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Letter of the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
Since 2005, this Commission has acted
responsibly to ensure that the state’s
continued reliance on
aging nuclear reactors on the state’s
seismically active and eroding coast
and with an increasing
footprint of high-level radioactive
waste stored onsite is based on factual
information. Yet when PG&E
ignored all CEC and legislative recommendations
and directions it implied that California’s democratic
process was irrelevant. As the state’s
primary energy policy and planning agency,
the public relies on
the CEC to provide oversight and guidance
and where necessary enforcement of its Integrated Energy
Policy Report. The Alliance for Nuclear
Responsibility asks that this agency
fully participate in PG&E’s
upcoming General Rate Case to guarantee
that the state’s energy policy is adhered
to and the state’s
future generation needs are based on fact, nor coercion.
PG&E's "Pre-Thanksgiving license renewal
application surprise" was a disservice to
the local community
and to the state. The CEC--who are charged
with planning our future energy sources, and the CPUC --
who are charged with just and reasonable
rates for generation, can no longer rely on PG&E's implied
commitment to comply with IEPR, legislative
or CPUC direction. In fact, when the Alliance raised the
probability (now a reality) that PG&E’s would
use ratepayer funding for a license renewal study to
unilaterally seek license renewal the CPUC
responded: “We have already addressed this concern by
requiring PG&E to submit the study to the
Commission as part of an application in 2011 on whether to
proceed with license renewal. If PG&E fails to do
so, we agree with PG&E's observation that the
Commission "has ample means to deal with PG&E's
failure to comply with the Commission's order to
file an application, if that should ever come to pass.1 "
PG&E appears to imply that the state should have
no voice, yet that is only true if the CEC and the
CPUC allow it. Those who live within the
"fallout zone" of Diablo Canyon, and ratepayers who are
charged with funding the continued operation
of aging reactors, and taxpayers whose funding is
diverted to supporting the operation of agin
g reactors on California's earthquake active and eroding
coastal zones deserve to know that our homes
businesses and generation supplies will be reliable and
affordable. Without the completion and review
of CEC recommended, and legislatively-approved,
seismic and other 1632 studies the public and
the state and future reliable generation are placed at
risk. This commission need only look at the
impacts of the 2007 earthquake in Japan to
understand
that ignoring seismic issues can be costly
and can result in reliance on polluting technologies and spot
market prices.
The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
asks that the CEC make it clear to PG&E
that its license renewal
filing with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
is in defiance of CEC, CPUC and legislative
actions and
that the application should be place on hold
until the state has decided that funding this application is
in California’s best interest.
Rochelle Becker, Executive Director
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
rochelle@a4nr.org
(858) 337 270
1 CPUC Decision footnote 99 PG&E opening
comments on the Alternate Proposed Decision, p. 23.