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Title: You want to put what Where. [Northern States Power Employees Lobby Against Spent Fuel Storage Amendment]

Abstract

On April 6, 1992, several employees of Northern States Power's (NSP's) Prairie Island nuclear plant received a summons from fellow employees to meet at the Minnesota State Capitol to lobby against an amendment to a popular environmental bill. This amendment would have removed the decision to approve Prairie Island's proposed independent spent-fuel storage installation (ISFSI) from the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission (PUC) and shifted it to the state legislature. The employees who appeared that morning represented various areas of the plant: training, technical, management, operations, union, and nonunion-all volunteers with no prior lobbying experience who spent the remainder of that day speaking on behalf of the project. This effort continued through the week; ultimately, the amendment was debated on the Senate floor and failed, primarily due to the presence of Prairie Island employees. This became the first formal act performed by what would become the Prairie Island Community Involvement Steering Group (CISG). Prior to this, and against well-orchestrated and sometimes vehement public opposition, many employees had spoken as private citizens at public hearings held by various government bodies and an administrative law judge tasked with evaluating the need for and the legality of the proposed facility. The effortmore » of the CISG to keep the public informed and win its approval for the project is outlined in this paper.« less

Authors:
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  1. Northern States Power Co., Welch, MN (United States)
Publication Date:
OSTI Identifier:
6962683
Report Number(s):
CONF-931160-
Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X; CODEN: TANSAO
Resource Type:
Conference
Journal Name:
Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 69; Conference: American Nuclear Society (ANS) winter meeting, San Francisco, CA (United States), 14-18 Nov 1993; Journal ID: ISSN 0003-018X
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
11 NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE AND FUEL MATERIALS; 21 SPECIFIC NUCLEAR REACTORS AND ASSOCIATED PLANTS; PRAIRIE ISLAND-1 REACTOR; SPENT FUEL ELEMENTS; SPENT FUEL STORAGE; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; HEARINGS; LEGAL ASPECTS; LEGISLATION; PRAIRIE ISLAND-2 REACTOR; PUBLIC OPINION; DOCUMENT TYPES; ENRICHED URANIUM REACTORS; FUEL ELEMENTS; POWER REACTORS; PUBLIC UTILITIES; PWR TYPE REACTORS; REACTOR COMPONENTS; REACTORS; STORAGE; THERMAL REACTORS; WATER COOLED REACTORS; WATER MODERATED REACTORS; 050900* - Nuclear Fuels- Transport, Handling, & Storage; 056000 - Nuclear Fuels- Legislation & Regulations- (1987-); 210200 - Power Reactors, Nonbreeding, Light-Water Moderated, Nonboiling Water Cooled

Citation Formats

Larimer, P L, Malinowski, G E, Jensen, J N, and Gorman, P J. You want to put what Where. [Northern States Power Employees Lobby Against Spent Fuel Storage Amendment]. United States: N. p., 1993. Web.
Larimer, P L, Malinowski, G E, Jensen, J N, & Gorman, P J. You want to put what Where. [Northern States Power Employees Lobby Against Spent Fuel Storage Amendment]. United States.
Larimer, P L, Malinowski, G E, Jensen, J N, and Gorman, P J. 1993. "You want to put what Where. [Northern States Power Employees Lobby Against Spent Fuel Storage Amendment]". United States.
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title = {You want to put what Where. [Northern States Power Employees Lobby Against Spent Fuel Storage Amendment]},
author = {Larimer, P L and Malinowski, G E and Jensen, J N and Gorman, P J},
abstractNote = {On April 6, 1992, several employees of Northern States Power's (NSP's) Prairie Island nuclear plant received a summons from fellow employees to meet at the Minnesota State Capitol to lobby against an amendment to a popular environmental bill. This amendment would have removed the decision to approve Prairie Island's proposed independent spent-fuel storage installation (ISFSI) from the jurisdiction of the public utilities commission (PUC) and shifted it to the state legislature. The employees who appeared that morning represented various areas of the plant: training, technical, management, operations, union, and nonunion-all volunteers with no prior lobbying experience who spent the remainder of that day speaking on behalf of the project. This effort continued through the week; ultimately, the amendment was debated on the Senate floor and failed, primarily due to the presence of Prairie Island employees. This became the first formal act performed by what would become the Prairie Island Community Involvement Steering Group (CISG). Prior to this, and against well-orchestrated and sometimes vehement public opposition, many employees had spoken as private citizens at public hearings held by various government bodies and an administrative law judge tasked with evaluating the need for and the legality of the proposed facility. The effort of the CISG to keep the public informed and win its approval for the project is outlined in this paper.},
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url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/6962683}, journal = {Transactions of the American Nuclear Society; (United States)},
issn = {0003-018X},
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place = {United States},
year = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993},
month = {Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1993}
}

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