ML14122A020

Comment (12) of Anthony Szilagye on License Renewal Application for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement

ML14122A020
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	04/18/2014
From:	Szilagye A - No Known Affiliation
To:	Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch
References
79FR13079 00012, NRC-2010-0298
Download: ML14122A020 (2)

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Page I of 2 RULE Q 'ES As of: April 24, 2014 Received:

April 18, 2014 PUBLIC SUBMISSION M 5 Al 1: 5Status: PendingPost Tracking No. ljy-8bml-cd6y Comments Due: April 21, 2014 ,Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2010-0298 R t Receipt and Availability of Application for License Renewal Comment On: NRC-2010-0298-0033 License Renewal Application for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement Document:

NRC-2010-0298-DRAFT-0035

/7/2 1<Comment on FR Doc # 2014-05021 1 -" Submitter Information Name: Anthony Szilagye Address: 155 Maple Rossford, Email: 3000aws@gmail.com General Comment Adequate alternatives do exist to replace the capacity of Davis Bessie. The combination of renewable solar and wind with the decreased demand in electricity resulting from savings from energy efficiency are more than sufficient to replace the capacity of Davis Bessie. A good example of what is possible can be learned from recent developments in wind energy In 2012 the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory released a report entitled" Recent Developments in the Levelized Cost of Energy from U. S. Wind Power Projects." This report says that wind technology in 2012 can produce wind at around 6 cents per KWH. The report also demonstrates that Ohio can produce wind at a 30-40 % capacity factor. Ohio could install 1-2 billion dollars of wind each year for the next 20 years and we would still have wind capacity in Ohio. So, alternatives are available and cost effective to compete with the wasteful nuclear monstrosity known as Davis Bessie.A step in this direction occurred in March of 2014 Ohio Power Siting Board approved a 300 MW wind project in Hardin and Logan Counties.

This capacity is nearly 1/3 the capacity of Davis Bessie. The Nuclear Regulatory Conumission needs to seriously consider the evidence of the tremendous potential of both wind and solar energy.The old economic arguments against wind and solar are no longer valid given the decline in costs for both of these renewables.

The arguments against wind and solar have relied on arguments that have been refuted repeatedly.

These tired arguments rely on disproven facts that renewables cannot provide base load power. Jacobs and Archer completed a study in 2007 demonstrating that up to 19 interconnected wind farm sites can provide baseload power. On the first page of Abstract of their article they state" Because it is intermittent, though, wind is not[ttps://www.fdms.gcov/fdms-web-agency/component/contentstreamer?objectld=09000064816bcd3 9&for... 04/24/2014 Page 2 of 2 used to supply baseload electric power today ( 2006). Interconnecting wind farms through the transmission grid is a simple and effective way of reducing deliverable wind power swings caused by intermittency.

As more farms are interconnected in an array, wind speed correlation among sites decreases and so does the probability that all sites experience the same wind regime at the same time. The array consequently behaves more and more similarly to a single farm with steady wind speed and thus steady deliverable wind power....

It was found that an average of 33% and a maximum of 47% of yearly averaged wind power from interconnected farms can be used as reliable, baseload electric power. Equally significant, interconnecting multiple wind farms to a common point and then connecting that point to a far-away city can allow the long-distance portion of transmission capacity to be reduced, for example, by 20% with only a 1.6% loss of energy." There are viable alternatives to nuclear power and the old arguments concerning renewables not being able to supply baseload power are no longer valid.Davis Bessie is not needed to produce reliable power and the license needs to be denied. The above information applies only to wind power but other technologies exist that do address storage problems with solar energy.When the potential of wind power is added to both solar power and energy efficiency there is no need forenergy from Davis Bessie.Economically investment in renewables and energy efficiency would pay big dividends.

First Energy needs to give up its resistance to change and begin to implement the options that will be safer, cleaner, and better for our future.https://www.fdms.g-ov/fdms-web-agency/component/contentstreamer?objectld=090000648 1 6bcd39&for...

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