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ACTION CENTER | STOP AP1000 LICENSING

Tell the ACRS ~ "Review AP1000 Westinghouse Reactor Design Defects!"

BACKGROUND While President Obama is boldly claiming "Nuclear Renaissance" and offering enticements of tax dollars to Southern Company to build new reactors at Vogtle in Burke County, Georgia, the Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design that Southern Company is trying to license is in serious trouble with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). Westinghouse recently submitted its 18th design revision for the AP1000 and NRC safety experts remain unconvinced that Westinghouse's so-called shield building can protect public health in the event of a serious accident.

Westinghouse previously secured approval for the AP1000 reactor design from the NRC in 1998 but has sharply compromised environmental safety and public health with cost-cutting design changes that are now being challenged by nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen and strongly supported by a corrosion specialist in the report Post Accident AP1000 Containment Leakage: An Unreviewed Safety Issue. April 2010

Tell the NRC's Advisory Committee for Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) to protect the environment and public health! Send an e-mail TODAY urging the ACRS to conduct a full-scale review of the flawed design of the Westinghouse reactor shield building and other safety issues!

Review the unsafe AP1000 reactor design NOW!

Please read and edit the message below, and send to Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik TODAY!

Your message will be sent straight to the Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards with a copy to Edwin Hackett, Executive Secretary of the ACRS.

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Dr. Said Abdel-Khalik, Chairman Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555-0001 PETITION TO INITIATE SPECIAL REVIEW OF SIGNIFICANT AP1000 DESIGN DEFECTS Dear Chairman Abdel-Khalik: I am writing to request that the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) initiate a special review on safety issues which call into question the adequacy of the AP1000 reactor design to protect public health and safety in the event of an accident. The basis for my concern is described in the report POST ACCIDENT AP1000 CONTAINMENT LEAKAGE, April 7, 2010. This report is written by a nuclear engineer and supported by an engineer and corrosion specialist. One of the design defects in the Westinghouse AP1000 reactors would lead to radioactive leakage into the environment. As a result of the unreviewed containment breach a significant volume of radionuclides would be released into the air with the potential for a significant public health catastrophe. Rather than resolving the real world impacts resulting from this serious design weakness, Westinghouse is choosing methods of analysis which will appear to "minimize" the impact of the containment breach. Westinghouse must modify the AP1000 containment and shield building in order to eliminate the possibility of releases directly into the environment and to protect public health and safety. Please contact me at the address below to keep me informed about the scope of the ACRS review of the Westinghouse AP1000 design flaws. Sincerely, cc: Edwin Hackett

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