ML13220B123

Limited Appearance Statement - Letter from J.A. Tony Fallin Regarding PG&E 3-D Seismic Survey of Active Shoreline Fault

ML13220B123
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Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	07/25/2013
From:	- No Known Affiliation
To:	NRC/SECY
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{{#Wiki_filter:UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 Aug ust 6, 2 013 MEMORANDUM TO: Rebecca Giitter, Admi n i st r ativ e and Litigation Analyst FROM:

Dear Ms. Giitter,

Twana Ellis, Program Analyst PACIFIC GAS & ELEC T RIC COMPANY (DIABLO CANYON N UCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2) DOCKET NOS. 50-27 5-LR an d 50-323-LR ASLBP NO. 10-890-01-LR-BD 01 WRITTEN LIMITED A PPEARAN CE STATEMENT The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board hand ling th e above-captioned adjudication recently received the enclosed communication. While it doe s not constitute evidence, we deem it to be a limited appearance statement filed pursuan t to 10 C.F.R. § 2.315(c). On behalf of the Diablo Canyon Board , I req uest that you place the enclosed document in the electronic hearing docket for this proceeding. Thank you. Twana Ellis Encl.: 7/25/13 Letter from J.A. Tony Fallin CC: Judge Alex Karlin S ally Jewell, Sec., US-DOl, et al., Pacific Gas and Electri c (PG&E) inCA has announced th at it will submit its final report on a 3-D seismic smvey of the a ctive Shoreline Fault th at bounds Dia Q.lo Ca ey uclear (DCNPP to the Nuclear Regulatory C ommission (NRC) in Aug. 2013 and to the general publi c in No vember 2013. The c ontroversial nuclear facility has long been considered by many t o be a clear and present d anger not only to communities immediately downwind f rom it (e.g., Morro Bay , San L uis Obispo, Atascadero) but to US-DOl administered lan ds like Los Padres National F orest, Santa Lucia WildernessiMachesna Mountain Wild erness. Since PG&E has a 50-year history of down-playing and misrepresenting flmlt and earthquake dangers around its nuclear facilities, while also convincing pro-nuclear NRC Review Boards to overlook th eir own rules precluding plant construction over or besid e active faults , I recommend strongly that their self-serving report NOT be taken as the final w ord on anything. A re view of PG&E status reports on the Shoreline Fault surv ey alre ady suggests that a n umber of things are not mentioned, including:

1) DCNP P is loc ated on the splintering m argin of a rising microplate in a stressed, dog-leg sectio n of an act ive fault system that stretches more than 1500 miles from the southern tip of Baja thro ugh California on both sides of the Sierra Nevada to southern Oregon and that is being driven by Pacific Plate drag to the northwest;

2) that a sole fault runs under DCN PP at 1 O+km depths similar to o ther sole faults that have generated large quakes in other parts o f the San Andreas Sy stem (e.g., Loma Prieta, San Fernan do Valley), collaps ing and twisting re-enforced fr eeways like spaghetti;

3) tsunami-producing, rift basins produc ed by transtensional (rather than transpressional)

Pacific Plate drag lie just off shore fr om DCNPP; 4) the mega-tsunami generating potential of the active , Hilina slu mp bl ock on Hawaii; and 5) salt air corrosion , plus structural fatigue from repeated seis mic jo lts and irradiation over Justice FOHEVE H I... PIR..t FT w N 1 PL.4.Sfl l' .. ti me that have already caused problems at DCNPP, H umboldt Bay and elsewhere. That short o ften become long hmlts dm i ng quakes is also u nmentioned or considered. T o: :14L.L.'( ..Jflh . .JSLl.. 1 ..S&:<.P.Sr4 A.'i" U* S. OE!P-4ATM.Ei,._, T tNrSAl E:> R I 8 "1 ".::;" .!S T"AS£ T t-..J', u.l. w4..H(IN P. c::. 2. 0 2. 4 0 -1

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