ML24201A038
| ML24201A038 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/16/2024 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 89FR53659 | |
| Download: ML24201A038 (2) | |
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From:
Christian Moevs <Christian.Moevs.1@nd.edu>
Sent:
Tuesday, July 16, 2024 11:58 AM To:
PalisadesRestartEnvironmental Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] Holtec Palisades Power Plant 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 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.
With warmest wishes, Christian Moevs President, Forest Dunes Association
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