ML15096A435

Comment (25) by Anonymous Individual on NRC-2015-0004 Re Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report

ML15096A435
Person / Time
Site:	Vermont Yankee
Issue date:	03/23/2015
From:	- No Known Affiliation
To:	Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch
References
80FR1975 00025, NRC-2015-0004
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March 23, 2015 PUBLIC SUBMISSIOiN

?02 Status: PendingPost Tracking No. ljz-8hvu-n095 Comments Due: March 23, 2015 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2015-0004 R F'- /-D Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report Comment On: NRC-2015-0004-0001 Entergy Nuclear Operations, Inc., Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Station Post-Shutdown Decommissioning Activities Report Document:

NRC-2015-0004-DRAFT-0026

/Comment on FR Doc # 2015-00450

-Submitter Information Name: Anonymous Anonymous Submitter's Representative:

Marcia Gagliardi Organization:

Shut It Down Affinity Group General Comment To the NRC: From the NRC website: Congress charged the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) with protecting people and the environment from unnecessary exposure to radiation as a result of civilian uses of nuclear materials.

To protect the people and environment of southern Vermont, western Massachusetts, and the Connecticut River Valley, require Entergy to begin the dismantling and decontamination process of removing the Strontium-90 contaminated soil at VYNPS.At the NRC public meeting on February 19th, Arnie Gundersen clearly stated that the consequences of delaying the removal of contaminated soil are continued migration of the Strontium-90 into the soil and groundwater, harming more of our environment and our health.In the past, the NRC has been lenient with Entergy, which concealed various problems and was ignorant of others. The NRC should live up to its mandate and it should reexamine its standards.

It routinely allows exemptions from regulations that would protect the environment in order to help reduce costs for the nuclear industry.

At VYNPS the NRC allowed exemptions from using the cooling towers because of the extra costs to Entergyat the expense of wildlife in the Connecticut River. And given that the Federal Government has heavily subsidized the nuclear industry, assumed responsibility for long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel, and is the major insurer if any nuclear disaster occurs, surely the NRC could provide no-interest loans to Entergy to accomplish the dismantling and decommissioning of VYNPS in a timely manner and not wait fifty years to.o L)cp:/w wfdm /fdms-web-

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1 a59c71I &for... 03/30/2015 Page 2 of 2 begin the process of removing contaminated soil. Protect the environment and the people, not the industry.The NRC should also reassess its thinking about spent-nuclear fuel. The fuel pools are vulnerable, as was clearly demonstrated at Fukushima Daiichi. The NRC has so far allowed the nuclear industry to pack their fuel pools in order to delay the costs of dry cask storage. There are many spent-nuclear fuel pools across this country and all of them are vulnerable to natures fury and to human error and maliciousness.

For the next year of hot fuel wet management at VYNPS, the full EPZ should remain in effect. And, the NRC should implement a policy requiring all nuclear power plants to move their spent-nuclear fuel into dry cask storage expeditiously.

The safety of the casks, both short term and long term, is important for our health and our environment.

Certainly, the bank of the Connecticut River is not a good location for radioactive waste.The old saying, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, is exponentially true regarding nuclear fuel.Prevent a nuclear disaster.

Be cautious.

Be a good steward of the health of our people and our environment, of our earth for future generations.

The Shut It Down Affinity Group from Vermont Julia Bonafine of Shrewsbury Linda Pon Owen of Brattleboro Ulrike von Moltke of Sharon Nina Swaim of Sharon from New Hampshire Nelia Sargent of Charlestown from Massachusetts Anneke Corbett of Florence Frances Crowe of Northampton Dorthee (her full name) of Wendell Nancy First of Northampton Marcia Gagliardi of Athol Ellen Graves of West Springfield Connie Harvard of Northampton Susan Lantz of Northampton Priscilla Lynch of Conway Hattie Nestel of Athol Clare Overlander of Northampton Mary-Ann DeVita Palmieri of New Salem Paki Wieland of Northampton Judy Wolter of Northfield https://www.fdms.gov/fdms-web-agency/component/contentstreamer?objectld=0900006481 a59c71 &for... 03/30/2015