ML070380470
| ML070380470 | |
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|---|---|
| Site: | Susquehanna  |
| Issue date: | 11/15/2006 |
| From: | Fracke S - No Known Affiliation |
| To: | Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation |
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| Download: ML070380470 (3) | |
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NRC Public Meetings for License Renewal Application for Nuclear Plant Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 Public Input by Sue Fracke, Sugarloaf ,Pa in 10 Mile Radius Good Evening Ladies and Gentlemen, Every year 20,000 people die of cancer from naturally occuring background radiation.
You would think that this fact alone would be enough to say let us not produce anymore radiation as it will kdll more people. With all our other means of imaking energy especially all the various kinds of solar energy that we now have the technology to do, it makes no sense to use a source of energy that is dangerous and will cause more people to die of cancer, and other degenerative diseases.In the Federal Register, December 15, 1989, Part II, by tbe Environmental Protection Agency, 40 CFR Part 61 on National Emission Standards for H1azardous Air Pollutans; Radionuclides; Final Rule and Notice of Reconsideration stated "Onr Dlcembzr 27, 1979, EPA listed radionuclides as a hazardous air pollutant.
EPA determined that radionuclides axe a known cause of cancer and genetic damage and that radionuctides cause or contiibute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to result in an inciease in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible or incapacitating reversible illness, and therefore constitute a hazardous air pollutant within the meaning of section 112(a)(1).
There are three major types of long-term health impacts from exposure to radiation:
Cancer, hereditary effects, and developmental effects on fetuses such as mental retardation.
In addition, risk distribution from radiation from most of the sources considered for regulation show that fatal cancers occur much more frequently than non-fatal cancers and cancers generally occur more often than. genetic or developmental effects." It also states that "Numerous studies have demonstrated that radiation is a carcinogen.
It is assumed that there is no completely risk-free level of exposure to radiation to cause cancer." Radiation corrodes metal such as in the pipes of nuclear power plants causing holes that constantly emit radiation in our air under the routine operation of the pirnts. Radiation is cummulative in our bodies and the effects of exposure can sometimes take many years before showing up. And we were worried that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
Along with radioactive air pollutants, the Enviromental Pfotection Agency reporls thaatin 2002 24,379 U.S. non-nuclear facilities released 4.79 billion pounds of toxins into the atmosphere.
Of these pollutants, 72 million pounds were known carcinogens.
We have no concept of the synergistic effects of these toxins when they are mixed with radioactive pollutants.
There toxins inipinge on health, dtiring your entire life, even before. birth. A study in New York Cit shows that the genetic material in fetuses still in their mothers' womb is damaged by air pollution.
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CI ....ue ,- Lu;rnc Co. _ sou..... ,uat oi~ic, (,ia om. :,,. rates, should be part of the federal decision on wheher~ &U.I c ,...y romien sho4ld approve the application of PPL Susoqc~~xi.!LC ,O .t -ur:1ii! 2044 (the cuwTrert license only allows operation until 2024). 1 io w is P ", i.4 at aa ,doral heI?.rig today in B erwick on the application.
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,.. 4t:c 11 o County residents, and they should demand a o Li 14 1A, 6hnrrra plant," said Joseph Maingano MPH tUBA of... .. ?k iZp.ck, w-ho presented the data. "If radioatinve e iniss uzim ,i 1. 1e ...should know this before the government The 2000i 4 .... i,,*, ":j " ' ,1.,, d.....~O ', .t oP "1ite irft &,A .:, in their first month was 23% above the U.S. ra et-,Xcd o;n ; t .r,,d 4"3 Ln. ern4 childe!n under age 15 weire iag...,> li c~,',.. .~ "--"~- 1 i. Data Sn: taken from the National Center fbr Thywoid cmer m.n.--,. ibn.-; Trnost a,"umi1g.
In the late 19860's, as the two reactors at Sustjh ,arawec >i. .Lar,. r,.ate w.s 20% b wow the U.S. However, in 2000-2003,.he Luzer...fe vvts 100% ibove .the naton.. Radioactive iodine foumd only in nuclear nvea s ,coru .::,.s oif tbe tj.' ýyrori gland where it LiIts and hipairs cells, leading to cait.ccr.Two iarc er r x ,' operaed at Susu haina beginning in 1982 and 1984, reýprnctveh i a f. , -is of LT1zerne County live within 15 roiles of 'the p.ai%, and imuld I, .t a ,: " ,y to r-'eý', the geatst radiation exposures.
Like all reactors,! " s pf -c'cs into th!:e air and water, which enters tfaraan boa.dic. by twtl.i a --I C.- .TJ. ' or over 100 radioactive chemicals hi hiAs mix; eacri cauves carm, ý ., .' .... -"' I to, .t:§S, infants and children.Cali'Gonia~cerf dtrvv.i te v'..i., , a Nuvaear Plant many years ago. Thr-ough conservation, solar:.d avl c"" , Oric. ýj. , c eter 800 new jobs and lowered their rates. Nuclear Pow ..er i, .19% ofl' " 0. U i" ', S 'FiThough conservation and solar we could close dlo'wn sI
'"ow~r hn oui coir C y anr d save thousands of lives. I kmow those little cnaedle lig*lo!L cute at night iri, your windlows, but they aren't really necessary.
Turning tý,hm NfRC Meeting on Susquehaina's Application 11/15/2006 Page 3 off may help save someone's Jive. Maybe your child's.Anyone whio wants nuclear power ptants, and our President wants 55 more in this country, should be considered a terrorist.
We are also ising depleted uwinium bombs in Iraq. Both our soldiers and the Iraqis are behig exposed. Many of the Iraqi children are getting Leukemia.
Remember the GuLf War Syndrome?OAr soldiers were exposed then, too, and nany of thieir children had birth defects and many of dhe soldiers got veIy sick and our government didn't want to tell them why. Who's the terTorists?
Does everyone realize that our nuke plants are also beconming high level waste sites? Everyone's life is at stake here. Do what's fight.SHUT THEM DOWN!Thank You, Sue Fracke