Stop Nuclear LOANS

HELP STOP TRIPLING OF NUCLEAR LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM!

WRITE YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY AND JOIN IN ON NATIONAL CALL-CONGRESS DAY WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24!

February 18, 2010

Dear Friends,

By now you probably know that on Tuesday President Obama personally announced conditional approval of an $8.3 billion loan guarantee for the construction of two new reactors at the Vogtle site in Georgia.

And you also probably know that Obama has proposed tripling the loan guarantee program for new reactors in his FY 2011 budget, to $54 billion.

What you may not know about the Vogtle deal is that we taxpayers are not just providing loan guarantees, we’re providing the actual loans, through the Federal Financing Bank. And you also may not know that the Southern Company has not yet accepted the conditions of the loan–and for various reasons, it may not. In other words, it’s not a done deal.

And neither is a $54 billion loan guarantee program a done deal. Congress has to approve this proposal. Twice last year, with your help, we beat back efforts to increase the loan guarantee program. We can do it again!

*The first step is to send a letter to your Representative now.

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1821

*The second step is to spread the word and encourage as many people as possible to send in letters. We need to speak very LOUDLY on this one!

*The third step is to get ready for National Call-Congress Day on Wednesday, February 24. We’ve done this before and thousands of you have called. This time it will be even bigger, because this is a coordinated effort with many groups: NIRS, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Beyond Nuclear, Friends of the Earth, and you!

So prepare yourself (and we’ll send some new talking points early next week), activate your e-mail lists and phone trees, tell your friends and family members. Let’s keep the phones ringing in both the House and Senate all day long next Wednesday.

Reaction to the Vogtle loan guarantee, and to the proposed tripling of the program, already has been strong. You can see NIRS’ press releases, and statements by Ralph Nader, Sierra Club, PSR, etc. on the front page of our website: http://www.nirs.org

Here is a link to a story in today’s New York Times titled Environmental Advocates Are Cooling on Obama. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/science/earth/18enviros.html?emc=eta1
Here is a link to a story on the Facing South site.
http://www.southernstudies.org/2010/02/taxpayers-arent-just-guaranteeing-loans-for-new-georgia-nuclear-reactors-theyre-also-doing-the-lendi.html
And here is a very good piece from Time Magazine.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1964846,00.html
These are typical of the kinds of stories we’ve been seeing.

Now we need to follow up the strong reaction to Obama’s nuclear plans with strong action:

Please write your representatives here.
http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/5502/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=1821
Plan to be part of National Call-Congress Day Wednesday, February 24.

And if there is anything we can do to help you, let us know.

Thanks for all you do,

Michael Mariotte
Executive Director
Nuclear Information and Resource Service
nirsnet@nirs.org

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P.S. Some big THANK YOUs! Thanks to everyone who contributed

Don’t Be Afraid

Don’t be afraid

Our Russian guide said “Don’t be afraid, that is not a nuclear power plant”, as we passed by several huge cooling towers outside of St. Petersburg, Russia last week. Returning to San Diego I read the article dated 10/27/09 “Oceanside: Giant hole nearly completed in San Onofre dome”, by Paul Sisson, psisson@nctimes.com. and remembered the warning. Mr. Sisson went on to say that the first 28 foot hole was almost finished in the side of the north dome of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and only a half-inch steel liner was protecting the outside from the inside. Since there is a population of 12,404,757 people living within 50 miles of the nuclear reactor, I was wondering if anyone within this area received or purchased Potassium Iodine Tablets?

Following the Chernobyl nuclear reactor disaster in 1986, a saturated solution of potassium iodide was given to 10.5 million children and 7 million adults in Poland as a measure against accumulation of radioactive iodine-131 in the thyroid gland. The US FDA approved Potassium iodide in 1982 to protect thyroid glands from radioactive iodine in the event of an accident or attack at a nuclear power plant or fallout from a nuclear explosion.

Mr. Ridenoure, chief nuclear officer of Southern California Edison (SCE) reported “not to worry, radiation levels inside are very, very low”. Yet my worry has been and continues to be the poor maintenance record of SONGS over the past few years reported by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Hopefully for 12,404,757 people, all will go well replacing those old 640 ton generators. But what about all the other old components in the reactor, miles of pipes, parts that have been rumbling and running for 24/7 to turn water into steam for 27 years. Who wants to risk driving an old car with old parts with a antiquated system?

The power plant’s license is to expire in 2022. SCE is considering asking for a license extension for 20 more years. Nuclear plants only produce 16% of our energy. We saved that much energy when we took conservation efforts back a few years ago during the last energy crunch in San Diego. There is no safe place to store the radioactive waste we have produced now let alone make more. The fuel pools are overcrowded and waste will continue to stay on site and our coastline for longer then you and I will be around. Is this want we want for future generations? What are your thoughts? Contact me Shirley Vaine svaine@cox.net or Twitter/Solarshirley

Emergency Preparedness 1 of 2 Parts

Emergency preparedness 1 of 2 Parts

One of the latest reports regarding San Diego’s Nuclear reactor comes from an article from Paul Sisson psission@nctimes.com and I quote “Inspectors in Japan have detected ‘weld defects’ inside two massive steam generators being built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for installation at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS)”. A spokesperson for the plant owners Southern California Edison (SCE) said “similar defects have not been found in two similar generators already delivered to San Onofre and scheduled for installation inside its Unit 2 containment dome this fall. The deficiency, which was corrected, was caused by a manufacturing process that was not used on the Unit 2 generators. He went on to say DEFECTS will not delay the cutting of the concrete domes and installation of the generators, scheduled for fall 2010.”
Which brings me to my question, are you prepared to evacuate in the event of a radioactive release in San Diego County? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) who monitors and regulates nuclear power plants says an accident, though unlikely, is possible. The potential danger from an accident at a nuclear power plant is exposure to radiation. According to the San Diego Office of Emergency Services (OSE) it depends on how close you live to a nuclear accident for you to hear a siren or warning, know wind direction, speed,& weather conditions to be notified.
Natural radiation comes from the sun and earth. Radiation that comes from nuclear power plants is man-made and very harmful to the human body. The longer the person is exposed and the closer the person is to the source puts them at a higher risk. Radiation can not be detected by our senses of sight, smell or taste. Scientist has sophisticated instruments that can detect levels of radiation. Some States have evacuation routes, reception areas and temporary housing. If your children are at a school near by, they will be picked up and taken somewhere safe. As parents we should know this in advance. State and local governments include plume (cloud-like) emergency plans for 10 miles radius and there is an ingestion planning zone for 50 miles. The melt downs in Simi Valley, California happened in the 1950s. The meltdown was worst then Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania, yet no one was notified until 1994.

Rochelle Becker Executive Officer of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, a California grassroots group concerned over the continued production of nuclear waste, has called for the pending installation of the first two generators to be delayed until Edison can demonstrate two consecutive quarters of safe operation. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has over the past two years been critical of the plant’s “workplace culture”. Your thoughts? Contact me svaine@cox.net, Twitter/Solarshirley, visit http://www.A4NR.org.

Emergency Preparedness 2 of 2 Parts

Emergency preparedness 2 of 2 Parts

San Diego County is known as a nuclear community in Sacramento. Personally I don’t like the name, but it is what it is. Knowing that San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) is an aging reactor we should take some precautionary measures to protect our families the best we can if there is an accident during the new steam generator installations. We as a community should also be ready if the electricity we get from SONGS is interrupted for an unknown while because of a workplace mistake. According to a little survey of 1200 San Diego residents; two-thirds of them feel it is highly likely they will be affected by a major disaster.
Here are some suggestions to minimize radiation exposure.

1. Do not evacuate if you are at home unless you are advised to do so. This is called “in-place sheltering”.
2. Tune in to your battery-operated radio, Ipods or television for information. Charge your batteries, or have some new ones handy.
3. The thyroid gland is vulnerable to the radioactive release that occurs from a nuclear power plant. Take your Potassium Iodine tablets when directed by State or local public health authorities in the event of a radiation emergency. Check tablets expiration date.
4. Turn off sources to outside air, your air conditioners, vents, fans, furnaces, fireplace dampers, windows.
5. Bring in your pets. When people returned after the Three Mile Island fire, and left their pets, they were dead when they returned.
6. If you have a sealed basement go there.
7. If you have been outside, take off your clothes & shoes (outside if you can) place them in a sealed container. Store them as far away from your family as possible and take a shower. In an evacuation you will go to Carlsbad High School, 3557 Lancer Way, Carlsbad. If you are tested positive for radiation and are contaminated you will be issued paper gowns to wear in exchange for your contaminated clothing. So pack some clothes too.
8. Stay where you are. There is no place to run.
9. Wait to hear from authorities to say it is safe.
10. The heavier and denser materials you have between you and the source of radiation, the better off you will be.

Know where your children have been taken if their school is near the nuclear reactor and there is a radioactive emergency. Contact the school and find out. Locate the Emergency Alert System (EAS) in advance there may be a decontamination center near you.
Emergency brochures are available in print at San Diego County OES. Call for a copy 858-565-3490
If SONGS gets re-licensed to run for another 25 years,(think about all the problems of a 50 year old car has in repairs & no new technology). Then these preventative suggestions become more important. Preventive action for the future is to stop the production of highly radioactive waste as soon as possible by phasing out these dangerous dinosaurs we use for 16% of our energy. In the last energy crisis in San Diego, through conservation we stop using 16%. Support safe “renewable energy”. With safe energy, no evacuation plans are needed. What are your thoughts? Contact me svaine@cox.net, Twitter/Solarshirley Read “No Harm to the Public”http://SolarShirely.wordpress.com, http://www.A4NR.org

The War Against San Diego Seals Part 2

The war against San Diego Seals Part 2

The latest war is against San Diego Harbor seals, which reside in La Jolla at Casa Beach since 1970. Casa Beach, also known as the Children’s pool, where children enjoy seeing the seals and learning all about them. Since 1887 to the present this area is known as “Seal Point Rock”, and a large off shore rock known as “Seal Rock”. In 1931 a man made sea wall was built from Seal Point Rock across the channel onto Seal Rock according to information from the “La Jolla Friends of the Seals”. This closed off the channel and natural flow of water, and sand started to fill in the pool. The seals left the near by rocks they were resting on, to “haul –out” of the water to the beach to rest and give birth to their pups since 1970.
Over the past few years, several human neighbors don’t want the seals there anymore. They want to shoo the seals away from their habitat of 40 years. So let’s discuss a “Law” created by humans that I believe should apply to protect the seals rights as well. Let Mother Nature take its’ course.
The law is called Easement by Prescription. The elements of a prescriptive easement are as follows:(this is from my old real estate law book, written by Arthur Bowman & Denny Milligan), “ Open an notorious use, continuous and uninterrupted for a period of five years, hostile to the true owner, exclusive, and under some claim of right. Payment of taxes is not required to obtain an easement by prescription. The adverse user must so utilize the property that the intent to claim a prescriptive easement is obvious.” I think this fits the seals story very well.
Right now SB428 co-authored by Senator Kehoe and State Assemblyman Fletcher, gives the City of San Diego the right to decide the fate of the seals. This bill goes into effect January, 2010. This includes leaving the seals alone and designating the beach and rookery (breeding grounds for birds & seals) as a Marine Mammal Park.
There is about 200 harbor seal colony at this site. It is the only one of its kind in Southern California. It is a unique experience for children and adults to be able to view wild animals in their natural habitat.
What are your ideas and solutions to this unusual opportunity to protect the seals and their environment for future generations to enjoy?
Contact http://www.lajollafriendsoftheseals.org, svaine@cox.net or Twitter.com/SolarShirley

No Answers for San Diego

No Answers for San Diego

“In June the California Energy Commission (CEC) requested information from Southern California Edison (SCE) relating to its’ aging nuclear reactors, aging workforce, security issues, water-impacts, seismic and erosion concerns. SCE choice was to ignore or partially respond to the CEC’s request.” States Rochelle Becker, Executive Director of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility.
For planning purposes the CEC is investigating both SCE and PG&E’s plans for replacing power from their aging reactors in the event an outage lasts longer than 90 days. SCE responses appears to indicate that the utility does not have plans in place other than it “may need to go to the wholesale energy markets to procure replacement power” in the event of an extended outage at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS). An absence of planning for extended outages could result in a costly major investment and possible rate shock for SCE & San Diego Gas & Electric ratepayers.
Historically California ratepayers have not been served well by the state’s reliance on incomplete and often unverified information relating to nuclear power. Original estimates to build SONGS were under $400 million, the final price tag was $4.7 billion. Large components that were designed to last for 40 years are being replaced today, an additional cost of billion or more.
Highly radioactive waste that was promised to be removed off California fragile coast by the Federal Government 1982 Nuclear Waste Policy is now being stored in casks at the reactor site. What is the best economic & safest solution to California energy concerns? Please send me your questions or opinions to svaine@cox.net, Twitter.com/SolarShirley or visit http:// http://www.nrc.gov/reactors/operating/licensing/renewal/applications.html

The War Against the San Diego Seals Part 1

The war against San Diego Seals Part 1

This war against Seals is not a new one according to Briton Cooper Busch author of The War Against Seals, The History of the North American Seal Fishery. This is an excerpt from Mr. Busch’s book. “Back in the mid 1800s Elephants seals fur and oil was the principal means of commercial exchange along the California coast. Twenty years later, there were no elephants seals left to exploit. They were cleaned off by sealers. In 1892 there may have been as few as twenty animals surviving in the entire species. It is important to realize that the entire modern population came from this small group of seals.
After 1892 the recovery began slowly. A joint Mexican-American expedition spotted 264 seals on Guadalupe in 1922. The Mexican government wisely concluded the seals would be exploited again, and placed the species under complete protection, not simply by legislation, but also by stationing a small garrison on the waterless rock of Guadalupe. A crude sign was made in English and Spanish, Prohibit by law to kill or capture elephant seals. Thus protected, elephant seals population grew and spread back into the United States oceans and were given legal sanctuary in the US.”
Today Harbor seals, now under scrutiny are being protected by volunteers from not having to leave their habitat in Southern California. In February 1999 the seals beach was recognized as a natural harbor seal haul-out by the National Marine Fisheries Service. Marine mammals are protected by the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972. The seals habitat in San Diego however, is not.
Please contact me with your ideas and suggestion regarding the seals habitat protection. svaine@cox.net or Twitter.com/SolarShirley

No Harm to the Public

No Harm to the Public Part 1 of 3

It is very hard to compete with the billions of dollars spent in marketing telling us “The Public” and in our children schools, how safe and reliable nuclear energy is, when their are “shutdowns, meltdowns, tritium leaks” & nuclear engineers just not doing their job correctly at some of the nuclear plants. There is always the same ending to the report, “there was no harm to the public”. “Nuclear energy is clean and safe.”
Thank goodness I was taught to use common sense by my dad. I always think, how can that be, “no harm to the public”? Just today, a report came out by Jarrett Iovine that Mushrooms in Finland are still radioactive after the radioactive fire at Chernobyl 23 years ago. Chernobyl is still leaking all kinds of radioactive materials in the air and surrounding lands, not to mention circling the earth. Nothing happened a the Three Mile Island radioactive fire down in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, yet I have met eye witnesses who lived there then, and they report a very different story, from mutated plants to high rate of cancers in their neighborhood over the years. But this information seldom gets published. In Simi Valley, California, the meltdown there, made the news again last month. The community remembered the two secret meltdowns of the nuclear reactor that released highly radioactive waste around the locality and no one knew for decades accept the operators, and owners. Several years ago many of incidents of cancers appeared in that area, and a lawsuit followed, but it was too late. Contact me: svaine@cox.net, Twitter.com/SolarShirley, Visit http://www.A4NR.

No Harm to the Public Part 2 of 3

That is one of the interesting things about highly radioactive gases, no taste, no smell, and you don’t see it.
Over and over the proponents of Nuclear Energy keep trying to place in our minds that nuclear is “ Clean, Green, Renewable Energy”. The only ones who want nuclear energy are the Profiteers. They don’t care anything about the highly radioactive waste left by the production of nuclear energy. They believe someone else will solve this serious problem. This waste is radioactive for millions of years. Right now the waste stays on site. All nuclear reactors are now also radioactive dump sites. People don’t want to operate a 25 year old car, yet old nuclear reactors around our country are getting renewed licenses to operate another 20 years. The risk is growing with these old ageing, falling apart reactors. The people that are pushing for them probably won’t even be alive long enough to benefit from the energy. They just want the financial rewards now and leave the waste and the rest of the problems to several hundreds of future generations.
The great news for California is that we have a law in place, which actually thought about future generations, PR 25524. This law states, (and I paraphrase) no new nukes, until there is a safe place forsite the waste. There are a handful of California legislators trying to over turn this law. Why? These legislators don’t want a new reactor in their own community, but it is ok yours.
Christine Todd Whitman gave her opinions on “ Nukes are Good” to the Sacramento Bee, August 3, 2009. Ms Whitman is the former Governor or New Jersey and the co-chair of the Clean and Safe Energy Coalition, this coalition is the new messenger for “Nukes are Good”. The Oyster Creek Nuclear plant in New Jersey this year is leaking tritium into the water. Do you really believe Ms. Whitman thinks nukes are good? One of the issues Ms. Whitman covered was that nukes are “Emission free”, according to Nuclear Information & Resource Service, “ It doesn’t take an accident for a nuclear power plant to release radioactivity into our air, water and soil. All it takes is the plant’s everyday routine operation, and federal regulations permit these radioactive releases”. Ms. Whitman went on to say according to a “Field Poll” conducted last year, voters approved building new reactors in California. I don’t think so. In the last several years, legislation was introduced to over turn PR25524. It was voted down almost unanimously by Sacramento Legislators each time. The majority of Californians do not support lifting the ban to build new nuclear plants. The skilled tradesmen in California would be just as happy building safe energy sources for their communities.
I did like one thing she said. “Problems ignored never go away. They just come back bigger and costlier”. Ms. Whitman is right. The problem of highly radioactive waste building up on our California eroding coastline, with no place to go is getting bigger, costlier & riskier. Let’s stop ignoring this huge and dangerous situation.
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No Harm to the Public Part 3 of 3

The California Energy Commissioner has recommended a new earth quake study for San Onofre Nuclear Generating Stations(SONGS). Speak up and let’s get this study completed. Maybe we won’t need to cut the holes in the reactor.
Two holes will be cut into the concrete domes at SONGS, this fall to replace steam generators. Let’s’ ask to delay this project until the plant is running safely and when it is less of a risk. Californians has a say over reliability and economics in our state we should exercise those rights and protect our selves and the environment.
According to James Kanter, Many environmental groups are opposed to nuclear power being called renewable energy. The reason is that it produces harmful byproducts and relies on extractive industries to procure fuel like uranium. Helene Pelosse is the head of the International Renewal Energy Agency (IRENA). IRENA advises about 140 member countries on making the transition to clean energy. Ms Pelosse dismisses the notion of including nuclear power among its favored technologies. “IRENA will not support nuclear energy programs because it’s a long, complicated process, it produces waste and is relatively risky”
What is the solution for California Energy future? This topic needs more discussion.
What makes common sense; billions of more tax payers and rate payer dollars into patching up an old reactor or to go solar(roof top and commerial, build windmills, invest in new safe technology ? Once the investment is paid off, you have clean energy in place Future generations will not need to spend trillions of dollars to keep the by product safe and out of harms way from the people.. What are your ideas and solutions to these questions? Contact: svaine@cox.net, Twitter.com/SolarShirley, Visit http://www.A4NR.org

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SONGS Reliabiability Questioned

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on March 4, 2009 sent a letter to Southern California Edison (SCE) the owners of the Nuclear power plant that sits about 35 minuets North of San Diego on the coastline in Oceanside.  San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) annual assessment letter was the latest completed performance review for SONGS. Included in this letter was that the NRC was concerned that “the continuing performance problems are not being effectively addressed, and issues that were identified were in human performances, plus problem of identification and resolution”. The assessment letter went on to say “human performance findings include instance of operation error, failure to follow procedural guidance during surveillance, troubleshooting and nuclear fuel movement activities.” These issues are yet to be corrected by SCE.

     The huge problem here being that SCE plans to cut two 28ft x 28^ft holes in SONGS this fall to remove old steam generators and replace them with new ones.  The side notes here is, that removal hatches were never installed in these nuclear reactors.  Maybe the designers back then felt that SONGS technology would be too old in 25 years and who would want a reactor that old still in operation? Also this critical feat of replacing steam generators has never been done on an active nuclear reactor.

     Yet the real concern is what if there is a mistake or accident during this process? No one knows how long the reactor will be down even if the replacement goes perfect.  Southern California could have an “unknown timetable” of a dismantled

Reactor and 16% shortage of electricity.  SCE is having problems with safe normal operation of SONGS now. What is the probability of something going wrong during this experiment?  If there is an error during the procedure then Southern California rate costs will go through the roof.

     The good news is that California has control over reliability and economics of our power generation, and these issues are not pre-empted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. We already endured an “energy crisis” in 2000. Let’s plan not to have another one. An earthquake shut down Japan’s new nuclear reactors in 2007 and they are still down today, costing the company to buy power elsewhere to meet demand and costing the country billions of yen. Not only is nuclear power financially unpredictable, the safety risk is an intrical part of that harmful fuel. Additional losses would also come from tourist avoiding visiting this potential health hazard area.

      We need solutions to insure that SONGS stay safe, and hope we don’t end up paying absorbent rates by buying power from power “scalpers”, because we did not plan. One solution is to delay the cutting of the holes in SONGS. Let SCE demonstrate it can manage the reactor without problems first. Rochelle Becker, Executive Director for the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility has brought this issue to the Office of the Inspector General to investigate whether SCE can safely cut these holes, given their poor track record.  What solutions can you offer to help keep SONGS safe and reliable? Contact me: svaine@cox.net or Twitter.com/SolarShirley or visit www.A4NR.org

Shake, Rattle and Glow

What would it cost Southern California if an earthquake a magnitude of 6.8 the size of the one that hit Japan 2 short years ago, shook our nuclear reactor in San Diego County?  Right now we do have a pretty good idea, so it is seriously time to prepare before it happens. San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) has not had an earthquake study for over 25 years.  Since that time the earth has been spinning around and around quite a bit. There have been many underground explosions, and the center of the earth is still cooling. There are over 10,000 earthquakes in California per year. Most so small they are never felt. Only 15 to 20 quakes have the magnitude greater then 4.0. The Great Southern

California Shakeout which happened July 29, 2008 was 7.8 . The earthquakes themselves have several different ground motions. Most earthquakes slip horizontally called a “strike-slip” , other earthquakes are thrusting ,called a “dip-slip” which involves a vertical component.

     This was the type of earthquake that struck Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEMPCO) Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant, the world’s largest, generating 8000 Megawatts of power. The fault had been previously undetected. The operators were able to shut down the reactors safely, experience one fire and some leaking of radioactive liquids into the Sea of Japan. To this day all units remain shut down.  The loss of 8000 Megawatts has had devastating consequences for the Japanese utility and economy.

     Can the citizens of California afford to be unprepared if a new quake fault were to erupt near SONGS? What would the loss of 2000 megawatts as well as jobs, real estate values, tourism and revenue do to the county and state if a seismic event created a long-term outage similar to the one in Japan?

     One solution would be to take action and follow up on the recommendation of a seismic study for SONGS as soon as possible by the California Energy Commission (CEC). The CEC finished its’ analysis of AB 1632 regarding Nuclear Power Plants in California  and in the topic Seismic Vulnerability, the CEC recommended Southern California Edison (SCE) “should develop an active seismic hazards research program for SONGS. The utilities should use three-dimensional seismic

Reflection mapping and other advanced techniques at both plants (Diablo Canyon and SONGS). We would need our SONGS legislators to put this plan in motion and request a new earthquake study without delay. Assemblyman Blakeslee (San Louis Obispo) has put forth AB42 already, which provides the means to investigate urgent seismic issues at Diablo Canyon. San Diego needs to do the same.

California has control over reliability and economics of our power generation and these issues are not pre-empted by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

     What are your opinions and solutions to keeping Southern California Safe?

Please email me svaine@cox.net or Twitter.com/SolarShirley or visit http://www.A4NR.org