ML20153D579

Commends Position Re Plant in Spite of Obvious Political Pressures.Utils Do Not Realize How Serious Mistake Can Be. Safe Nuclear Power Needed.Another TMI Would End Industry & Energy Independence

ML20153D579
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Site:	Diablo Canyon
Issue date:	11/30/1981
From:	Landman R BHL ASSOCIATES
To:	Gilinsky V NRC COMMISSION (OCM)
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Burlingame. CA 94010 Phone 415/342 7850 Manwfacturers' Representatives / Consulting Engmeets 0 .W Mr. victor insky, ommissioner tRX2 EAR COMISSICH Washington, D.C. tbvenber 30, 1981

Dear Mr. Galinsky:

I listened to pur cx:mments regarding Diablo Canpn nuclear power plant on ICBS radio in San Francisco. I admire your taking the position you have in spite of the obvious Iclitical pressures to the ocotrary.

You were clear, concise and firm. Pacific Gas & Electric (bmpany knows you had no recourse but to suspend their license. heir stard that the NRC could trust them rot to load is foolish. You have a regulatory resjonsibility and "gentlemens agreements" are not the way you do business.

Weir problem has been the same as other power ocupanies in the US. They have a tiger by the tail and can't let go.

My backgrourdt dosimetry work in nuclear medicine at Walter Reed Army Medical Center's nuclear reactor, and site survey for P G &

E's Engineering Research sttdy of Ibdega Bay gives me same urderstandirg of the issues, me utilities have put out so mtch PR on nuclear that they now

, believe it themselves. hey are deathly afraid of the public beccnirg alamed and so sperd much of their money ard time sugar-coatire the problems instead of explorire the solutiens.

We media is alamist oriented but Dixy Lee Ray isn't exactly pristine either (this after hearirg h' re acid ecments today).

You are absolutely correct that the NRC has rc way to know that the OA problems are limited to this set of data. I agree with you that random samplirg of the 0A data should allow you to cuersee without havirg a millien inspectors.

You will agree, however, that something failed here because it i took tco lorg to disecuer the deficiencies. We NRC will, as you l put it, have to take a hard line with the utilities frca mw on.

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I watched via C-SPAN the congressional inquiry where you test-  !

ified but tuned in just after you spoke. P.G.E E. didn't appear to grasp %e situation at all. When I learned just how lax their docunentation was (low could they build a plant without checked drawirgs??) I was very argry that they thought' it wasn't "that serious."

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. Q:nsn. V. Galinsky, 11/24/81,p.2

'Ihe utilities do not seem to realize how serious a mistake can be. '1he A1!c did too good a job ocrivincing them of nuclear power's "safety". Even after WI, the companies are afraid to look hard at nuclear because of the montanentous investment they have in the technology. One million dollars a day interest on Diablo Canyon is a bit unnerving isn't it? No do@t they would look VERY hard if the Argerson Act didn't limit their financial responsibility.

Someone on the program mentioned deocanmisioning costs. Sczne months ago I was speaking with an engineer at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He is a strorg sqporter of nuclear i yet he feels the cost of doccrnmissionire are vastly underrated. l When added in to the original cost of the plant, when the limited lifetime due to radiation damage of stru:tures is considered, nuclear ~may turn out to be very expensive indeed.

We need nuclear power, rc question about it. SAFE nuclear pwer. t I have some knowledge of fusion research and I do not consider it  !

an alternative for maybe 50-100 years. You have given me faith in  ;

the NRC's ability to palice the industry. I hope I'm never disap- l pointed. Another mI would be the eM of this industry and our  ;

energy indepeMenee.

I hope the Reagan Administration appreciates what you are tryirg to do.  !

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