[NukeNet] Feds deny Mothers for Peace - NRC calls premature a motion to stop Diablo from storing radioactive fuel

[MoJo]

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/15454095.htm
Posted on Wed, Sep. 06, 2006  
 
Feds deny Mothers for Peace
NRC calls premature a motion to stop Diablo from storing radioactive fuel
Stephen Curran
scurran at thetribunenews.com

Saying the matter was "unnecessary and premature," the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission on Wednesday denied a San Luis Obispo environmental group’s
request to invalidate PG&E’s license to store spent fuel at Diablo Canyon.

Lawyers for anti-nuclear group Mothers for Peace filed the motion to stop
the utility from loading spent fuel pending the outcome of an
Environmental Impact Review to study ecological impacts from a potential
terrorist attack.

Commissioners denied the motion, they wrote, because any potential work at
the site is more than a year away.

"We see no urgent reason to consider now the validity of PG&E’s ISFSI
license and PG&E’s right to load spent fuel into its ISFSI," they wrote in
a memorandum of their decision. "Neither issue has practical significance
until late in 2007 at the earliest."

PG&E officials said last month they planned to appeal to the Supreme Court
a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that requires federal regulators to
analyze the effects of a terrorist attack on an above-ground,
radioactive-waste-storage facility now under construction at Diablo Canyon
nuclear power plant.

Group members had argued that PG&E’s dry-cask storage for highly
radioactive spent reactor fuel needs more scrutiny because it could be
vulnerable to terrorists. Those casks, made out of concrete and steel,
would be mounted above ground on a hillside behind the power plant.

-- Stephen Curran
 


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