Shutdown Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station

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Diablo Canyon Nuclear Facility is DANGEROUS and must be SHUT DOWN!

• All nuclear facilities are inherently dangerous because they must be actively cooled even when in "cold shutdown".
• Nuclear facilities such as Diablo generate millions of pounds of toxic radioactive waste which must be safely stored for up to 140,000 years before it is safe, or about 4000 generations. Running these power stations without a means to safely convert the waste is IMPRUDENT and UNREASONABLE. Our elected officials should not stand for this!
• The "Diablo Canyon" nuclear facility is very near a number of earthquake faults, most particularly, the Hosgri fault and Shoreline fault. If you had to choose the worst place to build such a facility on the coast of California, this might be it.
• If an earthquake occurs, the vibrations may cause any number of failures and may result in total meltdowns.
• Just like the Fukushima Daiichi, the Diablo Canyon nuclear facility is right on the coastline, and is subject to tsunami inundation. This was actually what caused the failure of the cooling pumps at Fukushima.
• The Diablo Canyon nuclear facility uses "once-through" cooling, which kills virtually all animal life in the extracted ocean water, and then the higher temperatures kill life near the exit conduits.
• Nuclear power is a bad deal for consumers, costing about 166% of market rates.
• Nuclear power is not needed in California which already has about 156% of energy requirements, so losing 10% will not affect us much. The San Onofre nuclear facility was closed in 2012 and there were no significant problems after minor adjustments were made.
• BOTTOM LINE is that we will be better off with Diablo Canyon closed, and the sooner the better.

• Fukushima radioactive plume superimposed over Diablo Canyon. DO YOU LIVE NEAR GROUND ZERO?
  
  please note that the impact of Fukushima was reduced substantially because prevailing winds blew the radioactive plume off-shore. Diablo Canyon would be much more devastating because winds blow on-shore and temperature inversions keep the radiation near populated areas.

The following were extracted from this research paper, relating to a hypotethical accident at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station similar to that at Fukushima.

Researchers estimate \~25% more mortalities in California.

• Comments on the model of a Fukushima-like accident at Diablo Canyon:
  

• Iodine 131 dispersion after hypothetical Fukushima-like accident at Diablo Canyon (in March). Note that in the first 36 hours, the entire coast of California is exposed to high doses:
  

• Iodine 131 dispersion after hypothetical Fukushima-like accident at Diablo Canyon (in Sept). Again, the entire California coast is exposed to radiation in the first 36 hours.
  

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Cesium 137 dispersion after hypothetical Fukushima-like accident at Diablo Canyon	Same, Timeseries over the US

Diablo Canyon nuclear facility is near many earthquake faults, both onshore and offshore.

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The shoreline fault, just yards from the plant has been recently discovered and is now being researched.	This diagram shows the network of faults near the DCPP nuclear facility, highlighted.

The smoking gun... Shoreline Fault is within 600M of power block!

Groups, Related Websites and Facebook Pages

• Mothers for Peace -- http://mothersforpeace.org/ -- Definitely on the leading edge of the long-term resistance against this nuclear station! -- Linda Seeley
• Stop the Diablo Canyon Power Plant - Facebook open group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/DiabloCanyon/ (Laura Lynch, Admin)
• Coalition Against Nukes (C.A.N.) -- Star Priscilla
• Website - http://www.coalitionagainstnukes.org/
• Facebook closed group (3500+ members) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/C.A.N.CoalitionAgainstNukes/
• Residents Organized for a Safe Environment (ROSE) - Gene Stone
• Website - http://residentsorganizedforasafeenvironment.wordpress.com/
• Facebook open group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/162282963826465/
• Nuclear Free California
• Facebook closed group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/nuclearfreecalifornia/
• California Against Nuclear Power & Radiation
• Facebook open group (1980+ members) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/CAagainstNuclearPowerAndRadiation/ (Laura Lynch, Admin)

Please let us know if you have more to add here...

• Fukushima Fallout Awareness Network
• Facebook closed group: (1978 members) -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/124537680994270/590564501058250 (Laura Lynch, Kimberly Roberson, Admins)

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Summary of articles submitted for this project:

• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2019 2020-04-13 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2019 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1920 2019-08-29 NRC meeting on Decommissioning CABs -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2018 2019-02-09 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2018 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1855 2018-06-13 Presentation on HELMS at Diablo Canyon Independent Safety Committee -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1826 2018-02-07 S. 2388: Nuclear Plant Decommissioning Act of 2018 -- Bernie Sanders United States Senate
• M1828 2018-02-07 S. 2396: Safe and Secure Decommissioning Act of 2018 -- Kamala Harris United States Senate
• M1814 2018-01-11 California’s last nuclear plant to close after unanimous vote by regulators -- David Baker SanFranciscoChronicle
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2017 2017-12-20 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2017 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1857 2017-12 Management and Disposal of U.S. Department of Energy Spent Nuclear Fuel -- A Report to the United States Congress and the Secretary of Energy -- NuclearWasteTechnicalReviewBoard
• M1795 2017-11-02 HELMS Proposal -- Community Draft for Comment -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• HelmsPetition 2017-11-01 HELMS Public Support Petition -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1848 2017-10-19 2017-10-19 Dry Cask Risks Not Known When Design Approved by NRC -- Diablo Canyon Ind. Safety Committee -- DiabloCanyonIndependentSafetyCommittee EcologicalOptionsNetwork
• M1797 2017-10 NUREG-2214 Managing Aging Process In Storage MAPS (draft) -- NuclearRegulatoryCommission
• CitizensOversightStatusUpdate2016 2016-12-30 Citizens Oversight Status Update 2016 -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1799 2016-08-31 A Historical Review of the Safe Transport of Spent Nuclear Fuel -- Connolly & Pope DeptOfEnergy
• M1660 2016-06-23 Lies, damned lies and the nuclear industry strikes out again. -- AceHoffman CitizensOversight
• M1560 2015-03-30 PUC scandal stretches to UC Berkeley -- MarcLifsher LosAngelesTimes
• M1561 2015-03-30 Probe of back-channel dealing continues at California PUC -- DavidSiders SacramentoBee
• M1564 2015-03-30 CPUC does about-face on Picker pledge -- Agency decided not to prove its president paid for dinner, but never said so -- Ricky Young UnionTribune
• M1559 2015-03-29 How banquet for ex-PUC head Peevey went sour for UC Berkeley -- JaxonVanDerbeken SanFranciscoChronicle
• M1563 2015-03-26 UC struggled with Peevey party funds -- Dean of public policy school felt loyalty to utilities boss -- JeffMcDonald UnionTribune
• M1554 2015-03-03 REGULATOR, EDISON HAD ‘REGULAR’ CHATS -- Emails reveal calls with PUC member Florio, whose contacts with PG&E prompted recusal -- JeffMcDonald UnionTribune
• M1553 2015-02-26 Review of San Onofre Original Steam Generator Wear -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1552 2015-02-25 Citizens Oversight's Federal Case Against Edison, CPUC Ignited by Warsaw Meetings & Felony Searches -- AguirreSeversonLLP CitizensOversight
• M1546 2015-02-22 Peevey Network -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1551 2015-02-12 Crooks Honoring Crooks -- Attendee Intercept at Peevey Gala -- Steve Zeltzer Labor Video Project
• M1543 2015-02-11 Peevey Toasters Face Public Scrutiny -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1544 2015-02-11 Furor over $250-a-head party honoring former CPUC head -- JaxonVanDerbeken SanFranciscoChronicle
• M1539 2015-02-10 Meeting links CPUC probe to San Onofre -- Edison discloses it met at luxury hotel in Poland with former regulator -- JeffMcDonald UnionTribune
• M1540 2015-02-10 SCE reports private contact in 2013 with PUC head Peevey -- MarcLifsher LosAngelesTimes
• M1538 2015-02-09 SCE Admits Secret Meeting with CPUC Pres. Peevey in 2013 to Concoct Settlement -- SouthernCaliforniaEdison
• M1542 2015-02-09 Shut up! Shut up! -- Edison admits secret huddle with Michael Peevey on San Onofre -- DonBauder SanDiegoReader
• M1541 2015-02-02 INDUSTRY TO TOAST EX-PUC CHIEF PEEVEY -- Celebration for former utilities chief comes amid state corruption investigation -- JeffMcDonald UnionTribune
• M1534 2015-01-07 Report of Malfeasance and Institutional Corruption at the California Public Utilities Commission -- Mike Aguirre and Mia Severson AguirreSeversonLLP
• M1528 2014-12-31 2014-12-31 COPS Letter to Victor Dricks on Diablo Canyon Safety Meeting on Jan 14, 2015 in Arlington TX -- RayLutz CitizensOversight
• M1512 2014-10-24 CPRA Response in San Bruno Explosion Case -- CPUC and PG&E -- CaliforniaPublicUtilitiesCommission
• M1505 2014-10-07 Analysis of Cancer Risks in Populations near Nuclear Facilities -- National Research Council
• M1502 2014-09-23 How the NRC got it wrong on Diablo Canyon -- MichaelPeck The Tribune
• M1798 2014-09 NUREG-2157 Generic Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel -- NuclearRegulatoryCommission
• M1485 2014-08-25 NRC report by Michael Peck on Diablo Canyon Earthquake Safety -- MichaelPeck NuclearRegulatoryCommission
• M1474 2014-08-10 Diablo safety committee asks for further review on cooling system -- ColinRigley NewTimes
• M1475 2014-08-08 California PUC losing luster, clout -- Michael Hiltzic LosAngelesTimes
• M1472 2014-08-07 Diablo and the deep blue sea: A shelved NRC tsunami study is generating new interest 11 years later -- ColinRigley NewTimes
• M1477 2014-07-02 Bechtel Plans for Cooling Towers at Diablo Canyon Nuclear Station -- Bechtel Power Corporation Pacific Gas And Electric
• M1425 2014-03-03 REPORT ON HEALTH STATUS OF RESIDENTS IN SAN LUIS OBISPO AND SANTA BARBARA COUNTIES LIVING NEAR THE DIABLO CANYON NUCLEAR REACTORS -- Joseph Mangano World Business Academy
• M1469 2013-12-01 Initial report by Budnitz on San Onofre Failure -- Robert Budnitz CaliforniaPublicUtilitiesCommission
• M1381 2013-09-05 NRC Culture Biased Toward Profits and Against Safety -- RaymondLutz CitizensOversight
• M1466 2013-07-29 Meeting California’s Electricity Needs Without San Onofre or Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plants -- Bill Powers Sierra Club San Diego
• M1359 2013-06-04 Fukushima Lessons for California Panel -- CitizensOversight
• M1350 2013-04-18 Reid Appoints Besieged Regulator to Nuclear-Weapons Panel -- Amy Harder National Journal
• M1802 2013-04-05 Trends in the cost of Energy -- Zoltan Kiss Seeking Alpha
• M1568 2013-03-26 RSG Notes on Hotel Bristol Stationery -- Michael Peevey, Stephen Pickett CitizensOversight
• M1530 2013-01 STRATEGY FOR THE MANAGEMENT AND DISPOSAL OF USED NUCLEAR FUEL AND HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE -- DeptOfEnergy
• M1792 2013 Too Hot to Touch -- The Problem of High-Level Nuclear Waste -- William Alley and Rosemarie Alley CambridgeUniversityPress
• M1801 2012-11-14 NRC NOTICE 2012-20: POTENTIAL CHLORIDE-INDUCED STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF AUSTENITIC STAINLESS STEEL AND MAINTENANCE OF DRY CASK STORAGE SYSTEM CANISTERS -- NuclearRegulatoryCommission
• M1463 2012-04-23 Worldwide health effects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident -- John E. Ten Hoeve and Mark Z. Jacobson Energy & Environmental Science
• M1376 2012-04-17 Tsunami Risk Assessment -- Scripps Institution of Oceanography
• M1242 2012-02-23 Scientists: Nuclear power isn’t viable without corporate welfare -- David Worthington Smart Planet
• M1465 2011-03-16 Calif. of most concern for US nuclear plants near fault lines -- Bakersfield Now
• M1310 2010-07-23 Renewable energy would create more jobs than nuclear power -- Elliot Negin Statesman.com
• M1424 2008 AB 1632 ASSESSMENT OF CALIFORNIA’S OPERATING NUCLEAR PLANTS -- CaliforniaEnergyCommission
• M1791 2008 America's Nuclear Wastelands -- Politics, Accountability, and Cleanup -- Max Power WashingtonStateUniversityPress
• M1464 Plan to Track Quake Threat Is Questioned -- John Upton NewYorkTimes

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