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On March 26, 2007, San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace (SLOMFP) filed Comments on Nuclear Regulatory Commission Proposed Rule on “Power Reactor Security Requirements.”
Today’s comments supplement prior comments in which SLOMFP joined the Union of Concerned Scientists (See 11-page attachment at http://mothersforpeace.org/data/71ucs).
Today’s comments ask the NRC to require all nuclear plants to reconfigure spent fuel pools to the low-density configurations for which they were originally designed. Current high-density racking greatly increases the probability of fire or explosion in the spent fuel pools, whether caused by accident or terrorist attack.
“MFP recently won a federal court ruling that held that the NRC was wrong to ignore the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to address the environmental consequences of a terrorist attack on the new dry cask facility being built at Diablo Canyon. Now MFP is asserting that the NRC must enforce the same environmental law regarding the unprotected spent fuel pools at all nuclear plants”, explained MFP spokesperson Jane Swanson.
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