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MONTHYEARML15139A0222015-05-0101 May 2015
Comment (2) of Unknown Individual Opposing Applications and Amendments to Facility Operating Licenses and Combined Licenses Involving No Significant Hazards Considerations
ML14107A0062014-04-11011 April 2014
Comment (11) of Kay Drey, on Behalf of Beyond Nuclear, on NUREG 1437 - Supplement 51: the Draft Supplemental EIS Re Ameren/Ue'S Application to Extend the Operating License for the Callaway for an Additional 20 Years
ML14107A0072014-04-10010 April 2014
Comment (12) of Kevin Kamps on Behalf of Beyond Nuclear on SEIS for Proposed Callaway 20 Year License Extension
ML14107A0672014-04-0707 April 2014
Comment (5) of Edward Smith on Behalf of Missouri Coalition for the Environment on License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement
ML14107A1082014-04-0707 April 2014
Comment (6) of Jeffery Robichaud on Behalf of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 on License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement
ML14107A1122014-04-0707 April 2014
Comment (7) of Unknown Individual on License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1; Correction
ML14107A1302014-04-0707 April 2014
Comment (8) of Unknown Individual, Opposing License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1; Correction
ML14107A0682014-04-0707 April 2014
Comment (10) of Mark Kelly on License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement
ML14107A0662014-04-0404 April 2014
Comment (4) of Robert Stout, on Behalf of State of Missouri Department of Natural Resources, on License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement
ML14090A4012014-03-28028 March 2014
Comment (2) Robert F. Stewart on Behalf of Us Dept of Interior on Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Deis), Generic - Renewal of Nuclear Plants, NUREG- 1437, Supplement 51, Regarding Callaway, Unit 1
ML14084A3192014-03-20020 March 2014
Comment (1) of Steve Dinolfo Supporting the Renewal of Callaway Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 License Application
ML14092A1832014-03-20020 March 2014
Comment (3) of Arlene Sandler Opposing Draft Supplement 51 to the GEIS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants for Callaway, Unit 1
ML13007A4072013-01-0303 January 2013
Comment (137) of Kay Drey on Behalf of Beyond Nuclear on Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation
ML13022A4962012-12-13013 December 2012
Comment (248) of Deb Brown on Consideration of Environmental Impacts of Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation
ML12334A3952012-11-22022 November 2012
Comment (99) of Steve Shuput on Consideration on Environmental Impacts on Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation
ML12334A3872012-11-21021 November 2012
Comment (91) of Kenneth Clark on Consideration on Environmental Impacts on Temporary Storage of Spent Fuel After Cessation of Reactor Operation
ML12156A2642012-05-18018 May 2012
Comment (3) of Ian Thompson, on Behalf of Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, on Renewal of the Operating License for Callaway Plant, Unit 1, Located Near Fulton, Callaway County, Mo
ML12062A0712012-02-29029 February 2012
Comment (1) of Unknown Individual on Behalf of Self Opposing License Renewal Application for Callaway Plant, Unit 1, Union Electric Co
ML1035003972010-12-13013 December 2010
Comment (1) of Benjamin Oguejiofor, on Behalf of Ameren Missouri, on Sections of NUREG-1842 Rev. 1 Found Missing from Draft NUREG-1946
ML0929301522009-10-15015 October 2009
Comment (1) of D. Hooper, on Behalf of Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing, Relating to Draft Regulatory Guide DG-5029 Pressure-Sensitive and Tamper-Indicating Seals for Material Control and Accounting Use.
ML0917000262009-06-12012 June 2009
Comment (1) of T. A. Moser, on Behalf of Strategic Teaming & Resource Sharing (Stars) Alliance, on Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1211, Materials and Inspections for Reactor Vessel Closure Studs.
ML0811302952008-04-0909 April 2008
Comment (5) of Tod Moser on Behalf of Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing (Stars) Re NUREG-1855, Guidance on the Treatment of Uncertainties Associated with PRAs in Risk-Informed Decision Making, Draft Report for Comment
ML0636204442006-12-20020 December 2006
Comment (3) of George G. Yates on Model Safety Evaluation and Model License Amendment Request on Technical Specification Improvement Regarding Deletion of E Bar Definition and Revision to Reactor Coolant System Specific Activity Technical S
ML0635600242006-12-12012 December 2006
Comment (16) of D. Hooper on Behalf of Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing on Implementing of Reactor Oversight Process, Stars Have Been Working with NEI and RUG IV in Development of Industry Comments
ML0628605752006-09-25025 September 2006
Comment (45) of D. R. Woodlan, Supporting Nrc'S Low Level Radioactive Waste Program
ML0517402062005-06-13013 June 2005
Comment (10) of D. R. Woodlan on Behalf of Strategic Teaming and Resource Sharing on Draft GL-05-0XX; Grid Reliability and the Impact on Plant Risk and the Operability of Offsite Power
ML0416903232004-06-0202 June 2004
Comment (12) of D. R. Woodlan Supporting Comments on the Proposed Generic Communication: Potential Impact of Debris Blockage on Emergency Recirculation During Design Basis Accidents at Pressurized Water Reactors
ML0412503992004-04-16016 April 2004
Comment (17) of D. R. Woodlan Endorsing Comments Made by NEI on Draft NUREG-1778, Knowledge Base for Post-Fire Safe-Shutdown Analysis
ML0402305242004-01-0808 January 2004
Comment (1) of Kay Drey on Newly Issued NRC Regulatory Guide 1.199, Anchoring Components and Structural Supports in Concrete, (November 2003)
ML0301504492003-01-10010 January 2003
Comment by Rick Rice Regarding Draft Regulatory Guide DG-1108, Combining Modal Responses & Spatial Components in Seismic Response Analysis
ML0231101032002-10-25025 October 2002
Comment from D. R. Woodlan on DG-1099, Anchoring Components and Structural Supports in Concrete.
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March 20, 2014 The comments below were read by a friend at the public hearing in Fulton, MO yesterday afternoon. I'm mailing them for the record.
Comments on Draft Supplement 51 to the GElS for License Renewal of Nuclear Plants for Callaway, Unit 1 My name is Arlene Sandler. I live at 6947 Columbia. Ave. in University City, MO and I'm unable to attend this hearing today. Although I am a complete cynic about the value of citizen testimony in a process that has historically been a rubber stamp by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission with its industry-friendly regulations, I felt I had to make a few comments about a technology that I have opposed for decades.
During my involvement with the Missouri Coalition for the Environment's efforts to compel Union Electric to provide increased monitoring of radioactive sludge from the Callaway plant back in the 1980's, I spent a lot of time reading "Incident Reports," which were required published announcements of unexpected events at nuclear power plants. As I read through many, many pages of examples of human error and equipment malfunctions at nuclear power plants all over the country, I realized then that nuclear power was a very risky way to generate electricity and I am even more convinced of that today. We have been very lucky so far in the United States, but catastrophic accidents at Chernobyl and Fukushima have forced people from their homes, caused deaths, disease, and birth defects and produced contamination over a wide area. Radioactive water is still leaking into the Pacific Ocean from Fukushima, and one article I read reported that it would take 100 years to clean up the site of the disaster. And there have been quite a few near-misses. Pick up a copy of We AlmostLost Detroit at the library.
Some concerns and questions about extending the Callaway license until 2044:
- 1. The potential risk of contaminating water. Lake Thunderbird, Lake Lochaweeno, and Canyon Lake are within a 6-mile radius of the plant. The longest river in North America, the Missouri is 5 miles away. I'm concerned about contamination not only from an accident, but from routine releases during the daily operation of the plant for an additional 20 years.
- 2. Risks from indefinite storage of high-level radioactive waste storage on site.
There is no permanent repository for spent fuel rods, so all the rods that have ever been removed from the Callaway reactor are in a pool which will be filled to capacity by 2020. Ameren states in its Callaway PlantEnvironmental Facts-2011:"Spent nuclear fuel consists of bundles of fuel rods called 'fuel assemblies' that have been removed from the nuclear reactor when they can no longer sustain a nuclear reaction." But crowded together, over time, in a pool filled to capacity, with barriers prone to corrosion, those assemblies can start a nuclear chain reaction.
. ° Just how dangerous are these rods? "Spent fuel rods give off about 1 million reins (10,000 Sv) of radiation per hour at a distance of I f:oot-enough radiation to kill people in a matter of seconds." (Bob Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies. "Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the U.S.: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage.")
Does a specific plan exist right now for the design and construction for a new spent fuel pool at Callaway?
- 3. It's all about the money. In Appendix F of this GElS draft, p. F-2, Ameren reports that "16 potentially cost-beneficial SAMA(Severe Accident Mitigation Alternatives) will be entered into Callaway's long-range plan development process for further implement consideration." Why isn't the plan for these mitigation alternatives part of the re-licensing requirements right now? Are there accident mitigation alternatives that are more costly and therefore, not being considered at all?
In its Executive Summary in the draft, the NRC "concluded that none of the potentially cost-beneficial SAMA relate to adequately managing the effects of aging during the period of extended operation. Therefore they need not be implemented as part of the license renewal." What does this mean? Which severe accident mitigation alternatives would be able to manage the effects of plant aging?
How many additional sediment retention ponds will be needed as part of the wastewater treatment system if the Callaway license were extended? What kind of monitoring will be done?
- 4. Common sense. If there is no location for the radioactive waste that has been accumulating at nuclear power plants since they began generating electricity, why would any rational person want to continue to create more?
Nuclear power has some unique characteristics that Amory Lovins, Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute describes: "Nuclear power is the only energy source where mishap or malice can kill so many people so far away; the only one whose ingredients can help make and hide nuclear bombs; the only climate solution that substitutes proliferation, accident, and high-level radioactive waste dangers."
I urge the NRC not to rubber stamp this operating license request. Let Callaway's expire in 2024. Thank you for the opportunity to comment.
Arlene San ler
