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Comment (4) of Duncan Tam Opposing the Re-license of Kewaunee Nuclear Plant
ML101120595
Person / Time
Site: Kewaunee Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 04/20/2010
From: Duncan T
- No Known Affiliation
To:
Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch, Office of Public Affairs
References
75FR6065 00004, FOIA/PA-2010-0209
Download: ML101120595 (2)


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Mendiola, Doris

Subject:

FW: Do NOT Re-license Kewaunee Nuclear Plant

--Original Message -----

From: Duncan Tam [1] ..

Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 6:07 PM -

To: OPA Resource

Subject:

Do NOT Re-license Kewaunee Nuclear Plant Z5 Below is the result of your feedback form. It was submitted by G-Duncan Tam (duncan2729(,vahoo.com) on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 18:06:49 comments: Do NOT re-license Kewaunee Nuclear Power Plant Environmental risks are unacceptable:

2006 leaked tritium 1 gal every 5 minutes in groundwater and they never found the source.

Kewaunee is an aging nuke reactor, predisposing it to cracks in holding tanks, waste fuel pools, concrete floor slabs. Radioactive water leaks from tanks, flanges, valves, pumps, drums, pits, waste concentrators, tubes, and laundry systems.

Leakage pathways are almost unlimited. This is unacceptable risks.

Worker safety is an issue.

Evacuation is an environmental issue because the presence of Lake Michigan prevents escape routes in 50%

of the directions away from the plant.

There is an acceptable 24 hr leak rate of plutonium into the air around any nuke plant.

Releases are cumulative and irreversible in polluting soil, water, and air with radioactivity.

Nuclear is the dirtiest energy, non-sustainable energy available with danger in every part from mining, to transportation, to operations, to waste storage and its terrorist attraction, to the inability to dispose of it. This is unacceptable. We need to protect the environment, not destroy it.

Nuclear pollution is excluded from our homeowners insurance, our vehicle insurance, and any other insurance we carry. It is so dangerous that the industry had to get the US Price Anderson Act passed to put a ceiling on each accident that will not pay for a small fraction of the damage around any major city. It is unacceptable for taxpayers to bear this risk.

Medical studies show leukemia, birth defects, mental retardation, and cancers to be higher in a bell curve around all nuclear plants. This is unacceptable.

Why are 27 US reactors spewing radioactive tritium from pipes if they are so safe? This safety is a false promise just like electricity too cheap to meter was.

The environment is compromised unacceptably around any nuclear plant in the US because humans aren't perfect and aren't responsible enough to follow the rules impeccably.

Relicensing Kewaunee is unacceptable.

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo.

For the Highest Good of All.

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address1: 7203 Fortune Dr Apt 3 address2:

city: Middleton state: WI zip: 53562 country:

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