ML18162A070

Comment (12) of Ian Zink on Florida Power & Light Company; Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Units 3 and 4

ML18162A070
Person / Time
Site:	Turkey Point
Issue date:	06/06/2018
From:	Zink I - No Known Affiliation
To:	Rules, Announcements, and Directives Branch
References
83FR23726 00012, NRC-2018-0101
Download: ML18162A070 (1)

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PUBLIC SUBMISSION Docket: NRC-2018-0101 Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Units 3 and 4 Comment On: NRC-2018-0101-0001 As of: 6/8/18 9:00 AM Received:

June 06, 2018 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lk2-93kd-7cn3 Comments Due: June 21, 2018 Submission Type: Web Florida Power & Light Company; Turkey Point Nuclear Plant Units 3 and 4 Document:

NRC-2018-0101-DRAFT-0012 Comment on FR Doc # 2018-10806 Submitter Information Name: Ian Zink General Comment

DearNRC,

FPL is asking you to renew Turkey Point's operations.

I implore you to strongly consider the impacts of this renewal in regards to feasibility, ecological impacts, and societal impacts. As a local consumer of electricity, there is certainly an acknowledged need for energy production from somewhere to service metropolitan Miami-Dade.

However, continued operation of the Turkey Point plant jeopardizes south Florida water resources:

the cooling canal system efficacy has faltered on numerous recent occasions which as required large withdraws of surrounding surface waters and thus removes this water from ecological use ( ... counter productive to maintaining ecological resources at the neighboring Biscayne National Park and intents of Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan implementation).

This cooling canal system is also 'leaking' subterranean hypersaline waters, which is negatively impacting terrestrial and marine ecosystems as we all as affecting south Dade and Monroe County drinking water supplies.

Furthermore, there are grave concerns regarding FPL's use of outdated sea level rise projections.

In a post-Katrina/post-Fukushima world, we recognize that we can not afford to maintain critical infrastructure such as Turkey Point in such a vulnerable location.

Hurricane risks are and more updated sea level projects from other federal agencies such as NOAA and USA CE suggest a higher level of vulnerability for Turkey Point than FPL seems willing to admit. In fact, the disparity between the FPL commissioned study and other sea level rise modeling is absurd. As a concerned citizen, I implore the NRC to consider the societal, economic, and ecological impacts associated with continued operation of the FPL Turkey Point nuclear reactors.

While an immediate change would likely be unfeasible, serious consideration and planning to change the location and design (at a presumably a new location) of this critical south Florida infrastructure.

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ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD= Yvonne Edmonds, Eric Oesterie, LaShawnna Lewis, Benjamin Beasley COMMENT (12) PUBLICATION DATE: 5/22/2018 CITATION#

83 FR 23726