ML13291A412

LTR-13-0822 - Eddy N, Email Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station

ML13291A412
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	10/11/2013
From:	Eddy N Public Commenter
To:	Macfarlane A NRC/Chairman
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Mike, Linda From: Eddy.N@verizon.net Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:23 AM To: CHAIRMAN Resource

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pilgrim Dear Allison The American people endorse the panel of nuclear experts and demand NRC to retire the entire fleet of US nuclear reactors because the consequences of an accident or terrorism like Fukushima far outweigh the benefits of keeping them active. Greg Jaczko, formerly NRC chairman during Fukushima; Peter Bradford, an NRC commissioner during the Three Mile Island accident; nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen; and former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan all gave convincing arguments to shutter the plants, particularly Plymouth's 41-year-old Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station. Fukushima is no accident, but a deliberate 311 terror attack aided by Israeli nukes and Stuxnet to disable the cooling system. NRC can confirm this with Japanese sources or the intel community if it doesn't know already. The ultimate takeaway from Fukushima is accidents, terrorism, cyberwarfare, and sabotage do happen, nuclear power is a technology that had 40 great years and has reached the end of its shelf life.

While NRC may contend the odds of an accident are one in a million, there have been 5 meltdowns: Three Mile Island, Chemobyl and three reactors at Fukushima. We condemn the ongoing NRC delay to require stricter safety measures at our nation's 104 reactors following Fukushima. A "Lessons Learned" report was compiled at the direction of NRC, but the commission has been slow to implement recommendations. Jaczko, who cast the sole vote against relicensing the Pilgrim plant for another 20 years in 2012, resigned shortly after the Pilgrim vote in frustration that business continued as usual in the wake of Fukushima. We demand a moratorium on relicensing, a stop on new licensing until we sorted out what happened, flood and seismic revaluation, improvements for spent fuel pools, and hardened vents for reactors. NRC must ban all Israeli companies providing "security" at US reactors because they are inside men for future Fukushima attacks on US soil.

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When we hear 'Entergy is safe,' that means it barely meets minimal acceptable criteria set by a compliant NRC.

Entergy owns and operates several nuclear power stations including Pilgrim. Pilgrim is no different from Fukushima because the reactor is identical to Dai-ichi's units 2 and 3, and in a critical way, it's worse. The Japanese have 7 years of spent fuel stored there, but Entergy has 35 years of spent fuel sitting in a pool in Pilgrim, and the pool sits on top of a building. Pilgrim's pool currently contains over 3,000 spent fuel rods.

Fukushima sends a disturbing message that not just accidents but nuclear terrorism or sabotage by Israel could and did happen. That doesn't mean Pilgrim will have an accident tomorrow but it's a possibility that can't be ruled out.

Evacuation is particularly worrisome to residents of Cape Cod, because off-site emergency planning wasn't regulated until 1980, after Three Mile Island. Prior to 1980, plants were sited without a thought to the ability to evacuate. Pilgrim opened in 1973 and Cape residents would be trapped on the Cape or forced to travel closer to Pilgrim and the radiation plume to get off-Cape. A recent tour legislators took at Pilgrim revealed a place that looks like the 1960s and 1970s in technology right down to analog warning lights. People got off the elevator onto flypaper to take radioactive material off the shoes.

Recent mechanical glitches at Pilgrim, involving water pumps, valves, electrical wiring and lines with leaks are warning signs that the plant is falling into disrepair. Aging systems fail, period and it is time shut down Pilgrim like San Onofre. We say to NRC, it is time to phase out all US reactors and although we can't immediately shut 2

down all plants, there needs to be a phase out and replacement with other energy sources. While Japan had an evacuation plan, some of those implementing it were evacuated themselves. Phone lines were down and power lines out. The accident was so severe it would require a 5-kilometer evacuation, and the evacuation circle continued to broaden as days passed. Iodine pills supplied to the towns in case of a nuclear accident were not distributed in many communities. Data regarding the direction of the contamination plume didn't get out, and it was not clear who was in charge. America cannot afford even one Fukushima, and NRC must be proactive, ban Israeli security companies, and shut down Pilgrim and Indian Point this year.

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