ML080640202

Comment (5) of C. Tiffany on Renewal of Shearon Harris License. Licensing Should Be Contingent on FAIL-SAFE Dry-Cask Containment of Hazardous Rad-Waste

ML080640202
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Site:	Harris
Issue date:	01/30/2008
From:	Tiffany C - No Known Affiliation
To:	Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch
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Page 1 of 1 ShearonHarrisElS - Licensing should be contingent on FAIL-SAFE Dry-Cask Containment of Hazardous Rad-Waste From:

"C. Tiffany" <catiffany@yahoo.com>

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<ShearonI-arrisEIS~nrc.gov>

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01/30/2008 1:03 PM

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Licensing should be contingent on FAIL-SAFE Dry-Cask Containment of Hazardous Rad-Waste Licensing should be contingent on FAIL-SAFE Dry Cask Containment of Rad-Waste Fuel rods are designed to produce temperatures above the boiling point of water, so putting them in water is inherently hazardous, and requires human & automated 'Monitoring for as long they are stored in water.

At Shearon-wHarris, the hazardous waste storage is more hazardous that anywhere else in the' country due to the ever-more high-mass/high-density, high-temperature storage in water of high-level hazardous rad-waste generating temperatures above the boiling point of water, necessitating complex automated systems dependent on impossible perfection for decades, with the obvious potential for human error and moving-parts failure c

(both as natural as the boiling point of water).

7 N) ul On the other hand, well-designed, well-made, properly implemented Dry-Cask storage, is inherenly less dangerous because there is no water to boil, and the argon atmosphere within the sealed containers is inert and does not require monitoring, and maintenance, and constant replenishment (in a drought-prone area that may shut down the plant, diverting attention and extra available staff from fuel-pool emergencies),

There is far better containment, no moving parts to fail, and no water to boil away, and no inherent necessity for constant, error-free automated and human-error-prone monitoring and intervention, with well-designed, well-made, properly implemented dry-cask containment, a method which is inherently FAIL-SAFE, rather than the storage of high-volume, high-mass, high-density, high-temperature hazardous rad-waste (above the boiling point of water),

which is inherently NOT fail-safe.

Licensing should be contingent on moving hazardous rad-waste to well-designed, well-made, properly-implemented inherently FAIL-SAFE Dry Cask Containment A.S.A.P.

-- CATiffanyg aoo cmi 611 East Lawson Street, Durham, N.C.

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