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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Yay, Jane and Mothers, congratulations!<br>
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Finally, I hope, the beginning of the end for nukes.<br>
<br>
I am always amazed how long it can take to come up with such
logical decisions, when they do so at all.<br>
<br>
I don't see San Onofre mentioned in the order, so this decision
will not affect a restart, I guess, although lots of other stuff
should keep it down.<br>
<br>
Still, this is a victory that has been long in coming, so Bask,
for a while, and prepare for the next round.<br>
<br>
Thanks to all for their hard work,<br>
<br>
Don<br>
<br>
On 8/7/2012 2:30 PM, Lucy J Swanson wrote:<br>
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color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Swanson
Jane <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:janeslo@kcbx.net">janeslo@kcbx.net</a>><br>
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color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>NRC
RULING SUPPORTS MOTHERS FOR PEACE AND 23 OTHER GROUPS</b><br>
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0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;
color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">August
7, 2012 2:27:01 PM PDT<br>
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style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;
color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span
style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Jane
Swanson <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:janeslo@me.com">janeslo@me.com</a>>,
Lucy Jane Swanson <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:janeslo@kcbx.net">janeslo@kcbx.net</a>><br>
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Release, August 7, 2012</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px; ">San Luis Obispo Mothers for
Peace</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">For
immediate release<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span
style="mso-tab-count:
2"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px; "><span style="mso-tab-count:
2"> </span>Contacts:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><span
style="mso-tab-count:
2"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Jane
Swanson<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:janeslo@me.com">janeslo@me.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 16px; "><span class="Apple-tab-span"
style="white-space:pre"> </span> (805) 595-2605</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold"><o:p> <span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></o:p></span><span
class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16px; ">Linda
Seeley<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> <span
class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>
</span><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lindaseeley@gmail.com">lindaseeley@gmail.com</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><span
style="mso-tab-count:
4">
</span>(805) 234-1769</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">NRC FREEZES ALL
NUCLEAR REACTOR CONSTRUCTION
& OPERATING LICENSES IN U.S.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Decision Follows
24 Groups’ June Petition in
Wake of Major Waste Confidence Rule Decision; Most
Reactor Projects
Already Stymied by Bad Economics and Cheaper Fuel
Alternatives</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">WASHINGTON, D.C. –
August 7, 2012 –</span></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) acted today to
put a hold on at
least 19 final reactor licensing decisions – nine
construction & operating
licenses (COLS), eight license renewals, one operating
license, and one early
site permit – in response to the landmark Waste
Confidence Rule decision of
June 8<sup>th</sup> by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
D.C. Circuit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-size: 13px; ">The NRC action was sought in a
June 18, 2012 petition
filed by 24 groups urging the NRC to respond to the
court ruling by freezing
final licensing decisions until it has completed a
rulemaking action on the
environmental impacts of highly radioactive nuclear
waste in the form of spent,
or ‘used’, reactor fuel storage and disposal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">In hailing the NRC action, the
groups also noted that
most of the U.S. reactor projects were already
essentially sidetracked by the
huge problems facing the nuclear industry, including an
inability to control
runaway costs, and the availability of far less
expensive energy
alternatives. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">Diane Curran, an attorney
representing some of the groups
in the Court of Appeals case, said: <b>This Commission
decision halts all
final licensing decisions -- but not the licensing
proceedings themselves --
until NRC completes a thorough study of the
environmental impacts of storing
and disposing of spent nuclear fuel. That study
should have been done
years ago, but NRC just kept kicking the can down the
road. When the
Federal Appeals Court ordered NRC to stop and consider
the impacts of
generating spent nuclear fuel for which it has found
no safe means of disposal,
the agency could choose to appeal the decision by
August 22nd or choose to do
the serious work of analyzing the environmental
impacts over the next few
years. With today’s Commission decision, we are
hopeful that the agency
will undertake the serious work.” </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold">San Luis
Obispo Mothers for
Peace spokesperson Jane Swanson noted that, <b>“Mothers
for Peace in 1973, as
part of its challenge of the original operating
license for the Diablo Canyon
nuclear plant, argued that the Atomic Energy
Commission, predecessor of the
NRC, should not allow the generation of radioactive
wastes without knowing how
to isolate those wastes from the environment. Now, 39
years later, the NRC has
been forced by the federal court to acknowledge this
necessity. Future actions
by the agency will determine whether public confidence
is enhanced or further
weakened. ”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">Lou Zeller, executive director of
Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League, another petitioner to the
Court, said: said: <b> “It
appears that the Commissioners have, at least
initially, grasped the magnitude
of the Court’s ruling and we are optimistic that it
will set up a fundamentally
transparent, fair process under the National
Environmental Policy Act to
examine the serious environmental impacts of spent
nuclear fuel storage and
disposal prior to licensing or relicensing nuclear
reactors.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">Former NRC Commissioner Peter
Bradford said:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">“It
is important to recognize that the reactors awaiting
construction licenses
weren't going to be built anytime soon even without
the Court decision or
today's NRC action. Falling demand, cheaper
alternatives and runaway nuclear
costs had doomed their near term prospects well before
the recent Court
decision. Important though the Court decision is
in modifying the NRC's
historic
push-the-power-plants-but-postpone-the-problems
approach to generic
safety and environmental issues, it cannot be blamed
for ongoing descent into
fiasco of the bubble once known as ‘the nuclear
renaissance’.”</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">In June, the following groups
filed the petition with the
NRC:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Beyond Nuclear, Inc.
(intervenor in Fermi COL
proceeding, Calvert Cliffs COL proceeding, and
Davis-Besse license renewal
proceeding; potential intervenor in Grand Gulf COL and
Grand Gulf license
renewal proceedings);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League, Inc.
and chapters (“BREDL”) (intervenor in Bellefonte COL
proceeding and North Anna
COL proceeding; previously sought intervention in W.S.
Lee COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Citizens Allied for
Safe Energy, Inc. (former
intervenor in Turkey Point COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Citizens Environmental
Alliance of
Southwestern Ontario, Inc. (intervenor in Fermi COL
proceeding and
Davis-Besse license renewal proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Citizens for
Alternatives to Chemical
Contamination (intervenor in Fermi COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Don’t Waste Michigan,
Inc. (intervenor in
Fermi COL proceeding and Davis-Besse license renewal
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Ecology Party of
Florida (intervenor in Levy
COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Eric Epstein
(potential intervenor in Bell
Bend COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Friends of the Earth,
Inc. (potential
intervenor in reactor licensing proceedings throughout
U.S.);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Friends of the Coast,
Inc. (intervenor in
Seabrook license renewal proceeding); <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Green Party of Ohio
(intervenor in
Davis-Besse license renewal proceeding); <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Dan Kipnis
(intervenor in Turkey Point
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">National Parks
Conservation Association,
Inc. (intervenor in Turkey Point COL proceeding); <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Mark Oncavage
(intervenor in Turkey
Point COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Missouri Coalition for
the Environment,
Inc. (Petitioner in Callaway license renewal
proceeding; intervenor in
suspended Callaway COL proceeding)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">New England Coalition,
Inc. (intervenor in
Seabrook license renewal proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">North Carolina Waste
Reduction and Awareness
Network, Inc. (admitted as an Intervenor in now-closed
Shearon Harris COL
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Nuclear Information
and Resource Service,
Inc. (intervenor in Calvert Cliffs COL proceeding and
Levy COL
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Public Citizen, Inc.
(intervenor in
South Texas COL proceeding; admitted as intervenor in
now-closed Comanche Peak
COL proceeding; potential intervenor in South Texas
license renewal
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">San Luis Obispo
Mothers for Peace, Inc.
(intervenor in Diablo Canyon license renewal
proceeding); <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Sierra Club, Inc.
(Michigan Chapter)
(intervenor in Fermi COL proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Southern Alliance for
Clean Energy,
Inc. (intervenor in Watts Bar Unit 2 OL proceeding,
Turkey Point COL
proceeding, Bellefonte COL proceeding; former intervenor
in Bellefonte CP
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Southern Maryland
CARES, Inc. (Citizens
Alliance for Renewable Energy Solutions) (intervenor in
Calvert Cliffs COL
proceeding);<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Symbol;mso-fareast-font-family:Symbol;mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1"><span
style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
"Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">Sustainable Energy and
Economic Development
(“SEED”) Coalition, Inc. (intervenor in South Texas COL
proceeding;
admitted as intervenor in now-closed Comanche Peak COL
proceeding; potential
intervenor in South Texas license renewal proceeding).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">The 24 groups that sponsored the
June 18<sup>th</sup> petition will
strategize in September regarding next steps. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">On June 8<sup>th</sup>, the Court
threw out the NRC rule
that permitted licensing and re-licensing of nuclear
reactors based on the
supposition that (a) the NRC will find a way to dispose
of spent reactor fuel
to be generated by reactors at some time in the future
when it becomes
“necessary” and (b) in the mean time, spent fuel can be
stored safely at
reactor sites. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">The Court noted that, after
decades of failure to site a
repository, including twenty years of working on the
now-abandoned Yucca
Mountain repository, the NRC “has no long-term plan
other than hoping for a
geologic repository.” Therefore it is possible that
spent fuel will be
stored at reactor sites “on a permanent basis.” Under
the circumstances,
the NRC must examine the environmental consequences of
failing to establish a
repository when one is needed. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;
mso-themecolor:text1">The Court also rejected NRC’s
decision minimizing the
risks of leaks or fires from spent fuel stored in
reactor pools during future
storage, because the NRC had not demonstrated that these
future impacts would
be insignificant. The Court found that past experience
with pool leaks
was not an adequate predictor of future experience. It
also concluded
that the NRC had not shown that catastrophic fires in
spent fuel pools were so unlikely
that their risks could be ignored. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><u><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">MEDIA CONTACT:</span></u></b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">
Alex Frank, (703) 276-3264 or </span><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:afrank@hastingsgroup.com"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">afrank@hastingsgroup.com</span></a><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;
text-autospace:none"><b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Arial;color:black;mso-themecolor:text1">The NRC
Memorandum and Order can be
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Don Eichelberger
Occupy Bohemian Grove 2012
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.occupybohemiangrove.com">www.occupybohemiangrove.com</a>
more info at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php">http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/03/01/18708527.php</a>
Shut down nuclear power
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/">www.nuclearfreecal.org/nfcnet/</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.energy-net.org">www.energy-net.org</a>
More about me at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.Facebook.com/Don">www.Facebook.com/Don</a> Eichelberger
Check my original music at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.MySpace.com/donnyfix">www.MySpace.com/donnyfix</a>
"The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatever."
Adam Smith, "Wealth of Nations" Ch.7</pre>
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