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Comment (6) of Susan Michetti, Opposing NUREG-1437 Supplement 40, It Is Unsafe to Renew License of Kewaunee Nuclear Plant
ML101120599
Person / Time
Site: Kewaunee Dominion icon.png
Issue date: 04/20/2010
From: Michetti S
- No Known Affiliation
To:
Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch
References
75FR6065 00006, FOIA/PA-2010-0209, NUREG-1437
Download: ML101120599 (2)


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Susan Michetti (stardust10000(vyahoo.com) on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 16:23:44 DocumentTitle: NUREG1437 Supplement 40 Comments: In 2006, NRC reported Kewaunee leaked tritium at 1 gallon every 5 minutes into groundwater.

This is unacceptable. The last info I had the operators could not find the leak's source. This is extremely unacceptable.

Tritium has a radioactive half-life of 12.3 years. As nuclear reactors age, like Kewaunee, cracks occur in holding tanks, waste fuel pools, and 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 environmentally unacceptable.

Worker safety is another issue.

Accidental releases as well as allowable releases cumulatively and irreversibly pollute soil, water, and air with radioactivity. Reckless irresponsibility has been the pattern in Wisconsin, from my viewpoint. If this wasn't the case, there would have been no leakages, but leakages did occur demonstrating harm to the environment and to the public, particularly those who reside in the vicinity. This is unacceptable. Any exposure is harmful and accumulative--low level or high level.

Nuclear is too expensive and too risky. It is the dirtiest energy. It does not qualify for sustainable clean energy based upon its dirty characteristics found in every aspect from mining, to transport, to operations, to waste storage and the possibility of being a terrorist target, to the inability to dispose of it safely anywhere. This is unacceptable to continue such craziness.

Studies prove that cancers, leukemias, still births, mental retardation, and genetric problems increase in bellcurves around nuclear plants. Serious health risks harm people who live near the plant, and this is unacceptable. It's time to stop being chicken little with the head in the sand and refusing to see the reality that is clear to the rest of this nation regarding adverse health effects and the inability to keep the genie of radioactivity in the box where it belongs. Nuclear power is an unsafe dirty energy white elephant that certainly is no longer cost effective energy and will drive up the costs of residential electricity to unacceptable levels.

Based on the lies told historically that nuclear power would be too cheap to meter, this was a false promise that never came close to being truthful in the same way that safety claims do not come close to being truthful. The people of Wisconsin do not want new nuclear power and we do not want this plant to be renewed bas!

ed on its history of leaking radioaction into the groundwater that has never been stopped and that has never been publicly identified as a located source.

It is unsafe to renew the license of Kewaunee nuclear plant.

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