ML21050A122

Comment (18) of Kristina Mageau on Notice of Intent to Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare Environmental Impact Statement Nexteraenergy Point Beach, LLC; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2

ML21050A122
Person / Time
Site:	Point Beach
Issue date:	02/18/2021
From:	Mageau K - No Known Affiliation
To:	Office of Administration
References
86FR7747 00012, NRC-2020-0277
Download: ML21050A122 (2)

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2/19/2021 blob:https://www.fdms.gov/899778c3-c662-40f6-8aea-9f2d007fd44b blob:https://www.fdms.gov/899778c3-c662-40f6-8aea-9f2d007fd44b 1/2 PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 2/19/21 8:39 AM Received: February 18, 2021 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. 1k5-9lv9-35fj Comments Due: March 03, 2021 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2020-0277 Notice of Intent to Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare Environmental Impact Statement NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC; Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Unit Nos. 1 and 2 Comment On: NRC-2020-0277-0001 Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare Environmental Impact Statement; NextEra Energy Point Beach, LLC, Point Beach Nuclear Plant, Units 1 and 2 Document: NRC-2020-0277-DRAFT-0022 Comment on FR Doc # 2021-02001 Submitter Information Name: Kristina Mageau General Comment Point Beach Unit 2 has the worst-embrittled reactor pressure vessel of any pressurized water reactor in the country. Decades of additional neutron radiation bombardment will only increase the risk of a pressurized thermal shock, through-wall fracture, core meltdown, and catastrophic release of hazardous radioactivity.

To give an idea of how catastrophic, in terms of casualties and property damage, consider the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC) own CRAC-II report. CRAC is short for Calculation of Reactor Accident Consequences. It is also known as "Technical Guidance for Siting Criteria Development," the 1982 Sandia (National Laboratory) Siting Study, NUREG/CR-2239, and/or SAND81-1549.

In the event of a core meltdown at Point Beach 2, CRAC-II predicted: 500 peak early fatalities (acute radiation poisoning deaths); 9,000 peak early (radiation) injuries; and 7,000 cancer deaths (latent cancer fatalities).

In terms of property damages, CRAC-II predicted $43.8 billion, expressed as Year 1982 dollar figures.

When adjusted for inflation alone, this figure would now be $119 billion, in Year 2020 dollar figures.

And as Associated Press investigative journalist Jeff Donn reported in June 2011, in the aftermath of the beginning of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe in Japan, in his four-part series "Aging Nukes,"

populations have soared around U.S. nuclear power plants like Point Beach, so casualty figures would now be even worse than CRAC-II predicted nearly 40 years ago.

Donn also cited neutron radiation embrittled reactor pressure vessel pressurized thermal shock risk as the top example of NRC regulatory retreat in the past number of decades.

And as Fukushima has also shown, reactor meltdowns can proceed domino effect at multi-reactor sites. A SUNI Review Complete Template=ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Phyllis Clark, Bill Rogers, Mary Neely Comment (18)

Publication Date:2/1/2021 Citation: 86 FR 7747

2/19/2021 blob:https://www.fdms.gov/899778c3-c662-40f6-8aea-9f2d007fd44b blob:https://www.fdms.gov/899778c3-c662-40f6-8aea-9f2d007fd44b 2/2 meltdown at Unit 2 could lead to a meltdown at Unit 1, or vice versa, in which case those casualty and property damage figures above would have to be doubled.