ML13220B123
| ML13220B123 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 07/25/2013 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | NRC/SECY |
| References | |
| Download: ML13220B123 (6) | |
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{{#Wiki_filter:UNITED STATES NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20555-0001 August 6, 2013 MEMORANDUM TO: Rebecca Giitter, Administrative and Litigation Analyst FROM:
SUBJECT:
Dear Ms. Giitter,
Twana Ellis, Program Analyst PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC COMPANY (DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR POWER PLANT, UNITS 1 AND 2) DOCKET NOS. 50-275-LR and 50-323-LR ASLBP NO. 10-890-01 -LR-BD01 WRITTEN LIMITED APPEARANCE STATEMENT The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board handling the above-captioned adjudication recently received the enclosed communication. While it does not constitute
- evidence, we deem it to be a limited appearance statement filed pursuant to 10 C.F.R. § 2.315(c).
On behalf of the Diablo Canyon Board, I request 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 Sally Jewell, Sec., US-DOl, et al., Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) inCA has announced that it will submit its final report on a 3-D seismic smvey of the active Shoreline Fault that bounds DiaQ.lo Caey uclear (DCNPP to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in Aug. 2013 and to the general public in November 2013. The controversial nuclear facility has long been considered by many to be a clear and present danger not only to communities immediately downwind from it (e.g., Morro Bay, San Luis Obispo, Atascadero) but to US-DOl administered lands like Los Padres National Forest, Santa Lucia WildernessiMachesna Mountain Wilderness. 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 their own rules precluding plant construction over or beside active faults, I recommend strongly that their self-serving report NOT be taken as the final word on anything. A review of PG&E status reports on the Shoreline Fault survey already suggests that a number of things are not mentioned, including:
- 1) DCNPP is located on the splintering margin of a rising microplate in a stressed, dog-leg section of an active fault system that stretches more than 1500 miles from the southern tip of Baja through 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 DCNPP at 1 O+km depths similar to other sole faults that have generated large quakes in other parts of the San Andreas System (e.g., Loma Prieta, San Fernando Valley),
collapsing and twisting re-enforced freeways like spaghetti;
- 3) tsunami-producing, rift basins produced by transtensional (rather than transpressional)
Pacific Plate drag lie just offshore from DCNPP; 4) the mega-tsunami generating potential of the active, Hilina slump block on Hawaii; and 5) salt air corrosion , plus structural fatigue from repeated seismic jolts and irradiation over Justice FOHEVEH I... PIR..t FT w N 1 PL.4.Sfl l' .. time that have already caused problems at DCNPP, Humboldt Bay and elsewhere. That short often become long hmlts dming quakes is also unmentioned or considered. To: :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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