Posted on 10/18/2005 6:21:18 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Anti-nuclear and environmental activists, backed by California and three other states, asked a federal appeals court on Monday to shut down a new storage facility for nuclear waste at Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s Diablo Canyon plant until a federal agency studies the risk of a terrorist attack.
"Everything has been done in secret that relates to security at Diablo Canyon,'' Diane Curran, lawyer for San Luis Obispo Mothers for Peace and the Sierra Club, told a panel of the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.
Referring to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's current security planning review, Curran said, "The nuclear industry has been invited but the general public has not.'' She acknowledged that Congress has ordered the NRC to study anti-terrorism precautions at nuclear plants, but said the commission plans to limit its review to the possibility of small-scale attacks and not a cataclysm such as the crash of a jumbo jet.
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California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has joined the case, along with the states of Washington, Utah and Massachusetts, which said they might face similar circumstances in the future. In written arguments, Lockyer's office cited President Bush's assertion in 2002 that diagrams of U.S. nuclear plants had been found at al Qaeda bases, and administration warnings that terrorists were looking at nuclear facilities as targets.
But lawyers for the federal commission and PG&E told the court that federal environmental law does not require public review of the impact of remote possibilities, like a terrorist attack against a particular facility.
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The area around Diablo Canyon...San Luis Obispo (which has Cal Poly)...Avila Beach is a bastion of moon bats. We moved my mother-in-law out of there earlier this year back to Fresno because of the prevalence of repressive liberals and their ilk..
I'm sure PG&E and other entities can keep Diablo Canyon secure.
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