ML24198A180
| ML24198A180 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/12/2024 |
| From: | Muhich M - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| 89FR53659 00014, NRC-2024-0076 | |
| Download: ML24198A180 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 7/16/24, 1:38 PM Received: July 12, 2024 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lyj-6efx-pla1 Comments Due: July 29, 2024 Submission Type: Web Docket: NRC-2024-0076 Notice of Intent to Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare an Environmental Assessment Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC and Holtec Palisades, LLC; Palisades Nuclear Plant, Unit 1 Comment On: NRC-2024-0076-0001 Holtec Decommissioning International, LLC, and Holtec Palisades, LLC; Palisades Nuclear Plant; Notice of Intent To Conduct Scoping Process and Prepare an Environmental Assessment Document: NRC-2024-0076-DRAFT-0014 Comment on FR Doc # 2024-14112 Submitter Information Name: Mark Muhich Address:
PULASKI, NY, 13142 Email:markmuhich0@gmail.com Phone:8326135127 General Comment The Nuclear Regulatory Commission should REJECT HOLTEC International's permit application to "restart" the decomissioned Pallisades Nuclear Plant in Covert MI.
NRC has not established scientifically based guidelines for "restarting" any decommissioned nuclear plant. Certainly the safety criterion for "restarting" a decomissioned nuclear plant must be even more stringent that those criteria governing the commissioning of a new nuclear plant.
NRC must regard HOLTEC's permit application as an entirely new and novel application to operate a nuclear power plant, and not a renewal or extension of ENTERGY's withdrawn operation permit for Palisades NP.
It should be noted the the previous operator of Palisades NP, ENTERGY, failed to maintain the plant according to accepted industry standards. It should be further noted that the original owner/building of Palisades NP, Consumers Power, sold the plant to ENERGY with the view of avoiding more than a billion dollars of repairs and upkeep; such repairs were never accomplished by ENERGY.
In example, Palisades NP's pressure vessel is the oldest in the United States, and is long past its operational life. Even so, neither the NRC nor ENTERGY are willing or able to ascertain the brittleness of the pressure vessel due to neutron bombardment.
A new and robust analysis of the environmental destruction caused by a serious malfunction at Palisades must be undertaken. It should be remembered that vast swaths around the defunct Chernobyl plant in Ukraine will be uninhabitable and unfarmable FOREVER.
HOLTEC has been found guilty of feloneous bribery in its dealings with the Tennessee Valley Authority, and is under investigation for deceptive business practices in New Jersey and Ohio. Our suspicions have 7/16/24, 1:38 PM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/d9a1ba37-3ec9-404c-aaf6-067cfef3f05a blob:https://www.fdms.gov/d9a1ba37-3ec9-404c-aaf6-067cfef3f05a 1/2 SUNSI Review Complete Template=ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Laura Willingham, Mary Richmond, Antoinette Walker-Smit, Jessica Hammock, Marlayna Doell, Mary Neely Comment (14)
Publication Date:6/27/2024 Citation: 89 FR 53659
been proved true: HOLTEC had not intention of decommissioning Palisades NP, but has been drawing down its decommissioning fund for years, with nothing to show for it. HOLTEC's business model, though devious, seems profitable, as it is no applying for $1.5 billion loans to repermit and "restart" Palisades NP, with no experience whatsoever in this highly technical industry.
Any presumed benefit from generating electricity from nuclear power is exagerated and overpriced. Solar panels could be installed for more quickly and much more safely than gerryrigging the old Palisades NP back into operation.
I urge NRC to require of the applicant, HOLTEC, the most rigorous assessment of the safety and functionality of Palisades NP, as if it were an entirely new applicant. And then the REJECT HOLTEC's application ot opperatre Palisades NP 7/16/24, 1:38 PM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/d9a1ba37-3ec9-404c-aaf6-067cfef3f05a blob:https://www.fdms.gov/d9a1ba37-3ec9-404c-aaf6-067cfef3f05a 2/2