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| ML040420166 | |
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| Site: | Quad Cities  |
| Issue date: | 11/13/2003 |
| From: | Perrigo L - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Larry Wheeler NRC/ADM/DAS/RDB |
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At the meeting held April 8th at the Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, T.J. Kim of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) explained that the initial licensing period of 40 years was based more on economic factors than safety or technical specifications. This plant in particular has a rich history of poor routine maintenance; testing violations, equipment failure, security weakness, inoperable safety systems, and human performance errors.
light of these events, it is neither safe nor cost effective for the community, to continue to operate these reactors beyond their original lifespan.
Background
The Quad City Nuclear Power Station (QCNPS) was completed and ready for operation in 1972, one of six stations owned and operated by Commonwealth Edison Company. The two-unit station occupies 784 acres on the east bank of the Mississippi River, with a net electrical output of 789 megawatts per unit.
In 2001, Unicorn, the parent company of Commonwealth Edison, merged with PECO Energy and formed a parent entity-Exelon Corporation. The ownership and operation of Commonwealth Edison's 10 operating nuclear power plants and 3 retired nuclear plants was then transferred to Exelon.
Later that year, Exelon submitted a request to the NRC for changes to the operating licenses and Technical Specifications for Dresden Nuclear Power Station (DNPS) and QCNPS, to allow operation at uprated power levels. The NRC approved this request. The Safety Evaluation accompanying the approval amendment required that Exelon confirm to the NRC that necessary modifications to the main steam and torus-attached piping systems were completed prior to the implementation of the power uprate.
The power uprate at Quad Cities 1 and 2 will increase the power of each reactor by 17.8%, to about 912 megawatts of electricity per unit. Modifications were completed prior to implementation of the uprate for QCPS Unit 2 during the refueling outagQ that ended on March 5,2002. The piping system modifications for QCNPS Unit 1 were completed during the refueling outages in fall of 2002.
Currently the Quad Cities area gets 23.6% of its total commercial power from nuclear energy.
Although much of it comes from the QCNPS, some is subcontracted from a similar plant in Nebraska.
Significant Events September 8, 1987 On May 1, 1987, Commonwealth Edison Company (CECO), the existence of a gap in the Quad Cities neutron absorber panel has been confirmed by underwater neutron radiography conducted by Nusurtec, Inc. The racks that store the spent fuel are made with boron and
carbon so that they absorb neutrons created as the spent fuel continues to decay. There were gaps between panels of the racks, which were created by radiation damage to the storage racks, and presumably would have worsened had they not been noticed. Had the gaps gotten larger, they could have allowed enough neutrons to pass from one spent fuel rod to another.
The fuel pond would have gone ciritical-meaning that the chain reaction used to boil water inside the reactor would have boiled the water in the cooling pond. The concern is that separation of the neutron-absorbing material used in high density fuel storage racks might compromise safety.
August 16, 1993 Ruptured discs burst, releasing steam into the HPCI room, burning, and slightly contaminating, five workers. The ruptured discs burst within one second after the turbine was started. Fire doors between the Unit 1 and Unit 2 HPCI rooms were blown off their hinges into the Unit 2 HPCI room.
Upon investigating the event, the licensee determined that water had accumulated in the turbine casing because the drain system level switches for the Unit 1 HPCI system had failed. In April 1992, the licensee performed a reliability-centered maintenance study, which recommended the level switches be included in the preventive maintenance program but the recommendation had not been acted on at the time of the event. Failure to complete the recommended maintenance eventually impacted the outer disc as designed and caused it to burst as well. The exhaust line pressure sensors did not detect a high pressure and should have immediately isolated the steam supply upon sensing a high exhaust pressure before the rupture discs burst. The steam injured five workers, four of whom were participating in the HPCI pump surveillance test. The fifth, and most severely injured worker was a health physics technician in the room on routine rounds, who was not aware of the danger posed by the surveillance test.
The test procedure contained no specific guidance on room occupancy. The HPCI and RCIC rupture discs at Quad Cities Station had been in service for 20 years and were not part of any scheduled inspection or preventive maintenance program.
July25, 1994 The NRC issued a generic letter to all holders of operating licenses or construction permits for boiling water reactors BWRs) except for Big Rock Point, which does not have a core shroud.
Intergranular stress corrosion cracking IGSCC) of BWR internal components had been identified as a technical issue of concern by both the NRC staff and the industry. Inspection findings caused the NRC staff and industry to re-evaluate the significance of this issue, due to the extent of 360 degree cracking, and the location at a lower elevation where extensive cracking had been found at Dresden Unit 3 and Quad Cities Unit 1 on July 19, 1994. In addition to the core shroud, NRC has an overall concern with cracking of BWR internals and encourages licensees to work closely with the BWR Owners Group BWROG) on coordination of inspections, evaluations and repair options for internals cracking.
May 10, 1996 An alert was declared for the Quad Cities Units 1 and 2, due to high winds and a possible tornado in the area. Unit 1 was completing a refueling outage and Unit 2 was operating at 100%
power. About 25% of the outer layer of sheet metal was blown from the east side of the reactor building. The sheet metal ruptured an N2 line that feeds nitrogen from the tank farm to the containment for the containment purge and damaged cabling from the Station Blackout diesels. 27 Area sirens lost power, data from the meteorology tower was interrupted, the oil storage building was destroyed, spilling about 15 gallons of uncontaminated oil, and the roof of the mixed waste building was damaged.
June 14, 1996 The NRC proposed a $100,000 fine against Commonwealth Edison after the utility failed to promptly correct design deficiencies in structural steel beams and supports for components in one of the plant's emergency core cooling systems. The utility's architect-engineer determined
that modifications to pipe supports and structural steel in the 1 980's had not been evaluated to determine their effect on seismic design criteria. The modifications resulted in additional loads on the steel beams and supports which, in some cases, exceeded those permitted in the original plant design. These deficiencies were not corrected until February 1996 at Quad Cities and until March 1996 for Dresden Unit 2. Commonwealth Edison personnel were aware of the design deficiency for over five years without effective resolution.
June 26, 1997 The NRC proposed a $50,000 fine against Commonwealth Edison for deferring repairs to the interior and exterior siding of the reactor building at the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station. Both the interior and exterior siding are needed for the reactor building to fill its design function of containing radioactive releases in the unlikely event of a reactor accident. The siding also includes "blow out" panels that are designed to relieve pressure inside the reactor building should there be a steam release that could potentially damage the building's structure. In notifying the utility of the proposed fine, NRC Regional Administrator A. Bill Beach said, 'These violations are significant because your staff failed to translate the design into surveillance tests to ensure the structure remained operable."
September 1997 The owner of the Quad Cities nuclear plant in Illinois informed the NRC that a fire could cut off the power to ALL of the emergency pumps and cause serious reactor core damage. Following the disastrous fire at the Browns Ferry nuclear plant in March 1975, the NRC required all owners to modify their plants to ensure that a fire could not interrupt the power to both the primary emergency pumps and their backups. More than 22 years later, the Quad Cities plant was still vulnerable. It took the plant's owners nearly a year to re-route power cables and revise emergency procedures to remedy the problems.
March 4, 1998 The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has proposed a $55,000 fine against Commonwealth Edison Company for 18 violations involving the failure to implement an adequate program for monitoring the effectiveness of maintenance done on plant systems and equipment at the Quad Cities plant. In two instances, the utility took no action after it became clear that the type of preventive maintenance being performed on systems and equipment was not effective in preventing a functional failure. It was only after NRC inspectors identified the extensiveness of the deficiencies, that aggressive, substantive actions were implemented.
March 13, 1998 The NRC proposed a $330,000 fine against Commonwealth Edison for performing a pressure test of the Unit 2 reactor vessel and piping on June 22 of last year after the reactor had started up, rather than prior to startup. This test is required by the NRC to be performed before the reactor startup to detect any leakage from the reactor vessel and associated piping. The plant staff also failed to adequately perform required monitoring of the reactor vessel and piping as part of the test. Similar monitoring violations were identified for earlier tests at both of the Quad Cities units.
September 15, 1998 The NRC proposed an $88,000 fine against Commonwealth Edison Company for failing to develop adequate procedures and systems to safely shut down the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station under certain fire conditions. NRC Acting Regional Administrator James Caldwell said,
'These violations represent a very significant safety concern because they involve inadequacies in Commonwealth Edison's ability to shut down the Quad Cities facility following a postulated fire." Both reactors remained shut down until May of this year for improvements to plant safety systems and procedures for use in the event of a fire. In addition to the inadequacies in the shutdown procedures, the NRC staff also cited Commonwealth Edison for initially changing its procedures to rely on an additional diesel generator without doing the necessary safety reviews.
February 24, 1999 During the switch over the licensee inadvertently failed to close the "A" RHR minimum flow valve as required by the procedure. Sometime later operators noted a decreasing reactor water level.
On the basis of post event reviews, it appears that the minimum flow valve in the "A' loop was left open because the nuclear station operator failed to ensure that the tasks were performed in the sequence specified in the operating procedures. The operating crew did not recognize that there was any problem until approximately 10 minutes had passed and the water level had decreased about 13 inches because of a misinterpretation of causes of the level decrease. After detecting the decrease, the operating crew was slow to react, which allowed the level to decrease another 20 inches before the operators isolated shutdown cooling, which terminated the draindown. Operations staff practices including poor communications, poor activity briefings for high-risk activities, lack of effective pre-shift briefings, inadequate supervision of important control room activities, inadequate monitoring of control room panels, and slow event response may have contributed to the event.
May 8, 2001 NRC force-on-force tests of security preparedness at nuclear power plants resumed, which pit a handful of simulated intruders against a plant's physical defenses and squadrons of armed security personnel. In 1998, these tests had revealed significant security weaknesses in about 47 percent of the plants tested. The NRC quietly discontinued the testing, but the ensuing public outrage forced the agency to re-institute the tests. Since the tests have been resumed, about 47 percent of the plants continue to have significant security flows revealed. In 2000, force-on-force tests at the Waterford plant in Louisiana and the Quad Cities plant in Illinois demonstrated serious security problems that warranted extensive repairs and upgrades. The owner of the Waterford spent more than $2 million fixing its inadequate security system.
December 11, 2001 While performing calculations associated with the power uprate project, Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station determined that the Standby Uquid Control (SLC) system relief valves on Unit 1 and Unit 2 may intermittently lift during the most limiting transients. The specific scenario evaluated is a Main Steam Line isolation at rated power with failure of the normal, backup, and alternate rod insertion scram functions. This issue also applies to the current rated power level during two-pump SLC operation. While the relief valve was lifted, the system flow rate would not meet the required equivalent flow rate into the vessel. Therefore, this condition was not in direct compliance with 10 CFR 50.62.
September 30,2002 The licensee failed to follow procedural requirements regarding the initiation of condition reports and determining the extent of condition following the discovery of a large amount of grease in the 1 A core spray room cooler motor. As a result, the licensee did not provide a basis for continued operability of potentially impacted plant motors for approximately 40 days.
Ineffective corrective actions resulted in repetitive failures of the 2A residual heat removal normal/alternate switch between June 1999 and September 2002 and a Non-Cited Violation of 10 CFR 50. The failure to correct the multiple normal/alternate switch failures was more than minor because the switch failures impacted the availability, reliability, and capability of equipment used to respond to initiating events and prevent undesirable consequences from a plant fire.
March 26, 2003 A letter from the NRC to Exelon Nuclear addresses plant safety performance during the previous
year and states that the NRC staff "has identified a substantive cross-cutting issue in the area of human performance involving a number of findings." Some of the examples include the damage to a control drive pump due to improper setting of a lubricating device, a failure to recognize that the Unit 2 shut down cooling system was inoperable for several months and instances of valves placed in the wrong position.
April 16, 2003 An emergency alert was declared due to a stuck open [power operated] relief valve. The problem occurred when the large tank of emergency cooling water-known as the torus-was rapidly heating above the maximum 1 10-degree limit the torus was designed to handle. The temperature increase was due to steam leaking through an open valve in the reactor. Efforts to shut the valve were unsuccessful, which led to the emergency.
The torus was originally designed to absorb the heat energy produced in an accident to prevent the primary containment building from exploding, as the reactor at Chemobyl did in 1986. After Mark I reactors had been operating for five years, measurements indicated that the torus water would heat up too quickly and reach boiling temperatures. If this happened, the resulting pressure would cause the torus to explode and release radioactivity from the core into the environment. In 986, the NRC's top safety official testified that, if called upon to contain an accident, the torus had a 90% likelihood of failure. To prevent such an explosion, two holes were drilled into the torus, and ducts were installed from the torus to the power plant's 300-foot emissions stack.
This "direct torus venting system" put an end to the hope that an accident could be contained, but would at least, in many scenarios, prevent the containment buildings from exploding.
The power plant was shutdown before radioactive gases were released into the atmosphere, and the plant will be able to return to normal operations. The event will however have implications for the future of the Quad cities plant. Each SCRAM is hard on a nuclear power plant's safety equipment because of the sudden changes in temperature and because the force of inserting the control rods into the core exerts a pulse of high pressure on valves, tubes, and gaskets. Each SCRAM ages the components of a nuclear power plant. The flaw in the torus design, and the dangerous solution intended to get the plants through their 40-year license, call into question whether the licenses for flawed nuclear plants should be renewed.
May 20,2003 The plant was shut down due to reactor coolant boundary leakage. The Unit One Reactor Coolant System was determined to have Pressure Boundary Leakage. The Unit was in the process of shutting down for a maintenance outage, and sub critical at the time. The leakage was found during a Drywell inspection as part of the shutdown.
June 2003 The NRC began a special inspection at the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station to review damage to a pump which led to the shutdown of the Unit 1 reactor on January 9,2003. When a brace holding the jet pump in position broke, causing portions of the pump to separate, reactor operators promptly began to shut down the reactor to investigate the problem. Reactor cooling was maintained without the need for backup or emergency cooling systems.
We believe that these Incidents constitute legitimate concerns that relate directly to the health, safety and general well being of the surrounding population. These events characterize a blatant disregard for the NRC's own policies, and the people and environment which they are Intended to protect; and present unwarranted risks to public health, safety and general well being.
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- Energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to achieve energy independence.
Adopting the household appliance efficiency standards agreed to by both the Clinton and Bush (senior) administrations would eliminate the need for 127 power plants by 2020.
- Failure to comply with NRC procedures and complete basic routine maintenance on schedule has incurred preliminary wear and irreversible damage to vital reactor components, increasing the possibility of mechanical failure and the likelihood of a major accident.
- Since containment buildings were not designed to withstand attacks by aircraft, there is an inherent possibility that a terrorist attack on a spent fuel pool could contaminate the surrounding environment and do irreversible harm to the Mississippi River watershed.
eBecause there is no known way to dispose of radioactive waste-the byproduct of nuclear facilities, and the Yucca Mountain Repository is not a suitable choice due to flawed science and the potential exposure of millions of people who live, work and play within mere miles of the proposed transport route, it would be prudent to reduce the amount of waste BEING GENERATED until a viable solution is discovered.
- There are numerous alternatives to nuclear power which are renewable; do not pollute like coal or diesel, and do not produce thousands of tons of radioactive waste which we have no feasible means to dispose of. These clean, abundant technologies have a real potential to create new job markets, boost the economy and improve the environment.
Furthermore, It is unacceptable to expect ratepayers and Illinois residents, through their taxes, to continue to support a decrepit power plant that does not benefit its Investors due to the many Inevitable repairs which accompany the extension of an operating license.
As it stands, Exelon has submitted an appeal for a reduction of the stations taxable value, which would have a devastating effect upon the local taxing districts, and deprive the county of over
$400,000. The college will lose over a quarter million, resulting in substantial layoffs and the corresponding reduction of social services. The school district will lose more than $2 million-nearly 29 percent of its entire budgeted revenues.
Conclusion The useful lifetime of a nuclear power plant is approximately 25 years, in actual practice.
Materials have a fixed number of cycles of strain they can bear before they begin to crack and fail. Due to radiation induced within their originally non-radioactive components, reactors and other major nuclear facilities may become dangerous to operate-or even approach-long BEFORE they show signs of physical deterioration.
The Quad Cities units are members of an aging fleet of Boiling Water Reactors (BWR),
engineered long before terrorism was even a consideration. In addition to the physical and chemical processes, which accelerate aging degradation of the systems, structures and components-such as corrosion, embrittlement, fabrication defects, vibration, water hammer and wear-there is also the concern of structural vulnerability. None of the 103 nuclear power plants operating in the United States were designed to withstand suicide attacks from the air, such as we tragically experienced on September 11, 2001.
Currently, nuclear waste, or spent fuel, is kept in high-density pools six to ten stories up in the reactor's secondary containment building. The pools share a common wall with an exterior wall of the building, and do not appear to have any structural reinforcement to prevent the likelihood of penetration by deliberate attack. Attack on a reactor could lead to rapid onset core melt with an open containment, accompanied by a raging fire. Due to high radiation fields across the site, access to the site by personnel would be precluded.
A full spent fuel pool contains 74 million curries of the radioactive isotope Cesium-i 37. An NRC
I s study concluded that a generic estimate of the release of Cesium isotopes during a spent fuel pool fire is 100%. Cesium-] 37 accounts for most of the off-site radiation attributed to Chemobyl and has a half-life of 30 years. Cesium-1 37 would be released into the atmosphere in small particles, and deposited on the ground and other surfaces. These particles would then emit intense gamma radiation, leading to whole-body radiation doses to exposed persons. Cesium-137 would also contaminate water and food sources.
Even with the highest NRC rating or upgrades, nuclear plants are not invincible. They can approach near-meltdown conditions through mechanical failure alone, without any security breach from outside. The Project on Government Oversight found that nuclear plants in general still remain ill equipped, under-staffed, and under-trained. Public assurances by the NRC do little to dispel this impression.
Nuclear power plants present many complications and risks to our health, environment and economy, which are unique to this form of energy. Although emissions from nuclear plants are significantly lower than emissions from fossil fuels, carbon Is emitted at every step of the nuclear fuel chain. The overall inherent dangers of radiation far outweigh the benefits of nuclear power.
The Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station has outlived its purpose. We, the people, demand responsible energy solutions. Options, which can increase efficiency, meet our needs, create new jobs. and stimulate the local economy. A license renewal for the QCNPS offers little more than higher utility bills, further environmental degradation and greater potential for a nuclear disaster.
We urge you to deny Exelon's request for an extension of their operating license for Quad Cities Units 1 and 2, and give us the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources that are renewable, do not pollute like coal or diesel, and do not generate dangerous toxic waste which we have no feasible means to dispose of.
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Petition to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission In Opposition of the License Renewal of the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station Presented by the Independent Environmental Conservation & Activism Network We, the undersigned, strongly oppose the license renewal of the Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station, and urge the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to (SAFSTOR) decommission the plant, following the expiration of its original operating license.
At the meeting held April 8th at the Mark of the Quad Cities in Moline, T.J. Kim of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) explained that the initial licensing period of 40 years was based more on economic factors than safety or technical specifications. This plant in particular has a rich history of poor routine maintenance; testing violations, equipment failure, security weakness, inoperable safety systems, and human performance errors. In light of these events, it is neither safe nor cost effective for the community, to continue to operate these reactors beyond their original lifespan.
Background
The Quad City Nuclear Power Station (QCNPS) was completed and ready for operation in 1972, one of six stations owned and operated by Commonwealth Edison Company. The two-unit station occupies 784 acres on the east bank of the Mississippi River, with a net electrical output of 789 megawatts per unit.
In 2001, Unicorn, the parent company of Commonwealth Edison, merged with PECO Energy and formed a parent entity-Exelon Corporation. The ownership and operation of Commonwealth Edison's 10 operating nuclear power plants and 3 retired nuclear plants was then transferred to Exelon.
Later that year, Exelon submitted a request to the NRC for changes to the operating licenses and Technical Specifications for Dresden Nuclear Power Station (DNPS) and QCNPS, to allow operation at uprated power levels. The NRC approved this request. The Safety Evaluation accompanying the approval amendment required that Exelon confirm to the NRC that necessary modifications to the main steam and torus-attached piping systems were completed prior to the implementation of the power uprate.
The power uprate at Quad Cities 1 and 2 will increase the power of each reactor by 17.8%, to about 912 megawatts of electricity per unit. Modifications were completed prior to implementation of the uprate for QCPS Unit 2 during the refueling outage that ended on March 5, 2002. The piping system modifications for QCNPS Unit I were completed during the refueling outages in fall of 2002.
Currently the Quad Cities area gets 23.6% of its total commercial powerfrom nuclear energy.
Although much of it comes from the QCNPS, some is subcontrfctedfrom a sipnilar plant in Nebraska.
We believe that these are legitimate concerns relating directly tj the health, safety and general well being of the surrounding population. These events characterize a blatant disregard for the NRC's own policies, and the people and environment which they are intended to protect; and present unwarranted risks to public health, safety and general well being.
Energy efficiency is the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to achieve energy independence.
Adopting the household appliance efficiency standards agreed to by both the Clinton and Bush (senior) administrations would eliminate the need for 127 power plants by 2020.
Failure to comply with NRC procedures and complete basic routine maintenance on schedule has incurred preliminary wear and irreversible damage to vital reactor components, increasing the possibility of mechanical failure and the likelihood of a major accident.
Since containment buildings were not designed to withstand attacks by aircraft, there is an inherent possibility that a terrorist attack on a spent fuel pool could contaminate the surrounding environment and do irreversible harm to the Mississippi River watershed.
Because there is no known way to dispose of radioactive waste-the byproduct of nuclear facilities, and the Yucca Mountain Repository is not a suitable choice due to flawed science and the potential exposure of millions of people who live, work and play within mere miles of the proposed transport route, it would be prudent to reduce the amount of waste BEING GENERATED until a viable solution is discovered.
There are numerous alternatives to nuclear power which are renewable; do not pollute like coal or diesel, and do not produce thousands of tons of radioactive waste which we have no feasible means to dispose of. These clean, abundant technologies have a real potential to create new job markets, boost the economy and improve the environment.
Furthermore, it is unacceptable to expect ratepayers and Illinois residents, through their taxes, to continue to support a decrepit power plant that does not benefit its investors due to the many inevitable repairs which accompany the extension of an operating license.
As it stands, Exelon has submitted an appeal for a reduction of the stations taxable value, which would have a devastating effect upon the local taxing districts, and deprive the county of over $400,000. The college will lose over a quarter million, resulting in substantial layoffs and the corresponding reduction of social services. The school district will lose more than $2 million-nearly 29 percent of its entire budgeted revenues.
Conclusion The useful lifetime of a nuclear power plant is approximately 25 years, in actual practice. Materials have a fixed number of cycles of strain they can bear before they begin to crack and fail. Due to radiation induced within their originally non-radioactive components, reactors and other major nuclear facilities may become dangerous to operate-or even approach-long BEFORE they show signs of physical deterioration.
The Quad Cities units are members of an aging fleet of Boiling Water Reactors (BWR), engineered long before terrorism was even a consideration. In addition to the physical and chemical processes, which accelerate aging degradation of the systems, structures and components-such as corrosion, embrittlement, fabrication defects, vibration, water hammer and wear-there is also the concern of structural vulnerability. None of the 103 nuclear power plants operating in the United States were designed to withstand suicide attacks from the air, such as we tragically experienced on September I 1, 2001.
Even with the highest NRC rating or upgrades, nuclear plants are not invincible. They can approach near-meltdown conditions through mechanical failure alone, without any security breach from outside.
The Project on Government Oversight found that nuclear plants in general still remain ill equipped, under-staffed, and under-trained. Public assurances by the NRC do little to dispel this impression.
Nuclear power plants present many complications and risks to our health, environment and economy, which are unique to this form of energy. Although emissions from nuclear plants are significantly lower than emissions from fossil fuels, carbon is emitted at every step of the nuclear fuel chain. The overall inherent dangers of radiation far outweigh the benefits of nuclear power.
The Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station has outlived its purpose. We, the people, demand responsible energy solutions. Options, which can increase efficiency, meet our needs, create new jobs, and stimulate
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We urge you to deny Exelon's request for an extension of their operating license for Quad Cities Units I and 2, and give us the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources that are renewable, do not pollute like coal or diesel, and do not generate dangerous toxic waste which we have no feasible means to dispose of.
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We urge you to deny Exelon's request for an extension of their operating license for Quad Cities Units 1 and 2, and give us the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources that are renewable, do not pollute like coal or diesel, and do not generate dangerous toxic waste which we have no feasible means to dispose of.
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A full spent fuel pool contains 74 million curries of the radioactive isotope Cesium-137. An NRC study concluded that a generic estimate of the release of Cesium isotopes during a spent fuel pool fire is 100%. Cesium-137 accounts for most of the off-site radiation attributed to Chernobyl and has a half-life of 30 years. Cesium-137 would be released into the atmosphere in small particles, and deposited on the ground and other surfaces. These particles would then emit intense gamma radiation, leading to whole-body radiation doses to exposed persons. Cesium-137 would also contaminate water and food sources.
Even with the highest NRC rating or upgrades, nuclear plants are not invincible. They can approach near-meltdown conditions through mechanical failure alone, without any security breach from outside. The Project on Government Oversight found that nuclear plants in general still remain ill equipped, under-staffed, and under-trained. Public assurances by the NRC do little to dispel this impression.
Nuclear power plants present many complications and risks to our health, environment and economy, which are unique to this form of energy. Although the overall emissions from nuclear plants are significantly lower than other forms of energy, such as coal, carbon is emitted at every step of the nuclear fuel chain.
The Quad Cities Nuclear Power Station has outlived its purpose. We, the people, demand responsible energy solutions. Options, which can meet our needs, create new jobs, and stimulate the local economy. A license renewal for the QCNPS offers little more than higher utility bills, further environmental degradation and greater potential for a nuclear disaster.
We urge you to deny Exelon's request for an extension of their operating license for Quad Cities Units 1 and 2, and give us the opportunity to develop alternative energy sources that are renewable, do not pollute like diesel and coal, and do not generate dangerous radioactive waste which we have no feasible means to dispose of.
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You have my permission to include my name on your petition - Teresa Sieckert - Muscatine, IA Original Message-From: Leslie Perrigo To: elliotrh@hotmail.com; mJregan@mchsi.com; mamadreadjo@aol.com Cc: onetroutliliy@yahoo.com; tech@advancedenergyonline.com; TheLorax@planet-save.com; nels@forward.net; erwoodwork@yahoo.com; Gmn14r@aol.com; vwfatmobile@hotmall.com; mkenyon@lowacan.org; IECAN@yahoogroups.com; steelbrightblade_1©yahoo.com ; JIh2220@aol.com; jemsun@juno.com; Iadyalchemy@ceiticcrow.com; spikeschippedhead@msn.com; bleumage29@hotmail.com; leannezonel@mchsl.com; md15011@hotmafl.com; nrsnet@lgc.org; Kuxansuum@aol.com; moose52556@yahoo.com ; jroot@mpw.org; Slutoy@SexMagnet.com; laugh@avalon.net; spIcol.j@lycos.com; nfo@eRdeShare.com; gratefulofearthmama@hotmail.com; tslioness@machlink.com; Schaferk645@aol.com; tUmhltes@mchsi.com; todd~admospheres.com; tyrtlemyrtle@metacrawler.com Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 7:47 PM
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urgent, please sign onl Hey all-This is the shortened version of our petition to retire the Cordova Nudear Power Plant at the end of Its glorious and scary run, In 2012. Please please please sign on, and pass It around to your friends, family anyone you know who may be Interested In helping with this. We are also forming a petitioning party for an upcoming saturday. If you would like to get Involved call me at 563-445-0369. Keep up the good work beautiful people!
Leslie
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D9 PM HI Leslie - If t will help, please add to your petition to close Quad Cities:
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facilities in the Sept. 11 attacks Mohammed as saying. Sept. 11 and has not ruled out nuclear 2001 fell on a Tuesday attacks in the future, an Arab Mohammed said planninj television reporter who inter-began two and a half year viewed two plotters of the ter-before Sept. 11 and that the ror attacks said Sunday first targets considered wer Yosri Fouda, correspondent nuclear facilities.
for the satellite station Al-We "decided against it fo Jazeera, told The Associated fear it would go out of control,'
Press that he was taken, blind-Fouda quoted Mohammed a folded, to a secret location in saying. "You do not need Pakistan to meet Khalid know more than that at thi Shaikh Mohammed and Ramzi stage, and anyway it was even Binalshibh in a June inter-tually decided to leave ou view arranged by al-Qaida nuclear targets - for now."
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December for many estab-Fouda said at one point lished al-Qaida's responsibil-while he was being led blind ity for Sept. 11. According to folded to the meeting, hi Fouda's account, Mohammed thought he was going to mee and Binalshibh spell out the with al-Qaida leader Osam link even more clearly.
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CUB doubts need to lock in rates now CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 Unlike the much-criticized.
SBC Illinois deal this year, in which the state's largest phone company briefly won a whole-sale rate increase from the legis-lature before it was overturned by a federal judge, ComEd offi-cials said they are not making an end run around the rate-set-ting ICC. In this case, the ICC still would determine whether grade.
-m "Dynegy does not have the bi luxury of waiting," said ComEd M President Frank Clark. "They Il are a company in financial ci stress, and they would, in my C]
judgment, have to look at other sc options" besides a merger with tI ComEd.
th Clark added, "The state legis-lature must act first, in order for a]
Exelon to pursue this new op-M portunity" Si Clark suggested that ComEd's merger with Illinois Power se would be optimal for consum-ir ers, workers and businesses.
ti "We're firmly committed to Il-n linois and appreciate the impor-e tance of retaining local jobs, es-no pecially in hard-hit communi-bi ties like Decatur," he said.
si ComEd officials have been p:
working behind the scenes to nths on thejoint request.
current law the Illinois erce *Comimigsion can p to.,1 months to raise nd approve mergers.
Ed deciined -to provide about how much it wants se customers' electricity but officials.said thehike be in "single digits."'
e Illinois Power deal is ap-d, ComEd's service terri-
'ould expand to cover 85 Lt of Illinois, up from 70 it. Company officials said egotiations with Illinois remain under Way, and tey couldn't provide de-Last mohth CoffEd dis-ComEd could buy Illinois and raise customer bills.
But the Citizens Board, a watchdog grol sailed ComEd's plan and to fight it. CUB said it wa bled that the proposed r crease was being linkei the Illinois Power purch Any rate increase wot take effect until 2007. Sta makers froze rates as a to consumers when they ulated illlnois' electric u several years ago.
"But what this is real.
is locking in excessive through the end of the d said Martin Cohen, CUB' utive director.
Cohen said it is imposs.
ComEd, a unit of Chicagc Exelon Corp., to know no, reasonable rates will be nuster support for the bi iy Illinois Power. The Ii
[anufacturers Association inois Retail Merchants A ation and the Chicago]
hamber of Commerce
)me of the business grc hat have expressed suppor ie purclmse.
Local units of the Internal I Brotherhood of Electi Corkers also have expre ipport.
'Exelon's commitment tc ecurity and its pledge to in i Illinois Power's infrast ire not only addresses eeds of working men and v a in Illinois, it also ensurec ois consumers will contint enefit from a reliable pc apply," said Dominic Riv resident of IBEW Local 51.
Clark said that the union closed that it was in exclusive talks to buy the Decatur-based company the state's second-largest electric utility.
ComEd wants lawmakers to consider its bill in the General Assembly's six-day fall session, which starts next month.
"We are listening-to their ideas," said Steve Brown, a^
spokesman for Illinois House Speaker Michael Madigan (D-Chicago). Madigan is waiting to learn more next week at an in-formational hearing of the House Public Utilities Commit-tee, Brown said.
PLEASE SEE COMED, PAGE 16 and beyond. Cohen argued that customers' electricity bills probably should decline be-cause of what he described as a glut of electrical power, primar-.
ily caused by an overbuilding of natural gas generating plants.
"If the company wants a rate increase, it can seek one under the current law," Cohen said.
"But it would have to justify that, and that is what ComEd is trying to avoid."
CUB criticized what it de-scribed as the rushed nature of ComEd's plan, coming right be-fore the-legislature's fall ses-sion.
Complicating the deal is the shaky financial condition of lli-nois Power's parent company, Houston-based Dynegy Inc. Illi-nois Power and Dynegy carry debt ratings below investment
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ssed If the merger goes through, it would be the second ownership job change for Illinois Power within tvest four years. Dynegy bought Illi-
- truc-nois Power in February 2000, the when Dynegy was riding high wom-as an energy-trading company.
Ii-Since then, Dynegy has exited ue to the energy-trading business, re-
)wer stated earnings for the last three
'ara, years and been under federal in-vestigation for alleged account-had ing irregularities.