ML101270205

Comment (3) E-mail Regarding Diablo Canyon Lr Env. Scoping

ML101270205
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	03/03/2010
From:	Public Commenter Public Commenter
To:	Division of License Renewal
NRC/NRR/DLR
References
75FR4427
Download: ML101270205 (5)

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DiabloCanyonCEm Resource From: Jane Swanson [janeslo@kcbx.net]

Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2010 7:00 PM To: DiabloCanyonEIS Resource

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statement made at March 3 meeting, San Luis Obispo Attachments: scoping March 3 aft.doc; ATT00002.txt Attached for you convenience is the statement I read into the record at the 1:30 meeting March 3.

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Federal Register Notice: 75FR4427 Comment Number: 3 Mail Envelope Properties (BC1DED63-2BDB-457A-9BCB-B813025E059A)

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statement made at March 3 meeting, San Luis Obispo Sent Date: 3/3/2010 7:00:29 PM Received Date: 3/3/2010 7:00:34 PM From: Jane Swanson Created By: janeslo@kcbx.net Recipients:

"DiabloCanyonEIS Resource" <DiabloCanyonEIS.Resource@nrc.gov>

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March 3, 2010, 1:30 session of NRC scoping meeting in San Luis Obispo TO: NRC Staff FROM: SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE RE: SLOMFP assessment of NRC scoping functions over 37 years My name is Jane Swanson, and this afternoon I am speaking for the San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace. This statement takes a long-range perspective. At the evening session SLOMFP will present 3 very specific scoping issues that fit within NRC criteria.

Our non-profit group has served a unique role since 1973, when SLOMFP made the commitment to pursue available legal channels to oppose the licensing of the aptly-named Diablo: a nuclear plant and radioactive waste storage site built next to an active earthquake fault. Over the decades we have conducted an on-going assessment of the scoping of issues considered and not considered by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Now, 37 years later, we offer the executive summary of our decades long study.

SLOMFP sees an adverse trend in the NRCs failure to interface with the real world. The agency has created a fictional reality- bubble, a labyrinth of rules and regulations that does not connect with the world inhabited by other federal agencies or the general public.

I will offer just three examples of issues that have great potential for damaging the environment.

EXAMPLE 1: THE CALIFORNIA COAST IS AN EARTHQUAKE ZONE:

The NRC (then the Atomic Energy Commission) in 1984 and 1985 licensed Diablos two reactors, despite the fact that it was and remains against NRC regulations to allow nuclear facilities to be sited next to major, active earthquake faults. The Hosgri has not gone away; new faults have been discovered but not thoroughly studied. Include new seismic information as you consider another 20 years, and just say no.

EXAMPLE 2: THERE IS NOWHERE TO STORE RADIOACTIVE WASTES

The NRC consistently ignores the reality that there is no location, plan, or technology in place or on the horizon to isolate radioactive waste from the biosphere for the required quarter of a million years - or a million years if you accept EPA standards. The agency has already given 57 license extensions to other plants. Include the problems of additional wastes as you consider another 20 years, and just say no.

EXAMPLE 3: NUCLEAR PLANTS ARE TARGETS OF TERRORISTS The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI and other federal agencies state that nuclear facilities are, by definition, targets of terrorists. And yet the NRC does not protect nuclear facilities with no-fly zones. Neither does it require nuclear plant operators to protect reactors or radioactive wastes from attack from the air. NRC regulations consider it sufficient to out-source mitigation of any such attack to the military. In the real world, a fire in a spent fuel storage pool or cask would release radioactive Cesium-137 into the atmosphere, and even the armed forces would not be able to stop its lethal spread. Open your eyes to the dangers of terrorist threats as you consider another 20 years, and just say no.

CONCLUSION:

The NRC must include within its scope of study ALL the outstanding environmental issues, before seriously considering allowing another 20 years of Diablo operations. On-going monitoring is not a substitute for thorough assessment of serious problems.

Jane Swanson janeslo@kcbx.net janeslo@me.com (805) 595-2605