WHAT:
Testify at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Public Hearing to OPPOSE the Replacement of Steam Generators at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS) and thus ensure its closure by 2013.
WHEN:
Tuesday, May 17th, 2005
1:00pm to 3:00pm
WHERE:
Oceanside’s Civic Center Library-Community Room
303 N. Coast Hwy
Oceanside, CA 92054
WHY:
- TONS of radioactive wastes are stored at SONGS
- More radioactive waste is being produced every day
- One nuclear accident could spread radiation at least 500 miles
- There is NO PLACE else to store this radioactive waste
San Diego County has a nuclear waste dumpsite in its back yard located on our fragile earthquake - active coast. Radioactive isotopes at SONGS are more powerful than several Hiroshima bombs. It is time to STOP PRODUCING RADIOACTIVE WASTE and STOP THE RE-LICENSING OF NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS in Southern California until a safe storage place is operating.
Join EHC, Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, and the San Onofre Citizens Council at a public meeting with the CPUC. The CPUC wants to hear from you about environmental impacts of continued operation of the San Onofre Power Plant!
EHC supports Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility and its efforts to prevent the re-licensing of steam generators at SONGS. Preventing this re-licensing will ensure the plant's closure by 2013.
Supporting efforts to close SONGS is consistent with EHC’s commitment to environmental justice and protection of water quality. SONGS is currently permitted to receive and discharge up to 2.4 billion gallons of seawater per day for cooling purposes, destroying a significant amount of marine life and negatively impacting water quality. Closing SONGS would be a significant victory as far as transitioning the region away from power generation that pollutes the environment.
In addition, SONGS poses a public health risk with its generation of nuclear waste, which takes thousands of years to degrade. From an environmental justice perspective, nuclear power disproportionately affects communities of color, from the mining of uranium on Native American lands, to the targeting of B lack and Latino communities for new uranium processing facilities, to the targeting of Black, Latino, and Native American communities for so-called “low-level” nuclear waste disposal sites. All of the sites proposed for “temporary” and permanent storage of high-level nuclear waste (nuclear reactor fuel rods) have been Native American lands (e.g. proposed storage at Yucca Mountain.)
WHAT YOU CAN DO: Support our ally, the Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility, that has been working on this project by coming to this important hearing. Testify if you are willing or submit a written statement opposing the replacement of the Steam Generators.
For more information, contact:
Rochelle Becker
Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility
www.a4nr.org
(858) 337 2703
