ML18207B051
| ML18207B051 | |
| Person / Time | |
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| Site: | HI-STORE |
| Issue date: | 07/20/2018 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | Division of Fuel Cycle Safety, Safeguards, and Environmental Review |
| NRC/NMSS/DFCSE | |
| References | |
| 83FR13802 | |
| Download: ML18207B051 (2) | |
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1 Holtec-CISFEISCEm Resource From:
Steve Johnston <srj5@earthlink.net>
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[External_Sender] The unthinkable is inevitable If you will consider all the things in your life that couldnt happen, but did, perhaps you can see that tempting fate by running these machines well past their design life may well have the same result - but on a catastrophic, even worldwide, scale. Nuclear electrical generation has proven to be, arguably, the most expensive mistake, beyond war, that the world has ever made.
If the F-5 tornados in northern Alabama has passed just a few miles north of their path, we would have had a local Chernobyl (from the above-ground waste storage) that would have made much of the Tennessee Valley uninhabitable. How cost-effective is that? How much is the Tennessee Valley worth? What's the cost-benefit ratio here? Ask the victims of Hurricane Katrina of their worth.
All mistakes, by definition, are unforeseen, and continuing to run these complex, at times even jury-rigged, machines with tens of thousands of components, is beyond reason. And to avoid renewables in their favor is an invitation to global disaster. If the hundreds of billions of dollars siphoned into the pockets of the nuclear industry had been spent to make our world energy industry carbon-free, we wouldnt be facing the reality of worldwide mass extinctions and flooded cities.
And nuclear energy is neither carbon-free nor safe. Ask the Navajos and the Ukrainians.
I'll take the sun and the wind and the falling rain. And you?
Respectfully, Steve Johnston 1543 N. Plaza de Lirios Tucson, AZ 85745 srj5@earthlink.net
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