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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 16:19:21 -0400
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From: Sue Daniels <sdaniels@vt.edu>
Subject: extensions for nuclear reactors
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Patching Nuclear Power
J.A. Savage, Albion Monitor
September 25, 2000

In a hushed quest to allow an expected 85 percent of the nation's nuclear
reactors to live beyond mandatory retirement, the nuclear industry talked
the federal government into allowing a generic 20-year extension on the
life of reactors. The public only has until October 16 to let the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission (NRC) know what it thinks of the government's plan to
allow license renewal instead of decommissioning.

According to the NRC, the only public meeting on the re-licensing plan has
been held at its Maryland headquarters. The government's process
effectively shuts out any public input on extending plant licenses, said
Public Citizen senior policy analyst Jim Riccio. "Most of the public is not
aware of the issues until they land in their laps, by way of their local
nuclear plant."

More:  <http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9836>


Please fax/email the NRC and let them know - 20 Year Extensions of Reactors
Around the USA cannot be allowed to happen.  Please ask NRC for an
EXTENSION  of their Monday October 16, 2000 deadline for public comment.


Here's the NRC's comment page.
<http://www.nrc.gov/NRC/REACTOR/OL/OLcomments.html>

Please disseminate widely.


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