[NukeNet] NRC to study environmental impacts of a terrorist attack at Diablo Canyon

[MoJo]

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        Posted on Mon, Feb. 26, 2007            http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/breaking_news/16788719.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

NRC to study environmental impacts of a terrorist attack at Diablo Canyon

David Sneed
The Tribune

  In a ruling issued today, the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission has given its staff 90 days to prepare an analysis of the environmental impacts of a terrorist attack on Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant’s dry cask storage facility for high radioactive used reactor fuel.
  The ruling settles a lawsuit by a local nuclear watchdog group that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Last year, a federal appeals court ruled that the agency erred in its "categorical refusal to consider the environmental effects of a terrorist attack" when it issued a license to Pacific Gas and Electric to build the facility near the power plant.
  The commission ordered that as much of its revised environmental analysis as practical be made available to the public. However, some material will not be disclosed due to security concerns.
      
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  The agency expects to have the whole process wrapped up in a year. 



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"It is vital that our state understand that once PG&E and SCE are no longer generating electricity from Diablo Canyon and San Onofre, high-level radioactive waste will be left on our coast vulnerable to attack. No longer will it be a matter of 'We need the power so the risk is worth it.'   The utility - the jobs, property taxes and donations to the community will be gone. Only the risk will remain for our children and grandchildren." - Rochelle Becker, Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility

Molly Johnson 
6290 Hawk Ridge Place
San Miguel, CA  93451
 
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