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Anti Nuclear Group Seek to Intervene in Nuclear License Renewal

the group has been granted intervener status in previous proceedings and is almost sure to get that designation this time around. It gives the group legal standing in the relicensing proceedings and also gives it greater leverage to file lawsuits if the agency does not meet its demands.

San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace files protest over Diablo SanLuis Obispo Tribune Mar. 29, 2010, Anti-nuclear activists want to be declared an intervener in the license renewal process By David Sneed | The anti-nuclear group San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace has filed five formal protests over plans to extend the two operating licenses at Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant for 20 more years.

In filings with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission this week, the activist group asked that it be declared an intervener in the license renewal proceedings and submitted five reasons why renewal should not be granted.Mirroring extensive public comment submitted to the agency at recent license renewal workshops, four of the five protests, called contentions, deal with the threat earthquakes pose to the safety of the plant. The fifth contention deals with the ability of plant operators to deal with aging components, given the fact that the plant was built largely in the 1970s….
Jane Swanson, Mothers for Peace spokeswoman, said the group has been granted intervener status in previous proceedings and is almost sure to get that designation this time around. It gives the group legal standing in the relicensing proceedings and also gives it greater leverage to file lawsuits if the agency does not meet its demands.

San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace files protest over Diablo – Local – SanLuisObispo.com

March 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Legal, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, reactors