ML062650456

Comment (22) of Mary Miazza, Opposing Relicensing of 35 Year Old Oyster Creek Nuclear Plant

ML062650456
Person / Time
Site:	Oyster Creek
Issue date:	09/14/2006
From:	Miazza M - No Known Affiliation
To:	NRC/ADM/DAS/RDB
References
%dam200612, 71FR34969 00022
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In this plan, Fla. garbage is toast

$425M Sunshine State plant would vaporize 3,000 tons of trash and create elerty BY BRIAN SKOLOFF But experts say population ASSOCIATED PRESS gwth will limit space available for FORT PIERCE, Fla. - A Flor future landfills.

ida county has grand plans to ditch "Welve only got the size of the its dump, generate electricity and planet," said Richard Tedder, pro help build roads - all by vaporizing grm administrator for the Florida garbage at temperatures hotter Department of Environmental Pro than the sun. tection's solid waste division. "Be The $425 million facility ex cam of all of the pressures of de pected to be built in St. Lucie velopment, people don't want land County will use lightning-like plasma arcs to turn trash into gas and rock-like material. It will be the first such plant in the nation oper

11. It's going to be harder and er to site new landfills, and it's oig to be harder for existing dmls to continue to expand."

- - - LDKWAS#/AS01AT1D PESS Leo Cordeiro, let St Lucle County solid waste director, and assistant I

ating on such a massive scale and , The plasma-arc gasification fa director Ron Roberts stand at fthlandflD InFort Pierce, Fla.

the largest in the world. ty in St. Lucie County, on cen Supporters say the process is ragFlorida's Atlantic Coast, aims s some tough questions," Wil rent energy cris."

cleaner than traditional trash incin rotve that problem by eliminat ýon said. He said that if large plasma fa the need for a landfill. Only two Bruce Parker, president and were put to use nationwide eration, though skeptics question ,TO of the Washington, D.C. ctes whether the technology can meet facilities are operating in vaporize trash, they could theo

.world - both in Japan - but xased National Solid Wastes Man theJlofty expectations igement Association, scoffs at the a generate electricity equlva

-The 100,000-square-foot plant, %ure -aslf' garbage on a much iller scale. iotion that plasma technology will to tent about 25 nuclear plants.

srad to be operational in two liminate the need for landfills.

years, is expected to vaporize 3,000 'Up to eight plasma arc Sipped cupolas will vaporize "We do know that plasma arc is tons of garbage a day. County offi i legitimate technology, but let's cials estimate their entire landffil year-round, nonstop. Gar ge will be brought in on conveyor we first how this thing works for 4.3 million tons of trash collected t. Lucie County," Parker said.

since 1978 - will be gone in 18 Its and dumped into the cylindri ..TAF/\ L,

,cupolas where it falls into a "It's too soon for people to make years. .Id claims that we won't need No byproduct will go unused, ne of heat more than 10,000 de *dfllls."

according to Geoplasma, the At s Fahrenheit.

Louis Circeo, director of Geor linta-based company building and "We didnt want to do it like ev Tech's plasma research divi 7-Io-o~ ~'

paying for the plant. rbody else," said Leo Cordeiro, e county's solid waste director. on, said that as energy prices soar Synthetic, combustible gas pro cdlandfill fees increase, plasma duced in the process will be used to We knew there were better ways."

No emissions are released dur I technology will become more run turbines to create electricity ffordable.

about 120 megawatts a day - that the closed-loop gasification, Ge 'municipal solid waste is per will be sold back to the grid. The plasma says. The only emissions aps the largest renewable energy facility will operate on about a Ill come from the synthetic gas

-third f the powerit generatesfree powered turbiris&_tat create_

from outside electricity. electricity. Even that will be cleaner resource that is available to us,"

About 80,000 pounds of steam than burning coal or natural gas, Circeo said, adding that the pro experts say., cess "could not only solve the gar per day will be sold to a neighbor Few other toxins will be ing Tropicana Products Inc. facility rage and landfill problems In the to power the juice plant's turbines. generated, if any at all, Geoplasma nited, States and elsewhere, but it

• Sludge rnom the county's waste says.

But critics disagree. .ould significantly alleviate the cur-water treatment plant will be va porized, and a material created "we've found projects similar to from melted organic matter - up this being misrepresented all over to .600 tons a day - will be hard the country," said Monica Wilson of ened into slag, and sold for use in the Global Alliance for Incinerator

ýAtematives.

road and construction projects.

Wilson said there aren't enough "This is sustainability in its tru udies yet to prove the companys est and finest form," said Hilburn ,laims that emissions will likely be Hillestad, president of Geoplasma, ess than from a standard natural a subsidiary of Jacoby Develop gs power plant.

ment Inc.

"I think this is the time for the For years, some waste-manage sidents of this county to start ment facilities have been convert ing methane - created by rotting trash in landfills - to power. Oth ers also bum trash to produce electricity.