ML15187A117
| ML15187A117 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Susquehanna, Bell Bend  |
| Issue date: | 06/04/2015 |
| From: | Walker J L - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Division of Administrative Services |
| SECY RAS | |
| References | |
| 80FR22231 00007 | |
| Download: ML15187A117 (1) | |
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USNRC -Public meeting- June 4, 2915Questions about Talen Energy , PPL, Riverstone Hbldings, and Moxie-Last year when a newspaper article reported that Talen would be taking over the operation of the Susquehanna NuclearPlant, it was noted that Talen was not yet a company. Either in that article or an additional article, it was also reportedthat Talen would be in charge in mid-year 2015.A recent article reported that PPL was going to get out of the power generating business. It said that it was going to spinoff their 12 generators, including the nuclear plant to Talen Energy which it was forming with the private equity firmRiverstone Holdings. The 15 electricity-generating sites Riverstone already owns would also join the new firm. Mostnotably the article closed by stating the Susquehanna site would be the company's only nuclear plant.My understanding from reading several articles is that PPL was forming (mid-2-14) a new company with the privateequity firm Riverstone Holdings. .The new entity would include 12 generators from PPL-Talen, 15 generating sites fromRiverstone and neither Talen or Riverstone had a nuclear plant, except for the Susquehanna generating site. All thiswould be accomplished between mid 2014 and mid-2015.My questions are these: How safe should I feel with a new company, with no experience, operating 27 generating plants,one of which is a nuclear plant near my home?How can all of this combining of resources with no mention of skill levels in operating a nuclear plant occur in such ashort time frame?How does this new company plan to deal with the spent nuclear rods currently on site and with newly created nuclearwaste with no place identified for long term st~orage?How can the NRC announce that only people within a 10-mile area of the plant be allowed to speak at this hearing whenthe NRC advised the Japanese that in a nuclear accident they should be 50 miles away to be safe?How can anyone replicate the situation that PPL has carried out for the past thirty years -begin and continue to createnuclear power without any idea what they were going to do with the waste?Why is the NRC planning to have both a third nuclear plant at the Susquehanna location and a MOXIE installationlocated in close proximately?Will both the Moxie and the Susquehanna plant be withdrawing water from the Susquehanna River?If the NRC was being truthful about the 50-mile limit in Japan, does it plan to draw a circle around the Bell-Bend site witha 50-mile radius, so that the public will be advised accordingly? .-... --Is anyone considering what the cumulative emissions from a third nuclear plant and a new gas plant These and many other such questions must be addressed. Who will do that? cz[i ) i:i! i.T-'j jSubmitted by: cJohn L. Walker ... ......i'" m :538 Mt. Pleasant Road KU cBloomsburg, PA 17815 SUNSI Review Complete Template = ADM -013E-RIDS= ADM -03Add= ,1 i4>r/f/,