ML24201A002
| ML24201A002 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/18/2024 |
| From: | - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| NRC-2024-0076, 89FR53659 00019 | |
| Download: ML24201A002 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 7/19/24, 7:17 AM Received: July 18, 2024 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lyr-p8ou-14jr 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-0019 Comment on FR Doc # 2024-14112 Submitter Information Name: Anonymous Anonymous Email:jangell@earthlink.net General Comment I write because of the substantial and deeply disturbing risks and negative environmental impacts inherent in this proposal. Among them are:
The Palisades zombie reactor restart is unprecedented, extremely high-risk, insanely expensive for taxpayers and ratepayers, and unneeded. NRCs Environmental Assessment is nowhere near enough. A full-blown Environmental Impact Statement is called for regarding this major federal action a very hard look is required. In fact, because the Palisades closed reactor restart precedent is now being applied elsewhere Three Mile Island Unit 1 in Pennsylvania, Duane Arnold in Iowa, etc. a Generic or Programmatic EIS is necessary. Along the same lines, a 30-day public comment period is insufficient.
NRC should extend the public comment period to 180 days. Holtecs rush to restart Palisades is no excuse for a short public comment period in fact, the rush job itself could significantly increase the environmental risks and worsen the impacts.
The No Action Alternative is preferred. The nearly 60-year old (ground was broken in 1967) Palisades atomic reactor should remain closed for good, as it has been since May 20, 2022. Renewables like wind and solar power, efficiency, and storage are much more preferable alternatives. They can readily replace Palisades 800 Megawatts-electric (MWe), and do so much more cost-effectively, cleanly, safety, securely, promptly, and reliably than the zombie reactor restart scheme, and Holtecs inextricably connected SMR-300 (so-called Small Modular Reactors of 300 MWe each) new builds scheme at Palisades, as well as at its sibling closed Lakeside reactor site, Big Rock Point near Charlevoix.
7/19/24, 7:20 AM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/9c89be35-64a1-49d5-a637-302543358757 blob:https://www.fdms.gov/9c89be35-64a1-49d5-a637-302543358757 1/1 SUNSI Review Complete Template=ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Laura Willingham, Mary Richmond, Antoinette Walker-Smit, Marlayna Doell, Mary Neely Comment (19)
Publication Date:6/27/2024 Citation: 89 FR 53659