ML24318C542
| ML24318C542 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Diablo Canyon  |
| Issue date: | 11/13/2024 |
| From: | Public Commenter Public Commenter |
| To: | NRC/NMSS/DREFS |
| NRC/NMSS/DREFS | |
| References | |
| 89FR87433 | |
| Download: ML24318C542 (2) | |
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From:
Michael Pelizzari <nextgalaxy@aol.com>
Sent:
Wednesday, November 13, 2024 3:04 PM To:
DiabloCanyonEnvironmental.Resource
Subject:
[External_Sender] Environmental impact of continuing operation of Diablo Canyon Power Plant
Dear NRC,
I am a physicist who retired in 2016 in order to spend more time studying energy and the environment. Four years earlier, when the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station shut down, forcing California to rely more heavily on burning methane to power the economy, I realized that California was retreating from its goal of ending reliance on fossil fuels. Closing Diablo Canyon Power Plant (DCPP) and relying only on renewable sources would be equivalent to retreating further, guaranteeing perpetual reliance on fossil fuels as the only dispatchable power source when the sun and wind don't behave.
California's demand for electricity is going nowhere but up, up, up, as the state tries to decarbonize its residential heating, cooling, and transportation sectors. Accomplishing these goals without nuclear power would require harvesting wind and solar energy over vast areas of land and ocean (hundreds of times the area occupied by nuclear power plants of the same average output), and extracting huge masses of materials from the Earth (an order of magnitude more than for nuclear energy). The ensuing impacts on the environment and biodiversity would be far worse than the minimal impacts of nuclear power. Adding batteries to back up wind and solar would add to the damage that a renewables-only energy policy inflicts on the environment.
California can only end its reliance on fossil fuels by ending its moratorium on building new nuclear plants. But over the short term, it can more economically decarbonize its electricity production by 2045 (SB-100 target date) if it keeps operating DCPP.
Sincerely, Michael Pelizzari 264 Callan St.
Milpitas, CA 95035
Federal Register Notice:
89FR87433 Comment Number:
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