Nuclear waste dumps have recently been expanded on California's earthquake active coast. These actions were taken despite the fact there is no safe and permanent solution to high-level radioactive waste. This increase of nuclear waste could severely impact the health, safety, environment and economy of our state is a horrific legacy to leave to our children and grandchildren.

In the next few years it is highly likely that California utilities will file for license renewals. This action can be prevented. California has the right and the duty to protect its citizens from the daily production of Plutonium, Uranium, Strontium 90, Cesium 137 and other radioactive elements. If production of nuclear waste is continued these lethal materials cannot be accommodate without greatly increasing the nuclear footprint on our state's coast. Radioactive waste which this state would have no other alternative but to store on our earthquake active coastal zones.

The NRC has granted license renewals for 30 nuclear plants, decades in advance of current license contracts. In addition, the NRC has publicly stated it expects that ALL nuclear utilities will file for license renewals and that All applications will likely be granted.

For over a quarter-of-a-century, citizens who live in reactor communities have been promised a safe and permanent solution to nuclear waste storage. How long will California continue to accept promises from federal agencies to provide a safe storage facility for high-level nuclear waste? When will these promises come to fruition? The time is past for empty promises.

No NRC action resulting in a license extension should be allowed in California until there is a permanent solution to the following issues:

• Storage of high-level radioactive waste onsite;
• Defense-in-depth at nuclear facilities and not just additional guards and guns;
• Safe methods for transporting tons of nuclear waste on public roads, rails and waterways;
• Training and equipment to handle any radioactive spills for all emergency personnel along proposed transport routes;
• An in-depth cost analysis of continuing operation of aging nuclear plants and resultant increases in high-level radioactive waste vs. alternative technologies to produce electricity.