These radioactive wastes which rannin lethal for periods of tens of thousands of years j i

and noco, nunt be renoved from the reactor core, encased, trannport d, and stored without the ulightent room for any l error, mechanden1 or human. This requirement defies the ocienti- f fac Inws of probability. Recent accidento hsve occured in both  !

tra.aportation and storage of these wastes,

5. The existance of the possibility of sabotage and theft is a clear and present dancer. Only anall amounts of plutonium need ,

be stolen to fashion a crude tenb. Very snall anounts (micro- l gra s) of plutonium or strontiun 90 are lethal to large popula- l tiens. Power plants could be held for ransem or politieni means '

l just as planes are hijacked today. In the event of war, a I nuclear power p? ant would be quite vulnerabic to enemy attack.

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Because of the above reasons we are petitioning for leave to intervene in j

  • fa mut t u .:f P..-ific Cas ud Electric Ccmpany's (Dinhle Canyon Nuclear l'cwer Plant, Unito 1 and 2) application for facility operating licennes. Any j judgnents not in our favor would be detrimental to our health and safety, and .

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