ML14122A023

Comment (15) of Bill Katakis on License Renewal Application for Davis-Besse Nuclear Power Station, Unit 1; Draft Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement

ML14122A023
Person / Time
Site:	Davis Besse
Issue date:	04/21/2014
From:	Katakis B - No Known Affiliation
To:	Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch
References
79FR13079 00015, NRC-2010-0298
Download: ML14122A023 (2)

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April 21, 2014 Status: PendingPost PUBLIC SUBM ISSION 25 All 10: 59 Tracking No. ljy-8bnz-ksth Comments Due: April 21, 2014 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2010-0298 RF' 7, /ED 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-0038 c.'7/ Comment on FR Doc # 2014-05021 Submitter Information Name: Bill Katakis Address: United States, Email: telomere @ sbcglobal.net General Comment In U.S. history there is no record of a worse run nuclear reactor, nor one with such a flawed design, nor one owned by a company that has declared political war on all sources of cheaper energy. They refuse to build, own, or operate wind farms, which are by far the cheapest new energy source that can be built,, but they love nuclear, which is the most expensive and dangerous form of energy generation that can be built. The more money they spend to build a KW of electricity production , the more money they make on the construction and also on the operation of it. The criminal negligence exhibited at Davis Besse should be paramount in NRC's decision, because it's scaring the heck out of us. The Davis Besse nuclear facility is an antique, with numerous design flaws, with a history of blatant carelessness and intentional negligence,, in the running of a Uranium powered nuclear reactor. The horrible folly that might likely befall a reactor run by people who lie about doing intensely critical maintenance and required inspections, would devastate the midwest and Lake Erie. People would not move back here in the event of a release of the magnitude that Davis Besse has proven itself capable of producing (time and time again) Antique nuclear reactors should not be allowed to run, especially when solar power is cheaper, has no fuel costs, and will never cause a permanent evacuation when the county receive the earthquake that we know will come some day, because it's overdue. The company(s)

Fenoc, FE, etc. etc., are not qualified and by their own long and failed record, will never be morally qualified to run a nuclear reactor. The reactor containment building has been ripped apart time and again, with critically irriportant structural gaps left in the concrete dome. The containment building is full of cracks, which is the only thing we know will happen with concrete, it will definitely crack, especially when it's very old concrete as in the containment building.

The hole in the head of the reactor, was inmmediately followed by the replacement head developing scores of cracks in the coolant nozzles. NRC let the worst run reactors owner install a reactor head which had the same incredible faults as the one Oat produced Boric acid coolant leaks and burnt a hole through several inches of ittps://www.fdms.gov/fdms-web-agency/component/contentstreamer?objectld=090000648I6c025a&for...

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All this to buy time for First Energy so they could delay the inevitable move toward wind power, and solar, and electrical efficiency programs.

Look at the actual cost figures. If NRC renews the license for Davis Besse nuclear power plant it will cost Ohioans billions of dollars to store the nuclear waste for the next quarter million years. Wind power, solar power, and efficiency programs could negate the need for all of the power produced at Davis Besse, but First Energy fights efficiency ferociously, using legal bribe money, lobbying, using ALEC, the legal bribery machine, and even gave a million or more dollars to Bush 2 to delay "new source review" implementation on it's coal plants. F.E. is not a decent energy company, it's areas are mostly monopoly controlled by it, unless you want to buy power from it's shell corporation.

If it's in the financial interest of F.E.'s customers to have Davis Besse stay open with the chance of permanently evacuating large parts of 3 states, then you should renew it's license. NRC can't renew Davis Besse's license on the basis of'economics.

Everyone knows that F.E. will continue to suck the economic life out of their customers if the reactor is re-licensed.

NRC should consider the cost of storing, guarding, and monitoring the nuclear waste generated by another 20 years of Russian Roulette type operation of and at Davis Besse, NRC should turn down the licensing renewal request of First Energy/Davis Besse because it is and always has been unsafe to run, terribly expensive to run, and thanks to the Price Anderson Act, the liability

""insurance"" for the plant melting down is squarely on the backs of taxpayers.

Davis Besse's liabilities are immense, multi faceted and will be ours to pay for generations.

If it melts down, their liability is so low that it has created an even greater "moral hazard". Moral hazard is an insurance term that defines increased risk of loss because the insured suffers no consequences from a loss or even multiple losses. Moral hazard and corporate greed are the problem at F.E./DB and it's shell companies.

NRC can and should limit the damage to us and to the people who live over the next 250,000 years or so by denying the license to renew the Davis Besse nuclear power plant.ittps://www.fdms.gov/fdms-web-agency/component/cointentstreamer?objectld=090O064816c025a&for...

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