Plant Safety
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not live up to its charge by Congress to provide for the protection of the public and the environment. The NRC places a higher priority on protecting corporate profits.
- January 3, 2013 - Mothers for Peace legal challenge to NRC regarding "waste confidence" process
- SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE + 23 OTHER GROUPS NATIONWIDE CHALLENGE THE NRC FOR RUSHING THE NUCLEAR “WASTE CONFIDENCE” PROCESS AND FAILING TO SATISFY COURT-ORDERED REQUIREMENTS. The incomplete process should trigger continued suspension of all reactor licensing and re-licensing actions.
- 11- 2012 Mothers for Peace Analysis of Shoreline Fault Report
- San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace Comments on PG&E’s Shoreline Fault Report By Sherry Lewis, Mothers for Peace Board Member
- 2012-7-26 SUMMARY OF POST-FUKUSHIMA SAN LUIS OBISPO MOTHERS FOR PEACE LEGAL ACTIONS
- The following summaries describe some of the post-Fukushima SLOMFP legal challenges. The more recent ones are listed first. Supporting legal documents and press releases are posted under the topic of License Renewal.
- June 8, 2012 Waste Confidence Rule rejected by U.S. Court of Appeals
- In a landmark decision on June 8, 2012, the U.S. Court of Appeals rejected the Waste Confidence Rule. This was followed by a petiton by 22 groups and 2 individuals to require the NRC to implement this decision before final licensing decisions are made. This includes Mothers for Peace and the relicensing decision regarding Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2012: Are we living on borrowed time?
- Listen to Thom Hartmann talk with David Lochbaum, Director of the Nuclear Safety Project in the nion of Concerned Scientists Global Security Program,nuclear engineer, and author of the report about concerns over the state of our nuclear power plants.
- 2012 article by Robert Lewin on Emergency Management
- Robert Lewin is the county fire chief in San Luis Obispo, California. He examines the state of American preparedness following the disaster in Fukushima.
- 2012 legal challenge by NIRS, Mothers for Peace to expand evacuation zones around U.S. nuclear reactors
- CLEAN ENERGY GROUPS SUBMIT FORMAL PETITION TO NRC TO INCORPORATE LESSONS OF FUKUSHIMA: EXPAND EVACUATION ZONES, IMPROVE EMERGENCY PLANNING AROUND U.S. NUCLEAR REACTORS
- 2011-05-18 NRC Decades Late in Considering Public Safety
- This Viewpoint was published in the San Luis Obispo Tribune on May 18, 2011. It points out that only since the disaster in Fukushima is the NRC beginning to ask nuclear plants to report on how they plan to prevent massive radiation releases in case of an extreme event.
- 2011-4-11 MFP Position Paper on implications of Fukushima disaster
- Mothers for Peace responds to the tragedy in Japan and the implications for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
- Mothers for Peace joins 45 groups in petition to NRC: suspend ALL licensing
- A total of 45 groups and individuals from across the nation are formally asking the NRC to immediately suspend all licensing and other activities until a thorough post-Fukushima reactor crisis examination is completed.
- 2011-4-12 MFP presentation to San Luis Obispo Board of Supervisors
- Jane Swanson spoke before the Board of Supervisors on behalf of the Mothers for Peace regarding PG&E's application for license renewal for Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2011 Evacuation map from Diablo Canyon, by Dr. Richard Krejsa
- Dr. Richard Krejsa created this map of approximate distances from the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.
- 2011 Disaster in Japan
- Despite the many precautions and redundant features used in nuclear power facilities, the forces of nature remain unpredictable and - and in Japan - devastating.
- 2008-09-30 Mothers for Peace Comments on California Energy Commission Nuclear Power Plant Assessment
- In its comments to the CEC, Mothers for Peace stated: "The Energy Commission, working with the CPUC as part of the CPUC’s authority to fund and oversee utilities’ plant relicensing feasibility studies, should develop a plan for reviewing the costs and benefits of nuclear plant license extensions, scope of evaluation, and the criteria for assessment."
- 2003-09-04 GAO Report
- GAO Report calling for increased oversight at nuclear power plants.
- 2003-07-21 MFP Interface Problems with NRC
- Comments by the Mothers for Peace regarding problems that discourage and frustrate public participation in Nuclear Regulatory matters.
- 2003 Freedom of Information Petition
- Mothers for Peace and Union of Concerned Scientists file Freedom of Information act petition to determine stakeholders in NRC security decisions.
