ML13336B471

Comment (00306) of Charles Bagwell on PR-51, Waste Confidence - Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel

ML13336B471
Person / Time
Site:	Fermi
Issue date:	12/01/2013
From:	Bagwell C D - No Known Affiliation
To:	NRC/SECY/RAS
SECY RAS
References
78FR56775 00306, NRC-2012-0246, PR-51
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FW: NRC proposal for Nuclear waste in fuel pools DOCKETED BY USNRC-OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SECY-067 PR#: PR-51 FRN#: 78FR56775 NRC DOCKET#: NRC-2012-0246 SECY DOCKET DATE: 12/2/13 TITLE: Waste Confidence-Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel COMMENT#: 00306

From: Chuck Bagwell [mailto:mrcdb@charter.net

] Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 4:20 PM To: RulemakingComments Resource

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NRC proposal for Nuclear waste in fuel pools Hello, My name is Charles Bagwell, from Erie, MI. I am a retired Nuclea r Engineer. I operated DTE Energy's fossil and nuclear plants for 35 years.

I am opposed to storing used radioactive fuel rods in a pool of water 100 feet above ground level. The imagination runs wild when considering all the bad things that could happen to such a massive objet that high up on a manm ade structure.

I am a proponent of destroying the nuclear waste by heating it to a high tem perature, which at the same time can produce electricity for the grid.

I am asking the NRC to team up with the DOE, and Congress to pass legislation that would require all nuclear electric utilities in the Country to start destroying their waste within 5 years, and to have the fuel pools empty of all waste within 10 years.

How do you destroy the waste? One proposal calls for moving the fuel rod bundles into onsite Storage Casks (SC) after five years of cooling in the pool.

Then, the SC would be moved to a processing r oom where the Uranium f uel pellets are removed from the zirconium storage tubes.

The pellets are fed through a gri nder and turned to a powder. The powder is mixed with a Lithium fluoride salt mixt ure (LF) The LF is then pumped into a Thorium Molten Salt Power Cell, known in the industry as a Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (LFTR)

I propose that Fermi 1, located in Monroe, Michigan, be used as a test site to destroy all the waste stored at the Fermi 2 Po wer Plant, right next door.

2 I've had a brief discussion with DTE Energy representat ives concerning this proposal. They thought it was feasible but they could not act because NRC regulations was a road block to even studying the matter.

I am asking the NRC to reform regulations and to become a proponent to recycling our nuclear waste from long term to short term half-life's. (<800 years)

See my website for a primer on LFTRs.

Thank you,

Charles D. Bagwell

11367 Strasburg Rd.

Erie, MI 48133

Cell 734-856-6354 www.zerwellenergy.com mrcdb@charter.net

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