ML20055G122

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Comment from Liam Henrie on the Indian Point Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Control of Licenses and Conforming Amendments (NRC-2020-0021)
ML20055G122
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Site: Indian Point  Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 02/23/2020
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- No Known Affiliation
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SECY/RAS
References
85FR03947, NRC-2020-0021
Download: ML20055G122 (1)


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From:

Liam Henrie To:

Docket, Hearing

Subject:

[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2020-0021 - opposing Indian Point license transfer to Holtec Date:

Sunday, February 23, 2020 9:12:54 AM To the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff:

Holtec and its subsidiaries are not qualified to hold the licenses of the Indian Point Energy Center. Given its record, area residents have no confidence in Holtec and do not accept it as the licensee. The Commission must not approve the license transfer, for the same reasons.

Holtec has multiple problems, any one of which ought to disqualify it from decommissioning Indian Point. Taken together, they add up to a clear imperative to reject Holtec as the licensee.

Holtec lacks the experience needed to decommission Indian Point safely. Its entire nuclear fleet was acquired less than a year ago. It has never decommissioned a nuclear plant before; its first decommissioning job is Oyster Creek, which it acquired in July 2019. It is in effect learning on the job. The bulk of its experience is in spent fuel handling, where its performance has been poor.

Holtec and its subsidiaries are privately held and their finances are opaque. Their business model is based on maximally leveraging the decommissioning trust fund and taxpayer moneys for their profit. But they havent demonstrated sufficient capitalization to complete decommissioning, especially if decommissioning costs exceed their unreliably low estimates.

Liam Henrie Rochester, NY