ML23129A153
| ML23129A153 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Comanche Peak  |
| Issue date: | 01/30/2023 |
| From: | Cox J - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| NRC-2022-0183, 87FR76219 02567 | |
| Download: ML23129A153 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: April 05, 2023 Received: January 30, 2023 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. ldj-fh80-xcz2 Comments Due: January 30, 2023 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2022-0183 Vistra Operations Company LLC Comanche Peak Power Company LLC Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 Comment On: NRC-2022-0183-0003 Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare Environmental Impact Statement; Vistra Operations Company LLC; Comanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1 and 2 Document: NRC-2022-0183-DRAFT-2567 Comment on FR Doc # 2022-27025 Submitter Information Name: Jeralynn Jackee Cox Address:
Fort Worth, TX, 76132 Email:jackeecox@yahoo.com Phone:936-676-6881 General Comment My name is Jeralynn Jackee Cox. I live within 50 miles of the Commanche Peak Nuclear Plant. The risks of an accident there have increased greatly dince the plant was built. The destabilized soil conditions around the plant were brought on by historic drought. The suface instabilitlies may have been exacerbated by the prolific fracked gas drilling in the area, where there are also huge saltwater disposal facilities. There is evidence that the earthquakes near Lake Cleburne werecaused slippage of the nearby fault lines which lie between Lake Cleburn and the Brazon River bed. See attached comments.
Attachments NRC-2022-0183-0003 J Cox request for hearing and comments SUNSI Review Complete Template=ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Tam Tran, Antoinette Walker-Smith, Ted Smith, Mary Neely Comment (2567)
Publication Date: 12/13/2022 Citation: 87 FR 76219
January 30, 2022 RE: NRC-2022-0183-0003 - Vistra Operations Co. LLC Commanche Peak Nuclear Power Plant, Units 1-2; License Renewal Application - request for a public hearing To Whom It May Concern:
My name is Jeralynn Jackee Cox and this is my request for a public hearing on whether the NRC should extend the operational license of the Commanche Peak nuclear plant for another 20 years. I live 47 highway miles from the Commanche Peak plant. I am also downwind of the plant. The prevailing winds over the plant blow from southeast to northwest, and whatever toxins might be emitted from a nuclear accident at the plant would be blown directly toward my home.
Since the plant began construction in the 1970s the population in the area known as DFW has mushroomed. The territory between my house and the plant in the 1970s was mostly pastures, punctuated with small communities. Now, those small communities, including Benbrook, Grandbury, Crowley,Weatherford, and Cleburne, are now part of the DFW megalopolis.
With more and more pavement everywhere, and in the face of repeated droughts and heat waves, the earth is drying and cracking. The earthen damn that contains the cooling water from the Commanche Peak plant, is eroding and blowing away in the heat and the wind. I request that you read and consider carefully the reports on how low the levels of the Brazos River and Lake Grandbury have been in recent years. The data is readily available from on-line reports produced by the Brazos River Authority. Friends who live in Grandbury on the lake report that it was almost a mud puddle in recent years, to shallow for boating. I ask that you review carefully the threats the DFW that are posed by continued operations of the Commanche Creek Plant, because the shortage of water grows more acute with climate change and the burgeoning of our population Gas drilling and fracking in the Barnett Shale just east and a little north of Commanche Peak also poses new environmental hazards which you should consider as part of your environmental impact evaluation.
The pasture land between Lake Cleburne, the Brazos River, and the suburb called Pecan Valley covers many directionally drilled gas wells in the Barnett shale, where fracking near ancient fault lines and large saltwater disposal wells destabilized the earth along the fault lines and caused earthquakes near Lake Cleburne in recent years.. Detailed data on the drilling, the saltwater disposal wells, and the earthquakes is maintained by the University of Texas Bureau of Economic Research. That institutions annual report for 2022 will provide you with a maps and detailed information about the location of the wells, the disposal sites, and the fault lines.
The drought brings not only erosion, but also some shifting and settling of foundations. The earth cracks as it dries. Texas A&M has done studies of the impact of drought on underground water supplies, and the subsoil, and the riverbeds. Please add those considerations into you exploration of the potential threat of a keeping the old plant, with its weathered pipes operational for another 20 years. It is the NRCs job to keep the population safe. We rely on you to do that for us, in these trying times of rapid climate change. Please help up.
Sincerely, Jeralynn Jackee Cox, Member of the Greater Fort Worth Sierra Club. My address is 6212 REddenson Drive, Fort Worth, Texas 76132, phone 936-676-6881, cell phone 936-676-6881