ML20114D203
| ML20114D203 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 08/22/1992 |
| From: | Henkel M AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED |
| To: | NRC OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY (SECY) |
| References | |
| FRN-57FR28645, RULE-PR-72 57FR28645-00021, 57FR28645-21, NUDOCS 9209080026 | |
| Download: ML20114D203 (2) | |
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COLKEILD USNRC 1191 Bridge Road Allegan, MI 49010 August 22, 1991 GFOCE Jf SECRETARY DOCK [ltNG A $lRVM BRANCH Secretary of the Commission Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, D.C. 20555 Attn Docketing and Service Branch Dear Slra I am writing to express my complete disapproval of the proposed plan to use a " dry cask" to store spent nuclear fuel at the Palisades Nuclear Plant in Michigan.
The construction of such casks near tho shore of one of the Great Lakes would be a terrible mistake.
As a citizen of Michigan and a cottage owner of property Just south of the Palisades plant, I cannot believe that the plan to construct these casks has never had a public hearing.
To proceed without such a hearing, without an environmental impact survey, and without a cost / benefit analysis, is totally unfair to those of us who will be most immediately affected in the case of any mishap.
Even more appalling is the possibility that the whole Great Lakes system could be threatened, if not in my lifetime or my grandchildren's, quite possibly in their grandchildren's.
Who can believe that we are capable of constructing steel and concrete casks so perfectly that they will withstand all the storms, winter and summer, for centurles to come?
I understand that, for the time being','there'*are;no permanent solutions to the storage of spe'ntifuelsrods- ahd'"
that is what worries me.
These casks, whichlhave ne.ver,been tested in the Intended size nor under Michigan climatic conditions, could easily be more than temporary: they could letd to a regional or permanent dump. Quite Vossibly they wl:1 take the edge off the urgency to findca gafe.and permanent solution for this terrible problem.*The-prospects are truly frightening.
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.,__s Please stop the construction of these.casRs.;.etileast until the citizens of Michigan have been allowed to volce.thelY""'j concerns abouc this plan.
And please lend yoUd'a'Qthoritycto
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the search for a safe, ecologically sound, long range -
solution for the storats of spent fuel.
Without such a_._,
solution, how can we, in good conscience, continue to k
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s Produce more and more of this waste which nobody knows what to do with and which is so horribly, lethally dangerous?
Give us some leadership!
Sincerely Marilyn B. Henkel l
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