ML12166A056
| ML12166A056 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Pilgrim |
| Issue date: | 05/29/2012 |
| From: | Agnew D Cape Cod Downwinders |
| To: | Jaczko G NRC/Chairman |
| References | |
| LTR-12-0258 | |
| Download: ML12166A056 (5) | |
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY CORRESPONDENCE CONTROL TICKET Date Printed. Jun 05, 2012 07:-06 PAPER NUMBER:
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David Agnew [dagnew@capedownwinders.org]
Tuesday, May 29, 2012 8:13 AM Martha Coakley; Matthew Brock; Schneider, Max; Smith, Brian; Deval Patrick; johnkerry@kerry.senate.gov; Sarah Peake; Rep. Cleon Turner; Matthew Patrick; Rep.DemetriusAtsalis@hou.state.ma.us; Richard Delaney; Kevin Nord; Rep. Tim Madden; George Baker; eopsinfo@state.ma.us; DPSInfo@state.ma.us; Coxe, Stefanie; Anne.Gobi@mahouse.gov; Ann-Margaret.Ferrante@mahouse.gov; Cynthia. Creem@masenate.gov; Robert. Hedlund@masenate.gov; Robert. Koczera@mahouse.gov; Carolyn. Dykema@mahouse.gov; Timothy. Madden@mahouse.gov; gailanne.cariddi@mahouse.gov; paul.mark@mahouse.gov; christopher.markey@mahouse.gov; paul.schmid@mahouse.gov; Susan. Gifford@mahouse.gov; matthew. beaton@mahouse.gov; James.Timilty@masenate.gov; Michael.Moore@masenate.gov; Harold. Naughton@mahouse.gov; Michael. Brady@mahouse.gov; Katherine.Clark@masenate.gov; Mark. Montigny@masenate.gov; James.Welch@masenate.gov; Richard. Ross@masenate.gov; Bruce.Ayers@mahouse.gov; David.Torrisi@mahouse.gov; Cleon.Turner@mahouse.gov; Linda. DeanCampbell@mahouse.gov; Brian.Ashe@mahouse.gov; James. Dwyer@mahouse.gov; Rhonda. Nyman@MAhouse. gov; david.vieira@mahouse.gov; nicholas.boldyga@mahouse.gov; john.keenan@mahouse.gov; Kate.Hogan@mahouse.gov; Jennifer. Flanagan@masenate.gov; Eileen. Donoghue@masenate.gov; Michael. Knapik@masenate.gov; John. Rogers@mahouse.gov; Thomas.Golden@mahouse.gov; Walter.Timilty@mahouse.gov; Stephen. DiNatale@mahouse.gov; Carlo. Basile@mahouse.gov; Tackey.Chan@mahouse.gov; john.mahoney@mahouse.gov; PauI.Adams@mahouse.gov; randy.hunt@mahouse.gov; Micha1. Freedhoff@mail.house.gov; Therese Murray; marrighi@townhall.plymouth.ma.us; George Heufelder; Town-Manager@Town.Duxbury.MA.US; Dean, Bill; CHAIRMAN Resource; CmrLyons@nrc.gov; CMRMAGWOOD Resource; CMROSTENDORFF Resource; CMRSVINICKI Resource Letter to Entergy Corp. demanding retirement of Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station EntLtrSigned.pdf Greetings -
Delivery of the attached letter to management of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station was attempted on May 20th. Entergy officials would not touch the letter, and ordered the arrest, for trespass, of the fourteen individuals who refused to leave if Entergy did not accept the letter.
David Agnew, Coordinator Cape Downwinders Harwich, MA 1
Citizens' Demand for the Immediate Retirement of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station May 20, 2012 Mr. Robert Smith Vice President and Site Vice President Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc.
Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station 600 Rocky Hill Road Plymouth MA 02360-5508 On behalf of the children, current residents, and future generations of New England, and with concern for all beings of the biosphere, we demand that Entergy Nuclear Corporation (ENC) immediately cease the splitting of atoms and the generation of nuclear waste and effluent from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station (PNPS) in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
The ongoing man-made disaster in Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan is a wake-up call to action. The four reactors which exploded and released vast amounts of radionuclides are the same GE Mark I design as Pilgrim. For forty years, the nuclear industry and its regulators have known that this design is incapable of containing a serious accident. One of every eight Mark 1 reactors has exploded and released massive amounts of radionuclides. Pronouncements by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) that the risk of an accident is one in a million is testament only to their hubris. The continued operation of this relic, which was designed in the 60's to last 40 years, in the shadow of the Fukushima catastrophe is a reckless act, a threat contemptuous of all life.
Significant loss of water from Fukushima's Unit 4 waste pool would release ten times the amount of cesium that was scattered by Chernobyl and force the evacuation of 35 million people from Tokyo, 175 miles away. Pilgrim's pool, which contains nearly 2.5 times as much waste fuel as Unit 4, is 195 miles from New York City. Experts for the Massachusetts Attorney General testified that Pilgrim's nuclear waste is vulnerable to a catastrophic fire from loss of water that could contaminate over 100 miles downwind and cause up to 24,000 latent cancers and $488 billion in damages.
The first duty of our elected and appointed officials is to protect public health and safety, not Entergy's profits. There is no safe dose of radiation, and exposure impacts the health of both current and future generations. The NRC's cynical standards for legally-permitted daily releases by ENC are based on the amount of cancers they will cause in the most-resistant (adult) population, willfully ignoring the far greater risk posed to children. Current monitoring is insufficient to determine the path of a radioactive plume, and thus populations may be evacuated to heavily contaminated areas, as they were last year in Japan. The NRC called for evacuation of American citizens within 50 miles of Fukushima; a 50-mile radius around Pilgrim includes all of Cape Cod, Boston, and Providence. The people of Cape Cod, who would have to travel towards an accident to escape it, have neither a radiological emergency plan nor a single study to show that Pilgrim's radioisotopes are not the cause of their greatly elevated breast cancer rates. We find the continued operation of PNPS an unacceptable threat to public health and safety.
May 20, 2012 Page 1 of 3
Citizens' Demand for the Immediate Retirement of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Pilgrim's joint federal-state Clean Water Act permit expired 16 years ago, and its state coastal zone management "federal consistency certification" is invalid. It sucks in over 350,000 gallons of water from Cape Cod Bay each minute, killing plankton, larvae, fish, fish eggs, and other marine life, including protected river herring. It's antiquated "once-through" cooling system regularly violates federal limits on chlorine discharges, and it operates without an approved marine monitoring plan. PNPS discharges polluted water, heated between 32 and 120 degrees above the ambient temperature. The full extent of the pollution from metals, biocides, corrosion inhibitors and radioactive material is unknown, as is the impact to endangered species such as the Roseate Tern and the Right Whale. We find the environmental impact to Cape Cod Bay unacceptable.
We demand that Entergy Nuclear Corporation withdraw it's relicense application, immediately close the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station, store the waste fuel in dry casks as soon as possible, and implement economic conversion plans to protect its employees. We also call for Cape Cod to be included in an emergency preparedness plan as we are citizens who will remain at risk long after final shutdown.
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>,,f' David Agnew, Co dinator Cape Downwinders 18 Marthas Lane Harwich, MA 02645 Diane Turco Cape Codders for Peace and Justice 157 Long Rd.
Harwich, MA 02645 Sarah Thacher Cape Downrwinders & CCPJ 1363 Rt 134 Box 1509, Drawer J E. Dennis, MA 02641 CC:
Governor Deval Patrick Commonwealth of Massachusetts State House, Rm.280 Boston, MA 02133 John Auerbach, Commissioner Department of Public Health 250 Washington St.
Boston, MA 02108 Kurt Schwartz, Director Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency 400 Worcester Road Framingham, MA 01702 -5399 Nuclear Regulatory Commission One White Flint North 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, MD 20852-2738 Martha Coaldey, Attorney General One Ashburton Place Boston, MA 02108 Senator John F. Kerry One Bowdoin Square, 10th Floor Boston, MA 02114 Senator Scott Brown 2400 JFK Federal Bldg 15 New Sudbury Street Boston, MA 02203 Congressman William Keating 297 North Street, Suite 312 Hyannis, MA 02601 Congressman Edward Markey 188 Concord Street Suite 102 Framingham, MA 01702 May 20, 2012 Page 2 of 3
Citizens' Demand for the Immediate Retirement of the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station Senate President Therese Murray State House Rrn 332 Boston, MA 02133 Senator Dan Wolf State House, 5116 Boston, MA. 02133 Representative Sarah Peake State House, Room 195 Boston MA 02133 Representative Cleon Turner State House, Room 540 Boston, MA 02133 Representative Demetrius Atsalis State House, Room 26 Boston, MA 02133 Representative David Vieira State House, Room 167 Boston, MA 02133 Representative Timothy Madden State House, Room 167 Boston, MA 02133 Representative Randy Hunt State House, Room 136 Boston, MA 02133 Representative Matt Patrick Box 3252 Waquoit, 02536 Mark Stankiewicz, Town Manager Town of Plymouth 11 Lincoln Street Plymouth MA 02360 Richard R. MacDonald, Town Manager Town of Duxbury 878 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA 02332 Chief Kevin M. Nord Fire Chief & Director DEMA Town of Duxbury 688 Tremont Street Duxbury, MA 02331 George Baker, Mashpee Fire Chief Barnstable County REPC 20 Frank Hicks Drive Mashpee, 02649 George Heufelder, Director Barnstable County Department of Health and Environment 3195 Main Street Barnstable, MA 02630 Richard Delaney, Chair Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory Commission 99 Marconi Site Road Wellfleet, 02267 May 20, 2012 Page 3 of 3