Since the plant's opening in 1990, SAPL has continued to operate in a “watchdog” role, forcing plant operators to prevent harbor seal deaths through water intake pipe, getting state officials to begin distributing potassium iodide (KI) radiation protection locally, and drawing attention to waste shipment issues, emergency generator problems and security lapses at the plant. With the plant's new owners (NextEra Energy, LLC) announcement this summer of their intention to seek a 20-year renewal of its operating license (20 years ahead of its expiration!), our watchdog effort enters a new and more critical phase. While the NRC has yet to reject a license renewal at over 50 other nuclear plants around the country, serious issues have been raised about the ability of these aging plants continue operating safely and reliably over future decades. Indeed, a number of older plants, Maine Yankee being a close-by example, have not lived out their initial license periods. While Seabrook is infamously the last U.S. Nuclear plant permitted and one of the most recent to come on line, it has already exhibited some of the same defects and operating problems of other older plants, from leaking tritium to reactor head and steam generator corrosion. A more recently identified problem of underground electrical cable susceptibility to water intrusion may prove to be a more problematic issue for Seabrook and other plants around the country. NRC has failed to address or even acknowledge this problem, while admitting that an initial inspection of a couple of cable vaults last year found them submerged in groundwater. This is highly troubling, since these cables are not designed to withstand water exposure, are often critical to maintain reactor control and safety systems, and are often installed in undocumented and clearly inaccessible locations. And of course there are the perennial issues of routine radioactive emissions, laughably inadequate emergency evacuation planning, unresolved longterm storage of highly radioactive spent fuel and the increasingly inevitable impacts of climate disruption on a plant and “interim” waste storage site built essentially at current sea level. These and other longstanding, unresolved issues at Seabrook deserve a thorough airing before the plant can be considered for a license renewal, yet that is unlikely to happen without significant and persistent citizen activism. While skepticism exists in the local population about the wisdom of continuing to operate this plant many decades into the future, local residents, media and political leaders are largely unaware of the significant issues affecting the decision of whether to re-license Seabrook, if indeed they are aware at all of the intention to re-license it now. At the same time, a growing public interest and burgeoning growth in renewable power technologies could be short-circuited by a premature decision to re-license Seabrook while giving short shrift to safer, cheaper and truly sustainable future power sources. These challenges in addressing Seabrook's license renewal necessitate having more resources to bear than our small but dedicated and longstanding membership can provide. We need to broaden awareness and engagement beyond the older generation of safe energy activists, to others who were not engaged or even alive when these issues first achieved widespread attention. We face a historic crossroads in coming years with regard to these issues, and we need to have the resources to mobilize the region's citizenry to confront them intelligently and effectively. Broader public knowledge of the attendant risks of future Seabrook operation, as well as energy choices facing facing us generally, will be crucial to laying a foundation for informed public response to the plant owners' license renewal application. To meet these objectives, we will scrutinize the available documentation on maintenance issues and safety risks of plant operations, as well as relevant problems identified at similar plants around the country. Then we will get this information into digestible form and present it to Seacoast residents, local officials and media, especially those in the immediate vicinity who will be most affected by environmental exposures and safety risks. Work activities will be coordinated and carried out by Executive Director, assisted by technical consultants, board members and other member volunteers.