ML101270232

Comment (25) E-mail Regarding Diablo Canyon Lr Env. Scoping

ML101270232
Person / Time
Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	04/13/2010
From:	Public Commenter Public Commenter
To:	Division of License Renewal
NRC/NRR/DLR
References
75FR4427
Download: ML101270232 (3)

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DiabloCanyonCEm Resource From: Diane Dolden [dianedolden@gmail.com]

Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 10:06 AM To: DiabloCanyonEIS Resource

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License Renewal for Diablo Canyon I attended the NRC meeting on March 3rd in San Luis Obispo, California. I wish I had spoken. If I had I would have said something like the following....I come tonight as a resident of the area and in the southern wind direction for a potential toxic potentially deadly plume from Diablo Canyon if there were to be an accident. I am glad that I came tonight to hear what different people have to say about the re licensing of Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant. I am encouraged to hear that the workers have such faith in management and their safety practices. I am glad the workers who spoke have pride in the company they work for. The plant workers stated their longevity in the area, their importance in the community, their contributions to the community. That is great. BUT there is one thing that most people fail to mention in the following after 'Nuclear power is environment friendly. Nuclear has little carbon emission. Nuclear power is our answer to reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. Nuclear power provides jobs"... What is failed to be mentioned is the elephant in the closet. We do NOT know how to safely dispose of the waste. The radioactive waste has a half-life of THOUSANDS of years(Meaning it will be poisonous and toxic to the environment around the exposure area for much,much longer. How can we responsibly say we will ensure the waste will be safe until it is harmless to the environment around it.). Diablo, and other nuclear power plants, were sold to local residents as if the minor detail of long term waste was taken care of. There would be no on-site,long term storage. There have been repeated reports of problems of using Yucca Mountain since the inception of the idea. Unfortunately these problems were shoved under the carpet for many,many years and Yucca Mountain continued to receive a lot of money over the years. What do we have to show? Only recently has the Obama administration severely cut the funding for Yucca Mountain, the fatally flawed nuclear repository for the nation. All the nuclear waste produced at the Nuclear power site site will be stored on site. Are the storage casks up to standards? Can they withstand potential earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural or human disasters?

We need to thoroughly study the newly discovered seismic faults that run in the area.

We need to make sure the on site nuclear waste storage is as safe as can be and take into account that the possibility for another Yucca Mountain is far, far in the future (Look how long it took to finally, sort of unofficially, shelve Yucca Mountain.).

We need to make sure we have no underground pipes or other contamination as in Vermont.(The company running the nuclear power plant denied that the pipes even existed until faced with unequivocal evidence to the contrary. Apparently they were able to prevent seepage into the major river near the plant recently. Apparently even more recently there have been rreports of an incredibly toxic chemical associated with nuclear power found to have seeped into the ground around the plant.)

We need to make sure that Diablo does not have the personnel and safety problems that San Onofre has reported to have had lately.

Before we re-license Diablo Canyon or other nuclear Power plants we need to seriously consider the real downsides and the potential risks to the populations living around the plants. The question is not if an accident will happen, but when. It won't matter if the accident is due to human or other forces out of our control. We also need to seriously resolve the waste problem.Temporary on cask open storage is not the solution. We will only be increasing the amount of on site waste storage.

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Additionally as long as the plant continues to run, they need to immediately stop OTC (once through cooling).

The billions of gallons of ocean water used for cooling purposes needs to be stopped immediately. The marine organisms that the water contains are killed on a daily basis. It has to have a negative effect on marine animals including the fish populations. Our local fishing industries face collapse. OTC does not help our marine animals and eco systems.

I think we need to thoroughly investigate all factors and find viable solutions before we more forward to relicense.

Thank you for your consideration, Diane Dolden Oceano, CA 2

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