ML20086N092

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Comment from Anonymous on the Indian Point Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Control of Licenses and Conforming Amendments (NRC-2020-0021)
ML20086N092
Person / Time
Site: Indian Point  Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 03/25/2020
From:
- No Known Affiliation
To:
SECY/RAS
References
85FR03947, NRC-2020-0021
Download: ML20086N092 (1)


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Page 1 of 1 As of: 3/26/20 2:21 PM Received: March 25, 2020 Status: Pending_Post PUBLIC SUBMISSION Tracking No. 1k4-9frd-ktyg Comments Due: March 25, 2020 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2020-0021 Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3; Transfer of Control of Licenses and Approval of Conforming License Amendments Comment On: NRC-2020-0021-0002 Indian Point Nuclear Generating Unit Nos. 1, 2, and 3; Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Control of Licenses and Conforming Amendments Document: NRC-2020-0021-DRAFT-0315 Comment on FR Doc # 2020-03258 Submitter Information Name: Anonymous Anonymous Address:

PO Box 430 Hughsonville, NY, 12537 Email: acthoma@yahoo.com General Comment 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 haven't demonstrated sufficient capitalization to complete decommissioning, especially if decommissioning costs exceed their unreliably low estimates.

https://www.fdms.gov/fdms/getcontent?objectId=090000648446a10c&format=xml&showorig=false 03/26/2020