Editor,
Thank you LB Indy Tim Randall for the “Q&A with Rohrabacher.” It is important to know the ideas of our 13 term House of Representatives congressman. I have spoken with him twice in the last three years about San Onofre.
As quoted, he understands a nuclear plant on the coast of California, “was always too dangerous.”
When he speaks of a future of nuclear reactors that eat up all the nuclear waste that is deadly to humans for tens of thousands of years, he gives us hope. But it is a wishful hope in a future technology based upon billions more taxpayer dollars to research, test and build a solution which is another 60 to 70 years away. We cannot wait for that kind of hope. We must move the deadly nuclear waste from the bluff at San Onofre now.
We need Congressman Rohrabacher to throw his political weight behind the bipartisan bill HR 3643 introduced by San Diego Congressman (R) Darrell Issa that will amend the 1982 Nuclear Policy Act to allow the Department of Energy to transfer spent nuclear fuel to an interim storage location that will be away from the California coast. The current law only allows the DOE to remove the fuel to a final depository. We must have that law changed. Congressional representatives from San Diego, both Democrat and Republican, have sent a letter urging this bill be passed and that Secretary of Energy Moniz work to create a consent based interim location. It is time for Congressman Rohrabacher to lead the same demand from Orange and Los Angeles Counties.
SCE has amended its PSDAR (Post Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report) to have the deadly fuel ready for transfer by 2020 instead of 2032. But it cannot be moved if there is no place to put it.
Marni Magda, Laguna Beach
