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.
- 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.
