Petition against building nuclear fuel storage dismissed

Sac Bee ^ | 8/5/03 | Toshi Maeda - AP

[NormsRevenge]

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (AP) - Judges on Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by environmental groups claiming the bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. is unqualified to build a spent-fuel storage facility at the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.

Three administrative judges, who are part of the Atomic Safety and Licensing Board of the Texas-based U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), concluded that the petitioners "failed to demonstrate there is any genuine and substantial dispute of fact or law."

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[Carry_Okie]

The unrelenting Green effort to a$$ure that California retains its critical power shortage continues.

One wonders where Mothers for Peace gets their funding.

[7MMmag]

Who needs storage when we are using DU???
Ever wonder just where in the heck all the DU
is coming from?
Depleted, huh? Oh, nevermind, I suppose.

As I type this, I'm not far from Diablo Canyon...

The politics of the spent fuel and other wastes
are all but impossible around here. Folks scream bloody murder
when it's proposed to be shipped by truck and rail
to Nevada. And as the article outlined, the went to court
about the proposal to store the materials on-site...
So just what to do with the stuff?
(i don't care for firing it in

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[snopercod]

The Mothers for Peace was an anti-Vietnam-war group of frustrated housewives with nothing to do, so they decided do oppose the Diablo Canyon Power Plant after the war ended.

They single-handedly cost the taxpayers and ratepayers of California several billion dollars in "stranded costs".

To the best of my knowledge, they were a local, homegrown group with no outside funding, although they were in cahoots with groups like the "Government Accountability Project".

I could be wrong, but it doesn't take much money to file all these objections. The system is set up to make it easy for intervenors.

[snopercod]

If I'm not mistaken, the new "energy bill" sets up a spent fuel reprocessing program in the U.S.

[Carry_Okie]

They got technical and legal assistance from somewhere. Unfortunately, the Government Accountability Project is not listed at ActivistCash.com.

[hattend]

BTTT

[chimera]

I could be wrong, but it doesn't take much money to file all these objections. The system is set up to make it easy for intervenors.

Basically the cost of paper, an envelope, and a postage stamp. Petitions for leave to intervene with the NRC may involve a filing fee, but its pretty mimimal.

The hell of it is, when such things are filed, at least with the NRC, they are legally obligated to at least consider them and issue a finding. That takes staff time. Since the NRC is 100% funded by licensing fees (no net taxpayer dollars expended), the costs for dealing with allegations filed by intervenors filed against licensees or applicants is paid for by...licensees and applicants. You couldn't do a better job if you tried of designing a system tailor-made for abuse.

[chimera]

So just what to do with the stuff?

Commercial reprocessing. You recover useful materials (fuel, radioisotopes useful in medicine and industry) and reduce disposable waste volume by 99.999999999999%. Of course, "President" Carter (Rat, GA) made that illegal in this country...