ML24201A041
| ML24201A041 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/16/2024 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
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| 89FR53659 | |
| Download: ML24201A041 (4) | |
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From:
Sheila BIrdsall <sheilabirdsall@aol.com>
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024 6:28 PM To:
PalisadesRestartEnvironmental Resource
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[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2024-0076 Docket ID NRC-2024-0076 July 16 2025 Re: Palisades Restart Environmental comments by the public Committee for Palisades at large:
Ive followed this issue for absolutely years. I knew personally people who worked there and reported an environment, infrastructure, physical structure and administrative groups they felt were inadequate and not even interested in what was told them about the inadequacies and danger of the power plant. They all left there because the hardware/building/oversight were clearly not maintained nor safe. They didnt want to die. Neither do I.
Now to today. Ive seen no actual comparison but I wonder is 20% of the worlds fresh water loss comparable to the puny lack of foresight for energy needs of one state of USA (even less then 5% of the states energy needs at that)? Can we actually say we have a restoration plan when the fragile nature of the plant reveals itself some 50 yrs in? Does oversight corporation Holtec have a large enough financially secure monetary savings to remediate 20% of the worlds fresh water supply? We know they have been sued and are in court regularly for their shoddy performance, failure to comply and general poor management. The NRC is quite possibly an in pocket captured agency, but we the people see you.
Now the lingo comes to the fore where the NRC says, that disaster will never happen and well be safe and blah blah blah. We know thats not true. We know it from history around the world, from review of NRC inspection forms of this plant and others that show years of it not being true. Always a failure, rarely completely in compliance or meeting expectations. We in WMichigan got the notices for inappropriate tritium and steam, leaking water and other odds and ends that ARE too technical for us to grasp. So what? Failure at this point in this location is the most fearful selfish narcissistic plan I can think of. We have an entire planet about to go insane for fresh water and were going to risk 2-0-% of it to satisfy our little
stateside emergency? That is a dimwitted short sighted plan that is doomed to fail even as we watch the safe cask system sit on the shores of a sandy area knowing humans NEVER can keep anything safe forever.
Please dont try to sell me this ridiculous "corporate paid for" environmental testing safety nonsense.
None of this is safe, now or in the future. You have no safe transportation, storage or transfer methods for used fuel. NONE! That means its not safe.
Even if the great Cheyenne Mountain plan ever came into existence, youd have to transfer/transport it by truck or train. We see those things fail a lot and thats one large failure for the people of the US to eat up because WMich wants nuclear fuel (less than 5% of whats required remember?
Traded for 20% of all the fresh water on the PLANET!)
Ive read Shawn Connors fictional exposure book about the future use of spent fuel rods for new nuke tech. Weve got to be looking at 20-30+ yrs on that. Two or 3 things struck me about that. First was, his outcomes are hook line and sinker based on industry clap trap about safety. There isnt any safety on sandy shores of a fresh water (20% of worlds water) in our present climate change uproar and terrorist agendas. (Just think how many of our major Midwest cities they could wipe out with that plan! Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, all the shoreline around 4 states and Canadas border, thats an international 3pointer. Itd certainly be a juicy choice if you really wanted to create havoc.)
Second and third are that the timeline restore/restart will run this plant out to 80-100yo or more. The upkeep and regulatory watch plus investments to maintain, repair and rebuild would be better spent giving that money to people of WMich to replace all their HVAC with geothermal units (closed loop only) than to HoltecCompany for personal wealth accumulation. The money to geotherm build would go to safe already existing solutions that would create far more jobs for many more people for many many years, reducing the ever-popular pollution emissions equation and be a real boon to the people and surrounding states. And that doesnt risk Lake Michigan ever.
Please stop pretending this is a great idea. Its a money making scheme between the StateofMI and Holtec rolled into a political selling point. Its a disaster for the future dumped in our kids laps, AGAIN. Meanwhile that
money could be infinitely better invested in clean futures succeeding in 10 years to lower fossil emissions, reduce electric use and open industry here in WMich instead of a 20+ yrs rebuild of fragile nuke plants and their frighteningly hideous waste materials.
People in the area are scared to death. Its an ugly death to die by slow or fast exposure to a nuclear problem. People living in sight of the plant are visually distressingly concerned about bodily harm. You never get ok with that. They cant move because that danger is to everyone living on the great lakes and nobody, and I mean NOBODY wants to be living in the shadow of that plant. Property values take a huge hit and fear grows. It shouldnt frighten the wits out of people to have electricity. Stop the lying, absconding with funds and general mayhem of this dog and pony show. Many better answers exist, long term, safer, greater employment with less or at least same expenses with more benefits. We are in an area suitable for geotherm power plants and its time we did get on to a future plan for energy supplies that dont carry the harms you want us to be satisfied paying billions, even trillions for. We neither desire it nor find it acceptable.
Sincerely Sheila Birdsall 40239 40th Ave Paw Paw MI 49079 269.657.3660 Awakening Body Communications InnerSourcing People to Embrace Personal&Planetary Change www.SheilaBirdsall.com
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