ML24212A151
| ML24212A151 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Palisades  |
| Issue date: | 07/29/2024 |
| From: | Eldredge-Gabriele P - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Administration |
| References | |
| NRC-2024-0076, 89FR53659 00084 | |
| Download: ML24212A151 (1) | |
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PUBLIC SUBMISSION As of: 7/30/24, 9:04 AM Received: July 29, 2024 Status: Pending_Post Tracking No. lz7-jwa8-qyli Comments Due: July 29, 2024 Submission Type: API 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-0084 Comment on FR Doc # 2024-14112 Submitter Information Name: P. Jill Eldredge Gabriele Address:
Covert, MI, 49043 Email:jegabriele@gmail.com General Comment See attached file with thanks Attachments Holtec and Palisades Covert MI 7/30/24, 9:05 AM blob:https://www.fdms.gov/5e6a715a-97f6-48b6-9d84-c4fa3fb977bc blob:https://www.fdms.gov/5e6a715a-97f6-48b6-9d84-c4fa3fb977bc 1/1 SUNSI Review Complete Template=ADM-013 E-RIDS=ADM-03 ADD: Laura Willingham, Mary Richmond, Antoinette Walker-Smith, Marlayna Doell, Mary Neely Comment (84)
Publication Date:6/27/2024 Citation: 89 FR 53659
July 29, 2024 To: National Regulatory Commission From: P. Jill Eldredge Gabriele Home owner in Palisades Park (adjacent to Palisades Nuclear Plant) 27895 Shorewood Walk, Covert, MI 49043 Re: Environmental Impacts of Restarting the Palisades Power Plant, Covert, MI Our family has come annually to Palisades Park for nearly a century, and owned a home on the shores of Lake Michigan, very near the Palisades Power Plant, since 1945. We watched the power plant from proposal, through its many years of operation, repeated difficulties, and its final years of operations when maintenance was deferred and oversight became less rigorous.
I am writing to strongly request that Holtecs application to restart the currently defunct Palisades Power Plant, be subject to stringent, thorough and exacting environmental studies. At a minimum the EIS standards required for the license renewal of a currently operating nuclear power plant should be met.
Our concerns include:
- The Palisades Power Plant sits on the shores of the largest fresh water system in the world. To jeopardize this in any way would, of course, be unthinkably shortsighted and self-destructive.
- The plant was very old when it was shut down, for multiple significant problems.. It had a history of minor accidents. Normal maintenance had been neglected in its final years.
- Restarting a defunct nuclear power plant, after it has been permanently shut down, has never been done in the U.S. This does not seem the time or place to start such an experiment.
- Holtec have no experience in restarting a shut down plant nor running a nuclear power plant.
Sadly, they do have a history of safety violations Please require the most thorough of Environmental Impact Studies at the very least.
Thank you for your consideration of this important matter. We trust in your experience and thorough evaluation and look forward to learning of your recommendations and requirements for the Palisades Power Plant.
Respectfully, P. Jill Eldredge Gabriele 27895 Shorewood Walk, Palisades Park, Covert, MI, 49043