First, thank you to the panel for your time and concern and for holding the public meeting on September 18. Thank you also for posting the video of the meeting as I was not able to attend either online or in person.

My comment is that it makes no sense to say that something is safe because we’ve had no major issues to date. Fukushima was “safe” until it wasn’t. Same with Chernobyl. Do we have to wait for a disaster with the spent fuel at SONGS or Diablo Canyon before “scientists” understand how unsafe radioactive spent fuel is?

The more important issue is why should we create MORE highly radioactive waste - especially here in California where we have enough renewables and battery storage to meet our power needs. Yes, Diablo Canyon currently provides 8% of the state’s electricity. Meanwhile, so much renewable energy is waiting to get online. The burden is all put on us, the residents and ratepayers. The costs of operating a non-profitable source of electricity, the costs of keeping the spent fuel “safe” and the enormous costs should something happen that would create a massive radioactive release.

Carole Hisasue
Los Osos

Attaching the letter sent by Senator John Laird to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors regarding the extension of Diablo Canyon's operation.

Public comment presented during the September 18, 2024 Engagement Panel Meeting:

MS. MCCLINTOCK:· Hello, so I'm a public
citizen, I live in Ventura right now, and my name is
Francene McClintock, F-R-A-N-C-E-N-E, McClintock,
M-C-C-L-I-N-T-O-C-K.· And they mentioned this, I should
have my glasses on, Nuclear Waste Policy Act, I think
you said 1982, I think, I don't know, I thought it was
'85, but I guess it's '82, and I didn't understand the
deference between -- I thought it differentiated between
military and commercial, but it almost sounded like that
gentleman was talking about one dump where military and
commercial nuke waste would go into a repository, so if
we really did rolling stewardship and hard and on-site
storage above ground, could that go on a military base?
I guess is my question.
· · · · · And then I also wanted to ask about Curie's,
because Madam Curie, I guess, died of cancer, and that
was the whole idea of radioactivity, is it has Curie's.
So in the low level waste dump phase, they always talked
about square feet or cubic feet that you had to have the
snoop dump that was so big, and it sounds like here
you're talking about tons, and I'm just curious how many
Curies we are actually talking about in the
United States, military, commercial, in Russia, in the
whole world, et cetera.· Just I wish they would talk
about the Curies, because that is the reason we have to
isolate it from the biosphere.· Thank you, that's all.

Public comment presented during the September 18, 2024 Engagement Panel Meeting:

MR. ALLEN:· Peter Allen, P-E-T-E-R A-L-L-E-N.
I lived in the Five Cities my whole life and I live --
reside in a small corner of San Luis Obispo, and I'm
really happy to be here.· I can see that everybody's
looking concerned, and I'm hoping that we can come --
I'd love to be on the panel, you all are very concerned
citizens, I'd love to set precedent that we can conquer
this for the whole world.· From what I've seen,
everybody is struggling, trying to do the right thing,
and they're hurting everybody in the planet, which it's
going to be.· But people have told me that this is going
to be a meltdown from nuclear wars to nuclear energy
plants, and so it's been a battle.· I believe
Nikola Tesla's knowledge was mothballed for future --
for people wanting to monopolize off of energy.· And so
anyways, I have some hot topics.
· · · · · So being that there's 30 years --
For 500 million years of waste is completely
absurd, and I wish I was smart enough to be a nuclear
engineer, physicist, and -- but I'm not, and -- but I
wish that they were reducing the fuel down to spent fuel
which it would be less of a waste and it'd be hopefully
easier to manage.· So I know they're reducing it down,
pulling the water out and processing it, but I think
it's absurd to put it into our drinking water, but it's
going to land there anyways when they put it in the
ocean and it circulates and it's -- it's what you don't
know that you don't know, just like sewer water, nobody
wants to drink it, but it's -- they're living off their
septic.· So -- so yeah, the legacy for future
generations and wanting to hide it from them for the
future, because they're wanting to save money, it hurts
my heart, and I know it hurts all of you here also
for -- for these dump zones in your backyard where your
grandchildren and future generations are going to be
potentially leaking and they're going to have cancers
and they're going to be on potassium pills.· So people
are getting hurt in these plants, working in
containment, where they have to be scrubbed down with a
wire brush, I don't know the correct thing, but
obviously, they get cleaned up and hopefully they can
live their life.· And when I was in Russia, I met a girl
who her dad went to Chernobyl for two hours to do
something after the meltdown -- okay, am I cut off?
Okay.· I'd love to be on the panel.

Public comment presented during the September 18, 2024 Engagement Panel Meeting:

MS. SWANSON:· Yes, thank you.· My first
comment is I completely endorse the comments of
Dolores Howard who spoke shortly before me, and sorry, I
didn't identify myself.· Jane Swanson, J-A-N-E
S-W-A-N-S-O-N, spokesperson, San Luis Obispo, Mothers
for Peace.· So Dolores Howard fully expressed the
opinions and viewpoints of the Mothers for Peace, and I
thank her for doing that.· I also want to thank the
panel and PG&E for this opportunity to learn from each
other, to ask questions, and to express opinions.· We
are aware that PG&E is not obligated to act upon the
input given at these meetings, but it's still a value to
learn from each other and to share opinions and
resources.· The guest speakers that we had from Canada
and elsewhere were excellent, and also the questions
from the members of the board of the panel were very
excellent, so thank you for a very useful meeting and
I'll let it go at that, thank you.

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PLEASE SEE ATTACHMENT (Electric Comment to the DCDEP 052224.pdf) TO VIEW COMMENT.

The following comment was submitted by email to the DCDEP on May 22, 2024:

Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Engagement Panel
DCDEP Members
Chuck Anders
Facilitator

May 22nd, 2024

Hello Chuck Anders, Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Engagement Panel Members,

Many thanks for all that you and the Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Engagement
Panel Members do to create a better, safer word for us all.

There is a very real possibility that earthquakes off the coast of Vancouver, British
Columbia could trigger a nuclear meltdown at the Diablo Canyon power plant.

To explain this frightening scenario, let's start with the impact of climate change
caused by the Earth's rising temperatures. The World Meteorological Organization
stated that 2023 was the hottest year on record. (1)

Regrettably, these soaring temperatures can trigger a variety of catastrophes such
as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and tsunamis due to the rapid melting of our
planet's glaciers and polar regions. (2)(3)

When glaciers and polar caps melt, their massive weight on the Earth's crust is
reduced. This causes the planet's surface to bounce back in what scientists call
an"Isostatic Rebound”. Isostatic rebounding can reactivate fault lines (4) leading
to more movement along the world's tectonic plates (5) and subduction zones.

The Pacific "Ring Of Fire" Subduction Zones:

Roughly 90% of all earthquakes as well as 75% of all the active volcanoes on Earth
take place along the Pacific "Ring of Fire" subduction zones. (6)

The Cascadia Subduction Zone:

The Ring of Fire's Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 700-mile long offshore fault that
runs from British Columbia to Northern California. (7)

On March 6, 2024, a peak of more than "200 earthquakes per hour" was detected by
Canada’s Northeast-Pacific Seafloor Observatory site off the coast of Vancouver Island,
British Columbia. (8) More earthquakes mean more stress build-up, ”says Zoe Krauss,
“the observatory dataset has allowed us to observe significant increases in earthquake
rates over the last few years.”

Sadly, Vancouver Island is located close to an active boundary between three tectonic
plates, the Pacific Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate, and North American Plate. The Juan
de Fuca Plate is moving toward and underneath (subducting) the North American Plate
along the Cascadia Subduction Zone. (9)

Additionally, the Cascadia Subduction Zone is now considered one of the world's most
tectonically active regions. It has the potential of generating massive earthquakes like
the deadly and destructive March 11, 2011 magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami that
struck off the northeast coast of Honshu, Japan which culminated in three nuclear
meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (10)

Regrettably, the Cascadia Subduction Zone and the Northern San Andreas Fault meet
at a place called the "Mendocino Triple Junction" which is offshore of Mendocino
County, California.

A major offshore earthquake along the Cascadia Subduction Zone could trigger an
earthquake on California's San Andreas Fault Line according to geologist Chris
Goldfinger of Oregon State University. (11)

The San Andreas Fault System:

The San Andreas Fault is one of the world's largest fault lines, running more than 800
miles from Cape Mendocino, California to the Salton Sea. (12) Unfortunately, there's
a more-than-dangerous seismic link between the San Andreas Fault System and the
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant.

The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant:

In his July 26, 2011 California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report,
Geologist Douglas H. Hamilton, Ph.D. stated that there are two dangerous fault lines,
the "Diablo Cove Fault" and the "San Luis Range/"IOF" Thrust", that are located directly
underneath Diablo Canyon's Unit 1 nuclear reactor and turbine generator building.(13)

The "east/west trending" Diablo Cove Fault runs offshore and intersects with the nearby
Shoreline Fault which in turn is connected to the Hosgari Fault Line (14), a component of
the San Andreas Fault System. (15)

Simply put, earthquakes off the coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia could
reactivate the Cascadia Subduction Zone which in turn could trigger the San Andreas
Fault Line that's seismically linked to the Hosgri Fault, the Shoreline Fault and the Diablo
Cove Fault Line. The power stored within this network of linked faults could create an
earthquake sufficient to exceed Diablo Canyon’s safeguards. (16)

The idea that nuclear power plants are durable enough to withstand powerful earthquakes
and other external shocks is a total myth.

It is no longer rational for us to suffer the risks posed by the aging and embrittled Diablo
Canyon nuclear power plant. We need to remove this hazard from our coastline as soon
as possible. It's time to Close Diablo Down!

Harvey Sherback
Berkeley, California

Footnotes:

1) March 19, 2024 - Headline: Climate Change Indicators Reached Record Levels In 2023:
World Meteorological Organization

The state of the climate in 2023 gave ominous new significance to the phrase “off the charts.”

https://wmo.int/news/media-centre/climate-change-indicators-reached-record-levels-2023-wmo

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2) The National Aeronautics And Space Administration (NASA) - Ice Sheets

Antarctica is losing ice mass (melting) at an average rate of about 150 billion tons per year,
and Greenland is losing about 270 billion tons per year, adding to sea level rise.

https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs/ice-sheets/?intent=121

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3) March 31, 2024 - Headline: So Much Polar Ice Is Melting That It’s Slowing Down
The Earth’s Rotation

https://www.yahoo.com/news/much-polar-ice-melting-slowing-110008855.html

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4) An Enhanced Seismic Activity Observed Due To Climate Change: Preliminary
Results From Alaska

The impact of human induced climate change on the rising temperature cannot
be neglected. Climate change can trigger catastrophes such as earthquakes,
volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and landslides due to melting glaciers and rising in
sea level.

When glaciers melt, the massive weight on the Earth's crust reduces and the crust
bounces back in what scientists call an "Isostatic Rebound”. The process can
reactivate faults and lift pressure on magma chambers that feed volcanoes, hence
increases seismic activity.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/167/1/012018/pdf

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5) What is Tectonic Shift?

Tectonic shift is the movement of the plates that make up Earth’s crust. The relatively
fast movement of the tectonic plates under California explains the frequent earthquakes
that occur there.

https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/tectonics.html

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6) Plate Tectonics And The Ring of Fire

The Ring of Fire is a string of volcanoes and sites of seismic activity, such as earthquakes,
around the edges of the Pacific Ocean. Roughly 90 percent of all earthquakes occur
along the Ring of Fire, and the ring is dotted with 75 percent of all active volcanoes
on Earth.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/plate-tectonics-ring-fire/

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7) The Cascadia Subduction Zone:

The Cascadia Subduction Zone is a 700-mile fault that runs from British Columbia
to Northern California and is located about 70-100 miles off the Pacific shoreline.

https://www.oregon.gov/oem/hazardsprep/pages/cascadia-subduction-zone.aspx

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8) March 8, 2024 - Headline: Endeavour Site Records The Highest Level Of Earthquake
Activity In 20 Years

A peak of more than 200 earthquakes per hour was detected this week within Ocean
Network Canada’s Northeast-Pacific Seafloor Observatory site Endeavour.

More earthquakes mean more stress build-up,” says Zoe Krauss, “the observatory dataset
has allowed us to observe significant increases in earthquake rates over the last few years.”

https://www.oceannetworks.ca/news-and-stories/stories/endeavour-site-records-the-highest-level-of-earthquake-activity-in-20-years/

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9) Understanding Earthquakes:

Vancouver Island is located close to an active boundary between three tectonic plates.
The Pacific Plate, the Juan de Fuca Plate and North American Plate. The ongoing
interaction among these tectonic plates has the potential to generate large earthquakes,
according to Rachel Modestino, a meteorologist at The Weather Network.

https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/understanding-earthquakes.aspx

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10) Additional Information About The Cascadia Subduction Zone:

The Cascadia subduction zone, which lies mostly off shore and extends approximately 700
miles from Cape Mendocino in Northern California to Northern Vancouver Island, Canada.

The Cascadia subduction zone is where the Juan de Fuca, Explorer, and Gorda tectonic plates
are subducting under the North American plate. It is now thought to be capable of producing
great earthquakes of magnitude 8 or 9, like those off Indonesia in 2004 and Japan in 2011.

https://www.noaa.gov/jetstream/tsunamis/tsunami-locations/jetstream-max-cascadia-subduction-zone

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11) December 2, 2019 - Headline: The Big One, Times Two. Research Shows Cascadia
Quakes Sometimes Trigger San Andreas Fault

Geologists Chris Goldfinger of Oregon State University said a major quake from the
offshore Cascadia fault zone could trigger California's San Andreas Fault.

https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/science-and-technology/2019-12-02/the-big-one-times-two-research-shows-cascadia-quakes-sometimes-trigger-san-andreas-fault

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12) What is the San Andreas Fault?

When we think of the next big earthquake, we think of the San Andreas fault. This
fault system is one of the largest faults in the world, running more than 800 miles
from Cape Mendocino to the Salton Sea.

https://www.earthquakeauthority.com/blog/2020/san-andreas-fault-line-map

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13) In his July 26, 2011 California Energy Commission's Integrated Energy Policy Report,
Geologist Douglas H. Hamilton, Ph.D. stated that there are "two dangerous faults" that
run directly underneath the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The San Luis Range
Thrust and the Diablo Cove Fault.

The San Luis Range/"IOF" Thrust:

The San Luis Range Thrust as thus defined, underlies the Diablo Canyon nuclear power
plant at a depth as shallow as 1 to 2 km within Franciscan Formation or Cretaceous
Sedimentary Rock and is clearly seismically active. It has dimensions that suggest a
deterministic earthquake generation capability in the range of magnitude 6.75>M7.0.

(Page 31 & 32)

http://a4nr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/021012-Hamilton-testimony-014-Full.pdf

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The Diablo Cove Fault:

From the first establishment of Pacific Gas & Electric's Geoscience Department in 1985
through its presentation at its Senior Seismic Hazard Analysis Committee workshop in
the late 2011, the previously well-documented zone of faulting extended through the
foundation of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant's Unit One's turbine generator
and reactor containment was never mentioned.

http://a4nr.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/021012-Hamilton-testimony-014-Full.pdf

Note: Maps and pictures of Diablo Cove Fault Line:

Page 56 - Figure 1
Page 57 - Figure 2
Page 58 - Figure 3
Page 64 - Figure 9
Page 68 - Figure 13
Page 72 - Figure 17

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14) A USGS seismologist, Jeanne L. Hardebeck believes that a joint seismic event of the
Hosgri and Shoreline faults could exceed the plant’s design capacity for safe operation,
possibly reaching a magnitude 7.7.

Headline: Geometry And Earthquake Potential Of The Shoreline Fault, Central California

The Optimal Anisotropic Dynamic Clustering results show that the Shoreline Fault is a
single continuous structure that "connects" to the Hosgri Fault. The Hosgri fault dips
steeply to the east, while the Shoreline fault is essentially vertical, so the Hosgri fault
dips towards and under the Shoreline fault as the two faults approach their intersection.

https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70046870

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15) The Hosgri Fault

The Hosgri Fault is a component of the San Andreas Fault system.

Its movement is primarily reverse thrust, as well as exhibiting right lateral slip, and is
thought to be capable of generating earthquakes of up to magnitude 7.5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosgri_Fault

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16) February 8, 2016 - Headline: Earthquakes On Thrust Faults Can Spread 10 Times
Farther To A Second Nearby Thrust Fault Than Previously Thought

The scientists found that an earthquake that initiates on one thrust fault can spread
10 times farther than previously thought to a second nearby thrust fault, vastly
expanding the possible range of "earthquake doublets," or double earthquakes.

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-dose-bad-earthquake-news.html

Public comment presented during the May 22, 2024 Engagement Panel Meeting:

MR. PICKERING:· My name is Ryan Pickering, and
I'm an energy policy researcher in Berkeley, California.
I've been following the evolution of Diablo lands and
the plan for repurposing, and I want to continue to
bring stakeholder attention to the tribal land transfer
policy and the application from Yak Tityu Tityu Yak
Tilhini tribe.· And my question for the group is what
are we doing to continue to center tribal agency as
plans for the extension of the -- of the plant continue
and do -- does a plan to continue operations change the
dynamic in which the land could be repurposed back to
the tribe?· Thank you.

Public comment presented during the May 22, 2024 Engagement Panel Meeting:

MR. KENNEY:· Randy Kenney, R-A-N-D-Y
K-E-N-N-E-Y.· Native of Atascadero.· I'm the second
generation with three more behind me.· I don't have any
specific affiliation with anybody.· I have worked at
Diablo Canyon since 2000, mainly doing the refueling
outages.· And from way back then, there's always been
this vision or rumor, whatever, that when Diablo closes,
it's going back to natural turf and just how mother
nature left it or made it to begin with or as close as
they could, and that's the reason that I came because I
was going to ask about this repurposing.· And that place
has so many opportunities for different types of things,
and I do have a couple of questions, one to Scott.
· · · · · I think you mentioned earlier about some
demolition being taken place prior to possible future
work.· Do you know what that demolition consists of
and/or what buildings are going to be demoed or did I
miss -- misread it?
· · · · · MR. LATHROP:· I don't think I spoke anything
this evening about demolitions, so I'm sorry.
· · · · · MR. KENNEY:· Okay, I thought you did. I
probably missed this because I came a little bit late,
but does any -- was there talk about the administration
building, what they plan on repurposing that for, any --
any idea?· I mean, I realize that this thing is very,
very vague at this point in time and who knows what
the -- what the -- is going to happen in hopefully 25
years.· So I'll take that as --
· · · · · MS. BELLMAN:· I'll speak to that a little bit,
just real quick, and let you know that I'm very grateful
that you're here tonight, and that's exactly the type of
input that we're looking for, people that are
questioning that there's opportunities on the website
and through our future meetings and workshops to
continue to potentially have some input and participate
in what that future is.· Right now, nothing is certain
and nobody knows what anything's going to be, but that's
what this is all about, is trying to get together, what
the community wants, and to be able to put -- you know,
have some input on that as to what Diablo may do with
that in the future.· So thank you for being here and --
· · · · · MR. SEVERANCE:· And just to tag on, you didn't
miss anything about disposition of the administration
building.
· · · · · MR. KENNEY:· Okay.
· · · · · MR. SEVERANCE:· Tonight.
· · · · · MR. KENNEY:· Yeah, well, thank you for
allowing me to be here, and like I say, the -- I don't
know if you people have had the opportunity to actually
be at the plant, be in the plant, see the plant, but
it's a -- it's a wonderful piece of machinery that even
me as a 50-something-year tradesman, I just get in some
of those areas and I just look around and I see -- I see
pipe fitting, I see electrical, I see communication, I
see iron work, I see drains, I see -- and it just --
it's just an amazing -- what really is amazing is that
place was built with a slide rule and a pencil long
before all these overlays and all of that stuff came
out.· So thank you very much for my time, I've got 13
seconds left I gave you, bye-bye.

Public comment presented during the May 22, 2024 Engagement Panel Meeting:

MR. BROWN:· All right.· My name is Ben Brown,
B-E-N B-R-O-W-N.· I'm trying to make it as easy as
possible for the court reporter.· I live out on
O'Connor Way, west of San Luis Obispo, on a family
ranch.· I'm also the president and co-founder of a small
energy storage start-up.· And I wanted to speak towards
some of the planning to potentially reuse the space as a
clean energy hub and a place for innovation and clean
energy.· I think that would be tremendously beneficial
for the county as a whole.
· · · · · This county is becoming an epicenter for clean
energy between the offshore wind, the Carrizo Planes
solar panel plants, and various storage facilities that
have been mooted in Morro Bay, off Hollister Peak, and
the Whale Rock pump storage hydro.· It'd be really nice
if this county got to benefit from the innovations in
clean energy and the good jobs that came with that in
addition to just being the site of industrial scale
facilities for clean energy.· I think it would be lovely
to build on the history of Diablo Canyon and the power
and the good jobs here by us also becoming a center of
innovation.· So I hope that the re-use plans that
involve the clean energy parks and research are
considered very heavily.
· · · · · Alternatively, it would be lovely to see that
land preserved as natural and open space being some of
the last undisturbed natural space on this coast.· I'm
speaking on behalf of myself and my family who have
loved and lived in San Luis Obispo for much of their
lives.· Thank you for your time and your service.

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Public comment presented during the December 13, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Yes, I'm Kathy Iwane.· I reside in Del Mar, San Diego
County.· I have to echo this is a really civil process, quite,
quite different from the mudslinging that I've experienced for
the last -- gosh, since 2014 with our own citizens' --
sorry -- engagement panel regarding San Onofre.
· · · · ·I evacuated my family after 20 years in Japan due to
the Fukushima disaster, so don't get me started on nuclear
power.· I have had my own experience and then landed in Solana
Beach; and then the day after I landed, there was a radiation
leak at San Onofre.· And so I -- somehow the universe has put
me in the direction, and we were involved and shut down, and
it's been a very interesting last 12 years since we left
Japan.
· · · · ·But tonight, I'm talking about dollars.· Just last
month we all know that PG&E filled its -- filed its
relicensing application to keep Diablo Canyon running for 20
years beyond its closure date.· Well, how did this happen?
And it's just what I'm noticing is that we've got less and
less and less of a democratic process happening, and less and
less of a represent -- representation of the people.· We have
Gavin Newsom's sneaky Senate Bill 846 allocating $1.4 billion
for a forgivable loan from the state to PG&E to fund the
continued operations of the plant.· And we all -- we all
understand that this will be repaid in part by all of
California's taxpayers.
· · · · ·Now, this is getting back to some comments we heard
earlier today about, you know, people that didn't even benefit
from the electricity or the -- the splitting of the atoms at
San Onofre.· We're talking about taking that waste and dumping
it on to, you know, someone that's going to get equity, or
they're going to get some sort of financial benefit.· And
they're making that decision for the next 10 to 15, perhaps
20, 30 generations.· We don't know yet.· And this is just --
it's such an interesting process to view, because it's
happening in our own state.
· · · · ·Why would we in San Diego have the -- who have the
highest utility bills in the country be made responsible for
Diablo Canyon's license extension costs when we are busy
paying off a $2.5 billion fiasco called San Onofre?
· · · · ·And I know we were told, Let's just talk about spent
fuel tonight, and it's always the public that gets their two
minutes and, Stay on topic, with no rebuttal.· But it's really
important.· I've done webinars on spent fuel.· I've done some
research.· We've been expert -- it would be really nice to
have some answers on this --
MR. ANDERS:· That's three minutes, Kathy.
· · · · ·MS. IWANE:· Thank you.

Public comment presented during the December 13, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Okay.· Do you have time for a
four-minute speech of mine?· First off, that's how long it is.
· · · · ·MR. ALMAS:· Three minutes.
· · · · ·MR. BARKDULL:· Okay.· Try to cut it short.
· · · · ·All right.· She's right -- you're right about one
thing, we need to shut it down -- shut it down, because it
does sit on a high -- on a seismic hazard zone, which is very
hot -- high.· And if I could, I would show you a map -- map of
that whole -- map of the whole -- of the nuclear power plants
on earth that sit on -- sit on seismic activity zones.
· · · · ·But moreover or not, I've show -- I would even show
you a video that was made by Ace Hof -- I think Ace Hoffman,
which explains how California could suffer a nuclear accident
that's similar to Fukushima if an earthquake strikes the plant
and it explodes, releasing radioactivity into -- from it in
the form of a poisonous cloud at Diablo Canyon, which could
drift for hundreds of miles in highly radioactive concentrates
for 50 miles away, which is Santa Barbara, to 200 miles away,
which is San Diego.
· · · · ·I live about 75 miles away from the plant in the
Central Valley.
· · · · ·Could you imagine have -- can you imagine -- can you
imagine this?· We're already suffering -- unless we do
something about climate change, we are going to suffer --
Florida is going to suffer a refugee crisis, because they'll
be forced to evacuate Florida, which will be flooding.· Just
imagine if we had to do that with California, one of the most
populated -- is it the most populated state?· Is it?· I think
it is -- one of the most populated states in the United
States, having to evacuate all that many people to the -- to
the neighboring states.· That would be a crisis beyond
comprehension -- beyond comprehension.
· · · · ·We can also -- also we could, with the renewable
energy sources like solar wind power -- plenty of other ways
to generate electricity that doesn't pose the same risk as
nuclear power.· Just take -- just take a look at Three-Mile
Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima.· They're -- they're act --
well, Three-Mile Island, no -- could have been bad if it
actually did go off.· But Chernobyl and Fukushima, the
places -- the areas around it are still unhabitable --
unhabitable to humans.· Almost makes us wish we were immune to
radiation, but we're not -- but we're not.
· · · · ·And then -- and we get -- and the Hisashi Ouchi.· You
should look up that guy who suffered the most -- the worst --
worst ways to die from radiation poisoning.· I don't care if
we have to try to convince -- we have to not only convince --
we have to try to not only convince to get this plant shut
down but also convince those who want to keep it open that it--
MR. ANDERS:· That's three minutes --
· ·MR. BARKDULL:· -- that it should be shut down.
· ·MR. ANDERS:· -- Jeffrey.
· ·MR. BARKDULL:· Thank you.· Thank you.
· ·So -- okay.· So enough is enough.· This plant needs
shut down.

Public comment presented during the December 13, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

This is Nina Babairz, with Public
Watchdogs down here in San Diego, California, and I'm calling
in -- calling in really to make comments about the rest of the
story that maybe Mr. Camargo, David Victor didn't share with
you tonight.· At least we forgot San Onofre was shut down due
to a radiation leak, and that radiation leak was on the new
replacement state generators that we paid for.· Of course, we
paid for the old steam generators as well.· The new steam
generators that failed and 39 years and 11 -- I think 39 years
really.· And even before they started bearing the 3.6 million
pounds of radioactive nuclear waste, 108 feet from the Pacific
Ocean, they made sure there were massive emergency planning
exemptions granted by the NRC.· They made sure that all
off-site and on-site insurance exemptions were granted to the
investors of utilities.
· · · · ·And when burial did start of the spent nuclear fuel,
we had broken bolts and chips in the Holtec canisters, that
was shut down.
· · · · ·We had two accidents in August and July of 2018 that
revealed all the cans were scratched and gouged in the
downloading process.· It was shut down for 11 months for its
special investigation.· The NRC that revealed bad behaviors
that's continuing today.
· · · · ·We've been following an issue since October 17th of
2019 where Edison was granted their demolition permit by the
Coastal Commission under special condition 19 that required
them to have an inspection and maintenance program that
revealed that Edison is using an inappropriate calculation
methodology to measure the depth of the gouges in the cans.
· · · · ·And so, you know, take a look at our website, the
Public Watchdogs, there's a lot that's going to -- experienced
at San Onofre that you should take heed of.
· · · · ·Thank you.

Public comment presented during the December 13, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Good evening.· My name is
Dolores Howard, D-o-l-o-r-e-s H-o-w-a-r-d.· I'm a resident of
San Luis Obispo County, speaking on behalf of the Santa Lucia
Chapter of the Sierra Club.
· · · · ·California produces enough renewable energy to
replace the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant, and therefore,
the plant should be shut down -- excuse me, because my phone
slipped away from me here.
· · · · ·The risks posed by the storage of additional nuclear
waste are significant and unnecessary.
· · · · ·It is the legacy of waste that threatens our planet
and will continue to do so for countless future generations.
· · · · ·In addition to the issues with the storage of nuclear
waste, the potential weld embrittlement of the reactor vessels
is a peril waiting to happen.
· · · · ·UC Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Professor,
Digby McDonald, a long-time nuclear industry advocate,
recently co-wrote a report on unit one concluding while
regulators required PG&E to install samples of welded material
inside the plant, the effort to determine the condition of a
weld has stalled for the last 20 years, and there are
problematic issues with the testing program itself.
· · · · ·Do not extend the Diablo Canyon life.· Thank you.

Public comment presented during the December 13, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Yes, Jane Swanson, S-w-a-n-s-o-n, a
long-time member -- I live in San Luis Obispo, a long-time
member of Mothers for Peace.· I have several comments.
· · · · ·First of all, the running of this meeting has been
really excellent.· There's strong opinions, and they're not
all aligned up, but everybody is extremely civil.· So good,
good for us.· That's SLO.
· · · · ·I also would like to endorse every word that
Dolores Howard said.
· · · · ·And our prior speaker mentioned the workers of Diablo
Canyon, and how he's met them and all seem like good people.
Mothers For Peace couldn't agree more.· We're very, very
opposed to nuclear power.· We're very, very opposed to a
nuclear power plant built on earthquake faults, but we do not
consider that the people that work at Diablo Canyon to be bad
people or the enemy or anything like that.· We're grateful to
them for working as hard and with careful integrity to
that can be done to try to keep that plant safe.
· · · · ·The dangers to the plant could come from many
sources.· There was an earthquake there, but there was
earthquake very, very near the Diablo Canyon plant.· I
know where it came from, but I saw USGS report that it
December 6th, so just a very short time ago.· It was a do all an don't was small quake, nothing bad happened, but it just emphasizes, yes, it's
an active earthquake fault.· It's not something from a long
time ago.· And you can't predict what happens next, so the
earthquake danger is for real.
· · · · ·Regarding spent fuel storage, comments were made
about how -- concerns about equity on scene, generational
equity.· I -- I took a few notes.· It was said, nuclear
communities did not give consent to house nuclear fuel long
term.
· · · · ·Well, I lived in San Luis Obispo before there was a
Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant.· I was not asked to give
consent to have my community host a nuclear power plant that
would produce waste that would be around for lord knows how
long.· So I mean, it -- if you're going to talk about fair
consent and equity and concern for everybody, start at the
beginning, not in the middle.· I mean, the problems are very
real about equity right now.· I'm not disagreeing with that,
but the root of it went back before PG&E applied to the NRC
for permission to build a nuclear plant here.· And it went on
from there when the NRC gave them the construction license
even though it was already known that there were active
earthquake faults right here.· So the problem goes way back
prior what we're talking about now as the storage after the
plant is decommissioned.· That's phase 3.· We never dealt with
phase 1.
· · · · ·Thank you very much.

Please, PLEASE, teach the guy who does your radio spots how to pronounce "nuclear." His "nookyalur" makes him sound like a moron, and reflects badly upon your organization.

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Public comment presented during the September 20, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Good evening, Panel.
David Wiseman.· Director Alliance for
Nuclear Responsibility.· And indeed, just to clarify the
issue regarding preemption of this issue in the
Public Utilities Commission case that Mr. Jones
mentioned today, PG&E corrected its written testimony
and acknowledged under oath that the Federal Preemption
of Radiological Cleanup Standards for the NRC License
sites only applies, quote, "Until termination of
Department of the operating license." Un quote.
· · · · · · ·With the testimony so corrected PG&E's
witnessed acknowledged agreement under oath with the
California Costal Commission jurisdictional finding for
the Coastal Development Permit regarding the Humbolt Bay
Nuclear Decommissioning.
· · · · · · ·Quote, "The state as jurisdiction over
post-license conditions including those related to
radiological concerns."· End, quote.
· · · · · · ·So I hope that clarifies the statement
regarding what is and isn't preempted in this case.· If
is not.
· · · · · · ·Now that said, what you are looking further
to do, then, is to discuss the redevelopment of
Parcel P.· The question is, well, what type of a Site
would folks be looking to possibly redevelop?· Would it
be the cleanest and most attractive sight of potential
development?
· · · · · · ·To that end PG&E submitted to
Susan Straking of the County Planning in December of
2021.· As it says here,
· · · · · · · "Enclosed is the Diablo Canyon Power
· · · · ·Plant Site Re-purposing and Reuse Concepts
· · · · ·Report."
· · · · · · ·And it goes on to say,
· · · · · · · "The land use concepts presented in
· · · · ·the enclosed report may assist potential
· · · · ·future successor entities interested in
· · · · ·reuse of the site by providing information
· · · · ·on potential opportunities and drawbacks
· · · · ·of each potential land use."
· · · · · · ·End quote.
· · · · · · ·That was by Mr. Jones.
· · · · · · ·And if you go inside to the Table of
"Opportunities and Constraints," under "Constraints"
you'll find.
· · · · · · · "Radiological and chemical
· · · · ·contamination with the bullet point
· · · · ·noting, perceived contamination of the
· · · · ·site by the public may result in
· · · · ·resistance to certain uses."
· · · · · · ·So that bodes well or portends well that
you should put out to the public best possible site in

terms of its cleanliness to attract potential reuse.
· · · · · · ·And indeed, in the Humbolt Bay Decision the
Public Utilities Commission acknowledged in their
Decision, quote,
· · · · · · · "The uncertainty and find some merit
· · · · ·in PG&E's efforts to assess and
· · · · ·incorporate an expectation of regulatory
· · · · ·and public tendency towards higher
· · · · ·standards of site cleanup."
· · · · · · ·That's more nuclear facilities
decommissioning.· We anticipate efforts to reduce the
confusion and prove coordination of Stat and Federal
regulations.· We also think the public and regulatory
interest is heightened and reasonably likely to lead to
lower acceptable limits for residual radiological
contamination in the future.
· · · · · · ·So between the past Public Utilities
decisions, the current case, and their own report on
redevelopment I think you see the evidence there that it
is worth considering the stronger standard, and you can
recommend that.
· · · · · · ·Thank you.

Public comment presented during the September 20, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Good evening.· Kelly Abbas,
A-B-B-A-S.· I'm representing Supervcisor Ortiz-Legg and I'll be sure to comment on her behalf
tonight.· She regrettably also cannot be here.
· · · · · · ·Good evening, trusted Officials and members
of the SLO County Community.· I first want to thank the
many volunteers who have participated and to PG&E for
managing the Diablo Canyon Commissioning Panel from
2018.· The intention of the
Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Panel were to serve as a
forum for local community members with a focus on
understanding and communicating the areas of interest
regarding the shutdown and Decommissioning.
· · · · · · ·The Panel's sole mission was to provide
information to the public and receiving public input.
These significant efforts have been extremely helpful
for our community even as we look forward to extension
of the Plan Operations.
· · · · · · ·Tonight the topic of Diablo Lands is
pertinent as we, the County of San Luis Obispo
recognizes this coming Friday as Native American Day.
We will honor the original people of the Americas, the
rich culture and acknowledge the horrific trauma of
displacements, diseases and wars that took place for
hundreds of years.
· · · · · · ·As so, these very Diablo Lands were Tribal
Homeland to the YTT.
· · · · · · ·In an odd way due to the location of
Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, the surrounding
Diablo Lands have been nearly untouched for decades.
They are pristine as if time stopped.
· · · · · · ·The Land Stewardship and Management of
these Lands are PG&E, the Investor-Owned utility must
also be commended.· This land is breathtakingly gorgeous

and abundant with many resources.
· · · · · · ·If you look to the North at Montana de Oro
State Park there is a very significant difference in the
quality of the land.· We love our parks to the point
where we must consider all impacts on them.
· · · · · · ·The California Public Utilities Commission
Native American Policy also acknowledges the importance
of returning tribal lands to the original descendants
and providing a path to do so in State Resolution E 55
of76.
· · · · · · ·In addition, we must be mindful of the
utilities and their need to meet various agents, the
obligations among other responsibilities as well.
· · · · · · ·So as are Community engages in this
important discussion I respectfully ask you
consideration of these facts and to honor the work with
the YTT's people and to the Diablo Land's Pristine and
limit excessive public access.
· · · · · · ·Thank you.

Public comment presented during the September 20, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Hi, my name is Kathleen Phelps.
I live in Arroyo Grande, and I'm with
Backcountry Horsemen in California.· The Los Padres
Unit.
· · · · · · ·My comments, one, had to do with the any
disbursals of the Diablo Lands, and I noticed on your
map early-on in the presentation that North Ranch has
scattered land parcels that are North of and within the
Cherry Canyon Ranch and that these isolated -- this
makes for some isolated and peninsula-type Parcels going
into the -- what would become State Lands if the
recommendations go through.
· · · · · · ·And there will be other ownership, and I
was a Land Manager and makes it very difficult to do
comprehensive land management when there is little
pieces of other ownership within the large mass of land.
· · · · · · ·So I'd suggest that you consider taking
those isolated peninsula parcels in that North Ranch
that are inland and putting them in with the massive
amount of Cherry Canyon Ranch Lands so that it's
consistent ownership from Montana de Oro South.
· · · · · · ·It would just make management a lot easier,
especially for any kind of trails that are being
created.· And then my other comment has to do with the
trails.· And I just encourage that both the coastal and
the inland trail that's being considered include
equestrian use as well as hikers or mountain bikers.
· · · · · · ·Thank you very much.
· · · · · · ·Oh, and you spell my name Phelps, like
Michael Phelps.

Public comment presented during the September 20, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

Thank you.
· · · · · · ·My name is Paolo Peron.· I'm calling in
form Ventura.· I'm with the Nature Conservancy.
· · · · · · ·And first I just want to talk the Panel
CNRA.· The Coastal Conservancy, in particularly,
Assemblyman Moratis and Senator Laird for their
Leadership on this particular issue.
· · · · · · ·We are curious if there is specific
outcomes or documents that the Coastal Conservancy hopes
to produce with the budget allocation.
· · · · · · ·There is ecological indigenous and
recreational outcomes that I think we're pointed to in
all those plans.· And I think we're all hoping for and
we're also looking to see there is a timeline to produce
those particular documents.
· · · · · · ·So a little bit of a question, but
hopefully, we'll just find out where those answers come
in time.· And I do just want to thank Everybody, and
it's encouraging to have so many thoughtful folks
working on this truly generational project.
· · · · · · ·So thank you.

Public comment presented during the September 20, 2023 Engagement Panel Meeting:

I'm Lori Wolf W-O-L-F, just like the beast.
I'm a Board Member of the Alliance for
Nuclear Responsibility.
· · · · · · ·There have been a number of study sessions
and meetings since Draft Environmental Impact Report for
the Decommissioning of Diablo Canyon that's been
circulated for comment.· The comment period closes
Monday the 25th of September, and be sure that your
comments are made through the County Planning to be a
part of the record must me responded to.
· · · · · · ·One comment we can all add to any other
individual concerns is the County of San Luis Obispo
does have the authority of the
Issuer of the Development Plan, the
Coastal Development Permit and the
Conditional Use Permit.
· · · · · · ·The condition approval of
on-site remediation to the Best Practices level of not
to exceed 10 millirems.· The same tighter standards that
were accepted by the NRC in Maine, Vermont,
Massachusetts and New York from there sight cleanup up
standards.· There is the no Federal preemption to
prevent the County from taking this step as the
transcripts and sworn testimony in the
CPUC Decommissioning proceeding Mr. Jones mentioned
previously attests to.· Phrasing is important and it was
somewhat misleading what we heard tonight.· The County
can stay 10 millirem cleanup standard.
· · · · · · ·This Engagement Panel can recommend
10 millirems standard as an alternative and a condition
for any Local or State approval for decommissioning
standard.· We deserve it and I hope you make that
recommendation.
· · · · · · ·Thank you.