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Comment (00394) of Mrs. Mary Ellen Kerr on PR-51, Waste Confidence - Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
ML13351A003
Person / Time
Site: Indian Point  Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 12/07/2013
From: Kerr M E
- No Known Affiliation
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NRC/SECY/RAS
SECY RAS
References
78FR56775 00394, NRC-2012-0246, PR-51
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1 Rulemaking1CEm Resource From: RulemakingComments Resource Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 3:24 PM To: Rulemaking1CEm Resource

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FW: Docket ID NRC-2012-0246 DOCKETED BY USNRC-OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY SECY-067 PR#: PR-51 FRN#: 78FR56775 NRC DOCKET#: NRC-2012-0246 SECY DOCKET DATE: 12/7/13 TITLE: Waste Confidence-Continued Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel COMMENT#: 00394


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From: Riverkeeper [mailto:info@Riverkeeper.org

] On Behalf Of Mary Ellen Kerr Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 11:31 AM To: RulemakingComments Resource

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Docket ID NRC-2012-0246

Dec 7, 2013

Secretary U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff Washington, DC 20555-0001 ATTN: Secretary Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff,

Regarding the New York versus NRC case, please rule to shut down Indian Point so that no more highly radioactive waste continues to be produced in the tri-state area (just 35 miles from Midtown Manhattan in New York State and less than 15 miles from parts of New York City's drinking water supply) where approximately 6% of the population of the United States lives and works.

The security and health issues of storing highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel stored in an unprotected and unhardened industrial building is too high risk to 20 million people living and working in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut areas. Note that current and former security guards of Indian Point indicated disturbing details about security at the plants which is potentially deadly.

If there is an accident or terrorist attack involving this enormously dangerous toxic waste dump, there no possible way to evacuate people within a 50 mile radius of the waste dump (note that 50 mile radius evacuation is what the NRC recommended in the case of the Fukushima disaster). Beyond the terrible health and property damage to the people living and working in the tri-state area, it would also cause terrible impacts to the world economy since it is the financial capital of the world. A 2004 study by the Union of Concerned Scientists, indicated that a "hypothetical terrorist attack" at Indian Point could kill 44,000 people in the short term and another 500,000 over the long term. The cost of such a disaster would be about $2 trillion. In today's dollars, I expect that cost to be higher.

2Currently, the Indian Point waste dump leaks toxic radioactivity such as tritium and strontium-90 into the Hudson River and into the ground water around the aging Indian Point nuclear power plants which has been an on-going problem since at least the 1990s and it has not been fixed.

In addition to not relicensing the Indian Point nuclear power plants in order to avoid the production of any additional dangerous waste, please require the expedited removal of spent fuel from pools into dry casks to reduce the safety risks of pool storage.

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter.

Thank you for your consideration.

Respectfully, Mrs. Mary Ellen Kerr

CT 06902

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