ML24172A108

Comment (1124) E-mail Regarding Monticello SLR Draft EIS

ML24172A108
Person / Time
Site:	Monticello
Issue date:	06/18/2024
From:	Public Commenter Public Commenter
To:	NRC/NMSS/DREFS
NRC/NMSS/DREFS
References
89FR31225
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From:

Peggy Cope <peggycope@gmail.com>

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Tuesday, June 18, 2024 2:59 PM To:

MonticelloEnvironmental Resource

Subject:

[External_Sender] Against extension I wanted to register my concerns with the operation of Monticello being extended past 60 years.

The design of Monticello is the same as that of the Fukushima reactors that caused the 2011 nuclear catastrophe in Japan. In a world where extreme heat and weather have become the norm, utilizing designs where the risk of loss of electricity risks the safety of the plant, the extension seems irresponsible. Particularly when the NRC staff recommended safety upgrades to Monticello and 19 other GE Mark I reactors for hardened containment vent systems that would also require in-line high efficiency radiation filters as the over-pressurization was vented. The radiation filters were denied on cost benefit. Other safety-related upgrades that were recommend by NRC staff to be made mandatory for continued operations were instead made voluntary by the seated commissioners. Additionally Monticello's aging safety systems, structures and components are also failing. Miles and miles of costly, difficult to inspect buried piping carrying radioactive isotopic water (tritium) are experiencing recurring radioactive leaks into groundwater from broken buried pipes under Minnesotas Monticello nuclear power station.

Radioactive leaks at Monticello were discovered in November 2022 but the public was not notified until March 2023. There has been radioactive water flowing into the Mississippi River which is a source of drinking water for towns and cities downstream, which is an unacceptable risk.

Please act to prevent the extension of the Monticello plant.

Peggy Cope

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