ML24198A184
| ML24198A184 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/16/2024 |
| From: | Moevs C Forest Dunes Association |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| NRC-2024-0076, 89FR53659 00017 | |
| Download: ML24198A184 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 7/16/24, 1:56 PM Received: July 16, 2024 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lyo-l7s9-sn5a 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-0017 Comment on FR Doc # 2024-14112 Submitter Information Email:cmoevs@nd.edu Government Agency Type:Local Government Agency:Forest Dunes Association General Comment Gentle NRC, I am the President of the Forest Dunes Association, representing Fire Lanes 1-8 in Covert, just south of the Palisades Power Plant.
On the potential re-start of the Palisades Power Plant, three observations:
- 1) There are now immense financial / political pressures pushing toward re-starting the plant. Please be constantly aware that many of the worst catastrophes occur when such pressures over-ride intuition, integrity, and the strict application of established norms and regulations. (A recent case is the Boeing Max airplane.) This concern is heightened in the current case, given that strictly speaking there are no established regulations for re-starting a fully de-activated plant, since it has never happened. Palisades is one of the oldest reactors in the country, and already had a number of exemptions when it closed.
- 2) Please examine whether the Palisades Plant is responsible for the severe beach erosion that started south of it exactly when it was put in, in the early 1970s. That has made Palisades Park, Linden Hills, and Fire Lanes 1-8 a High Risk Erosion Area. There are letters in the Forest Dunes files from the 1970s, when the erosion started, making the connection to the plant.
- 3) Please do not forget Holtec's fundamental business model, which subsists on public grants. It is a decommissioning company, which makes money by spending less on decommissioning a plant than the government allocates for it. It is now interested in re-starting a plant, because the government has made available two billion dollars to do so.
7/16/24, 1:57 PM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/83d4c868-17fd-4d4e-b149-7d05646c3127 blob:https://www.fdms.gov/83d4c868-17fd-4d4e-b149-7d05646c3127 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 (17)
Publication Date:6/27/2024 Citation: 89 FR 53659
With warmest wishes, Christian Moevs President, Forest Dunes Association 7/16/24, 1:57 PM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/83d4c868-17fd-4d4e-b149-7d05646c3127 blob:https://www.fdms.gov/83d4c868-17fd-4d4e-b149-7d05646c3127 2/2