San Juan City Leaders Should Weigh in on SONGS

(A letter originally addressed to the San Juan Capistrano City Council and reprinted here with permission of the author.)

I could not help but notice that San Juan Capistrano is missing from the list of cities seeking to block the SONGS restart. Is this a simple oversight on the part of the newspaper, or the decision of the San Juan Capistrano City Council to support the restart of SONGS?

Since 1955 there have been more than 56 nuclear accidents in the U.S., including at least three partial meltdowns and two leaks of tritium and strontium 90 into local water supplies.

If nuclear energy is so safe, why was it necessary to enact the Price-Anderson Nuclear Industries Indemnity Act, considered a necessary incentive for the private production of nuclear power because electric utilities viewed the available liability coverage as inadequate to cover the risks?

Given SONGS age, location and lack of escape routes if a serious accident were to occur, SONGS should not be restarted and San Juan should, if it has not already, reject the restarting of SONGS.

See Common Dreams article, Los Angeles to San Onofre: "Not So Fast!"

Joanna Clark

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