ML20055G125
| ML20055G125 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Indian Point  |
| Issue date: | 02/21/2020 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | |
| SECY/RAS | |
| References | |
| 85FR03947, NRC-2020-0021 | |
| Download: ML20055G125 (1) | |
Text
From:
Mai and David To:
Docket, Hearing
Subject:
[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2020-0021 - opposing Indian Point license transfer to Holtec Date:
Friday, February 21, 2020 10:29:50 PM To theU.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rulemakings and Adjudications Staff:
Please do not approve Holtec and its subsidiaries to hold the licenses of the Indian Point Energy Center.
As a lifelong area resident, I have no confidence in Holtec for a variety of reasons. Among these reasons are:
Holtec lacks the experience needed to decommission Indian Point safely.
It has never decommissioned a nuclear plant before.
The bulk of its experience is in spent fuel handling, where its performance has been poor.
Holtec has significantly underestimated the cost to decommission Indian Point.
Holtec has acknowledged in the PSDAR that there was radioactive contamination of groundwater at the site, which is also leaking into the Hudson River, but said it planned to do nothing to remediate it, and will only monitor it.
The PSDAR also stated Holtec is considering shipping large radioactive components by barge down the Hudson, which raises a host of additional unacceptable risks.
Holtec has already demonstrated dangerous incompetence in its spent fuel handling at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
I implore the Commission to not approve the license transfer. 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.
Thank you for reading.
Mai Jacobs Beacon, New York 12508