Opinion by San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace On Dec. 6, in their second letter to the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) within the space of three weeks, four environment…
On Dec. 6, in their second letter to the Commissioners of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission within the space of three weeks, four environmental organizations once again put the NRC on notice that the agency would violate federal law if it accepted Pacific Gas & Electric’s Oct. 31 proposal to resurrect and fast-track its review of PG&E’s long-abandoned 2009 license renewal application for the twin Diablo Canyon reactors.
‘PG&E cannot have it both ways,’ claimed SLOMFP Board President Jane Swanson. ‘PG&E stopped preparing the reactors for continued operation in 2016 and asked the NRC to terminate the license renewal proceeding. The company has spent the past six years preparing to mothball the reactors and has saved money by not investing in future operations. They can’t reverse course and revive a license renewal application that was declared dead years ago at their own request.
‘With years of extended operations on the table for this outdated and potentially deadly nuclear facility, it is crucial that we cut zero corners,’ said FOE Legal Director Hallie Templeton. ‘The California legislature has not provided PG&E carte blanche to seek exemptions and streamline relicensing.
‘The last time the NRC did an environmental review for operation of the Diablo Canyon reactors was 1993,’ said Ken Cook, EWG’s President and Co-founder. ‘Given the potentially extreme impacts and risks of continuing to operate Diablo Canyon, it would be both illegal and sheer folly to proceed with extended operation in the absence of a thorough and up-to-date Environmental Impact Statement.’
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