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Comment from Daniel Lucas on the Indian Point Consideration of Approval of Transfer of Control of Licenses and Conforming Amendments (NRC-2020-0021)
ML20055G117
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Site: Indian Point  Entergy icon.png
Issue date: 02/23/2020
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85FR03947, NRC-2020-0021
Download: ML20055G117 (1)


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From: Daniel Lucas To: Docket, Hearing

Subject:

[External_Sender] Docket ID NRC-2020-0021 - opposing Indian Point license transfer to Holtec Date: Sunday, February 23, 2020 2:04:03 PM To the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Rule-makings and Adjudications Staff:

I would like to express my opposition to the Indian Point License transfer to Holtec.

Holtec and its subsidiaries are not qualified to hold the licenses of the Indian Point Energy Center.

Holtec lacks the experience needed to decommission Indian Point safely. Its entire nuclear fleet was acquired less than a year ago. It has never decommissioned a nuclear plant before; its first decommissioning job is Oyster Creek, which it acquired in July 2019. It is in effect learning on the job. The bulk of its experience is in spent fuel handling, where its performance has been poor.

Holtec and its subsidiaries are privately held and their finances are opaque. Their business model is based on maximally leveraging the decommissioning trust fund and taxpayer moneys for their profit. But they havent demonstrated sufficient capitalization to complete decommissioning, especially if decommissioning costs exceed their unreliably low estimates.

As New York Attorney General Letitia James said when she filed a petition to challenge license transfer to Holtec, Putting the decommissioning of Indian Point in the hands of a company with no experience and uncertain financial resources is very risky. Many elected officials in New York support the AGs filing and share her objections to Holtec.

Holtec has demonstrated dangerous incompetence in its spent fuel handling at San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station. It put costs ahead of safety when it hired unqualified, low-skilled workers at Oyster Creek and has repeatedly exhibited a pattern of disregard for public concern or input.

Holtec is neither an honest broker nor a trustworthy partner in securing the safety and future of the region around Indian Point. 20 million people live and work within a 50-mile radius of the plant.

Decommissioning it is a complex undertaking and an awesome responsibility on which the safety and future viability of our region depends. Those of us who live and work here will not passively accept an unqualified, unscrupulous company such as Holtec being put in charge of Indian Point.

Its vital that Indian Points licensee be competent and trustworthy, free of the kind of serial malfeasance Holtec has committed, with a solid track record demonstrating it is well equipped to decommission Indian Point safely and responsibly. The Commission therefore has an obligation, statutory and otherwise, to clear the way for such a qualified candidate and reject Holtec as the licensee entrusted to decommission Indian Point.

Sincerely, Daniel Lucas Mooresville, NC, 28117