ML070660285

Comment (12) of Paul E. Mccormack Opposed to Permanent Storage of Nuclear Waste at Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant

ML070660285
Person / Time
Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	02/28/2007
From:	Mccormack P - No Known Affiliation
To:	Rulemaking, Directives, and Editing Branch
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71FR75280 00012
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Page 1 ot 1 Doris Mendiola -Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station From: "McCormack, Paul E." <Paul.E.McCormack@ibtco.com> " ' Yc-)To: <PilgrimEIS@nrc.gov>

Date: 02/28/2007 3:06 PM

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Pilgrim Nuclear Power Station My concern has to do with the spent fuel which is stored onsite.Although the Commission found that the site can safely accommodate the on site storage of the additional volume of spent fuel, it seems to have operated under the assumption that there will be a permanent repository developed in some remote part of the United States. Given that such a storage site needs to be in some remote, stable part of the United States, I do not understand how the Commission can think that the permanent storage of spent fuel in Plymouth, which is not as remote and is not as geographically as sites such as Yucca Mountain, Nevada.When the Plymouth Nuclear Plant was first approved, the working assumption was that only temporary storage of spent fuel would be required on site. Given that during the past 30+ years, no fuel has been shipped off-site, a prudent person would have to look at the storage as permanent.

As such, the Plymouth on site storage should be looked at as if permanent and the requirements should be as strict as those used in choosing a "permanent repository".

I do not think that the Plymouth site would qualify.At the least, the NRC should insist that the operator treat the spent fuel storage as permanent and provide the safest type of storage possible.

At this time, I do not believe that pool storage is the "safest" means for a permanent storage.Regards, Paul McCormack Paul E. McCormack P.O. Box 2604 Duxbury, MA 02331-2604 (781) 934-9803 ,-n---15 r-), C__I rn CJD file://C:\temp\GW

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