ML23317A367
| ML23317A367 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Perry  |
| Issue date: | 11/09/2023 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 88FR67373 | |
| Download: ML23317A367 (4) | |
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From:
Paul Gunter <paul@beyondnuclear.org>
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Thursday, November 9, 2023 11:30 PM To:
PerryEnvironmental
Subject:
[External_Sender] Re: NRC-2023-0136 Perry License Renewal Scoping Comments Attachments:
BeyondNuclear_CORRECTED_scoping_cmt_PERR_NRC-2023-0136.pdf
- Hello, Please disregard the previous email attaching the comments of Paul Gunter, Beyond Nuclear, as it contained an error in NRC-2023-0136 misidentifyinfg V.C. Summer as the subject reactor.
This is the corrected scoping comment for the Perry nuclear power station Unit 1 and Initial License Renewal Application.
Thank you, Paul Gunter Beyond Nuclear On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 7:35PM Paul Gunter <paul@beyondnuclear.org> wrote:
- Hello, I am attaching my comments in the matter of NRC-2023-20136 Perry License Renewal Environmental Scoping Comments, Thank you, Paul Gunter Paul Gunter, Director Reactor Oversight Project Beyond Nuclear 7304 Carroll Avenue #182 Takoma Park, MD 20912 Tel. 301 523-0201 (cell) www.beyondnuclear.org Paul Gunter, Director Reactor Oversight Project Beyond Nuclear 7304 Carroll Avenue #182 Takoma Park, MD 20912 Tel. 301 523-0201 (cell) www.beyondnuclear.org
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6704 Carroll Avenue #182 Takoma Park, MD 20912 Tel. 301-270-2209 www.BeyondNuclear.org info@beyondnuclear.org November 9, 2023 Beyond Nuclear Environmental Scoping Comments In the Matter of Perry Nuclear Power Stations Initial License Renewal Request
[Docket ID NRC-2023-0136]
To whom it may concern:
My name is Paul Gunter and I am the Director of the Reactor Watchdog Project for Beyond Nuclear in Takoma Park, MD. I am submitting the following comments to the NRC electronically using the email address < PerryEnvironmental@nrc.gov >.
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the consideration of all relevant environmental impact information. Therefore, why is the NRC only considering the Perry Unit 1s operational impacts during the initial license extension's impact (40- to 60-years) on climate change and not climate change's environmental impacts on the nuclear power station's safe and reliable operations projected into the 40- to 60- year license renewal period? Failure to consider climate changes adverse impacts on the safe and reliable reactor operations in this major federal action would be a violation of NEPA.
On February 16, 2023, the lead NRC meteorologist for the Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation testified before a newly formed study committee of the National Academies of Science (NAS) that the agency is only considering the NAS modernization for Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation (PMP) and flooding as the result of climate change for new reactors designs not operating license renewals. 1 1 Modernizing Probable Maximum Precipitation Estimation (NAS Committee Meeting #1), National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, February 16, 2023, NAS Archival Video, Testimony of Kevin Quinlan, Meteorologist, US NRC Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation, [Time Mark 02:17:41 to 02:30:20, continue >
I direct your attention to the January 9, 2023, Federal Register Notice [CEQ-2022-0005]
submitted by the Council of Environmental Quality's "NEPA Guidance on Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change," Section 5, Considering the Effects of Climate Change on a Proposed Action. 2 It states, and I note directly applies to the proffered NAS example of projecting modernized standards for PMP for NRC license renewals, Such considerations are squarely within the scope of NEPA and can inform decisions on siting, whether to proceed with and how to design potential actions and reasonable alternatives, and to eliminate or mitigate effects exacerbated by climate change.3 Thank you,
---signed by---
Paul Gunter Director of the Reactor Oversight Project Beyond Nuclear 74304 Carroll Avenue #182 Takoma Park, MD 20912 www.BeyondNuclear.org paul@beyondnuclear.org https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/02-16-2023/modernizing-probable-maximum-precipitation-estimation-committee-meeting-1 2 Federal Register, January 9, 2023, [CEQ-2022-0005] submitted by the Council of Environmental Quality's "NEPA Guidance on Consideration of GHG Emissions and Climate Change," Section 5, Considering the Effects of Climate Change on a Proposed Action, https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/01/09/2023-00158/national-environmental-policy-act-guidance-on-consideration-of-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-climate 3 Ibid, FRN CEQ-2022-0005